Yes, I know lots of people can go online and get cheap glasses. But if your prescriptions over -10 you can’t, and this is the best way I’ve found of getting cheaper glasses, because the NHS only give you ~£30 towards the cost of thinning the lenses.https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1100767908366553088 …
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As a fellow incredibly myopic lady - hell yes! Even the average £80 cost to bring your own frames is prohibitive, but still, theres so little alternative to just paying whatever an optician wants
And my eyesight has changed every single year since I was 8 yrs old
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I just didn't buy glasses until I could afford them. (-11.5 w/ +1.75 for bifocaling). It's worse in the US where even when you do have insurance, they won't cover things like ultra-thin lenses you HAVE to buy, because they won't make your lenses in anything else :/
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Argh, that’s a nightmare! Especially when, as you say, they won’t fit in frames without ultra-thinning
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My Dad did this with a pair of reading glasses and had the lens swapped out in Vision Express. At 78 there is no way he could afford new frames given he need long and short distance vision glasses.
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Why is it taken as given that we'll buy new frames every two years? I get funny looks when I ask them to put the new lenses in my old frames, but they do it.
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Yes, it really annoys me that asking for just new lenses is discouraged just so opticians can make money. Used to be common that opticians would refuse to put lenses in your own frames.
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My prescription is around -8 in each eye. I'm desperate for new specs as my lenses need updating, I haven't had an eye test in over two years but just can't afford it. Even charity grants rarely offer money towards specs. I've been looking into it.
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When we were skint (mat leave, kid in childcare) I didn't go near an optician. Once she started school I could afford eyetest/new prescription. Bugs me that short-sighted get no financial help unless extremely myopic, and then it's peanuts.
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Yep, I’m -14 so get a tiny amount of help, but while I was at uni/in my first job I didn’t get new glasses for six years
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After having minus 6 plus for years now after my cataract intra optic lenses I have no myopia. No more £400 glasses. Now can't read but £4 specs from pharmacy are fine!
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Amazing result!
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