[Magdalen] Dumb question about eyeglasses

[Grace Cangialosi]

I would recommend a good optometrist. I’ve been going to a ophalmologist for several years because I have mild glaucoma, and they always do a refraction. The last two have been bad, and when I took the last one to my optician and asked her what she thought, she just shook her head and said they hadn’t even corrected for my astigmatism. She said an optometrist was always the best place for a refraction. The good news was that when I went to an optometrist and told them I just wanted a refraction, it was only $40! They also sell glasses, but they didn’t even suggest I should buy from them.

> On Jun 23, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just asking around:
> 
> I'm years overdue for an eye exam and new glasses.
> 
> What I'd like to do is get an exam at a place that has the most up-to-date
> technology, and take the resulting prescription to shop around for an
> affordable deal (quite possibly online) on the glasses.
> 
> What I fear is that I'll go to a place like LensCrafters, get the exam, and
> have to fight off a hard sell on looking at their glasses. I won't,
> because I cannot afford to come out of there with $800 glasses.
> 
> But has anyone done this successfully? Got a very good exam and then
> shopped around?
> 
> Last time I got glasses I like, but it took two tries to get a prescription
> that worked. I went to an independent optician who was phenomenally highly
> regarded, many decades of experience, but I didn't think he had the best
> equipment and didn't get the first exam right. So I spent two weeks in a
> fog before making him redo my exam.
> 
> I've also thought of going to an ophthalmologist, but at this point I think
> I should just get a good exam from an optometrist and be referred to an
> ophthalmologist if there are any concerns.
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA