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SteveDallas · 06-13-2004, 01:02 PM

Yeah, in my fascinating quest to get glasses made to that prescription, I scared several opticians (most of the big chains seemed to get queasy about anything over -10 or -12 or so), and one even told me my dr. must have made a mistake! (Actually I did have to talk my dr. into doing the right lens. SOP for such a large disparity between the eyes is apparently to prescribe a "balance" lens on the other side. But I told him if he REALLY wanted me to cut back on my contact lens wearing hours, I needed an acceptable correction in both eyes. So he did it.. it was impressive, he had to double up on the testing lenses because it was past the limit of the strongest lens he had.) But I quickly learned from some of the local privately-owned shops that the only way to handle it without ridiculous weight was a material called myodisc, so I just opened up with, "Have you ever filled a prescription using myodisc lenses?" If they said, "huh," I knew not to bother. If they said yes, it was worth talking. I eventually found a shop that was more interested in talking to me about my lens requirements than in showing me their extensive selection of designer frames, and that's who I went with.

[edited to correct SEVERAL dumb typos]

06-13-2004, 01:02 PM	#10
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Yeah, in my fascinating quest to get glasses made to that prescription, I scared several opticians (most of the big chains seemed to get queasy about anything over -10 or -12 or so), and one even told me my dr. must have made a mistake! (Actually I did have to talk my dr. into doing the right lens. SOP for such a large disparity between the eyes is apparently to prescribe a "balance" lens on the other side. But I told him if he REALLY wanted me to cut back on my contact lens wearing hours, I needed an acceptable correction in both eyes. So he did it.. it was impressive, he had to double up on the testing lenses because it was past the limit of the strongest lens he had.) But I quickly learned from some of the local privately-owned shops that the only way to handle it without ridiculous weight was a material called myodisc, so I just opened up with, "Have you ever filled a prescription using myodisc lenses?" If they said, "huh," I knew not to bother. If they said yes, it was worth talking. I eventually found a shop that was more interested in talking to me about my lens requirements than in showing me their extensive selection of designer frames, and that's who I went with. [edited to correct SEVERAL dumb typos] Last edited by SteveDallas; 06-13-2004 at 04:59 PM.