Reading glasses

willshak · 2013-11-07T20:31:38+00:00

Some of us need to wear reading glasses to do home repair (thus why no OT in the subject line). My question. I can go to the optometrist and have all the tests taken and then get glasses costing hundreds of dollars. I can go to the drugstore and other places and get cheap reading glasses, but they are only sold in single diopters. i.e. 1.00, 1.75, etc. Why can't I find these cheap reading glasses that come in more than one diopter, like gradients from 1.00 to 3.00 in the same lenses, 3.00 being at the bottom of the lens and 1.00 at the top? Is there some sort of restriction on the sale of these glasses? Just curious, but maybe someone here knows.

Nov 07, 2013 49 Replies

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krw 12 years ago

Sure, I also have developed an astigmatism over the past few years. Zenni glasses have been great, though their frames are a little "cheap". I can't find lenses as large as I'd like, either, but they're not available anymore locally, either. I like large glasses for computer use, so I don't have to move my head to see the screens.

It's always taken the full two weeks, perhaps into the third. The local guys I go to grind their own, though my insurance won't pay for it so they order them from an optical lab. I'm sure the frames are Chinese, even though they're "designer".

People want to bitch.

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krw 12 years ago

They ask for a date of your last exam but there is no way they can check it.

I have a pair from the optometrist (lenses every year and frames every other) but all of my spares and special purpose glasses come from Zenni.

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gregz 12 years ago

I've tried exercises. They work. It also helps not to put on glasses at the start of the day.

Greg

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Higgs Boson 12 years ago

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micky 12 years ago

You don't have to read to want to see well, or if you think you do, then that percentage times the percentage who could no longer see well is the fraction who were very happy. Can you imagine how happy they were!

Hey, I read the url and it says an average of 30 or 40%. That's plenty of people. And among some groups it was much higher.

Plus, I said "after". Now, or at least recently, there have been populations that didn't have access to glasses, but then gained access.

Maybe you weren't trying to contradict me. Usenet is so quarrelsome that people who reply to posts are trying to contradict maybe 80 or

90% of the time.

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DerbyDad03 12 years ago

85.3% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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Stormin Mormon 12 years ago

94.3% of all Usenet posts are flames, you big idiot. Everybody knows that, d'uh.

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everettcotton 12 years ago

Grainger.com has a full line of safty glasses. They also have bifocals. Check it out.

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Tony Sivori 12 years ago

Plain glass.

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micky 12 years ago

Well, if they weren't reading glasses, if I played ball with them, I guess I'd want plastic, but almost all my reading is done when I'm alone, and done very quietly.

Plus I need several pairs, one for each floor, one or two for the car,

2 for the suitcase. My mother only had one pair and I was always going upstairs or downstairs for her to get her glasses. That's not for me.

Thanks, however.

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