Prescription or Ready Mades Glasses: What Price For Your Vision?

Your sight is beyond cost considerations.  You’ve only got one pair of eyes and when they go – that’s it!  So when you get to the point of  not seeing things at a distance quite as clearly as you used to, or not being able to read up close, then it’s time to look at getting  glasses.  Prescription Glasses for reading in particular are custom-made for each individual after an eye test.Visit your optician (ideally every two years) to check your prescription and correct any faults at the time of the test.  You can then use that same information to purchase prescription glasses at any outlet or on the Internet.
Cost drives many people to consider buying “ready-made” reading glasses at a pharmacy or department store. They’re certainly popular, but depend entirely on “self diagnosis” in the store.They may be cheap, but given the very competitive optical market, you can get prescription glasses at very attractive prices too.Online companies like SelectSpecs.com offer an impressive range of budget prescription glasses to suit virtually any taste.
The major drawback of purchasing “off the shelf” pharmacy reading glasses is that they are essentially "one-size-fits-all".The prescription is the same in both lenses, and the location of the optical centre of the lens is not customised to suit you exactly as it would be prescription glasses.Most people have different prescriptions in both eyes, and almost everyone has a small amount of astigmatism correction in their prescriptions.Glasses that are too far off your actual prescription can cause headaches, eyestrain, and even nausea.
The other, more serious problem with “ready made” reading glasses is why people purchase them. If you head to the chemist rather than the doctor when you’re feeling under the weather because you “don’t want to bother the GP”, then you could be ignoring a complaint that’s more serious than you thought.The same can be said about your sight.Buying Off the Shelf means you run the risk of not spotting serious problems like Glaucoma that can be treated, but only if its caught in time.
Off the Shelf glasses are usually only available as single vision.Bifocals contain two discrete elements in the lens (top and bottom) that corrects distance and near vision problems.Varifocal lenses enable the power of the lens to graduate smoothly across the entire surface, allowing the wearer to see clearly at all distances.These two lens types are far better suited to most people’s lifestyle and are only available in prescription glasses.  Prescription sunglasses can also be made with single-vision, bifocal or varifocal designs to offer the same standard of vision enhancement and protection.Your vision is worth almost any price.Don’t gamble with your sight and insist on properly prescribed and dispensed prescription glasses.