Hi, I have pretty high myopia left eye -8.75 with -1.00 astigmatism and right eye -8.50 with -1.00 astigmatism. I cannot afford to buy glasses from an optical store and usually wear contact lenses. I am starting to wear glasses more often now as i have had numerous minor eye infections thanks to my job. I also enjoy the freedom from cleaning contacts and all the hassle. I have ordered several times from zenni and have been very pleased with the glasses and with their customer service. However i have a big problem. The pairs i have ordered from them have a lot of chromatic aberration when i look to the side which is really really annoying. I have two older pairs of glasses which have very minimal aberrations, pretty much unnoticeable, and these glasses were cheap ones i got paid for by public healthcare when living in the UK. These glasses i believe are made of polycarbonate as they were kids glasses (im a smallish 20 year old, like thin face so i was still getting younger peoples frames i think, got the pairs when i was 16 and 18). Neither of these pairs have anti reflective coatings yet i get on fine with them. My newer pair has polished edges which look way nicer cosmetically but i find them annoying when wearing them as they reflect light. I got anti reflective coatings on the zenni frames. One problem i had with zenni was i couldn't really find a frame i liked that had lenses of the appropriate width (my usual glasses have 45mm width). Also i need frames that are very durable as i am a very active person, and am hoping to spend a great deal of time traveling and camping and need several good pairs of glasses that can take a lot of abuse (frame and lenses ideally) that won't cost me hundreds of dollars as i am pretty poor! I cannot figure out why my older pairs have no real aberrations yet the zenni ones are real bad. Would buying smaller lens sizes make a difference? Also i contacted 39dollarglasses about lens etc and i got a one word answer a week later (they say 24 hours for an answer) saying recommend high index. I personally don't care too much about lens thickness, although it might be nice to spend a bit more money for ONE pair of high index. But i heard that high index lenses have even worse aberrations and distortion than polycarbonate? As you can see i am pretty confused, so i'm looking for lens recommendations and advice on small but very durable frames. Something plain too! Sorry about the very long post! Thanks for your help! Mike
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