+1.0 Reading Glasses

I just started needed some help from reading glasses (new toric lenses
for the first time, etc. long story) and the doctor suggested I get a
pair of +1.0.

Can anyone recommend a "drug store" type of place where I can find a
decent selection of 1.0 in something thats not femanine nor makes me
look like my grandfather? I really don't want to spend a lot of money
on these.

 

I got mine at a swap meet for about $1 per pair.


Bill

 

The lenses on the 99-cent glasses at the 99-Cent Store are perfectly
fine, and the frames don't look stupid. IF you get there when they've
just received a new shipment. Drugstores (Rite-Aid and Sav-On around
here) have a better selection at 10x-20x the price.

 

I buy mine at Costco. They have a reasonable selection of styles, and
they are very cheap at 3 pairs for US$18.99. They are not terribly
durable, but at that price you can afford to toss them every few years. I
should warn you that they don't carry 1.0 or anything higher than 2.75.
I'm guessing that 1.25 might be close enough, though.


If you don't like what you see at the drugstores in your area, try the
supermarkets.

 

Though I can't be sure what your grandfather looks like ;-)

Maybe the crux of your question is the +1.00 diopter issue. My
(certainly limited) experience is that it's very common for retail
outlets to offer +1.25 or +1.50 through +2.75 or +3.00d, but it can be
quite difficult to find any real selection of +1.00d readers.

My two suggestions:

1) Search the 'Net (you can find quite a few with a keyword search of:
"reading glasses" "+1.00"

2) Get the doc to write you an Rx for the +1.00 NVO (Near Vision Only)
and go to any optical shop. The world of frames and high-quality
lenses will be your oyster, reasonably priced on up, and your
insurance may pay.

Best of luck,

Neil

nospam opined:

 

Perhaps I should have said "A" grandfather, (aka old guy) and not any
one grandfather in particular. And no, I'm not saying all grandfathers
are old looking, just the ones from my childhood memories.

 

You should have said the stereotypical grandfather then nobody
could've complained.

Ann

 

The thing that makes a grandfather -- or anybody else -- look old is
tilting the head back to read stuff through the bottom half of their
glasses. It also gives you a monumentally stiff neck.

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And very scary when you realise that you are doing it yourself... and
even more scary when you realise that you are doing the opposite and
putting your head down in order to see through the distant bit for
middle things... I dunno... I only said last night that progressives
were okay and yet today I found myself using the single vision glasses
and realising how much better they are for ...er....seeing. Computer
fonts are larger and I prefer it.

I might abandon the progressives... they really aren't much good for
me.. LOL... but two pairs of glasses won't work for me at work either.
so I'm a bit stuck....back to the drawing board... sigh

Ann

 

Before I had bifocals, I had one pair for distance and one pair for
reading. At meetings with viewgraphs/films, I wore both pair and just
moved my head up or down. People looked at me oddly, but they were just
security or HR pukes so who cares? Ultimately I bit the bullet and
ordered bifocals, but I never liked them for serious reading of any
sort.

I wore bifocals for quite a while, and then switched to contacts for
distance and cheap reading glasses for reading/computer stuff. The
readers are small but centered, so I can look straight at whatever I
want to see.

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I did the contacts and cheap readers for years. I was just refitted
with bi-focal contact lenses. I am happy with the new contacts.

 

Thanks for all your ideas and suggestions. After looking high and low,
I did finally find something on the (ummm) youthful side at 1.0 at a
local drugstore chain for $20.

I'm thinking now that I've misplaced them more times than I can count, I
probably ought to get a few pairs . Unfortunately the ones at
Costco are 1.25's, but certainly much cheaper at 3 for the price of 1
basically.

Boe.

 

You don't have a 99-Cent Only Store where you live? I have perhaps a
dozen in various strengths -- strong for splinter removal, less strong
for computer and reading...

 

As you posted in another thread, you are only tested to the nearest .25D,
and the tolerance for made to order lenses isn't perfect, either. I've
never tried a 1.00, but I suspect that a 1D pair of glasses won't be much
different than 1.25D, for most people. I think that it depends on your
personality. Some people tolerate a little variance, and others are very
picky.

 

If your eyes are anything like mine, you'll soon graduate from +1.00's
to +1.25's, 1.50's, and eventually +2.00's.

When I first started with reading glasses, I was quite nearsighted
(20/80 or so) and just needed +1.00's, and only for reading magazines,
etc. I had to look around a bit to find +1.00's ("computer glasses"
at Staples). Within a few months, I noticed that I had to sit farther
back from the terminal than I wanted to, so I started wearing the
+1.00's there, too.

I sat in front of computer screens many hours per day with my new
+1.00's and within a month or so, I needed stronger glasses (+1.25 and
+1.50) for reading magazines. Things then started going downhill
rapidly, and soon I had an assortment of +1.25's, +1.50's and +2.00's
scattered around. As you might imagine, the right reading glasses
were never in the right place at the right time, so I eventually just
standardized on +2.00's everywhere. I now have a pair of +2.00's at
each place where I might ever have to see something up close. I think
my eyes have now stabilized, thank goodness. (I'm sure glad these
reading glasses are 10x cheaper than my old prescription distance
glasses.)

The only good thing about all this is I can now see 20/20 or 20/25
(according to the DMV) at distance, and don't need glasses anymore for
driving. Perhaps my case is one of those "spontaneous changes" that
the OD's on this newsgroup mention from time to time.

 

Dear JY,

Thanks for the information -- I will pass it on to
some interested parties.

Apparently, if you use a plus lens consistenly for
close work (from 20/70) your vision just
has a "spontaneous change", in a plus direction,
i.e., your distant vision clears to exceed
the Snellen-DMV standard.

Of course this has NOTHING to do with your
wearing of the plus lens ...

Best,

Otis
Engineer

 

(Otis Brown) wrote in message >
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I'm sure that the reading glasses ("plus lenses") are somehow
connected to my vision change. It's not clear if the reading glasses
caused the change, or were just made necessary by changes that were
already occuring. (Has anyone ever done a real study of moderately
nearsighted late middle aged folks who started using reading glasses?)

Also not clear is whether all this is really a net improvement. I
have far more pairs of glasses now than I ever had before (at least
they're cheaper). I used to wear glasses mainly for driving and
seeing the blackboard/screen, etc, but not for anything close. Now, I
need glasses much of the time. For me, near vision seem to be more
important than far vision, and at my age (55), I guess I can't have
both.

 

I'm sure that the reading glasses ("plus lenses") are somehow

The need to have reading glasses in adulthood with a plus lens (or at least
less minus than their current Rx) is natural to virtually all people. It is
called presbyopia. You can have far and near vision by using bifocals or
progressive lenses.