Spectacles

[hc4361]

If you wear prescription glasses, how often do you need to change them?

I can hardly go 18 months without needing a new pair because my eyesight is worsening. Is this typical? It's costing a fortune.

[sandyRoe]

The optician used to try to get me to change mine about every year. Haven't seen her for about 3 years and the ones I have are OK.

[hc4361]

I can tell I need new glasses, and pronto if I am to drive.

[Old_Geezer]

If your eyes haven't changed that much then IMO one need not replace one's spectacles. I think they tend to change more when younger, but then settle down. If they are becoming too expensive have you thought of trying the cheaper Internet spectacle suppliers ? I've not tried them myself but have heard reasonable reviews of them.

[ladyalex]

Use www.glassesdirect.co.uk
Much cheaper than anything an optician will sell you .

[Traci66]

I change mine every eighteen to twenty four months, (iam late forties and only started wearing them three years ago and just for reading).

[hc4361]

No internet supplier will touch my prescription as I need prisms in the lenses.

And I'm definitely past the younger stage :(

[andy-hughes]

I change mine about every two years.

If it's any comfort, my eyesight started to deteriorate when I was eleven, and by the time I was fifteen, my eyesight was worse than my father's, and he was fifty!

However, after such rapid decline, my deterioration levelled off in my twenties, and hardly alters at all now - maybe yours will do the same eventually.

It may be expensive, but I never stint on my frames or lenses - what else do you wear every waking minute of every day?

[Old_Geezer]

You do surprise me. I'd have thought a lens was a lens regardless. Ok some may be more expensive than others but the prescription still goes off to the experts to get cut don't they ? Regardless whether a high street shop or a back office behind a website.

[ChuckFickens]

I've not changed mine for 11years!!!

I really need to get a new pair (although the prescription hasn't changed at all)

[dennisb66]

Mid 70's,every 2 years.

[hc4361]

I've just emailed that company to check, as it's been a few years since I last asked them.

My lenses usually cost around £300

[hc4361]

Thanks, Andy but I'm well in middle age now :(

[jno]

yes, I change mine quite often and yes it is expensive. Sometimes my eyes deteriorate fast, sometimes slow, sometimes they undeteriorate and I can dig out old specs because my sight has actually improved for a while. It does happen, though not to everyone.

Not only that I need different prescriptions for different distances (reading, computer, driving, sun etc) and all of these at some stage need replacing.

[seadogg]

Went to get my eyes tested yesterday and specifically asked for the inter pupillary distance to be measured. This is handy if you wish to buy on line and save cash. Its the bit they leave off the prescription as a rule.

[hc4361]

jno, I have reactive varifocals with anti glare, so they are on my face all my waking hours. Only one pair needed. I can't have laser surgery either, because of the need for prisms. :(

seadogg, my optician always puts that on the prescription.