Varifocals' and who wears glasses.

[tatsblisters 9,371]

2 hours ago, WILF said:

@tatsblisters Asked my wife, the company she uses online is in the United States mate…..I’ll get the name of you want.

Just get your optician to print off a copy of your prescription and type that in and that’s all there is too it……save yourself several hundred quid.

Take about 10 to 14 days to be delivered I think because it’s from America. 
 

Here you go mate:

Men's Prescription Eyeglasses

WWW.GOGGLES4U.CO.UK

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Men's Prescription eyeglasses starting at $6.95 with Frame and Lenses. Best Price...

 

Cheers mate. I have already paid for them from specsavers and pick them up next Friday but I will keep this in mind and at work we are all enrolled with Westfield even though we don't pay into it out of our wages and HR is sorting to get me 100 notes back on the glasses I'm getting. 

[tatsblisters 9,371]

On 19/06/2024 at 16:15, downsouth said:

I've warn glasses full time for over 25year since I was 23 and should have warn them since I was 7 but never did.My long range is terrible as I have bad astigmatism in both eyes which also meant that contacts were a no no.Then the last few years I've had to have varifocals as my close up reading is also f**ked now.ive got a couple of nice pairs of hand made frames which once you add my prescription both came out at around 700quid.Ive recently changed to really good independent optician after taking my missus there a couple of years back and realising hoe s**t the service is in the chai opticians,specsavers and vision express.My daughter also has an astigmatism and has to wear glasses full time since she was 4.I always tell her to pick water frames she wants and don't worry about the price as I know what it was like to have horrible glasses,Thats why I never wore mine as a kid.

Got me thinking about my childhood school day's and especially infants and junior school were us kids could be cruel to other kids who wore glasses. I was prescribed glasses at two years old due to a slightly lazy eye though I can never remember wearing them and my parents never nagging me to wear them. I found them some years back when my mother passed away amongst other things she had kept from my childhood. 

[Bakerboy 4,517]

28 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

Got me thinking about my childhood school day's and especially infants and junior school were us kids could be cruel to other kids who wore glasses. I was prescribed glasses at two years old due to a slightly lazy eye though I can never remember wearing them and my parents never nagging me to wear them. I found them some years back when my mother passed away amongst other things she had kept from my childhood. 

I had a pair of prescription glasses in school, not the same type as yours thankfully, I never wore the fckn  things my old lady would play fck, only time I wore them was for the school photo after she told me not to, she went ballistic when the school sent the photo home with me 

[Borr 5,701]

I couldn't get on with some varifocal safety specs I bought every time you look down walking across uneven surfaces etc the ground would be zooming in and out lol, I got a prescription from Specsavers and got some glasses off a guy on FB which were excellent looking back , then I got the next lot from Specsavers which are twice the weight , currently using cheap Tesco ones so at some point I'm going to go for another eye test and get the FB ones for general use I've enough reading glasses just want for driving and whatknot. 

[tatsblisters 9,371]

8 minutes ago, Bakerboy said:

I had a pair of prescription glasses in school, not the same type as yours thankfully, I never wore the fckn  things my old lady would play fck, only time I wore them was for the school photo after she told me not to, she went ballistic when the school sent the photo home with me 

Them little round ones seemed to be the most popular for kids in the 60s and those young lads who wore them were always called the Milky bar Kid after an advert that was on telly the same time. 

[Bakerboy 4,517]

1 hour ago, tatsblisters said:

Them little round ones seemed to be the most popular for kids in the 60s and those young lads who wore them were always called the Milky bar Kid after an advert that was on telly the same time. 

I had the black framed square 1s that seem to be all the rage with the fckn hipsters....oops

 

[Daniel cain 44,916]

1 hour ago, tatsblisters said:

Them little round ones seemed to be the most popular for kids in the 60s and those young lads who wore them were always called the Milky bar Kid after an advert that was on telly the same time. 

I had little round frames like that...got called the milkie bar kid,joe 90 to name a few I thought i looked more like a young john Lennon

[Borr 5,701]

1 hour ago, Daniel cain said:

I had little round frames like that...got called the milkie bar kid,joe 90 to name a few I thought i looked more like a young john Lennon

I got called Joe 90 yesterday, when I put my strong welding specs on  

[tatsblisters 9,371]

Just been and picked my verifocals and I honestly thought specsavers were playing a fekin practical joke on me no way could I work or wear these glasses they would be fekin dangerous. I asked if the optician who was a Pakistani could have got the prescription wrong and the assistant said he could have ffs. I told them I want a full refund and I will go to another opticians and due to the shite I have just listened to from specsavers staff who the lass in the shop went and got another manager I would avoid specsavers like the plague if the shop in Rotherham is anything to go by. 

[downsouth 7,129]

7 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

Just been and picked my verifocals and I honestly thought specsavers were playing a fekin practical joke on me no way could I work or wear these glasses they would be fekin dangerous. I asked if the optician who was a Pakistani could have got the prescription wrong and the assistant said he could have ffs. I told them I want a full refund and I will go to another opticians and due to the shite I have just listened to from specsavers staff who the lass in the shop went and got another manager I would avoid specsavers like the plague if the shop in Rotherham is anything to go by. 

Specsavers and vision express are both franchises mate so the staff don't give a f**k mate.Find an independent that's run by the owner and preferably one that's been about for years.

[mel b 2,074]

I can only speak from my relatively short time as a glasses wearer.

I had to start wearing glasses , to pass my hgv medical. I bought varifocals from my local opticians , they cost around £300 , and I couldn't even walk in them , never mind drive a hgv.  For the last two years I've had to drive my lorry , with them perched on the end of my nose , so that I could see over the top of them.

Fast forward to a month or so ago. I decided that I really needed to get my glasses sorted .  My mrs booked me an appointment at asda , as they were the only ones that didn't have a month long waiting list.  

I explained the issues to the asda optician,  and after a bit of juggling around to get the magnification in the right place on the lenses , I've got a fantastic pair of reactolight varifocals,   for £150 , that I don't only wear for driving , I wear them full time . They feel so natural and comfortable,  that I sometimes forget to take them off at night , and fall asleep wearing them.

 

[chartpolski 22,942]

Let me give my personal experience since I first thought I’d need glasses.

I went to an “independent “ optician and as I had never had my eyes tested before, I didn’t realise how absolutely basic the checks she done were. Just putting different lenses over my eyes and asking what line on the chart I could read . 
She then said I had blepharitus , ( dry eye), in my right eye, and she could sell me some drops for £15 !

Anyhow, when I collected the glasses, one pair for reading and one pair for driving, the ones for driving made absolutely no difference.

When I was having a yearly check up with my doctor, I mentioned the dry eye, he had a look and referred me to an eye consultant. The consultant diagnosed, not dry eye, but a cataract, and was surprised the optician hadn’t spotted it. He gave me a full range of tests, including the “puff test “ and photographed behind my eyes and also a “pinhole “ test, none of which the optician did. He said yes, I needed reading glasses, but not distance glasses. He gave me a letter to take back to my optician.

The optician, to put it mildly, was extremely upset at the consultants letter and very defensive. We had a “disagreement” and I left.

I then had an appointment with Specsavers and showed them the consultants diagnosis and they went through the full tests again and gave me one pair of glasses for reading and arranged for a cataract operation, which I had, and then they re-ran all the tests and gave me new glasses for reading .

So, in my case, an “independent “ optician was a rip off and Specsavers were extremely professional. 
Of course , this not be the case in other peoples experiences , but I’m happy with them .

Cheers.

[tatsblisters 9,371]

54 minutes ago, mel b said:

I can only speak from my relatively short time as a glasses wearer.

I had to start wearing glasses , to pass my hgv medical. I bought varifocals from my local opticians , they cost around £300 , and I couldn't even walk in them , never mind drive a hgv.  For the last two years I've had to drive my lorry , with them perched on the end of my nose , so that I could see over the top of them.

Fast forward to a month or so ago. I decided that I really needed to get my glasses sorted .  My mrs booked me an appointment at asda , as they were the only ones that didn't have a month long waiting list.  

I explained the issues to the asda optician,  and after a bit of juggling around to get the magnification in the right place on the lenses , I've got a fantastic pair of reactolight varifocals,   for £150 , that I don't only wear for driving , I wear them full time . They feel so natural and comfortable,  that I sometimes forget to take them off at night , and fall asleep wearing them.

 

Talking to a class 1 driver today at work and he went to Asda for his and wears them all the time to drive his waggon and his happy with them.

[mel b 2,074]

7 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

Talking to a class 1 driver today at work and he went to Asda for his and wears them all the time to drive his waggon and his happy with them.

I was very pleasantly surprised to be honest , especially after my last experience with the local optician.

 

[eastcoast 4,081]

On 22/06/2024 at 09:37, tatsblisters said:

Got me thinking about my childhood school day's and especially infants and junior school were us kids could be cruel to other kids who wore glasses. I was prescribed glasses at two years old due to a slightly lazy eye though I can never remember wearing them and my parents never nagging me to wear them. I found them some years back when my mother passed away amongst other things she had kept from my childhood. 

I had them, well similar, black frames but with the same sprung metal at the end. Not a good look and painful to wear around your ears. Kept them on your face when playing football though. Wore them through several stages of school life until mam and dad saved up to get me a "designer" pair of frames. They didn't last long and it was back to NH issue until I started to contribute to the cost, paper round etc.

It never really bothered me wearing glasses at school. When people called me "specky" I would comment on them being fat or ugly or soft or smelly or thick or whatever and then I would take my classes off. " look, I'm not specky now but you're still thick!" I used to get through lots of pairs of glasses.