Is Lenscrafters overprescribing minus lenses?

Everytime I went to Lenscrafters, they said my eyes got really bad and
that I had astigmatism or my astigmatism got worse, when actually I had
not noticed much change. Recently I have noticed that the left side is
much stronger than the right. I once had a weak pair of glasses. Then
I put on the strong glasses they gave me. Now when I put on my weak
pair of glasses i notice that my left eye is much more blurry than the
right eye. This leads me to believe that my left eye is being
overprescribed, and that they just make our eyes different
prescriptions to try to trick us that they know what they are doing by
giving us different Rx's for different eyes. This conclusion sickens
me. When I first went to Lenscrafters they didn't even tell me that I
was getting glasses. They didn't even treat me human. I didn't have
any control over myopia. They kept me in the dark. Instead they
talked to my parents, and showed my parents my Rx, instead of me.
Lenscrafters suck.

 

Then why are you going back there?

 

He's just a crossposting troll.

 

A few years back, an optical lab did a study of places like
Lenscrafters and others that did cut-rate eyeglass production.
They found that 9/10 lenses produced by them were significantly
out of "spec." Not good for the eyes, I'm sure.
-Rich

 

Life *does* suck when you are 16. Trust me, I tried it, for a whole
year. If you are in most states in the US (maybe all), it's what they
call "the law". The law says that your parents are in charge until you
turn 18 at which point you can do whatever you want, including paying for
everything (which your parents are required to do "by law" until then) and
getting kicked out of the house for doing whatever you want. Businesses
talk to the parents because they are the ones in charge and paying. If
they are smart they will keep you happy also, but mostly they have to make
your parents happy to keep them as customers. If your parents are smart,
they will listen to you and try their best to do what you want. After
all, in two short years you will be an adult and on your own. One does
not train somebody on how to be a responsible adult without gradually
shifting responsibility over to them.

 

This group is getting as nasty as some of the others of late. The OP
referred to his parents in his post. He looks like a typical teenager just
wanting to vent about a bad experience that he probably had no control over.
Don't any of you remember what it was like when your parents made decisions
for you, even if you disagreed?
Cross posting is "wrong" and does get people treated like shit when they do
it. So I'm sure to some this justifies their treatment of people.
AsianMale, I've been to Lens Crafters a couple of times too, and they have
said my left eye is weaker as well. Your post made me wonder.. and now I'm
going to go to another optometrist, and find out what the deal is.
Thanks for sharing,
lucy

 

Interesting how you can defend someone who cross-posts to so many
UNRELATED newsgroups...which should have been the CLUE that AsianMale
was a troll.

To the best of my knowledge, Lenscrafters doesn't even do eye exams.

 

It's not just the cross-posting Lucy, it's crap like this that
"AsianMale" has posted, or rather trolled:

"i saw this hot latina girl and i was getting boners in class. I
squeezed one off in the public bathroom. It took long and I was
standing up, and couldn't really relax because people kept using the
bathroom. When I was done my thumb muscle in my palm felt like it had
ran 5 miles and hadn't taken a break. It felt oxygen deprived for like
30 minutes. This is not a joke. Now there is a giant bulging vein and
it will never go away. It does not look like the other hand. When I
do handstands 5 minutes later there is a pulsating pain that is in my
hand when I squeeze the thumb and index fingers together...

Please note that I masturbated NONSTOP without REST of my hand, only
when I was done did I notice the pain and bulging vein on my palm.
Masturbation is DANGEROUS!"

No wonder he has vision problems!

 

Your surety is completely irrelevant.

Its unlikely to matter much with normal glasses when
they are always out of spec a bit after they have been
used for a while, before the next prescription.

 

hehe

 

Naw. I've never been to Lenscrafters either and though I'm right
handed, my left eye is dominant, the right is slightly weaker (or
astigmatic and it's usually been corrected by a slightly stronger
prescription for that eye).

sue

 

Why is this posted in alt.suicide.holiday?

It has no place there.

Please put it back where it belongs.

Respectfully,

Pete

 

Interesting.....I'm lefthanded & my right eye is weaker.

Think I'll stay away from CraftyLens. They don't hire craftsmen to do
the actual grinding. They use unskilled minimum wage labor.

 

There are other reasons beside power that lenses can be out of spec. A
lens can also be out of spec because of optical flaws. The big box
optical stores usually use the cheapest lab they can find and often
suggest plastic lenses because they are cheaper to buy. Plastic lenses
require very tight process temperature control or they will warp. A
warped lens causes distortion and uneven correction.

And the worst part is that the stores will try to tell you that the
lenses are OK if you have a problem. My buddys wife got an exam and a
new pair of glasses from a big box store. She complained that her vision
wasn't right and she was getting headaches. The big box place told her
that the lenses were OK and she needed to "adjust" to them. I gave the
glasses to a friend who could check them where he worked. He said the
lenses were warped. My buddys wife called the store asking for a
complete refund. They refused until she mentioned that she had the
glasses checked and it was found that the lenses were flawed.

 

Do gay people or Nazis have worse eyesight?

 

I can see quite well with glasses which I need only for driving and
seeing movies, although not to the sharp detail claimed by some eagle
eyes. I can read or thread a needle without glasses. Thus I had
always refused to let them increase my prescription for more than 25
years. I am till using my glasses from that period. My son
complains my glasses really date me and I finally relented to get a
pair of more modern ones. Got my eyes tested at the same time. Know
what? My distance vison (I'm moderately shortsighted) had improved
(reduced) by a degree and my near vision is normal. I believe if I
had let them increase my prescription everytime I saw them I would be
wearing coke bottle bottoms for glasses now.

 

The optometrist that is next door to a Lenscrafters (appears to be inside
Lenscrafters, but they must also have a separate outside door) is not
technically part of Lenscrafters. They are an independent optometrist that
rents space from Lenscrafters. You can go to that optometrist and get lenses
some place else, or go to a different optometrist for the Rx and get your
lenses at Lenscrafters.

 

More fool you.

 

Doesnt prove a lot about what happens over say 40 years.

 

It is fairly normal for the prescription to be slightly different for
each eye.

If your new prescription is much different than your old one you should
ask the optometrist for a recheck. Thay go primarily from what you
tell them when they use the test lenses.

If your new lenses seem much stronger than the old ones , despite a
similar prescription you should get them checked. Most optometrists
will test the lenses at no charge. (at least in my area)

It is also fairly normal for the Doctor, optometrist etc to talk to the
parent if the patient is underage.

If you have acute vision problems you should be consulting an
opthemologist (medically trained eye specialist) rather than a simple
optometrist.

In my experiance Lenscrafters was very good about retesting my vision
(at no charge) and correcting the lenses when I had problems with the
new glasses.