Pain from glasses

nedmundo

What area are you in? - PM me and I can hopefully point you in the right direction.

csh_2

no-oneknowsme wrote: »

Contacts - a few posters mentioned contacts - these would be ideal ! DD would kill for contacts as she is at the stage where glasses are not cool !

Unfortuantely as yet she just cannot get the hang of inserting them. We have been to Boots and Specsavers for the hours trial but as yet DD just cant get them in lol.

I couldn't get the hang of getting them in/out at my fitting appointment either as his method was a bit a$re about face for me! He gave me a couple of daily disposables away to practice with and without the scruitiny of him watching me do it I got the hang of it fine! I've worn contacts for nearly 10 yrs now and couldn't go back to full time glasses!

csh_2

nedmundo wrote: »

- or + 4 isn't that strong, so 1.74 index well dispensed should be quite thin.

I'm a -4 and rimless frames are not an option for me. The lenses are too thick even with extra thin lenses. They look too milk-bottley from the side

nedmundo

It also depends on how large the lenses are - the smaller, the thinner.

no-oneknowsme

csh wrote: »

I'm a -4 and rimless frames are not an option for me. The lenses are too thick even with extra thin lenses. They look too milk-bottley from the side

Yeah , this is exactly the problem DD has. It just looks silly lol takes you back to the days of the big NHS specs people at school wore when i was young !

csh_2

Oh gawd! Don't mention NHS specs! I had some horrible ones at primary school in the 80's and a plaster eye patch. Poor wee me

Emmylou_2

My best mate has -7.5 and -8.0 and has (one pair) rimless frames, with super-duper-thinned lenses.

She got 2 pairs in specsavers 2 for 1 for less than £400 (I know, I paid for them!)

I've just nicked them off her face and measured them and they're 6 mm at the thickest point.

PolishBigSpender

As someone mentioned above - get her a few of the daily disposable contacts and make her practise putting them on and of. At the beginning it's scary, but after few times you just learn. I had to sit down and do it on my own, the eye doctor looking at me was just making my hands shake

GlasweJen

If your daughters pupils are in the centre of the frame then her prescription shouldn't be a bother in terms of getting a set of rimless frames, as nedmundo said +/- 4.00 isn't too bad.

A rough way to measure this is:
measure the distance between the centre of her two pupils (there are guides to this online if you google "measure pupillary distance")
get the glasses and look for numbers on the inside of the leg or inside of the bridge. There will be a 2 digit number then a box and another 2 digit number.
Add those two numbers together
take away the pupillary distance that you measured
divide what's left by 2.

The closer you get to 0 the better the frame should glaze for her.

If you take her with you when you return to your opticians and ask them to measure the centres for you. If you see a rimless frame you like but it isn't good centres wise ask them if they can reduce the eye size for you (this is the size of the lens). Most labs should be fine doing this but it will have to be requested on the order and not later on when the lab have started cutting the lens out.

For dispenses like this I tend to find the best jobs come from independant opticians who are not target based and who can spend time to do speciality dispenses.

If you opt to try contact lenses start with daily disposables as these are easiest to keep clean, attend all the appointments with your daughter so that you can watch the correct technique and coach her on it at home. Most 14 year old girls are fine with lenses as they are used to experimenting with eye liner, mascara and the like. I hate doing teaches with teenage boys - they never take to it as easily as the girls do!