[Magdalen] New specs

[Scott Knitter]

Thank you, Lynn! I do have a copy of a prescription from an exam I had with
an ophthalmologist, and he put an important-looking note on it about the
base curve, I believe. I should dig this out and take it with more to show
Dr Watanabe. Or go back to the MD. Can't decide.
On Sep 8, 2015 10:34 AM, "Lynn Ronkainen" <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scott, I discovered almost 30 years ago that the 'Base curve' needs to be
> exact for my lenses/Rx to "work". This is the slight curve of the surface
> of the lens. I was told to make sure my lenses are always made as close to
> "exact" because any provider of lenses will tell you there is a small range
> of acceptability within the Rx outcome on the actual Rx and the base curve.
> The range does not work for me and this has been proved out on several
> occasions where the lenses had to be re-done.
> I also see a lot of totally flat surfaced lenses today which then have no
> base curve, and I wonder how that works for people.
> The field of lense making has become so completely automated that often
> the assumption is made that every lens is perfect. Not so.
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 8, 2015, at 7:59 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Before my cataract surgery I wore my progressive lens all the time.
> After
> > cataract surgery my ophthalmologist said, "Don't buy my glasses."  I buy
> > reading glasses; some at the dollar store, some at the drug store, some
> at
> > the grocery store.  The most I have spent is $13.00, I also have some I
> > bought for $1.  The frames are not very good on the dollar glasses.
>
> For my current glasses, I went to the rock star of Chicago
> optometrists (Dr. Watanabe, here in Edgewater). He runs the whole
> practice himself, answers his own phone, and gives the impression he
> wakes up thinking about optometry...highly experienced and committed.
> Yet when I first got my glasses resulting from an eye exam with him, I
> gave them two weeks but couldn't get used to the fog that seemed to
> cloud my vision. I asked for a re-exam and he seemed chilly about the
> need for it. "Do you have diabetes?" he asked. Nope. (He was probably
> chilly because he had to eat the cost of the re-exam and the remaking
> of the lenses...I did offer to pay for the second exam.) The new exam
> resulted in an acceptable prescription. It's time for another exam and
> updated glasses, and I'm wondering if I should go back to him or try
> someone else. Probably him, but I'll read up on what time of day is
> best for eye exams, what foods can affect an exam, etc. Maybe it's a
> matter of getting away from a computer screen and having time to rest
> the eyes before getting the exam - OR perhaps the eyes should be under
> the normal stresses when examined. Not sure. I didn't think they'd
> change that much.
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>