What’s Your Vision Worth?
You can’t put a price on your sight. You’ve only got one pair of eyes and when they go – that’s it!If you are not able to read up close or see things as clearly as you used to, then it’s time to look at getting glasses.Prescription Glasses for reading especially should be custom-made for each individual after an eye test.A visit to the optician (ideally every two years) will deliver exactly the right prescription. You can then use that same information to purchase prescription glasses at any outlet or on the Internet.
Cost drives many people to consider buying “ready-made” reading glasses at a pharmacy or department store. They’re certainly popular, but do depend entirely on “self diagnosis” in the store. They are also cheap, but prescription glasses needn’t cost a fortune in the very competitive optical market nowadays.Online companies like SelectSpecs.com offer an impressive range of budget prescription glasses to suit virtually any taste.
The drawback with “off the shelf” pharmacy reading glasses is that they are basically “one-size-fits-all”. The prescription is the same in both lenses, and the location of the optical centre of the lens is not customised as it would be prescription glasses. Most people don’t have exactly the same prescription in both eyes, and almost everyone has a small amount of astigmatism correction in their prescriptions. Headaches, eyestrain, and even nausea can result from wearing glasses that are too far off your actual prescription or have optical centres too far away from the centre of your pupils.
The other, more serious problem with “ready made” reading glasses is why people purchase them. If you head to the chemist rather than the doctor when you’re feeling under the weather because you “don’t want to bother the GP”, then you could be ignoring a complaint that’s more serious than you thought. The same is true of your vision.Buying Off the Shelf means you run the risk of not spotting serious problems like Glaucoma that can be treated, but only if its caught in time.
Ready made glasses are also normally only single vision.Bifocals contain two discrete elements in the lens (top and bottom) that corrects distance and near vision problems.Varifocal lenses gradually move from one prescription to the other across the entire lens, allowing you to see clearly at all distances. These two lens types are far better suited to most people’s lifestyle and activities, and are only available in properly dispensed prescription glasses. Prescription sunglasses can also be made with single-vision, bifocal or varifocal designs to offer the same standard of vision enhancement and protection.Your vision is worth almost any price. Don’t jeopardise it and insist on properly prescribed and dispensed prescription glasses.
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