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Would you recommend this for people with established short-sightedness? I'm always worried about my eyes getting worse, and they have been, year after year.

teslabox 10y ago
> I'm always worried about my eyes getting worse, and they have been, year after year. Sometimes people's vision prescriptions are too strong. I started going to a 'developmental optometrist' about 12 years ago. While I don't see 20/20 with my current glasses, I tried stronger lenses from a conventional optometrist 7 years ago and found them intolerable. When he wanted to charge me for another office visit for the contact prescription, I just ordered the prescription I wanted from an internet contacts store.
- overcast 10y ago
  How do you order from an online contacts store, without a valid doctors prescription? I've worn glasses since I was in kindergarten, and contacts since I was seventeen. Never have I been able to order contacts online, without a doctors prescription. They expire within a year typically.
  - swedesford 10y ago
    Not all companies in all countries are quite so rigorous about checking for current valid prescriptions as others.
    - detaro 10y ago
      In addition, many countries don't have prescription requirements for contact lenses at all, so there is nothing to check.
      - overcast 10y ago
        Yikes.
        detaro 10y ago
        Why Yikes? I mean, yes, contacts have a higher risk of getting infections etc compared to glasses, but that's not really fixed by yearly check-ups. And a pair of glasses can be good for 5-10 years if your eyesight is stable. I guess if you just start using them you'd want an expert advising you, making sure everything goes correctly?
      - toomanybeersies 10y ago
        Yep, never heard of needing a contact lens prescription to order them before. Here in New Zealand you can just order them online from Canada for cheap. So I suspect Canada is the same.
  - Spooky23 10y ago
    Look around. Many sites let you just punch in the numbers. The downside is that you need to make frame adjustments yourself or go somewhere to do it.

teslabox 10y ago

> I'm always worried about my eyes getting worse, and they have been, year after year. Sometimes people's vision prescriptions are too strong. I started going to a 'developmental optometrist' about 12 years ago. While I don't see 20/20 with my current glasses, I tried stronger lenses from a conventional optometrist 7 years ago and found them intolerable. When he wanted to charge me for another office visit for the contact prescription, I just ordered the prescription I wanted from an internet contacts store.

overcast 10y ago
How do you order from an online contacts store, without a valid doctors prescription? I've worn glasses since I was in kindergarten, and contacts since I was seventeen. Never have I been able to order contacts online, without a doctors prescription. They expire within a year typically.
- swedesford 10y ago
  Not all companies in all countries are quite so rigorous about checking for current valid prescriptions as others.
  - detaro 10y ago
    In addition, many countries don't have prescription requirements for contact lenses at all, so there is nothing to check.
    - overcast 10y ago
      Yikes.
      - detaro 10y ago
        Why Yikes? I mean, yes, contacts have a higher risk of getting infections etc compared to glasses, but that's not really fixed by yearly check-ups. And a pair of glasses can be good for 5-10 years if your eyesight is stable. I guess if you just start using them you'd want an expert advising you, making sure everything goes correctly?
    - toomanybeersies 10y ago
      Yep, never heard of needing a contact lens prescription to order them before. Here in New Zealand you can just order them online from Canada for cheap. So I suspect Canada is the same.
- Spooky23 10y ago
  Look around. Many sites let you just punch in the numbers. The downside is that you need to make frame adjustments yourself or go somewhere to do it.