i went to Costco with a glasses prescription from my optometrist ( I usually wear contact lenses, glasses just for morning/evening before/after contact insertion and removal, sometimes on weekends at home I don't bother to put
in contacts, and wear glasses all day).
I am myopic and astigmatic, with some presbyopia due to age (49). The eye doctor gave me two prescriptions i could choose from. One were single vision lenses, but with a compromise prescription, not my full distance correction, so that I could also use them for reading, except perhaps very small print. (That's how my contact prescription is also, a compromise.)
The other prescription he gave me were for progressive lenses--higher distance correction, progressing to a reading correction.
Either would be high index, as my myopia correction is strong.
I found the price difference great though, so thought I would probably go with the single vision compromise solution, especially since i usually wear contacts.
Yesterday I went to Costco, however. I found their progressive lenses so
much cheaper than the others, I'm tempted to get them. Their charge for the single vision lenses would be $99, for the progressives $149 (both 1.66 high index, lenses only). Their price for the progressives was similar to what others charged for the single vision. At some places, the progressives cost more than $400, lenses only!
I asked if the progressive lenses were Varilux. I was told that no, only private optometrists could use Varilux. Costco uses a different progressive lens by the same company, Essilor.
Is anyone familiar with this other progressive lens by Essilor sold by Costco? How is it different from Varilux? Is it worth getting? Or should I just go for the compromise single vision prescription now, and save up for Varilux in a few years, when my presbyopia gets worse?
Thank you for your response.
On Wednesday, July 4, 2001 at 3:41:53 PM UTC-5, MS wrote:
i went to Costco with a glasses prescription from my optometrist ( I usually >> wear contact lenses, glasses just for morning/evening before/after contact >> insertion and removal, sometimes on weekends at home I don't bother to put >> in contacts, and wear glasses all day).
I am myopic and astigmatic, with some presbyopia due to age (49). The eye
doctor gave me two prescriptions i could choose from. One were single vision >> lenses, but with a compromise prescription, not my full distance correction, >> so that I could also use them for reading, except perhaps very small print. >> (That's how my contact prescription is also, a compromise.)
The other prescription he gave me were for progressive lenses--higher
distance correction, progressing to a reading correction.
Either would be high index, as my myopia correction is strong.
I found the price difference great though, so thought I would probably go
with the single vision compromise solution, especially since i usually wear >> contacts.
Yesterday I went to Costco, however. I found their progressive lenses so
much cheaper than the others, I'm tempted to get them. Their charge for the >> single vision lenses would be $99, for the progressives $149 (both 1.66 high >> index, lenses only). Their price for the progressives was similar to what
others charged for the single vision. At some places, the progressives cost >> more than $400, lenses only!
I asked if the progressive lenses were Varilux. I was told that no, only
private optometrists could use Varilux. Costco uses a different progressive >> lens by the same company, Essilor.
Is anyone familiar with this other progressive lens by Essilor sold by
Costco? How is it different from Varilux? Is it worth getting? Or should I >> just go for the compromise single vision prescription now, and save up for >> Varilux in a few years, when my presbyopia gets worse?
Thank you for your response.
What no response yet? I have the same question!!
On 10/10/2015 08:42 PM, jgosdin@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On Wednesday, July 4, 2001 at 3:41:53 PM UTC-5, MS wrote:
i went to Costco with a glasses prescription from my optometrist ( I usually
wear contact lenses, glasses just for morning/evening before/after contact >>> insertion and removal, sometimes on weekends at home I don't bother to put >>> in contacts, and wear glasses all day).
I am myopic and astigmatic, with some presbyopia due to age (49). The eye >>> doctor gave me two prescriptions i could choose from. One were single vision
lenses, but with a compromise prescription, not my full distance correction,
so that I could also use them for reading, except perhaps very small print. >>> (That's how my contact prescription is also, a compromise.)
The other prescription he gave me were for progressive lenses--higher
distance correction, progressing to a reading correction.
Either would be high index, as my myopia correction is strong.
I found the price difference great though, so thought I would probably go >>> with the single vision compromise solution, especially since i usually wear >>> contacts.
Yesterday I went to Costco, however. I found their progressive lenses so >>> much cheaper than the others, I'm tempted to get them. Their charge for the >>> single vision lenses would be $99, for the progressives $149 (both 1.66 high
index, lenses only). Their price for the progressives was similar to what >>> others charged for the single vision. At some places, the progressives cost >>> more than $400, lenses only!
I asked if the progressive lenses were Varilux. I was told that no, only >>> private optometrists could use Varilux. Costco uses a different progressive >>> lens by the same company, Essilor.
Is anyone familiar with this other progressive lens by Essilor sold by
Costco? How is it different from Varilux? Is it worth getting? Or should I >>> just go for the compromise single vision prescription now, and save up for >>> Varilux in a few years, when my presbyopia gets worse?
Thank you for your response.
What no response yet? I have the same question!!
The people who could answer such questions are long gone, unfortunately.
My mom tried progressive lenses and hated them, choosing trifocals
instead. Since I've had my astigmatism and farsightedness corrected
with the cataract operation I got some 99-cent progressive sun/reading glasses which I absolutely hated -- the vision was clear, but the head-bobbing required to find the correct spot was maddening.
I seem to remember that the shape of the 'saddle' of various brands of progressive lenses differs, and that some people prefer one type, others another. Costco doesn't sell shit, with the exception of Cattle Drive
chili and Smucker's vs Knott's preserves, so I don't think that 'better'
is meaningful -- just what you prefer, and you probably can't discover
that until you try.
Re contacts -- my daughter recently tried monovision (one eye for
distance, the other for reading) and loves it. I accidentally tried something like that by putting my contacts in the wrong eyes (heavy astigmatism, 2.5D difference between eyes) and really liked the 'near' effect, but hated the blur in the distance. I'm thinking of trying multi-focal contacts just for convenience, but haven't done it yet.
i went to Costco with a glasses prescription from my optometrist ( I usually wear contact lenses, glasses just for morning/evening before/after contact insertion and removal, sometimes on weekends at home I don't bother to put
in contacts, and wear glasses all day).
I am myopic and astigmatic, with some presbyopia due to age (49). The eye doctor gave me two prescriptions i could choose from. One were single vision lenses, but with a compromise prescription, not my full distance correction, so that I could also use them for reading, except perhaps very small print. (That's how my contact prescription is also, a compromise.)
The other prescription he gave me were for progressive lenses--higher distance correction, progressing to a reading correction.
Either would be high index, as my myopia correction is strong.
I found the price difference great though, so thought I would probably go with the single vision compromise solution, especially since i usually wear contacts.
Yesterday I went to Costco, however. I found their progressive lenses so
much cheaper than the others, I'm tempted to get them. Their charge for the single vision lenses would be $99, for the progressives $149 (both 1.66 high index, lenses only). Their price for the progressives was similar to what others charged for the single vision. At some places, the progressives cost more than $400, lenses only!
I asked if the progressive lenses were Varilux. I was told that no, only private optometrists could use Varilux. Costco uses a different progressive lens by the same company, Essilor.
Is anyone familiar with this other progressive lens by Essilor sold by Costco? How is it different from Varilux? Is it worth getting? Or should I just go for the compromise single vision prescription now, and save up for Varilux in a few years, when my presbyopia gets worse?
Thank you for your response.
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