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Now do the same for contact lenses. Or at least make it so a prescription is good for more than a year.
by leetrout 4y ago
Now do the same for contact lenses. Or at least make it so a prescription is good for more than a year.
- amf12 4y agoI hate this so much. Why can't I buy contact lenses with an expired prescription? I have a prescription, I feel my vision is fine. But I still have to go to an optometrist to get a new prescription, just to be told the power hasn't changed. /rant
- blamazon 4y agoSomeone Who Isn't Me may have been long buying contacts 'from Canada' online with an expired prescription. They're supposed to check prescription for US customers before shipment, but...
- bookofjoe 4y agoWay OT (but related): The state of Virginia prohibits liquor purchases from outside Virginia. However — I have ordered and received such items from out of state vendors with home delivery without incident.
- webmobdev 4y agoDo you mean you have to pay for this? In India, this is a free service offered by anyone who sells glasses / contact lens!
- t-3 4y agoYep. The prescriptions are only good for one year, and it's usually $50-$100 to get tested. Most places won't sell you more than a year's supply of lenses at a time either.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoFWIW weekly and biweekly lenses are functionally identical to monthlies (dailies are different). The only difference is FDA rules meant to preserve artificial market segmentation. You can buy a years supply of weekly lenses and wear them longer.
- eru 4y agoThe Land of the Free often ain't so. Wait until you hear that Kinder Surprise are banned there, too.
- mrguyorama 4y agoIf the land were truly free people wouldn't have to keep shouting it from their EPA regulated lifted trucks while listening to the FTC regulated radio for their favorite country star who uses copyright to keep people from freely playing their music.
- eru 4y agoI'm not sure what you are trying to say here?
- rhexs 4y ago1-800-Contacts will auto-renew your existing prescription in some states via a eye exam you can do on your phone. I think optometrists consistently sue them over that sort of tech to try to keep their useless glasses monopoly in an era where they really don't need to exist anymore. Else order from Canada or the UK. Still cheaper to get a new exam at Costco in most cases.
- erddchj 4y agoYou can. I've done it multiple times. Go read how the law is written. Companies have 24 hours to attempt to verify your prescription. If they can't get in contact with the doctor you listed they are allowed to sell you them anyway
- Geonode 4y agoBuy dailies and wear them for two weeks. They're the same lenses.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoDailies aren't the same. They have a higher water content (more fragile) and eliminate processing steps intended to retard biofilm buildup.
- Geonode 4y agohttps://www.bvoptometry.com/daily-contacts-vs-monthly-contac https://www.bvoptometry.com/daily-contacts-vs-monthly-contac...
- 55555 4y agoNow this would be a really interesting conspiracy if true.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoIt's very not true. Even just taking a daily contact out once and immediately popping it back in can sometimes mangle it up enough to noticably fuck up my vision. Biweeklys are much more tough as they're actually designed to be handled. Not trying to shit on dailies by the way, as they're actually the healthiest for your eyes if you can swing the cost.
- Geonode 4y ago>The reason behind the lawsuit? The suit claimed Johnson & Johnson had misled consumers and eye doctors that their Acuvue 1-day lenses had some type of special physical property that limited its use to 1 day when, in fact, they were identical to regular Acuvue lenses, which were bi-weekly contacts. https://www.bvoptometry.com/daily-contacts-vs-monthly-contacts/ https://www.bvoptometry.com/daily-contacts-vs-monthly-contac...
- 55555 4y agoOrder them from Canada online. Don’t feed the corruption.
- mbesto 4y agoAny good websites online to get them from?
- 55555 4y agoSorry I live abroad so buy them infrequently when back in the USA and I can’t find my order receipts in my email to check. I’m sure all the sites work. Funnily enough I’m pretty sure the “Canadian” site I ordered from shipped them to me from a warehouse in Washington.
- fasthands9 4y agoMy last prescription for contact lens was for a specific brand. Once I realized I wanted to go back to my last brand - I was told my current prescription didn't cover it. Instead of dealing with another appointment or calling up to complain - I just bought them from the a UK site willing to ship. So silly.
- Zircom 4y agoWhat website do you use?
- fasthands9 4y agovision direct co uk
- eru 4y agoYou could also just move to a more sensible country?
- missedthecue 4y agoSeems cheaper just to pay for new prescriptions
- eru 4y agoDefinitely for a one off, and also if that's the only thing that annoys you. I was more pointing out that other countries handle this better.