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Eye tests
« on: March 21, 2018, 03:25:45 PM »
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2018, 04:09:46 PM »
Shaws. That's a local Ayrshire outfit; I know the opticians who started it, and the practice shops are well run and expertly staffed, offering a great range of low vision aids )monomouse, monoculars, electronic magnifiers) as well as glasses. I have the pressure in my remaining eye checked every tghree months, as I put drops in three times each day.
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2018, 04:22:15 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on March 21, 2018, 04:14:47 PM
I hope you don't mind me asking, but how much vision do you actually have?
   

I was registered partially sighted at birth - the medics made a blunder and later admitted that I should hav been registered blind at birth
I was registered blind aged 14. My left eye's a blob of jelly which didn't develop - I wear a prosthetic shell over it.
My left eye had about 7% vision till the retina detached in 2010 - now it's about 5%. I can see shadows, but have no lens and can't focus.
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2018, 04:30:16 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on March 21, 2018, 04:25:35 PM
I am so sorry, :( I think of all my senses, losing my vision would be the worst.
Why are you sorry? It doesn't bother me. You meet a nice class of lamp post. When the lamp posts start answering back, that's kind of different.
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2018, 04:40:39 PM »
I love the way you put that Anchor!

I go to Specsavers, same as LR.  Used to go elsewhere but most of our opticians have amalgamated with the 'big' firms.  Boots very good so I'm told - they incorporated Dolland & Aitchison.  Our dentist also has an onsite optician.  So far I am happy with Specsavers but my eyes aren't bad at all, though I was prescribed glasses for distance year ago I only really use them when driving or in theatre (where I haven't been for ages).  Husband also goes, he has reading glasses.

The important thing is the optomotrist who looks for eye degeneration as well as what is needed spec-wise.  Quite a big examination but I'm happy to undergo that.  Reminds me I am overdue!
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2018, 05:01:52 PM »
I am always astonished at the ... errr ... eye watering sums one has to pay for a couple of pence worth of plastic and glass. About 18 months ago, our local Tesco had the best deals for frame and varifocal lenses so there I went. First time for about four years!

I have always reckoned that my eyesight was good. I don't need glasses to read in daylight and my distance vision is fine. I'd bought £2 off-the-shelf glasses from Boots to help me with reading in poor light.

So, I go to Tesco for my eye test. I'm told I have early stage cataracts. I'm told I need to wear glasses when driving. I pay a sum which would settle the national debt of a small African country and get a two-for-the-price-of-one pair. I get used to the varifocal without too much difficulty. I find that I can read the subtitles of the TV (that's another story) and that car headlights at night no longer bother too much.

Tesco's in-store opticians has been transformed into Vision Express
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2018, 05:05:38 PM »
I remember when I realised I needed glasses. I was just past 40, and I was watching the videprinter on the BBC and I could not tell the difference between Greenock Morton 0, and Greenock Morton 6, and even though I knew exactly what the score actually was, the hope drove me to the optician.
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2018, 05:17:37 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on March 21, 2018, 05:08:13 PM
It is great you have a sense of humour. :D
Because that's a factor of eye sight?
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2018, 05:21:40 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2018, 05:17:37 PM
Because that's a factor of eye sight?

Explain?
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2018, 05:25:05 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on March 21, 2018, 05:21:40 PM
Explain?
Why would Anchorman not have a sense of humour because of his lack of eyesight? Your comment just read to me as enormously patronizing.
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2018, 05:30:30 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on March 21, 2018, 05:27:52 PM
If that is the case, I humbly apologise, I really didn't mean to be patronising in any shape or form.  :-[
Completely sure you didn't mean it to be. And that's a very gracious apology.
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2018, 06:17:32 PM »
LR- new treatment with stem cells for macular degeneration will soon be available, some people have already had it.  Quite a breakthrough.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/19/doctors-hope-for-blindness-cure-after-restoring-patients-sight
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2018, 06:36:55 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 21, 2018, 05:17:37 PM
Because that's a factor of eye sight?

It is when you rub your left eye during a boring meeting, the prosthetic shell falls out, and in an effort to look for it, you put your size tens on it and crush it.
Well, at least it endeded the boredom, I suppose.....
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2018, 06:39:25 PM »
There are a couple of meetings where I would gladly have done that
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2018, 06:59:42 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on March 21, 2018, 06:51:14 PM
As I said my husband's hasn't got any worse, but anyway it wouldn't help his current condition. However, our youngest daughter (42), might have the start of macular degeneration, the jury is still out on that, however if she has, she might consider the treatment if it is offered.
   



Wee bit young for AMD.
Is the diagnosis wet or dry?

MD can be murder for older people to adjust to.
That's why we set up a blind club nearly thirty years ago now, to show that there's life after being registered blind.
We've a mixture of guide dog owners, folk blind from birth , a few "Retty pigs" (people with the hellish retinitis pigmentosa), and a lot of maculars.
We run the thing as a kind of organsed anarchy that somehow works.
In amidst the daftness we try to engender, we are a self help lot as well.
We hav an official T-shirt.
The front has the name of the offending organisation.
The back has
"May contain nuts".
Says it all, really.
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2018, 08:41:12 PM »
Too right!

HH Specsavers & Boots aren't all that expensive, are they? You pay for the work of the optometrist as much as the glasses surely. I certainly don't object to paying. My husband bought some 'off the peg' reading glasses from Boots when he broke his readers & they were excellent but he still needs to have professional testing occasionally. When you're over 60 (which he will be in September), it's free I think.
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2018, 10:56:14 PM »
Robbie, eye tests (for me) are free on the NHS.

Perhaps you can tell me why one frame should cost over £100 and another half that price when the only significant difference between them is the brand on the label. Do you really think that a mark-up of perhaps 10,000% on the manufacturing cost is reasonable?
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2018, 12:50:38 AM »
I accept paying more for brands, same with clothes, though must say neither of my pairs of glasses are any particular brand. I know some people do go in for names like Tommy Hilfiger & all that. All I care is that they suit me.

I've just been glad to have a second pair of specs half price as I so often mislay them. Used to cost a lot more, I remember my parents having glasses years ago from a local optician which - for the time - were quite expensive & they didn't have the option of a cheaper extra pair. So I'm thankful for small mercies, opticians are a business after all, they have to make money somehow.
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Re: Eye tests
« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2018, 01:03:18 PM »
Polish person taking an eye test and when asked to read one of the lines on the test card, apparently it was their family name.

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