It's been said I should get glasses, people *beam at einsteinians* but every person I've ever known who has had glasses to correct long-sightedness, have ended up very short-sighted, which suggests to me that once in their clutches, optometrists intend to keep you there.
I am long sighted, I can see the horizon better than I can my thumb. In an emergency I could drive my car but not see the dashboard. I have had varifocals for 10 years now. The last lot cost me £150 for the special large aviator frames + £150 each for the specially made lenses. Add that lot up!! And that is medium quality lenses, put on 50% for the top of the range ones.
Opticians say test your eyes every 3 years if you don't need glasses, every 2 years if you do. I say I will go back when I have a problem reading a book or a newspaper, and not before.
I go to a private optometry practice that also gives me the glaucoma air pressure test plus the computer retina scan. I also have bad astigma in my left eye, my lenses correct that for me. I won't use high street stuff like Specsavers or Boots. My eyesight is too precious to me to trust it to the +20% middlemen.
Yes they do say that it is best to put off wearing glasses for as long as possible, else when you do get them you become too dependent upon them. Some truth in that maybe. But the answer is that you tell them that you need assistance or something stronger, not the other way around. Opticians make their money on dispensing the too expensive prescriptions.
Annie, my best advice to you is to have a simple eye test at a decent opticians, and see what they say. If you genuinely seriously need them then it would be sensible. If on the borderline then the el cheapo £10 stuff might do at a pinch, but it could damage your eyes. Take professional advice please.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
@annie, there are opticians and there are ophthalmologists. The former can write a prescription for glasses, the latter are full MD's. If it has been some years, go to the latter and have them give you a through checkup and drop a letter off to your primary so it is in your file.
Has Phil sobered up yet? Or has the Jack Daniels rendered him speechless?
If it's a cure for manflu you're looking for, Chris, me approaching with a needle might work faster.
That is guaranteed to galvanise one into action, unless of course you are offering to darn my sock?
Apros pos po propos po etc etc the Spectacles bit. You'll have to excuse Gary he is after all American :-)
As we both know, in the UK Opticians is a generic name for a business, or more properly a Practice, that test your eyes. There are Opticians and Dispensing Opticians. Within the practice there are usually Optometrists which are qualified to test your eyes and detect any abnormalities in vision that need correcting by lenses. There can also be an ophthalmologist who specialises in medical and surgical eye problems, and can refer patients for eye hospital treatment.
We have a plethora of high street chain-stores in the UK , Boots, Specsavers etc. I have been going to my personal opticians practice for over 50 years, the personnel have obviously changed but the integrity hasn't. I need rather off the standard range of glasses to suit me, both for prescription and size and fit. I'm not going anywhere else.
The best way is to go to a respected local opticians that has both an Optometrist and an Ophthalmologist. If all you need are standard corrective glasses, then you can if you wish take that prescription away and get it dispensed elsewhere in the High Street, likely a lot cheaper. But if any serious problems are detected, you would be better with a non chain opticians.
I'll explain more if we still meet for lunch in London this week, if not then in the near future
Is there any way you can not talk to them at all during an appointment? I think they'd rather I didn't, but thank you for the extra info everyone :)
*turn attention to another matter intrinsically interlinked*
You know when you get told off about something you know wasn't your fault in the way that the person telling you off thinks it was, people, but you can't exactly prove that at the time because you've mislaid a piece of paper that would confirm at least part of what you said you said you did and therefore, by assumption - remove some of the impression that you were even vaguely incompetent in anything you did do apart from competently making a judgement about competent abilities incompetently *woebegone blink* unquestionably?
...And then you find it?
But then you also know trying to rectify opinions of you at that point would just be petty and meaningless in the context of the much more important matter of why it was raised with you and got you into trouble in the first place, so you don't however much you want to because what you really want is that it had never happened at all...?
And then something else happens?
Well that happened today :/
And I didn't enjoy it at all.
*prolonged vapid stare at einsteinians*
And on that cheerful note :) I shall be in the bar...
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Hi Annie, Just got in from 41 Club, and will happily join you in the bar. Seems that apparently I'm buying tonight :-)
If I know i was right, and I subsequently find proof of that, I scream it from the roof tops and say ye of little faith. What will worry me is people not being prepared to take my word for it that I was innocent in the first place. They will go down in my little black book. Don't worry Annie, you're not in it!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Last week I was called in for a screwup that I could have done but didn't remember doing, and then I found out when it was done and easily proved that I didn't do it because I wasn't there that day.
I'll have a large mai tai on Chris.
I also note that this is post 100 in this thread.
[Wednesday morning wake up edit]
Turned on the TV. First thing I heard caused the first thing I said to be "Oh s#!t."
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
It's been said I should get
I am long sighted, I can see the horizon better than I can my thumb. In an emergency I could drive my car but not see the dashboard. I have had varifocals for 10 years now. The last lot cost me £150 for the special large aviator frames + £150 each for the specially made lenses. Add that lot up!! And that is medium quality lenses, put on 50% for the top of the range ones.
Opticians say test your eyes every 3 years if you don't need glasses, every 2 years if you do. I say I will go back when I have a problem reading a book or a newspaper, and not before.
I go to a private optometry practice that also gives me the glaucoma air pressure test plus the computer retina scan. I also have bad astigma in my left eye, my lenses correct that for me. I won't use high street stuff like Specsavers or Boots. My eyesight is too precious to me to trust it to the +20% middlemen.
Yes they do say that it is best to put off wearing glasses for as long as possible, else when you do get them you become too dependent upon them. Some truth in that maybe. But the answer is that you tell them that you need assistance or something stronger, not the other way around. Opticians make their money on dispensing the too expensive prescriptions.
Annie, my best advice to you is to have a simple eye test at a decent opticians, and see what they say. If you genuinely seriously need them then it would be sensible. If on the borderline then the el cheapo £10 stuff might do at a pinch, but it could damage your eyes. Take professional advice please.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Posting after the double
Posting after the double post.
Howdy everybody
@annie, there are opticians and there are ophthalmologists. The former can write a prescription for glasses, the latter are full MD's. If it has been some years, go to the latter and have them give you a through checkup and drop a letter off to your primary so it is in your file.
Drinks are on Chris!!!
Drinks are on Chris!!!
I'll be at the Bistro, ordering...
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
Fine with me
Fine with me
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Chris S_2 wrote:Fine with me
WOO HOO!!!
Has Phil sobered up yet? Or
Has Phil sobered up yet? Or has the Jack Daniels rendered him speechless?
That is guaranteed to galvanise one into action, unless of course you are offering to darn my sock?
Apros pos po propos po etc etc the Spectacles bit. You'll have to excuse Gary he is after all American :-)
As we both know, in the UK Opticians is a generic name for a business, or more properly a Practice, that test your eyes. There are Opticians and Dispensing Opticians. Within the practice there are usually Optometrists which are qualified to test your eyes and detect any abnormalities in vision that need correcting by lenses. There can also be an ophthalmologist who specialises in medical and surgical eye problems, and can refer patients for eye hospital treatment.
We have a plethora of high street chain-stores in the UK , Boots, Specsavers etc. I have been going to my personal opticians practice for over 50 years, the personnel have obviously changed but the integrity hasn't. I need rather off the standard range of glasses to suit me, both for prescription and size and fit. I'm not going anywhere else.
The best way is to go to a respected local opticians that has both an Optometrist and an Ophthalmologist. If all you need are standard corrective glasses, then you can if you wish take that prescription away and get it dispensed elsewhere in the High Street, likely a lot cheaper. But if any serious problems are detected, you would be better with a non chain opticians.
I'll explain more if we still meet for lunch in London this week, if not then in the near future
GP
Opthalmology
Optometry
Oh, and barkeep, a large G&T please, Tanqueray & Fevertree, and easy on the T :-)) And one for your goodself!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Specsavers.
Specsavers.
Annie minion :)
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*turn attention to eye
*turn attention to eye matters*
Is there any way you can not talk to them at all during an appointment? I think they'd rather I didn't, but thank you for the extra info everyone :)
*turn attention to another matter intrinsically interlinked*
You know when you get told off about something you know wasn't your fault in the way that the person telling you off thinks it was, people, but you can't exactly prove that at the time because you've mislaid a piece of paper that would confirm at least part of what you said you said you did and therefore, by assumption - remove some of the impression that you were even vaguely incompetent in anything you did do apart from competently making a judgement about competent abilities incompetently *woebegone blink* unquestionably?
...And then you find it?
But then you also know trying to rectify opinions of you at that point would just be petty and meaningless in the context of the much more important matter of why it was raised with you and got you into trouble in the first place, so you don't however much you want to because what you really want is that it had never happened at all...?
And then something else happens?
Well that happened today :/
And I didn't enjoy it at all.
*prolonged vapid stare at einsteinians*
And on that cheerful note :) I shall be in the bar...
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
Hi Annie, Just got in from 41
Hi Annie, Just got in from 41 Club, and will happily join you in the bar. Seems that apparently I'm buying tonight :-)
If I know i was right, and I subsequently find proof of that, I scream it from the roof tops and say ye of little faith. What will worry me is people not being prepared to take my word for it that I was innocent in the first place. They will go down in my little black book. Don't worry Annie, you're not in it!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Last week I was called in for
Last week I was called in for a screwup that I could have done but didn't remember doing, and then I found out when it was done and easily proved that I didn't do it because I wasn't there that day.
I'll have a large mai tai on Chris.
I also note that this is post 100 in this thread.
[Wednesday morning wake up edit]
Turned on the TV. First thing I heard caused the first thing I said to be "Oh s#!t."
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.