Eye Exam

[dave77]

Eyeglasses are major rip-off. Most frames and lenses (worldwide, not just US) are made by one company so they can charge whatever they want. The cost to make most glasses is maybe $20. The coatings that they might charge you $20-$50 for only add a few cents to the cost of making the lenses.

If you have one available one of the best places to get glasses is Costco, still expensive but a lot less than other places. They will also replace the lenses one time if scratched or damaged. A friend broke her frames around a year after getting them (stepped on them) and Costco replaced them for free.

https://2020institute.com/why-are-eyegl ... expensive/

[BrokenolMarine]

I don't disagree, but no Sam's Club or Costco here. They do have a Walmart but the last time I got glasses there I wasn't thrilled with the service or the result.

So I paid a bit more, and ended up with better glasses.

I loved the opti-doc in VA. Master Class Bullseye Shooter. We'd come in the back way with our cased match guns and he'd test our eyes for our real shooting glasses to our actual guns in the shooting position looking at the front sight.

"Sharper here, or here. Number one, or two."

Next match, up twenty points. "

[dave77]

Gene, my eye doctor has been watching my cataracts for almost 7 years. When he first identified them he called them baby cataracts. They have not progressed so he said to wait and see before dealing with them.

The good news is with the laser surgury they use today produces excellent results. Everyone I've talked to reports their vision is much better after the procedure.

Paul

Cataract removal is now the most common surgery in the US. Go to a doctor who specializes in doing them. My regular eye doctor recently quit seeing regular patients is now the go to surgeon in town for cataract removal, she did decide to keep me as a regular patient due to some other eye issues I have.

I have had what you call your "baby cataracts" for many years now, still not bad enough for surgery. I even asked if she could do them as I know a couple of guys that don't have to wear glasses after having them done, she said no.

Don't know if it's a blanket restriction but both of my eye doctors have told me that they will not do Lasix surgery on anyone who has even the slightest case of cataracts.

https://www.healthgrades.com/right-care ... in-the-u-s

[dave77]

** I asked about getting transitional lenses for the driving glasses, the doc said they don't work well in the car as the chemicals work on UV rays and modern windshields have UV coatings that prevent them from entering, therefore the glasses don't really transition. Hence, two pairs of glasses.

Interesting. I guess I'll find out soon. I was told similar about the transitionl, however, of the three lens colors they offered, grey, brown and green. I chose grey. They said the brown and green don't transition in the car, but the grey will. Again, guess I'm gonna find out. I've never had them in the past.

I've worn Photogray lenses forever and they don't darken in the car, they are glass lenses, maybe plastic transitions are different although I got a pair of Transitions Drivewear a few years ago and they say they are the only ones that will darken behind the wheel. I also have a pair of very dark sunglasses that are bi-focals, the Drivewears were not available as bifocals.

I will probably have to go to the Transition brand soon, last time I got new lenses was told there was only one lab left in the country that still makes glass lenses and they would probably be stopping. I hate plastic lenses, if I don't need a new prescription I can go years with my glass lenses, even being careful I seem to get plastic lenses scratched up within a year.

https://www.transitions.com/en-us/produ ... lsrc=aw.ds

[BrokenolMarine]

The care labels in my poly shooting glasses are very specific. Clean only with mild dish soap and water after first blowing off debris or spraying off with water. Then wipe with lens cloth.

Don't use spritz cleaners made for glass. BOLD letters.

I followed the directions, not a scratch on them seven years later. I ALWAYS kept them in their case when not in use... I beat up all the others, but my vision depended on these impact resistant protective prescription glasses.

[Sir Henry]

I’ll most likely do whatever the VA will pay for.

[daytime dave]

Gene, sorry to hear about your cataracts. I had both eyes done. Mine came on and just about blinded me within three years. One last year before my broken leg and one this Spring. I also had a swelling complication that only 3% get. The surgeon referred me to a Retina specialist. Drops in both eyes and a shot in one and now I'm weaning off the drops in the worst eye.
I don't need prescription glasses anymore. I am typing this without glasses. I use readers for the newspaper and viewing my iPad. I recently joined my local library and got 3/4 through a book from the largeprint section. It's been decades since I read a book. I need the readers for regular print size.
Now that the swelling has abated, my shooting is no longer cross eye. I can use my dominant eye and am back to being able to see the front sight without a problem.
I hope you make out well. I had the kind that comes on aggressively in "younger" people. I still have a 5 in front of my age.

[Sir Henry]

The care labels in my poly shooting glasses are very specific. Clean only with mild dish soap and water after first blowing off debris or spraying off with water. Then wipe with lens cloth.

Don't use spritz cleaners made for glass. BOLD letters.

I followed the directions, not a scratch on them seven years later. I ALWAYS kept them in their case when not in use... I beat up all the others, but my vision depended on these impact resistant protective prescription glasses.

The two pair I bought must be cleaned with a a specific cleaner or can be pre-cleaned with blue Dawn dish soap. Anything else will void the warranty.

[Mags]

... or can be pre-cleaned with blue Dawn dish soap...

I too use blue Dawn, the foaming spray version. Then rinse in mildly hot water. Dry with a special cloth for glasses.

[BrokenolMarine]

Mine said only the dawn, and they too came with the cloth.