| Dec. 2nd, 2008 @ 07:37 pm Blindy McBlindson at your service. |
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estoy:  disappointed
So JCPenney was having this great optical sale where you could get two pairs of glasses for 129.99. I've had the same glasses for three years so I said oh hell yes, let's do it.
So Chrissy, Nicole, Tim, and I went to the optical to have my eyes checked and help me pick out glasses. We found two pairs that we definitely liked -- one was a fun funky pair and the other was different but neat. So I went to have the lady ring them up.
Turns out that because I'm so nearsighted I have to have SPECIAL lenses. So that meant the fun funky pair would be 179.99 ON THEIR OWN. Not part of the deal. And no matter WHAT pairs I picked, the lenses would cost me $60 for each. I am not made of money. So I settled for one pair of glasses for 149. It's terribly depressing.
I don't even know if I can use Zenni Optical to get another pair because they told me I need polycarbonate lenses, otherwise the plastic lenses would be a mile thick. It really sucks, and I know I seem very shallow here but I really really wanted two pairs of cute glasses. I'm really kind of upset by this. I was really looking forward to two new pairs of glasses, and instead I end up with one. They're awesome glasses and as soon as they come in I'll show them off, but it's just really really frustrating.
ETA: So, how bad are your eyes? Do you wear glasses? Do you know your prescription? |
If it makes you feel better, my lenses cost around $350.
My prescription, btw, is -9.75 in my right eye, -10.25 in my left.
Ouch! My former roomie has -9something in both eyes for her prescription... and her prescription is circa 2005 (like mine is, too).
$350 JUST for the lens alone... OUCH.
Yeah, that's with anti-glare, anti-scratch, and super-duper thinness. Thankfully, I'm still mostly covered under my dad's government plan, but it still sucks.
I commented on facebook but I forgot that those are my contacts...I hardly every wear glasses.
Yikes, that sucks! My eyes are getting to be that bad. I'm at -4.00 now. Additionally, my lenses always cost a frillion dollars because I always get the anti-reflective coating to protect my eyes from the computer glare.
I'm not sure what I have, so here's the info from my prescription info card...
For O.D., spherical is -3 and cylindrical is 2.75.
For O.S., spherical is -3.25 and cylindrical is -2. (?!?!)
So I guess my lens are -3 and -3.25, respectively? I'm totally baffled by my cylindrical specs. Yes, that's a PLUS 2.75...
Oh, and that info is for my prescription, circa May of 2005. I have an inkling my eyes are significantly worse now, because words are starting to get blurry for me when I look at them. Time for new glasses NOW. :(
Oh, and I forgot. I have astigmatism too. Me and both of my sibs. Yay.
Edited at 2008-12-03 01:17 am (UTC)
I have astigmatism too. And I'll probably have macular degeneration when I hit my 50s. Genetics is a bitch.
I enjoy your Batman tag.
My prescription is -2.75 in my right eye (which also has astigmatism) and -3.25 in my left eye.
Also, you're not coming across as shallow at all. It is disappointing to think you could get two of something but end up paying more for just one. Sure, as problems go it isn't huge, but that doesn't mean you don't have a right to be disappointed or to express said disappointment.
I just got two pairs for my birthday for a wonderful $300 [shit! Thankfully they were a present!]. My right is -5.00 and my left is -6.25. Also, I'm developing a tinge of astigmatism in my left eye. Fuckers.
That totally sucks!!!
My eyesight is TERRIBLE. I really need to go get my prescription checked again. I went all through high school refusing to wear my glasses, and I haven't a clue how I managed - I'm completely blind!!
My eyes are horrible, -6.50 in both eyes (I think.) But, I have awesome insurance and glasses hardly cost me anything. Yay unions! I went over the summer.. a pair of glasses, 12 months of contacts, eye exam & contact fitting was around $100. It would have been cheaper, but my insurance doesn't cover all the extras I need on my lenses and they don't pay for the contact exam (but pay for the contacts, go figure.) I wear mostly contacts, I just feel more comfortable driving in those than I do my glasses.
Do you work for the State? For some reason I want to think that you do.
Yup. It's funny.. I've had people call trying to sell my insurance before. All I have to do is say "I work for the State," and they go "Okay, well you have a nice day then!"
I should try that at my store. We get cold calls like that all the time, but we're owned by corporate out of NYC.
One day I jokingly said to my manager, "Verizon Wireless would like to know if you are satisfied with your phone service."
She replied, "You need to give them the corporate #. It's 1800-EAT-SHIT."
She said it over the walkies so all five of us in different parts of the store burst out laughing so hard. It was hilarious.
Been there done that. A years supply of contacts for me is $360. And that the part that insurance DOESN'T cover.
When I had insurance it would cover contacts OR glasses but not both and I like to have both.
My mom's been after me to get contacts. But I LIKE my glasses, I don't know if my new astigmatism prescription is available as contacts (I know some aren't), and her contacts cause her so much trouble- sometimes they even rip and she loses half her lens in her eye. Owwwwwww.
I loved my contacts. I wore then for ten years. (not the same pair, obviously.). Until I got a job where I stare at a computer screen all day, and they started giving me headaches. I moved back to glasses, and the headaches went away, but I still miss my contacts. :(
I don't know my glasses prescription, but in contacts my 'scrip is
L -4.25
R -3.5
I am shocked, SHOCKED that there are people who are more blind than me!
Dude I know!
Mine were -6.5 and -4.5. And I thought I was blind!
I don't have my prescription anywhere I can actually find, but I am a srs Blindy McBlindersons. That's part of why I wear contacts, because my glasses are so ginormous.
Yes, I wear glasses. My eyes are not all that bad, but I go crosseyed and see double without them and that makes me get headaches. It's +1 in one eye and +.75 in the other, which is the same as my old glasses, but something about it is different than my old prescription, because now I see things in the correct perspective! YAY! (I have astigmatism, and my old prescription was for plain hyperopia, and I really don't know how it's different even though it's the same diopter strength. ::shrug::)
20/200 - half way to legally blind. i wear contacts 99% of the time, which has probably made my vision even worse since i can't deal without having perphrial vision ;p
i ran into the same deal with glasses last year. empire had a 99 dollar special which ran 150 for me thanks to the size of he lenses.
eta: looked at my contact box...-5.50. i think that is current, though i know it was worse when I had astigmatism (10+ years of toric lenses got rid of it). ;p
Edited at 2008-12-03 06:06 am (UTC)
20/15. Yeah, not quite Xray vision, but I can see through the occasional piece of clothing that's not meant to be see-through.
I don't know my prescription, but I know that thing get blurry at six inches away from my nose.
I don't know exactly what my prescription is but without glasses I am not legally allowed behind the wheel of a car. And if you were standing on the other side of the street I would be able to see the shape of you but no detail and wouldn't know it was you unless you were yelling/waving at me.
I hate it when you expect a great deal and then end up getting it. At least you have one pair of new glasses though
:)
I don't know my prescription. I've never even got to see one before. I get my eyes tested, then buy my frames. I'm super-duper shortsighted too, with fun astigmatisms.
My lenses cost a bomb. I get anti-glare (because it was easier to see when I was on my moped), anti-scratch (because I am a clumsy mofo) and I have to get polycarbonate lenses made super thin so they actually fit in frames. All in all, it comes to around £200 but it used to be covered by the NHS.
Last time, I just got thin plastic lenses with no anti glare and anti scratch and the lenses ended up being free with my frames. I can definately tell the difference though. Now I just get free eye tests and not free lenses :(
lol Batman.
-2.25 in the right and -4.50 in the left. My lenses are sixty bucks too.
You don't seem that shallow to me, but then, I did a similar deal a couple years back, and decided to get forget the thin lenses just so I could actually have two pairs (my eyesight was a bit better than, so the lenses weren't as thick). One was funky and the other was more sleek and professional, and I felt I needed that.
My eyes are so bad and weird that I never get the deals on glasses either. :(
I don't know my glasses prescription, but my contacts are -2.75 in the left eye and -6 (should be -6.25 but when they get that high AND are correcting astigmatism they only go to half sizes).
My eyes are still fucked up a little bit from the CML, but they're both much better than they used to be, although there's still stuff floating around in both of them. Right eye is 20/20, left eye is (I think) 20/40 last they checked, but at it's worst it was 20/2400, which is somewhere near legally blind.
Unrelatedly, I saw
this and thought of you.
seems like everyones got shit eyes, maybe nobody really has bad eyes, maybe things are just made too damn small and we would all really see perfectly if whoever created this insane world would just make things a little bit bigger and clearer.
And to anyone that knows their prescription, holy crap!!! I've worn glasses since I was not even two years old and I still have no idea what my prescription is. Last time I went to get glasses like four years ago they were like oh yeah it usually takes an hour or so for the glasses to be ready...so I go get my eyes checked, show them the thingy and they're like ok, it'll be two weeks for your glasses, one of my daughters had the same thing happen.
-8.50 for contact lenses, -9.00 for glasses (yeah, I don't know why that's different either). My lenses cost about $450 for the polycarbonate, regardless of sales, which is why I generally only get contacts. I got new glasses this time because my prescription got worse.
Fortunately I have vision care insurance, which, while it doesn't cover everything, helps a lot, especially if I get new glasses.
major suckage there...
I've worn glasses since I was about -- oooh--- 26? used to have 20/20, now it's something like 40/50, or some weird thing... then again, I haven't had my eyes checked in almost 5 years either.
My eyes are pretty crappy too. I don't qualify for any of the "two-for-some-cheapish-amount" sales either, and a normal pair of glasses runs me anywhere from $700 - $800. My latest prescription was... -10.75 and -9.50. Ew.
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