Specsavers Easyvision Alternate

AlexHaden2010

Hi All,

Have just joined up with the easyvision scheme, it’s better for me, but my question is around what brands do Specsavers use?

They have put me on

easyvision daily aquiane - which are silicone hydrogel lenses and they are crazy cheap, only paying £15 a month for 20 pairs.

Trying to work out who makes them is proving challenging, I cannot find anything.

I know cooper vision make the umere, which is the next one up, costs more, but if it’s a better lens, I am thinking of going for that instead...

Anyone know anything about the easyvision daily aquiane and who makes them?

Ta!:cool:

BananaRepublic

I’m taken aback that £15 a month is crazy cheap, that’s £180 a year. I wear hard lenses costing £100 a pair, and solutions don’t cost much. Far better in my case, but not for all. Sorry for a slight digression.

pmduk

AIUI you are expected to stay with the lens you have been prescribed, just as you can't swap freely between medications to treat asthma for example. Different lenses are sized differently for a start.

BananaRepublic

I originally used disposables, and the first ones I tried were awful, so they changed me to more expensive ones. They were better, but I hate disposables. They were impossible to get in, and the vision correction was not so good.

Generally more expensive ones are better quality but you might not need or benefit from that quality, whereas I did, due I think to dry eyes. They tried to get me to try even more expensive ones to see if they worked but I dug my heels in and went for hards, it was quite a fight though.

snapdragon6

Pretty sure they are coopervision clariti 1 day - made in Hungary, identical packaging design.
I have found them to be terrible compared to the daysoft SILK I was using which were £13/ 30pairs.

Gers

I use Clariti lenses and find them particularly suited to me. For years I had gas permable lenses though was much happier moving to disposables - it's a lifestyle choice for me.

Can't comment on prices, sorry.

bharvs

It might be a Specsavers own brand, a lot of opticians make their own lenses with weird names so you can't get them anywhere else and you have to stay committed to their scheme.

If you're looking for something super cheap, Vision Direct also do a lens that is the same as the aquiane/umere, but only £12.99, called everclear elite. They do free trials a lot, so you can usually try them out before you commit.