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essexgirl58 · 23/07/2021 21:54

I alreay made a thread but people have stopped replying to it

To cut a very long story short. I have neeed reaing glasses for about three years; My check up revealed that my eyesight has changed and I knew this already. Basically I needed stronger reading glasses and intermeiate glasses. I was given multiocals which I coul not get used to so they changed them into just reaing glasses with the stronger prescription. I can only see with them very close up to what I am reading. To see anything at even 3 or 4 inches distance is blurred. I find my old readers which they said are too weak for reading now act as intermeiate glasses. To rea a book with my new readers I have to hold it quite close up to my face and that to me is not normal. They sai the new readers are designed for very small print.

I would be curious to know why they gave me new intermeiate lenses when my old readers are fine for intermeiate reaing. I am curius to fin out if whether I get a pair of intermeiate glasses made up with the intermediate perscription whether it woul be a little bit clearer than the vision using my old reaers as intermediate glasses. They told me that the new intermediate perscription is more or less the same as the new intermediate prescription so why then pay out for a new pair of intermediate lenses when I could just use my old reaers .

I have paid out for a lovely pair of frames which I had made into varifocals and it cost me almost £300 and then because I coul not get on with the varifoculs they agreed to change the lenses into just readers at no extra cost so I now have a new pair of readers for that same price which seems such a waste of money.

They did agree to refund my money which seemed tempting but I sai no an when I am due for my next check up in November, I will discuss all this with the optomertrist who checked my eyes.

I think it is all a con

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essexgirl58 · 23/07/2021 21:59

Sorry I meand to say my new intermediate prescription is more or less iential to my old readers.

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essexgirl58 · 23/07/2021 22:14

I just looked at a youtube video on testing the strength of readers you nee and the woman said hold something 14 inches away from you and try putting on diferent strength glasses until you find a strength that enables you to read properly. Note she sai 14 inches. I cannot do that with my new readers as its blurred so this indiates to me that I have not got proper readers and I have paid a lot for them and they keep telling me the perscription is corrent !!!

urghhhh

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underneaththeash · 23/07/2021 22:31

Reading glasses when you are a certain age only give you a very limited range of vision.
Varifocals have disadvantages - they can take a bit of getting used to and not everyone can.
The other option are vocational lenses which give you a longer range of reading vision but less distance vision.

OP - I’d give them another chance to get it right, but otherwise ask for a refund. Make sure you’re speaking to the dispensing optician.

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essexgirl58 · 23/07/2021 22:55

thanks. I will wait until November and see the optomertriset at my next annual check. In the meantime my old readers work fine

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