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Cataracts

Discussion in 'Warnings and Dangers' started by Sanders, Jun 13, 2018.

  1. Sanders
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    Sanders Banned

    I don’t think my wife would go for those. :D

    What’s the reason for the two shots? Are they different? Looks like same specs but differing focus ?
  2. Dave_E
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    Dave_E Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    The top ones are "Eddie the Eagle" style. :like:
  3. oss
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    No I just read the measurements and compared to my Specsavers ones, and for 2o quid I thought if what you get is ok then maybe use them again for something a bit more expensive.
  4. oss
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    Yeah same shot the office is dark and I could not get both focused at the same time due to wide aperture :)

    You can see the slight tint on the transitions ones I suppose they don't get much lighter than that although I had just been wearing them outside a minute or so prior to the picture.
  5. Sanders
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    @oss
    What is the difference between your two images apart from your camera focus?
  6. Sanders
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    Ah. Okay yes. Thanks.
  7. oss
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    Yeah it would appear so, I like aviators the only thing about these is that the lenses are a little small, if I could haver got varifocals in that shape I would have but they don't recommend that shape for varifocals the other pair were the closest I could get.
  8. oss
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    Just wanted to give a clear idea of the actual quality of the two type of frames, the cheap ones are very good for the money but you can tell they are cheap on the in-focus shot.
  9. Anon04576
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    Yeah definitely cannot complain for the price.
  10. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    these are my specsaver job. had them years now. bifocal reactions. same lenses..in spite of several eyetests. my distance vision is very good..but need help with close work / computer screen. cant be helped---70 now and not counting. 10676307_792355900818379_9138584792173246132_n.jpg
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  11. Sanders
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    Whoah. Frightened me there! :D
  12. Sanders
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    I went for an eye test at my local Specsavers in the NorthWest a year ago and it was absolutely heaving with customers. They are obviously very popular. The young woman who conducted the eye test was very professional and a very lovely and attractive lady from the Indian subcontinent.

    However, my wife had her eyes tested and a prescription made up at another branch a couple of years earlier, that happened to be not very many strides from where I worked. Which meant that when I needed to I was able to call in with ease.

    The problem began when my wife’s driving instructor questioned her ability to read a number plate at a short distance, on another car. He tested her. He suggested she get her eyes checked as failing the number plate reading section of the driving test has dire consequences for the candidate. So she went to have her eyes tested at Specsavers. They then prescribed her a pair of glasses. We had mentioned the driving test but they simply said that their prescription glasses would sort that out as they effectively test to the testing authorities requirements.

    The problem was that she still could not read a number plate at a distance of 20 metres away, failing on 50% of the occasions where letters were similar to one another like F and E.

    So we returned to Specsavers and this is where the manager became involved and where he made the adjustment to the arms. And although they sat better on her face, they did not resolve the driving test requirement issue. They gave her another test but no change there.

    So I said to them that although their eye test results conclude that my wife ought to be able to read number plates at 20 metres, they do not actually test for it over that distance and just conduct a form of simulation. They reluctantly agreed but had no idea that cataracts were the cause or what might give a solution. The manager offered us a refund, we kept the glasses and went to another optician.

    The alternative optician not only diagnosed my wife as having cataracts but referred her to an NHS eye specialist who confirmed it and also prescribed her glasses that did the job.

    You could describe it as the day I saw through Specsavers. :D

    My wife took her driving test, passed the eye test (twice as failed on a driving error the first time) and gained her driving license.
    Last edited: Jun 14, 2018
  13. Anon04576
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    Very poor show from Specsavers not detecting the cataracts.
  14. oss
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    It is certainly something to be aware of, I just checked the risk factors and symptoms and I don't think it is a problem for me yet, the high street optician's standard eye test seems to only check for glaucoma (the puff test) and AMD (Macular degeneration, pictures of the retina) but that appears to be about it.

    That said cataracts are the result of dying cells accumulating over a long period of time there has to be a point at which the disease is hard to diagnose due to it only having recently started, the eventual effect of cataracts is like seeing the world through frosted glass eventually to the point of blindness, with several of the women in my family history suffering from this it is something I will, so to speak, keep an eye on :D
  15. Sanders
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    Did they have the op?
  16. oss
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    Yes my Aunt Anna had the operation back in the 1970s, my sister had it done a couple of years back, Aunt Patsy was a bit later than her sister Anna, there were some others but I come from a big and aged family spread over two centuries and as one of the youngest I don't know half of them all that well :D

    It is pretty basic they replace the lens with a fixed focus lens normally but apparently they have varifocal lenses for this too nowadays :D not sure I fancy that to be honest :D

    They also have something called an accommodative IOL (intraocular lens) which works like a natural lens adjusting focus but I really don't know anything about that technology as I just discovered it via google.
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  17. Omega1965
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    hi, I am new here and kind of milling around the forums before I get brave enough to post my major questions.
    Im in Kettering Northants UK and because of type 2 diabetes since 2007 I had cataract lens replacement surgery in 2015
    at Kettering General hospital.
    They do one eye at a time under a local anesthetic but sugar levels must be below 7 for the operation to take place
    I was running up and down the stairs to get my levels down before the op because stress was keeping my levels high at 13.
    The most painful part of the procedure was the injection into my eye socket to numb the eye so that it doesn't move during the procedure.
    you are fully awake during the procedure and all you can see is the light above you which becomes quite blurred as they remove your old lens and cataract, they place an apron around your head and continuously pump cool water over your eye to aid lubrication to your eye as your old lens is neatly folded and removed through a small incision in your eyeball, you are sat in a seat to recover after about half an hour with a nice cup of tea for a further hour before you can leave the day operation center. these wards are very high tech , in comparison to the main wards and they operating on 50 plus patients every day, its just routine for them.
    the slit they make in your eyeball has to be respected so you are advised not to bend over for a few days although the new lens will have three titanium springs attached so that it becomes fused with the eyeball once healed these are so tiny it would take an electron microscope to detect them.
    any further treatment for clouding of the man made lens is done by a lazer as the man made lenses cannot be removed once healed in situ.
    I am about to have this done as my cataracts have returned. I cannot drive at night because our vision rely on the amount of light that freely comes into our eyes its all about reflection and refraction of light. the modern led streetlights do not help at all.
    you are sent home with an eye patch on which you must wear at night because of the possibility of rubbing your eye.
    the first time you remove the patch you will see what a newborn baby sees the first time it opens it eyes and its quite disturbing because every blade of grass you see will look three dimensional almost as though they are floodlit by a thousand football pitch lights but the brain will adjust the image in just a few days . The y only do one eye at a time and allow three months healing time as the procedure can have complications but Im glad I had it done in both eyes even by two separate surgeons because one went teo play golf on a nice sunny day. the complications can be ant like visions moving across your field of vision but once the eye is healed these can be dispersed with a lazer to clear the image up for you.
    I would recommend the operation to anyone it is truly soul destroying to lose your sight at any time of your life and my cataracts developed very quickly within 18 months, my private optician Bellamy's in Leicester said I was a pretty rare case at 50 years old .
    I still drive 100 miles tround trip to see my optician because I trust him and he does what I ask of him when making up glasses .
    he once closed his shop to diagnose my dry eye condition and dragged oput all his text books and sat with me trying to find the solution to my problem, spec-savers wont do that for you. so if youve got to go through it now you know and I wish you all the very best of luck.
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  18. Omega1965
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    one last thing you cannot get varifocal lenses on the NHS in the uk, if you want that you will need to go private, by default they will put in long vision lenses and you will need reading glasses or bifocals for driving.
  19. Anon220806
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    My wife still has problems relating to her cataracts. Bright lights and the sun bother her. She was advised by a hospital consultant not to have the surgery done at that point in time so we went with that. I don’t think it is getting any better. We went to another optician that was a tad better than Specsavers and they prescribed her a set of lenses that she was able to pass her driving test in.
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    Yes T2 diabetes affects the eyes to the degree of blindness.

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