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killbilly said:
Coming back to this thread because I'm a little annoyed...

Got my annual eye checkup. Still need readers for near vision but my distance vision is 20/20 uncorrected, which is GREAT! Because putting readers on and taking them off again is a hassle, I asked about getting progressives with the reader prescription in the lower portion and the upper part uncorrected. They said sure, no problem, I picked out some frames and placed the order and it was a couple hundred bucks. Ouch.

So I figured on Eye Buy Direct or Zenni...and both places are telling me they can't make a progressive lens with a single-vision prescription. This baffles me and the only thing I can think of is that their order processing or something can't do it. We're not building nanotech or rockets here...I just want some damned glasses without a bifocal line. That can't be so hard, can it?

Any of you guys in the same boat I am here?
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For years I've been buying glasses from 39dollarglasses.com and I've always been pleased.

You can talk to a human and everything is guaranteed.

Had concerns about my first progressive order a few years ago, they nailed it. In the past nine years I've purchased a dozen pairs of glasses.

You can also modify your own prescriptions. I noticed an old RX was better than my current and created a new RX with my bifocal correction.
 
FloridaLarry IS SPOT ON. I just got a pair similar to what he describes. My doc had a new machine that uses laser beams and shiite to measure your face and then you look ahead at varying distances at tell them when its in focus. They make the lens based on that. So you have a sort of 3-way Progressive. I use them a lot. sometimes for short flights Ill just pop on my grandpa "Chuck Schummer" readers. But I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND Lasik for anyone over 40. LASIK is TEMPORARY. YOUr eye muscles and lens shape will continue to age and change. Lasik will be moot. I skipped lasik and I m glad I did. glasses are fine. Just keep looking. Dont let the "optcian" tell you what to do.
 
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