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post #1 of 23
5/8/07 at 4:42pm
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I am getting my eyes checked for the first time in a couple of years. I also would like to go back to contacts -- obviously, I know some Chewers must have experience with this, but the only places I've been to have been Wal-Mart, LensCrafters, and this place in NYC in the Lower East Side. Any thoughts as to what's inexpensive but good?
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post #2 of 23
5/8/07 at 4:50pm
While this will certainly catch the ire of most of the the hardcore posters here, certain Wal-Marts have great eye programs. Eye doctors pay to be at Wal-Mart, so in theory they are a separate entity. If that helps.

For you Rath, the one in Fairlawn has a great doctor. Sometimes the Wal-Mart docs are new, but she's been there for a long time (and she's kinda cute and her husband is a pro beach volleyball player who owns a Ferrari - not that it counts, but it's kinda cool) I've been going there for years and not only are the prices really good, but you are usually in and out.

I've been wearing contacts for twenty-five years (getting Lasik in two months - wahoo!), and I've been to both "private offices" and places like Sears, Lnescrafters, etc and I've never been treated as good as the Fairlawn Wal-Mart.
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post #3 of 23
5/8/07 at 4:57pm
I go to a little boutique optometry shop, but only because it's in walking distance of my office. It's definitely a little more expensive, but worth it for the convenience. If there was a Pearl or Wal-Mart office close by, I'd definitely do that.

Also, there have been big advances in contacts over the last few years, so you'll likely be able to find some that work for you.
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post #4 of 23
5/8/07 at 4:59pm
Don't go anywhere where they blow a puff of air into your eyes. I fucking hate that shit.
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post #5 of 23
5/8/07 at 5:01pm
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I never understood that. What's the point?
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post #6 of 23
5/8/07 at 5:02pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
Don't go anywhere where they blow a puff of air into your eyes. I fucking hate that shit.
While the eye drop is much better (and easier) for the glaucoma test, the puff isn't horrible. I always kinda clench my teeth - the wait is worse.

I'm more annoyed with "Number one or number two" or "is it better now or now".
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post #7 of 23
5/8/07 at 5:09pm
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Originally Posted by RathBandu
I never understood that. What's the point?
It's to check your ocular pressure. The doc I go to has this other weird device, where they numb your eye balls and then press this weird blue light thing against it. You can't really feel it on your eye, but you can sort of feel your eye pressed against the socket a little. I have no idea if this machine is more or less accurate, but sometimes it makes me want to hurl.
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post #8 of 23
5/8/07 at 5:12pm
Has anyone else taken one of the automated eye tests? It's kind of like watching a 2 minute slide show that gets clearer to see.

Also, does anyone know what would happen if you take the air blowing test and you do have glaucoma? I picture eyes popping out of their sockets like on Total Recall.
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post #9 of 23
5/8/07 at 5:36pm
As said earlier, the air blowing is to check the pressure in your eyes. More specifically, the pressure of the gel in your eyes. An eye doctor once told me that people always get annoyed by the procedure, but they don't realize how important it really is.

I just went in for my eye exam last week hoping to just re-check my prescription and get some new eye glasses (my current ones are about 5 years old). Well, the eye doctor says my prescription seems not to have changed since the lens on my glasses match my eye prescription pretty well. The kicker though was that he found a hole in my retina on my right eye and that I have Lattice Degeneration in both eyes. Next thing you know, two days later I'm getting my eyes checked out by a Retinal Specialist and a laser procedure to handle the hole in the retina. Afterwards, the eye doctor tells me that I now have to start coming to the eye doctor every 3/4 months for the rest of my life. And that at some point my retina may detach and I'll be blind in that eye.

So I would say to everyone, get your eyes checked out since you never know what's gonna happen.
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post #10 of 23
5/8/07 at 5:59pm
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Originally Posted by Brian Wehman
I'm more annoyed with "Number one or number two" or "is it better now or now".
(In Brian Regan Voice) "I'm a little uncomfortable......want a piece of gum?"
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post #11 of 23
5/8/07 at 6:10pm
God saw fit to bless me with perfect eye sight, so I've been forever thankful for that. Last summer though, I got an eye infection after visiting the beach and had to go visit the eye doctor. Didn't really care for the 2 1/2 hours we spent in the waiting room, but then we got in the back and the nurse had to take my pulse through my eyeball with this UV circle-like device. Now, I'm sure she can be frustrated at patients sometimes, but she kept telling me to not blink or move my eye as she's about to put this device right on my fucking eye ball and telling me it might burn a bit. My eye eventually healed through the magic of steroids, but I'll be damned if I stopped taking my good eyes for granted.
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post #12 of 23
5/8/07 at 6:48pm
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Originally Posted by RathBandu
I never understood that. What's the point?
A piss-Patrick-Off Device. Why every eye doctor's office is equiped with one, I dunno but I bet it's making up for some hideous evil deed I performed in a past life.
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post #13 of 23
5/8/07 at 7:31pm
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Originally Posted by Brian Wehman
I'm more annoyed with "Number one or number two" or "is it better now or now".
I hate that too. It's usually such a tiny incremental differences that it's too hard to distinguish.

And the last time I went to the eye doctor, the guy was so annoying. This was how the middle of the appointment went:

Doctor: "Is number one or number two clearer?"
Me: "The first one."
Doctor: (steps back, sighs, and then) "Please respond by saying one or two."
Me: "Um, ok."
Doctor: "Now, is the first one clearer ...(switches scary lens machine)"
Me: "Um."
Doctor: "...or is the second one clearer?"
Me: "It's hard to tell, but I think the other one was clearer"
Doctor: "ONE OR TWO!"
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post #14 of 23
5/8/07 at 9:13pm
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Originally Posted by Johnny Bola
Also, does anyone know what would happen if you take the air blowing test and you do have glaucoma? I picture eyes popping out of their sockets like on Total Recall.
The device would read a number that is higher than normal for intraocular pressure. Whichever method of tonometry you use - tonopen (they touch your eye with the "pen" device with a little condom on the end), the "air puff" or whatever, the ideas is to measure the pressure inside your eye. It gets too high in glaucoma. If glaucoma is caught early, treatment will delay or reduce blindness and discomfort.
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post #15 of 23
5/10/07 at 2:20am
Ten times out of 10, I'll take the blast of air to SOMETHING TOUCHING MY EYEBALL.
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post #16 of 23
5/10/07 at 8:24am
Wow, glaucoma tests - something to look forward to! I thought the aggressively bright retina/macula photograph was bad enough. At what stage do glaucoma tests become standard in the US? Haven't even had one mentioned to me down here in Australia, and I've had to go pretty regularly in the last 3 years since the spectacles entered my life.
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post #17 of 23
5/10/07 at 1:19pm
Marry an optician.

my wife is an optician. She works at Pearle Vision. Its a pretty good place.

I get my contacts for free since I'm married to the "hook up". I've probably saved like $4000 since we've been together.
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post #18 of 23
5/12/07 at 7:42am
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Originally Posted by Ianthe
Wow, glaucoma tests - something to look forward to! I thought the aggressively bright retina/macula photograph was bad enough. At what stage do glaucoma tests become standard in the US? Haven't even had one mentioned to me down here in Australia, and I've had to go pretty regularly in the last 3 years since the spectacles entered my life.
I've had it done to me ever since I was nine, but I've got a weird eye problem, so maybe I was a "special" case as a kid.
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post #19 of 23
5/12/07 at 11:23am
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Originally Posted by Ianthe
Wow, glaucoma tests - something to look forward to! I thought the aggressively bright retina/macula photograph was bad enough. At what stage do glaucoma tests become standard in the US? Haven't even had one mentioned to me down here in Australia, and I've had to go pretty regularly in the last 3 years since the spectacles entered my life.
In the USA it's a part of pretty much every eye exam. You certainly can't get away without one in your twenties.
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post #20 of 23
5/12/07 at 11:33am
I thought my eyes were fine till I was at a criget match and these kids were reading off the score board and I was like holy crap you're supposed to be able to read that thing? It's not something that affects me in my day to day life so I havnt bothered getting my eyes checked since I first got my drivers licence.
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post #21 of 23
5/12/07 at 11:48am
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Originally Posted by neaux
Marry an optician.
Is an optician the same as an eye doctor? If so, please specify as most people in this thread appear to have never heard of that scientific term, brainiac.
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post #22 of 23
5/12/07 at 11:52am
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Originally Posted by captain supermarket
Is an optician the same as an eye doctor? If so, please specify as most people in this thread appear to have never heard of that scientific term, brainiac.
Optician - a person who reads prescriptions for visual correction, orders lenses, and dispenses eyeglasses and contact lenses

Optomestrist -a specialist licensed to practice optometry (examining the eye for defects and faults of refraction, with prescribing correctional lenses or eye exercises, with diagnosing diseases of the eye, and with treating such diseases or referring them for treatment)

Ophthalmologist - a physician who specializes in ophthalmology (branch of medical science dealing with the structure, functions, and diseases of the eye)
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post #23 of 23
5/13/07 at 7:05am
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Originally Posted by horrid
It's not something that affects me in my day to day life so I havnt bothered getting my eyes checked since I first got my drivers licence.
I just had my license renewed last week...I'd forgotten how much of a joke those eye tests are--"Read the top line...see those flashing lights? Okay, you're good".
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