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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You also have no choice but to get thick plastic frames because your lenses are so thick even after being thinned to the highest possibility, so no cool hipster wire frames for us lot.
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I know people are trying to be helpful, and thank you, but most people replying think “bad eyesight” is -5 diopters, when for lots of us it’s “the NHS pay for our eye tests, give us money off specs, and warn us to watch out for retinal detachment.”
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I do want to write about how people on very low incomes cope with the fact that glasses are so expensive when you have very poor vision, so if that’s you or you work with people who do, email me!
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
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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