People love to beat up on WalMart, but there's something to be said for the
support of a major company.
In Texas the optometrist and the retail store *must* be separate entities,
but even so the WalMart eye doctors seem to have the latest and greatest
equipment, and the knowledge of how to use it.
Last WalMart eye exam I had even included a pressure test, not with the air
puff, but with the good stuff...the glass touch sensor with the blue light.
Can't remember the name of the equipment right this minute.
The local CostCo even does a visual field test.
-- Chuck Knight
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, RedStickHam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 17, 9:55 pm, Beth <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm not an optometrist or an optician, but I think I can help with
> > this based on an explanation that an experienced optician gave me
> > yesterday about my own prescription (and a course in general optics
> > that I took). He indicated that the strength of the glasses (overall)
> > comes from the addition of the spherical and cylindrical (which is
> > applied at an angle, the axis) values. In my case, I had asked why I
> > have -9.00 in one eye and -7.75 in the other (for the spherical); he
> > pointed out that the -1.00 and -1.75 for cylindrical on my
> > prescription balanced it out, as it turns out more like a total of
> > -10.00 on one side and -9.50 in the other.
> >
>
> That is some good information. My wife and I both recently had a bad
> experience with an optometrist. I call it Fast Food Optometry because
> the building was once a fast food restaurant and he took less than 10
> minutes to examine us. Even WalMart took longer than that. On top
> of that, he gave me a contact lens that was underprescribed.
>
> Here are my 2 prescriptions I got from them.
> FastFoodOptometry:
>
> R SPH -2.50 CYL -0.50 AXIS 20
> L SPH -3.50
>
> WalMart:
> R SPH -2.00 CYL -0.75 AXIS 67
> L SPH -3.25 CYL -0.25 AXIS 130
>
> Before I got the second opinion at WalMart, I had a pair of glasses
> made and for the most part, they seem to be OK, but I do see some
> occasional double vision in my left eye, which may be caused by not
> taking the astigmatism into account. I see a little of that in my
> right eye, but not often and not much. Could be from degrees being
> off or the powers being slightly different. I'm having a pair of
> glasses made using the WalMart prescription, but they haven't shown up
> yet. I'm getting them for less than $40, it's nice we have the option
> of online so we can afford to do this. Two nice looking pairs of
> glasses with all coatings for under $100 isn't a bad deal at all.
>
> Based on what you say, these prescriptions might be indentical or
> nearly so. I'll have to post once the glasses come in.
>
> RedStickHam
>
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