<p>Yes, some folks can’t use readers from the store when one eye is MUCH worse than the other. If you buy from Costco, their Rx prices are pretty good & if you get two pair at the same time with the same Rx, you can often get a further discount. Plus, any time you need to have nosepad changed or any adjustments on ANY glasses, they’re happy to help (no matter where you got your glasses). My mom has her eyes very different and benefits from the Rx reading glasses rather than ready-made.</p>
<p>Something that helps you see better is more of a necessity than a luxury. No one should feel guilty about buying prescription glasses. Now whether prescription glasses should be as expensive as they are is a different question entirely.</p>
<p>My wife once had prescription glasses made for her in Singapore. No insurance - just cash. It was about $40 and their dollar was a lot weaker back then. It would have probably cost $150 - $200 here without insurance.</p>
<p>My brother gets his prescription glasses in Thailand. They don’t cost very much and they’re good quality but the frames are really old fashioned- he looks like a refugee from the 80s. That might not be Thailand’s fault though.</p>
<p>I use drugstore glasses for reading at night in bed which are a little stronger than what my eye doctor recommends. I wear progressives the rest of the time, but find that they don’t work with computer distance so they are pushed up onto the top of my head right now.</p>
<p>At least you have a purse. My H wears one drugstore pair for reading & another for driving.
I keep telling him he needs bifocals because he has to replace one or the other every few months because it fell out of his pocket & he lost it/stepped on it.
( as opposed to me who just loses them)</p>
<p>Bookreader, that reminds me.
<a href=“http://www.warbyparker.com/do-good/#home[/url]”>http://www.warbyparker.com/do-good/#home</a>
For every pair they sell, they give one away.</p>
<p>I wore cheap OTC readers for years, at the suggestion of my Opth, but recently my distance vision got a little worse and so I got progressives. I love them. I also got a pair of progressive sunglasses, which are definitely worth having.</p>
<p>After using the first pair for a while, I got a second pair where the lenses are taller than the first, so each distance has more lens area devoted to it. It made looking at a computer easy enough that I haven’t yet got around to getting a dedicated pair for that (and playing the piano) although I probably will at some point.</p>
<p>“For what it’s worth, my eye doc told me I should not be using the drug store readers. I’ve been gathering them from all over the house to donate somewhere.”</p>
<p>If an optometrist, I’d be cautious about advice on glasses from someone who has a material interest in selling them. My ophthalmologist told me over-the-counter readers are just fine.</p>
<p>That said, I don’t wear contacts, but I’d also be cautious about them from my ophthalmologist, who does sell them. </p>
<p>Incidentally, one of my personal hair-brained schemes would be to sell over-the-counter glasses for myopics. For an uncomplicated prescription–e.g., those without astigmatism–I don’t see why you need an optometrist once you know the specs of the specs (although I think there’s a restraint of trade type law against it).</p>
<p>Soon, though, with a 3D printer, we’ll be making our own glasses.</p>
<p>[3D</a> Printed Glasses](<a href=“http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Printed-Glasses/]3D”>http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Printed-Glasses/)</p>
<p>I did a little googling and it turns out that if you have an astigmatism generic reading glasses can cause eyestrain and headaches, so I think the advice my doc gave me was specific to me. I don’t usually buy glasses where I get my exams, crazy frame prices.</p>
<p>Interesting website EmeraldKity4. Thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>I have an astigmatism too and the readers give me headaches if I use them for over 10 minutes.</p>
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<p>My eye doctor recently told me not to use the drugstore readers because my right eye needs such a different Rx from the left eye.</p>
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Ah, that makes sense. My doctor told me my eyes are “remarkably consistent”. I do not wear any type of corrective lenses and only use cheap readers when reading or on the computer. My distance vision has always been great and, though I’ve noticed it isn’t as clear as it once was, he told me it’s 20/20. My near vision is my problem but, according to him, not near enough to warrant corrective lenses.</p>
<p>Several people I know get their prescription glasses made here: [Zenni</a> Optical - Eyeglasses, Prescription Glasses, Bifocal, Progressive Eyeglasses, Rimless Glasses](<a href=“http://www.zennioptical.com/]Zenni”>http://www.zennioptical.com/)</p>
<p>Very low prices.</p>
<p>I contacted Zenni a while ago and they couldn’t make my prescription. I think that they have a lot of common lens prescriptions and if you’re not in their inventory, then you’re out of luck.</p>
<p>I just looked at the Warby Parker website and they sell…a monacle! How fabulous is that? [Colonel</a> Monocle Whiskey Tortoise | Warby Parker](<a href=“http://www.warbyparker.com/monocle/?___SID=U]Colonel”>http://www.warbyparker.com/monocle/?___SID=U)</p>
<p>DH and I both need/use 200/250’s, so every month or so I buy ten pair at Dollar Tree. Sometimes the colors and/or styles are WILD, but for a buck a piece, who cares? </p>
<p>It is, of course the bright tangerine pair which has lasted the longest…or maybe they are simply the most difficult to misplace.</p>
<p>I solved the “where the heck are my reading glasses?” dilemma by keeping them on my head when I am not wearing them. I have two pairs at a time (two designs), in the AM I put in my contacts for nearsightedness and then select the reading pair that best goes with my outfit du jour, I throw the glasses up in my hair, and I’m ready for the day! It gets a little crowded up there when I forget and try to put my sunglasses on my head as well, but I cope. Reaching up to put the glasses on has become so second nature to me that I am surprised when I sometimes reach up and find just my hair.</p>
<p>I’ve been wearing corrective lenses since age five and am totally dependent. I had been thinking about getting reading glasses from my doc (to correct for astigmatism) but she suggested I try different contacts first. They are called Pure Vision 2 by Baush & Lomb. They are not bifocal but my in focus range has increased dramatically; I wear readers about half as much as I used to. I rarely use them with the computer, mostly for things like checking tags when I am shopping. (I still have readers in every room of the house, purse, car, coat pocket . . .)</p>