A Beginner's Guide to Buying GREAT Glasses
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- Welcome to our beginner’s guide to buying GREAT eyeglasses. If you want to learn how to buy glasses that are accurate, comfortable and that you love, then this is the video for you - Need more help? Watch this! 👉 bit.ly/BestEyeGlassesGuide
If you are thinking about buying a new pair of prescription glasses and not sure where to start or what you should know or expect from the process, this video will walk you through it. Buying new glasses can be a fun process but also overwhelming at times. Finding a great looking and comfortable pair of eyeglasses involves a lot more than just finding glasses for your face shape, there are many considerations to account for regarding the power of your prescription and what glasses lenses may be best for you.
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No matter where you buy your glasses it is always best to have them professionally adjusted to improve their fit and comfort. It will help you see better too.
If you are looking to purchase online glasses, it is important to continue seeing your eye doctor yearly for eye health evaluations. Although you may be seeing well, many eye diseases may creep up without affecting your eyesight until it's too late.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Glasses for Beginners
1:10 Getting an accurate glasses prescription
2:30 How to buy glasses frames
3:35 How to buy glasses online
4:44 Golden Rules of buying glasses frames
8:46 Buying prescription glasses lenses
9:17 Bifocals and Progressive Lenses
9:30 Standard Plastic Lenses
10:02 Polycarbonate and Trivex
10:40 High Index Lenses
11:03 Golden Rules of buying prescription glasses lenses
12:00 Glasses Coatings Guide
14:00 Blue Light Glasses
15:16 Photochromic lenses
16:12 Bonus Tips
17:40 Feedback - Věda a technologie
👉Which part of the video did you find most helpful?
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I liked the type of lens upgrades. Polycarbonate and all.
Hello! Love your videos! You mentioned that the higher the prescription, the smaller the lens you would want. While I understand the logic, wouldn't the size of your head also come into play? If you have a huge head and small lens, wouldn't the arms of the glasses flare out and not fit well? This is often my dilemma haha
I definitely liked this video for a high level overview, but I think the difference in clarity between CR-39/Trivex/1.60/ and PC at any index is definitely understated. There is a significant difference in Abbe/Chromatic Aberration/Color fringing between CR-39, Trivex, and PC that while niche may affect quite a few people who want color accuracy.
If you're weight conscious, Trivex 1.53 or 1.60 is a significant improvement in clarity over PC, but insurance coverage varies wildly for that material. Mine covers Trivex 100% but PC is 70%.
@@Nick-_-452 Ha ha, thanks for confusing the heck out of me!
Do you remember where you got the first set of glasses you were wearing in this video?? I've been trying to find something similar with no luck... Would appreciate it so much
My tips after living with glasses since early childhood:
1. When your glasses hurt you when you try them on for the first time, it won't go away. They are not measured, produced or fitted right! All former opticians (before the recent one) told me, I would get used to the new glasses. But this will not happen. Your eye will adapt to a faulty lens putting strain on it, thats all!
2. Even if you feel the slightest discomfort, they are, again, not measured, produced of fitted well.
3. Insist that the glasses are checked and reworked. They eye can adapt to a lot of optical issues, but you will tire fast and your eye sight will deterioate more rapidly.
4. While being measured: Do not be shy, ask the doc if you are positioned right. if you need to bend forward a lot to get your face to the Phoropter (the device with the many lenses and knobs) you are doing it wrong! the doctor should set up the device to have you sit straight but relaxed in the chair.
5. While being measured: The refraction of any optical system does also change with the eye-to-glasses distance. Make sure that you sit relaxed AND have the right contact to forehead and chin. Keep this in mind, there are different foreheads and chins out there. Notice and tell the doctor if you repositioned by mistake. If you need thick lenses, evey small error starts multiplying in effect
6.When you are nearsighted with a pretty high value (>3) the distance of the glas to the eye starts to make a big difference! I for example (-6) always had too high values in my glasses as the Phoropter did sit in a different spot than the final glasses will be. maybe because of my accentuated forehead? Maybe.. After 40 years i finally found an optician who took this into account and reduced my values by 0.75! (-5.25). Now i can read my smartphone again and do see roadsigns clearly as well. all my glasses for decades, 3 different doctors and over 20 different opticians, just were way too strong! and this was systemically.
7. If you have a cylinder (but this is true also also for "normal" glasses) there is also a chance, the glasses were fitted poorly into the frame. Again, if you feel discomfort instead of "ahhh i can see clearly now" something went wrong on the way to your glasses. Either the lenses were rotated wrongly while fitting into the frame or the optical axis is off. in both cases your eye will adapt but you will get sore eye muscles every evening! Sometimes just left and right are confused 🙂 (and they were expensive glasses)
For the nearsighted: if you slide down the glasses your nose to read small writings (glasses get further away from the eye) do this check: leave the glasses in a comfortable (low) reading position. now raise the head and muster the horizon. if you also can read signs, see antennas, everything, your glasses are too sharp! the values are too high. Do this test also in poor lighting condition to be sure. If you tend to press your glasses against your face to see someting better (in the distance) their values are too low. If this does not work.. you are getting old.
once again, good glasses are a joyful surprise when you put them on, from the first wear to the last. Good glasses will never "need time to get used to"!
Attention parents, kids may not speak up and take this crap, ask your child if it is amazed or in pain. Again: it will not go away after a week or two, the glasses are just defective 🙂
Man! This is some invaluable advise garnered from years of real life experience. I can not thank you enough. Hats off 🎩🎩🎩
As a 28 year old who always had 20/20 vision is both eyes(Or better) and still do but am getting glasses for dry/wet eye, eyestrain and a small loss of vison in one eye thanks for letting me know I had a good experience at my eye doctor and what to look for when I pick up my new glasses in a few days!
Thank you. I've just realized that I press my glasses to see things that are far away. I'll change my glasses taking all this into account!
is hurt the same as being dizzy? i was really dizzy at first
is hurt the same as being dizzy? i was really dizzy at first
As a former optician I thought it was great. I shared it with my friends and family.
Wow thank you so much!!! I know I made several generalizations but it turns out the fitting of “good” glasses is more complicated 😂. As you know. Thanks for sharing!
Can you suggest me a glass for light sensitivity
@@nithinv48 You should ask your doctor to make sure you do not have a health condition that needs to be treated. Transition lenses might help or you might want to get a pair of prescription sunglasses.
I'm glad I found these video. I've been shopping online for designer glasses and didn't have a clue. I do wear bifocals so I will go to my appointment get my script, and try on different styles while I'm there. Is that to tacky? My husband will be buying his frames from the optometrist 😊
Thanks for this. I’m 37 and just had my first eye exam in quite some time due to a concern that I had developed a retina injury. Luckily, everything was fine physically. However, the optometrist helped me to understand just how poor my vision was, the corrections were *really* stark. I had never really noticed the severity of my astigmatism until then. I was really stressed out and anxious about needing to wear glasses going forward and I really didn’t know where to start.
Thank you for your videos. This is my second time around buying glasses. I’ve learnt a lot from your videos and was educated enough to make the right choice for me.
I recommend people shop. Service is everything. Took me 4 places before I found the right store that offered me great service and pricing was actually okay.
What people don’t realize is lens options. Again I was educated and knew I exactly what I was buying. The first time I bought glasses, I had no clue.
Keep up the great work.
Thank you for explaining everything that needed to have ben said. I feel like a lot of ophthalmologist or assistants do not explain this stuff to new people that need to wear classes, but i feel like i said everything and broke everything down to be understood.
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Thank you
I agree! Purchasing online is great after years of wearing glasses. Knowing what you need and the correct measurements is key. I purchase online. Retail & small business gave me poor quality products. Better quality control is needed. I got tired of having photochromic lenses peeling off and lenses randomly popping out of frames within a few days of buying them. It is frustrating lenses popped out while walking in a parking lot & while competing in sports. It took 6 times to finally fit the lenses correctly into the frame. Customer service at the stores are good, quality control is poor. I haven't returned any of my online purchases. Online cost is a lot cheaper if you know where to shop.
I have a low nose bridge and a wide face I always felt the professionals helping me pick out glasses didn't really help. Glasses would always be sliding off and bending. Now I always buy glasses online. I always do my research before buying lenses and frames online, and used warby parker's glasses to know my measurements. This video was extremely helpful!
P.s. there is no evidence that blue light glasses will help with eye strain. Eye strain is most commonly caused by not blinking enough when we look at our screens.
The part about the first number on the inside of the frame and how you should choose that depending on how strong your prescription is was very helpful. I would have liked to hear about the other numbers on the inside of the frame.
just keep something in mind I recently wanted to choose new lenses and I had chromatic aberration in my sight and shifting. I searched alot and found that right now with the tech we have the higher the number of the lndex, the lighter it will be but you will see more shifting in color and sight. the number I'm talkin about is the Abbe value. you can get ASpheric lenses instead of Spheric, it makes a huge change in shifting in lenses and if you can aford ot you can choose Double ASphric lenses for even less distortion and your eye sight and your'e eyes will keep there natural size when people are seing you. don't go to 1.67 if you can use 1.60, I personally upgraded from 1.67 to 1.70 tokai and it's great it was the only lens that had a higher Abbe value 36 compared to 30-32 of 1.74 lenses (BHW 1.60 is 42) the higher the better.
@photographybya7602: The numbers are lens size, bridge width and arm length, usually in that order. For example mine are 50-18-145 mm.
Had my first eye exam on Wednesday and I was told to pick a pair. After consulting an employee at the place about which one looks the best (also liking the look myself) I went ahead and bought the style for the prescription (added non-glare and screen protection too). Nobody told me about lens size/thickness depending on the numbers. But my numbers are pretty low, so I'm pretty confident in my choice of glasses.
How do they fit? Right nobody told me nothing either about the numbers lol
Lab optician here! A common misconception is that 1.74 is always going to be thinner then 1.67. This is due to different minimum center thickness requirements for different materials and substrate matching amongst other factors. Due to this, 1.74 really only makes sense above +6 and -9 diopters I believe. You can actually have a lens be thicker in 1.74 depending on RX. Also when opticians say X material is 50% thinner what they actually mean is UP TO 50% thinner depending on RX and surfacing technique it could be the same thickness or anywhere from 5-50% thinner.
Hey! I got around -4.5D (L-4.25, R-4.5?) in my glasses, however i got a solid face distortion when looking at myself from up close. Basically, if i were shooting a selfie from up-front, the edges of my glasses would make my head look skinnier. This gets better with distance, but i am still wondering and lowkey hoping, whether it is possible to improve this bit with more expensive lenses. Money for once would not be problem, so what lenses do you think i should go for? Those 1.67? Also my frames are 50-17-140. Not the biggest, not the smallest, somewhere in the middle. Throughout the next week im going to visit my optician, i am just preparing myself for what can i ask for etc. Thank you for your answer!
All of your content has been extremely helpful to me and has given me a better understanding for my next visit and frame order. Prescriptions, how frame size matters and progressions were the most enlightening. Thank you SO much!
of course! Thank you so much! Glad you are finding the content so helpful!
Best info video I have seen on picking the right glasses. I wanted to try something different as far as style and was deciding on what size glasses to buy. This video was a big help in my decision. Thanks.
Priceless video. Really the genuine one out there. Especially the real industry perspective on blue light/cut. Thank you.
Thank you for your thoroughness. I have such a time each time I need to fill a script. This really helped with the decisions.
Thank you for the tips on choosing specific frame sizes based on your prescription; no one ever talks about those numbers on the frames!
I've been wearing glasses since my teens and always had trouble finding a pair that didn't slide down or clench uncomfortably behind my ears, until I accepted that my face is simply far too narrow for most adult frames, and started buying my frames from the kids section. I'm 34 but buying kids' glasses has been a major improvement for me, because now I have frames that actually fit me. Glasses for very young children will be too small even for me, but the larger sizes in that section (maybe intended for 8-10 year olds) are often a perfect fit. So I could wear Spiderman glasses if I wanted to!
Another thing is a bit weird, but I used to have very mild astigmatism, too mild for opticians to properly spot and put in my prescription (I'm also mildly near-sighted) but too strong for me to be able to wear glasses with no astigmatism correction added to them, as I had a constant headache. Since my parents wear glasses too, my mother suggested that I could have astigmatism which my opticians didn't notice, and she was right, but this just didn't help. Then years later I wore an eye patch for non-medical reasons, every day for about half a year, which worsened my astigmatism quite a lot. I had trouble finding any info on if wearing an eye patch every day for non-medical reasons could be bad for one's vision, but I had heard that it potentially could, so I'm not surprised that it did, nor did I particularly care. This was actually ironically good, because now my astigmatism can be put in my glasses prescription and this pretty much cured my headache. Finally I'm actually comfortable wearing glasses.
So, if you have issues with your prescription no matter how much you try to improve it with new eye exams, you may have very mild astigmatism like I did, which is just too mild to show up during exams but bad enough that it causes headaches long term. I can't say that pretty much deliberately worsening my vision was a good thing, or that anyone else should, I can't even guarantee that wearing an eye patch would worsen specifically astigmatism for eeryone, but I'm glad that it did for me. Because I dunno how else that problem could have been fixed.
Also, I get dizzy when half my vision field is outside of my frames because it keeps distracting me, so I definitely prefer getting glasses with bigger lenses. As I said my prescription is mild/small (-0,75 on one eye and -1,25 on the other) so bigger lenses work well for me. They aren't very thick in the outer edges. Barely even thicker than the frames. I honestly need glasses more so for the headache I get from my astigmatism than for my near-sightedness. If I only had my near-sightedness I frankly wouldn't have bothered wearing glasses at all. Which is why I didn't wear my glasses most of the time up until after my eye patch adventure about a year ago. I can see well enough to get by without glasses in most situations, in regards to blurriness/clarity. So back then I only wore them when watching a movie and when travelling. But now I wear them all the time.
Appreciate you going in-depth explaining all the characteristics and lens coatings! 💚
Hey thanks! Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the information on this video. I was recently introduced to the progressive lens as I am almost in my 50’s and I battled with not being able to see my smartphone but could see clearly at distance. I tried to go the cheap route with cr-39 and with progressive lenses they were so thick and really hurt my face. I really try to look to save money on glasses but after watching your video I saw you mentioned high index lenses. I thought my optometrist was just trying to make money off me, but I was wrong. My lenses are super thin and light and it was the best decision as I though polycarbonate/trivex was my only choice. Thank you for all your information.
Seriously a really helpful and informative video🥹👍🏻Great job doc!
Very helpful, thanks. All new to me having just received my first scrip. Will check out your other vid's. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much ... excellent info on understanding what to look for when purchasing glasses
Hi guy! Thank you for your video. I have learned a lot from your videos and have enough knowledge to make the right choice for me.
Keep up the great work.
THANKS FOR YOUR VIDEO. it‘s very helpful to learn these knowledge.
So clear explaination on buying a pair of glasses!! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the reflection coating info.
Great video! I have watched a few of your videos, and I find them very informative and easy to watch. Thank you for the info.
Thank you for this video! I had a very bad 1st experience last year getting glasses. Now, I know what to look for & what to ask.
Sorry to hear your first experience didn't go well. I hope it goes much more smoothly next time!
Thank you for the video. As always, great content!
Nice video 👏👏👏👏 UV and Anti-scratch coating is a must IMHO. And as you say, AR coating makes a big difference; the best I've found is Oleophobic (resistant to oil) which keeps the lenses cleaner and also makes them easier to clean. Photochromic lenses are nice too if you can get used to the lag-time.
Didn't know about the lens well re: power. Thanks doc.
I’m way overdue for a new prescription and to replace my aging glasses, and this video was wonderfully helpful as I go about that process. Thanks, from a new subscriber!
Hey! Amazing! Good timing right?! Thank you 🙏
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God bless you, dear Sir. I now know how to pick my next eyeglasses.
The actual lens size that you describe is very helpful. Too large, even if the lens is not wrap around, and it can distort with a higher prescription was something I did not know. Thx!
Great video; thank you for all the helpful information. I was wearing contacts, and now I wear progressive lenses. How long should it take to get used to them?
Thank you so much for sharing information💕👍🏻👍🏻
Finally!!!
I am SO glad you mentioned that people with stronger prescriptions (I'm -9 now) need smaller lens sizes.
Plastic / acetate frames are great for me, but I do have to skip the chunkier ones because even that adds a noticeable weight (even with the very thinnest glass option)
This was VERY helpful!! Thank you for posting this.
For sure!!! Happy you found it so helpful!
Dr Allen,
I'm 65 I been seeing my current eye doctor since I was about 27. I have always picked my frames and lenses in their office. All the things you mention choices of lenses and the diopter of your lenses depends on a lot of factors. I enjoy watching your channel you give us so much great information I thank you.
Appreciate that so much, Michael!
I've purchased most of my eyeglasses the last 10 years online. ironically my worst experience was with the last eyeglass store that i went into that charged me 3x as much, and i kept complaining that the glasses were not right until they just dismissed me and said it was "all me". That's even with them doing the new prescription,etc. so it's really a YMMV. look at reviews online for the store if you are going to a in person store.
The choice for buying frames are:
1) Submitting to the Luxottica Rule, dictating that 90% or more of frames you are going to find at local shops are made and sold by them (in China, rather than "in Italy").
2) Ordering a couple of frames online. You will have to bear the costs for returning all of them but one, but you can choose from a lot of better makers, with better quality and better quality/price ratio.
You can also pick any colorway the glasses are made in.
Excellent info. I need to have my eyes tested and get glasses for reading for 1st time in my life. Not excited but need to do it.
What about for astigmatism? Is there anything different we should avoid/look for when shopping ?
This video is so informative! Thank you very much!!
Thanks, you helped my understand much I needed to know.
A good and helpful vid with a lot of new info for me
Thank you 🥰
Hi, great content. I just got glasses for the first time, they are reading/computer prescription....but when I am wearing them I seem to be able to focus well for distance as well, is this normal? Will it cause strain on my eyes for distance viewing?
I have been wondering about chromatic aberration, i.e. the lens diffracting colors differently. I have had glasses with reasonably high myopic diopter for 20 years or so, and only in the last two pairs of glasses have I noticed that colors don't behave themselves. When I move my head, some colors move more than others. This can, for example, lead to the red color of a red lamp moving off the lamp. Is there a coating for glasses that prevent this?
Oh this is great. I’ve had nothing but trouble getting new glasses
Thanks - I am about to go get new glasses. This was helpful
Awesome! Which part helped you the most do you think?
Good Morning ! I am working in the software industry. Recently, I had 1.25 addition power lenses made for both my eyes using Verilax Liberty progressive glass. However, I did not feel comfortable working on the computer for long periods of time, so I switched to intermediate lenses, which work better for me, but without the added power.
I have a question regarding Eyezen lenses.
Is it possible to customize them to include only intermediate distance
intermediate
R- -0.75x80 axis
L- -0.50x80 axis
as well as our own add power of 1.25 from your Rx prescription into their lens?
I am looking for a computer lens with an added power of 1.25. Please advise if this is possible
Thanks as always Doc!
Great advice containing information that has never been mentioned to me when purchasing my glasses (melb/aus)
the best eye guy on CZcams , he is funny i enjoy to watch his videos
Great tips. I was just looking for new eyeglasses
Good timing then!
Yeah this video suddenly in my recommendation and I have learn more about glasses before this 😂, great video
@DoctorEyeHealth Do you remember where you got the first set of glasses you were wearing in this video?? I've been trying to find something similar with no luck... Would appreciate it so much
Great information. Thanks for sharing.
I prefer glasses to contacts. I’ve used both the hard and the soft contacts, but it always felt like I had something foreign in my eye.
I hate contacts too. I didn’t like cleaning them. Also, it was a nuisance to add putting them in to my getting ready am routine. Hated adding to my getting ready for bed routine in cleaning the contacts.
Hi Doc, thanks so much for your guide. It is very helpful. I have a question regarding buying prescription glasses on-line. I normally wear verifocal lenses but most on-line glasses retailer offer progressive lenses as verifocal. The problem I have with this is that with verifocal prescription, there are 3 different measurements (dist, inter , near) SPH, CYL, Axis for both eyes where as there is only one measurement (Right (OD) and Left (OS). So the question is which of measurement is required for the progressive from the verifocal prescription? Some suggested the (Dist). Does this mean the inter and near are ignored for progressive lenses? Many thanks
Good points to guide us.
Very informative as Always Can you make a vidéo about therapeutic filters Lens and their use
Great video. Thanks for the info
Interesting, I’ve resisted wearing glasses all my life. I’ve been told anytime I’ve had an eye test that I have a small prescription. I don’t know why I’ve had this reluctance as I regularly wear sunglasses and appreciate anti glare, colour enhancement/contrast etc. I’ve just ordered a couple of pairs of new sunglasses but now I’m thinking maybe I should have ordered them with a prescription.
@DoctorEyeHealth I live in the uk and I have a high prescription. There doesn’t seem to be any acetate frames with the nose pads on in my area, but I can’t wear metal frames due to my prescription being so high. Tried looking online, but the frames I found could only accommodate up to +5 (I need higher. I also have a low nose bridge which complicates matters. Please can you send some links that have the acetate glasses with extra grip, but which can accommodate +8 prescription?
Love Your Videos!! If you capture measurements from an in-store experience and validate those measurements online. Would you be able to use those measurements as guidance if you purchase a different brand on a different optical online store? Thank You for your help!!
Helps a lot. Thank you!
This was useful. Thanks lots of different things to take into consideration, and that can be hard to do in a sales / insurance influenced environment. Question: Does the length of the earpiece matter? I would think so.
Thank you for making me realise that I have been buying a not very good quality but very expensive glasses from my optician🤦♀️ but no more, 🙏 so much
Yes this video was really good about finding the right glasses frame and thickness of lens was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful information!
Doc your right just last week i freak out what to say or chose its like im in highschool exam
Doctor, appreciate all you do. I’ve watched all of your videos on Keratoconus. I’ve recently gotten CXL and will probably go the Scleral route once healed. Any recommendation for any doctors in the North Georgia area?
Wow thank you! Glad you are getting so much help! I don’t personally know any specialists in that area but I’m sure your surgeon or whoever did you CXL could recommend someone. Either way, god bless and I hope you have a great experience moving forward.
This was a helpful video. I also watched your progressive video. Would you recommend having your frames adjusted to your face before they measure for the progressive lenses or measure for progressive then adjust frames to your face when you receive them.
Hey thanks for watching! Very good question! I think an astute optician will adjust and verify proper frame design. And fit before measuring for PD and progressives before ordering, but of course a final adjustment is best right when starting to wear the new glasses.
Thanks for the Guide 😊😊😊
💯💯you bet!
Great video. Just about to get a new pair of glasses, too. Been wearing for 20 years and have had many fittings, refittings and experienced most of your examples of lens coatings through the years. My trouble is usually weight of glasses and the measurement of the bridge of my nose being quite small/narrow. I have been told to shop for children’s eyewear on occasion to get a better fit so your comment about the large frame look that’s fashionable hit home. Thanks for sharing your experience.
some queries:
1. Can a myopic person (with changing glass power) use photochromic lense? will they have to change lense everytime power changes?
2. Will photochromic lense help with people struggling with eye floaters in outdoors especially in sunny days?
TIA
Are you still using the transition lenses? And if so do you enjoy the gen 8 or Xtraactive lenses more?
I just got my first pairs of glasses after about ten years without them. I always felt like I could see well enough to get by without glasses, so I could never justify optometrist prices and bought glasses online. They definitely work and allow me to have multiple pairs affordably. I just wish more feminine or neutral options were available in larger frame widths.
This is great but do you have any input on prism glasses?
Hi, if you don’t mind me asking what frames are you wearing at 13:51? Thanks!
Hello!
today I put on optical glasses for the first time. I have myopia and suffer from nearsightedness. The lens thickness is 1.74 for the right eye and 1.61 for the left eye. While the diopter is -2.25 axis 160 for the left eye and -5 axis 145 for the right eye. The right eye is smaller and left eye is normal. I would like to ask if there problem with the lens or only with the diopter.
Question for you. would lens size 56-57 mm be ok? This is my prescription. OD: sphere is -0.75 Cyl is -2.50 Axis is 180 OS: sphere is -0.50 Cyl is -1.75 Axis is 180
Hey Doc 😊
Your videos are great and very informative,.. but there's still something that I can't seem to find anything about anywhere !
The temple length - I'm a tall guy with a bigger head (143 mm temple to temple) and I tried on my fiance's wayfarer eyeglasses in size 52-22-145 which of course was to small,.. especially the temple length,.. it looks like they need 1-2 cm to reach behind the ears,... but when I look for glasses for big heads, the biggest temple length I've found was 150 mm and that was on glasses for VERY big heads (their width (temple to temple) was 165 mm. So I'm thinking how can that be ???
Hey, Doctor! Great video; I learned tons of stuff today, and I thank you for that.
I have a question: I noticed that some lenses have a "yellow-tint," and I wondered what they do.
Maybe it has something to do with preventing lens-glare or uv protection, or something like that...?
Hi doc, amazing vid as always! I’m not sure if you have cover this topic before but does VitreousHealth eye supplement helps to reduce eye floaters?
Excellent advice.
I've had glasses since birth essentially. Currently enjoying the adjustment period for my new prescription 😅
Also, if you have a strong prescription or travel a lot, make sure to get an inexpensive backup pair of glasses in case your main pair gets lost or broken. Most places have a second pair discount, or Walmart Vision is a great place to get a backup pair or rx sunglasses (or Sams).
65 years in glasses, I've always gotten them in my eye clinics optical dept. Looked online this time just to see current styles and colors, had both colors and shapes in mind when I had my appointment yesterday. I really thought tortuous shell or gold would look good, they were horrible. Even had difficulty with shapes. My new glasses are catseye, tan with a bit of pattern across the top. The change of style will be fun to wear.
This was a really good beginners video in my opinion. I have my first prescription. What I don't understand is when you use terms like "glasses prescription" or "Diopter". On my prescription I have a few numbers, (Sphere, Cyl, Axis, Near Add). Which number is called the "Glasses Prescription"? Thanks
Thank you so much, very helpful.
Happy to hear it!
@@DoctorEyeHealth Q: should we wear prescription eye glasses all the time, or only when we need it (driving, reading small fonts, computer use, UV protection from the sun, etc.) and not wear them when not needed? Thanks!
I watched so many videos these are cool . I've wore glasses my whole life coke bottle glasses as a kid . I was shy about it until recently I don't care it's probably my age now but these videos are so knowledgeable I'm looking at my order for my new glasses trying too figure out what type of lenses I got . Any help? They are Vailux physio drx 1.67 high index pr so are these good lenses. I haven't gotten new glasses in 8+ years I was terrible about taking care of my eyes.
blue light fliters help with eye strain when looking at screens not just the point of being drowsy ect. with todays technology i would highly recommend that as a must get thing :) they actually sell non prescriptions called gunner glasses for use for pc gaming
Very helpful!
Yes Thank you
Q: When adding a blue light filter coating when ordering new lenses, does it get applied over top of the base AR coating… or can you only have 1 type of coating (either AR or blue light) applied onto the lenses?
Very informative video. You mentioned that your prescription is around -5 diopters, which is relatable. The main thing I dislike about wearing glasses is how distorted my eyes appear, despite sticking to a small frame and highest possible index material. However, I noticed that your glasses typically have very mild (or no) distortion. You did, at one point, show your "full strength" glasses, which you don't seem to wear in this video. Just curious why this is and what sort of corrective glasses you're wearing instead. Thanks for being awesome!
Hi can u please do a video as a first time receptionist at an optometry and what should be done and how to do it as a beginner as a receptionist 😊😊
Do you have a video on transitional glasses? I have transitional glasses that are also anti reflective but my astigmatism is still pretty bad. But then I haven't had an eye exam in a few years because I'm afraid of rice shock for new glasses. Though at this point if I have to drive at night I'm doing it with a prayer because I can't see at night and everything looks like a too bright starburst shape.