Hi Ep, I am about a +5.00 extreme hyperop with astigmatism (you did mean farsighted didn't you?) - I wear single vision lenses, as I'm still in my early 30's - my bifocal/progressive days are ahead of me... yipee.
Please post your prescription here, as it's always easier to help out when we know what we're dealing with. If you're anywhere near +5.00, then you're among the approx. 7% of all glasses wearers who need that correction - the other 90+% are on the other side of the spectrum and have fundamentally different issues when choosing glasses. The basic rules are: 1. The smaller and the rounder the lenses, the better - so choose wisely. 2. We will have to pay more for lenses that we will be happy with - that means a 1.67 index should be our minimum. 3. Nearly all high index lenses are of an aspheric design, but not all aspheric lenses are created equal - Seiko 1.67 lenses have probably the best reputation (example: http://www.eyeglasslensdirect.com/Seiko-High-Index-1-67-Aspheric-AR-p/sv67saar.htm - note that ELD will charge you extra for them to surface the lenses, usually surfacing costs about $40 more at the discount retailers listed in GlassyEyes. I know that Global Eyeglasses (http://www.globaleyeglasses.com) advertises Seiko 1.67's for $105.00 - that's as cheap as I've seen them and I think that includes the additional surfacing? They also offer dark tint sunglass Seiko 1.67, which is very rare and also for a great price. http://www.opticalchic.com/ also offers good prices for 1.67 and 1.74 lenses - I think their website only allows +4.00 as their maximum sphere - be sure to email them before hand and explain you need a correction higher than that. They should accommodate, albeit by charging a little more for the special surfacing. I recommend spending the money for the 1.74 lenses. Yes, that will be over $200, but that's still at least half what it would cost at Costco and you need them all the time, so look at it like prescription medicine - you need it. There are glass lenses out there in a 1.90 index refraction - I don't know of anyone who has these in a high plus prescription, so you could be the first and tell us how it went.. If you need progressive lenses, well then, I'm afraid I don't have any experience with those - hope I helped a bit. John On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Lion Ellie from Lancaster <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Reid, > > I shopped for glasses in the fall. I wound up with $500 ones from > Wal-Mart. Hated them and could not get used to weird vision and > discomfort. Got my money back and just have my old mangled, scratched > up ones. More discomfort. I would love to try the online ones but am > so afraid of spending more $$ and getting stuck with a disaster. I am > going to read more here and maybe screw up the courage. > > Is anyone else really farsighted and has had luck ordering online? > I plan to ask my opthmalogist to fill out the numbers for me. The guy > she prefers wanted $400 just for the lenses! I just can't do it even > though I need them to survive everyday. She might laugh me out of her > office for thinking of mail order glasses. > > Later. > > Ep > > On Feb 28, 11:12 pm, Reid Priedhorsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://www.glassyeyes.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
