Optician Puns

Is it 1 or 2

I'm going to call it Johnny C Goode.

It was a huge spectacle!

If you’re interested in knowing more about this situation please read my previous post.

Disclaimer: this isn’t in any way shape or form throwing dirt on Markin - I just feel obligated to share what my optician told me as it could potentially affect your vision - I still think Markin’s frames are amazing and will most likely be buying again.

So after not being able to see clearly, I took both of my glasses to my local opticians (Specsavers) to get new lenses put in. Their immediate reaction upon seeing the frames was: “Wow, they are really flat!”. They further explained that this was part of the problem as your peripheral vision was greatly reduced. The solution was to heat them up and bend them (which you do at your own risk - if they snap it’s not their problem)

The second problem was the focal point. On Markin’s lenses the focal point is in the middle of the lens (where the black dot is), however this greatly depends on the shape and size of your face and head. My focal point was actually supposed to be closer in as I have a smaller face which is why I couldn’t see properly.

The last problem was that one of the the lenses tints on the Moscot pair was different quality to the other. If you look at the picture, the dot on the left is way more visible than the one on the right which indicates a cheaper tint material was used.

Personally, I’d say just buy the frames and take them to a local optician even though it may come out more expensive - it’s your vision at the end of the day and it’s not something you can get back if you lose it.

Hope everyone reading this found it helpful!

https://imgur.com/a/Fqc4ygy

Me eye hurties

I decided to go to a different opticians as they were offering a contact lens assessment too. But I'm not sure if my usual opticians will be aware that I have had an eye test now.

I can't seem to find a better sub to put this in, but please feel free to delete this if it's misplaced. As a noob, I was hoping to ask the advice of the more optically minded here! I have a bachelor's degree in nutrition and am already a certified pharmacy tech, so hard math, insurance billing, human anatomy, and medical terminology are things I'm already comfortable with.

I've been thinking about seeking out an optician apprenticeship for quite some time, but I don't know a single person who has done one! As a Walmart employee, I was honestly hoping to find an apprenticeship at a walmart to avoid some hassle. Any insight on that from a Spark employee would be greatly appreciated!

For anyone who has done an apprenticeship or been involvedin one, how exactly did that work? Do you essentially just work for 3 years to gain experience and have to teach yourself the book stuff with no guidance? Were you offered an in-house training program? Did your preceptor give you basic guidance on what to study and say "have fun"?

How hard was it to find an apprenticeship? I became a pharmacy tech through self study, would attempting to become a certified optician increase my chances of someone taking me on as an apprentice to be licensed? Are there any good online resources to study for the certification exam with?

Any help at all on this would be appreciated. I've been interested in this field for a long time, but I truly have no clue where to start.

I'm feeling a bit suspicious and would like to be proven wrong please :) definitely not looking for any form of doctoring.

4 year old was complaining of some nighttime white squiggles in the dark. Never complained of any other vision issues. To humour him and double check, we took him along to our local big brand opticians. Turns out he needs a fairly high prescription pair of glasses. He's got them now and hates them. Says he can't see with them on and kinda seems to see better without TBH. The optician did warn there is a period of adjustment and that this might happen. All was paid on the NHS. To me, it looks like he's been given glasses he doesn't need. That being said, I have no real idea! Second opinion? Too paranoid about Big Optical?

I have had some strain with my current glasses from reading books. I went to a new optician, but am uncertain if either of these are correct. How do you even tell? As an average person?

Current glasses: Sf: -1,25 Cyl: -0,50 Axis: 165 Sf: -1,00 Cyl: blank Axis: blank

New glasses: sf: -0,75 Cyl: -0,50 axis: 170 Sf: -0,25 Cyl: +0,00 axis: 0

Is the second prescription saying I have been over corrected? It's almost doubly improved vision, which makes me suspicious.

Is the second one going to make my distance vision worse? I don't want that, to be honest. But the second optician seemed to think that was my problem with reading and close up exhaustion.

Optician holds up the card with CZWJNYSACZ and asks him can he read that?

The Pole says “Read it? I know the cunt”.

As the title says, my prescription has changed and now the optician is recommending that I also have a second pair of +1 glasses for when I am working on the computer.

He said that my distance glasses are too strong for viewing the screen, but I also should not be sitting so close to the screen without glasses, and that some +1 glasses will allow me to sit further back which should help prevent my vision deteriorating further.

I'm sceptical of his recommendation, of course he wants me to buy MORE glasses, so I wanted to fact check this. I have tried reading other posts but I don't feel like I understand enough to be convinced either way.

Thanks

Just a little something to help her see in the New Year.

Sending this here because I dont know where else to ask. I visited the optician to get a contact lens trial I assumed this was free but they told me it would cost £30 so after having an eye test I told them I would come back later when I decided what i wanted to do (get new glasses or get contacts). They've just called me saying I owe them the £30 because they've placed an order for contacts without my consent. Is there anything I can do?

My mother, in her mid 70's, went to get her eye exam. Her current prescription was upgraded so when she went to speak to the optician, it was determined that her insurance didn't cover much, so the optician said it might be best to go to another store that had cheaper glasses. So my mom asked the optician lady if she could get her pupillary distance reading. The optician told her that she couldn't do that because she would be liable if she had her glasses done somewhere else.

I wear glasses myself, and I usually get my glasses online, and I have always been given my PD reading by the people at the stores. In fact, even when they were reluctant to give it, they still gave it, and most, they told me to be careful buying online glasses. Also, many times, they verbally gave it to me and I wrote it down. I never even thought twice about this.

So I'm surprised that an optician would say she can't give the PD because is a liability issue, and her name would be on it, and it can cause trouble.

Thus, for the opticians out there, is this a real concern? If you give out a PD reading, you could be liable for something?

I came back to the UWS after living out of the country for several years... I'd gotten completely out of touch with the businesses here, and in the meantime had started to wear contacts - something I had never done before. I was running out of my (foreign) prescription and needed to get new ones stat.

Had no idea which optical places were good, which were ripoffs, etc. Plus I had not a lot of money and needed an exam too. Yowks. Did a search and made some calls - yikes. People were charging a lot of money just to get an exam for contacts - it was like 125-175 bucks just for the exam...

I was walking uptown to my (newly found - who also deserves a shout out) - dentist, and I passed by a little storefront on Columbus and 88th. Modern Day Optx. Hmmm. I get kind of intuitive about places sometimes, and I just got a good vibe - don't know why. It just looked like a small, local, kind of homey place - def not a big chain.

I walked in and started talking to some young dude - nice guy... asked him about getting an eye exam for contacts... how much it would be. He said forty bucks. Damn - that was more like it. Then the optician guy came out - a guy maybe in his 30's, seemed quite knowlegeable... I started grilling him about costs of contacts - cause of course they are going to rip me off compared to online... He says 'nope - we are even cheaper than online'. Even said they'd give me sample lenses to try until I found the one that was most comfortable. Gosh. Looks like my instincts were good.

So anyway, I wound up getting contacts from them (which they were willing to change if they weren't totally right for me) and got to know Vlad (optician) and Max (sidekick). So because they are a local place, high integrity and probably spend next to zero on ads and stuff, I figured they deserved a shout out. Def not dodgy, not sketchy, not a ripoff. Nice and caring people. Dat's all - just wanted to do my good deed for the day by giving a local place a mention, especially in these difficult times for non-chain, small local places. I hope this is an okay use of r/nyc cyberspace!

Here's the TL:DR: Lil' local place, affordable exams, nice, knowledgeable people, no ripping off, integrity, decent selection of glasses and contacts, will order, tries hard to make customers happy, caring people.

(Broke up into paragraphs - thanks for suggestion, yes I tend to be wordy - sorry!)

So yeah, my prescription is for monthly Air Optix Plus Hydraglyde -2.75 14.2 8.60 and my optician told me that it’s exactly the same for dailies but I don’t know which to buy. On the website only ones I saw that were my same prescription were Biotrue One Day.

I went for my check up for my sight and my contact lenses today, the sight check went great no problems whatsoever. But as soon as I sat down for my lense check, the guy (past middle age) doing it started moaning and complaining at me about my eye sight and how I basically lost the eye sight roulette (like I had a choice to have bad eye sight). He did compliment my parents for getting my squint operations done at a young age but he then said that

"Once you have kids you'll have get them operations for the kids too if they show signs of squint"

I looked him dead in the eye and "I dont plan on having kids."

And he looked at me with a confused look that said a-young-woman-doesn't-want-children-great-scott! And said back "why not?"

WHAT DOES NOT HAVING KIDS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MY CONTACT LENSES?! "Because I don't want them."

"What about your husband or boyfriend?"

"I don't want them."

After a brief silence he finally got on with his job, but after he basically mansplained to me about how to put in my lenses. I'VE BEEN WEARING THEM FOR 13 YEARS!

Jesus H Christ....

For the past few years I've bought all my glasses from Zenni online. Really haven't had a problem besides buying some that don't fit my face. I have multiple pairs that I swap between. I'm always told that "Zenni is bottom of the barrel" so I was figuring its time to get a new eye exam and splurge on a good pair of glasses and prescription polarized sunglasses. Any recommendations on where to go?

She told me that I was color blind.

Well I must say, that came right out of the purple.

“So we know if you can C#”

I didn't look at her the same way again.

Today I’ve asked my insurer (Adeslas) if they’d cover my eye glasses. They don’t, and I expected that.

However they suggested to signup for a plan with some opticians where you pay some €xx/ month and they get you a pair of glasses every two years as well as regular lenses checkups.

Is there any optician that offers something like this in the city?

Wow. What. I had an appointment with a new midwife (my one was on holiday) and she dismissed everything I wanted to ask about. She kept talking over me, didn’t let me speak and said I worry too much. I genuinely feel absolutely terrible in the morning. I can’t do anything other than sit. When I get up and make few steps, my heart rate can go up to 150 and I can’t breathe. She said I should get my eyes checked. Wow. I said “I feel like you’re dismissing everything I say and I don’t feel heard at all”. She laughed.

My office is hiring for an optician! We are located in Evans, Ga and are privately owned. We are a small private practice of 2 Optometrists and are growing. We are looking for someone full time. Please send me a DM or refer to a friend you may know looking to work with a great group of professionals whose priority is the patients first. We prefer someone who can pretest, triage, schedule appointments and coordinate new referrals. SPECS EYE CARE - Dr. Casey N. Roland

All I want to say is that if you need to wear glasses you should consider getting prescription VR lenses from somewhere , it was definitely worth it.

I have large glasses with a heavy prescription and they would fit in the headset but with the lens bumpers I had 3d printed installed it was kind of tight and my ipd adjustment would move over time so I would always have to slide it back to 60 as my ipd is 59. It worked but I figured lenses would be better and I cannot recommend them enough.

The headset fits me much better, the image is even clearer and I have a slightly larger FOV.

Somebody has asked a similar question for framed glasses, what about contact lenses?

Do you guys know some trustable and easy on the wallet options for Opticians in Eixample?

Fam what

One…or two? One…or two?

I'm still don't know which one is the good one to choose as a career. Please advise. Thanks.