Eye test coming up

1664kronenbourg said:
both eyes are open but the left eye's gone blurred. Ideally, I'd get it checked out first before taking an eye test.
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You certainly should because that's not normal.

Vision will blur with age. Presbyopia. But that's a process that occurs gradually, over a period of years. It also doesn't only affect one eye.

You don't need an optician. You need an opthamologist, a doctor specialising in eyes. Preferably now. While a standard eye test will pick up quite a few eye-related medical problems it shouldn't be a substitute for an examination by an opthamologist or at least a doctor.

1664kronenbourg said:
It's not the test, it's the cost I'm more worried about. What I really wanted to do was have it checked out first bu65t I was just told to take an eye test. I'm not on benefits so can't have it done on th NHS so it'll have to be done private. It's the cost of the glasses I'm worried about
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I doubt you'll need glasses. I expect you'll need medical treatment.

Cost of glasses is between £20 and £500 for functionality. Any amount for fashion. Most people will be fine with a £20 pair made by a glasses maker. That's the cost when "done private". You need an optician for the test (which will be £20-£30) but you don't need an optician for the glasses. Get the prescription, give the details to a glasses maker, glasses maker feeds it to their machine, job done. You'll probably have to ask the optician for your pupillary distance as they often don't include that in the prescription. Presumably to dissuade people from using glasses makers instead of paying a far higher price to buy glasses from the optician. They might charge an extra fee for the pupillary distance. I've no idea if that's supposed to be allowed or not, but it happens.

For a complex and/or more extreme prescription, an optician might be better. Glasses makers are certainly fine for common visual defects to common extents. I'll pay £300+ for a pair of glasses in the cheapest available frames, but that's because my natural eyesight is utter crap and if anything about the glasses is off by the merest fraction it's a problem.

But sudden onset blurred vision is not an optician thing. It's a doctor thing.
 
Jesus wept?

Spec savers 2 pairs for as little as 39 quid..

Wow it's 69 quid in the UK? Ok that's a bit more than it used to be.
 
Angilion said:
But sudden onset blurred vision is not an optician thing. It's a doctor thing.
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Yup or A&E

If it's bad @1664kronenbourg ring 111 and ask their advice ASAP or ring your GP and explain it (they may be able fit you in same day), I wouldn't wait until Saturday (for some reason I was thinking it was much later in the week already). I suspect 111 will direct you to the nearest urgent care clinic with an eye specialist if you can't get in to your GP within a day or two as if there is something wrong with the eye it can get worse fast/harder to fix the longer you wait.

I'm very aware that this is verging on medical advice, and skirting the rules, but don't mess with your eye health.

And without wanting to sound like i'm teaching granny to suck eggs, don't drive yourself to any appointment where they may do more than the most basic eye tests unless you can wait for a long time after before heading home. Some of the drops they use for tests in the eye clinics can take a long time to clear (the ones the highstreet optician uses can take a few minutes, the eye clinic ones maybe an hour or more). Not to mention if you've got blurred vision in one eye and it's not normal you probably shouldn't drive anyway.
 
To be honest it isn't funny - I know everyone is tryng to be helpful but as said by numeous posters try A&E or Doc -

When you say left eye is blurred -can you explain.
In Sept 2019 my right eye blurred and optician had me in Hospital within a week - I have Wet Macular degeneration. - If you have any vertical blinds where you are close your right eye and look at blinds -if they are wavy or blurred in centre that is how mine was. All around outside was clear.
I hope yours is something silly and they fix it in no time.

never never neglect your eyes -no matter how much it cost -believe me it's a right PITA
 
OP should definitely have been more specific about what happened in the initial post. Personally I'd be be calling 111 or otherwise seeking medical help ASAP if one of my eyes was suddenly blurry and I didn't know why.

Worrying about how much glasses cost should not be your biggest concern OP, people don't generally become long or short sighted in one eye overnight.
 
Efour said:
Go to casulty.
Post on ocuk.

Choice...
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TBH given how much the wait times in casualty are in the news at the moment I suspect it's giving a lot of people cause to pause and wonder if they really need it, and the situation with GP appointments means that you can be very lucky to get one within a week.
 
Got an appointment with my ophthalmologist on Tuesday, will have to make a decision whether or not to go through with a procedure on my dodgy eye or not. Side effects of the procedure can be pretty drastic, ranging from total loss of sight in that eye to having to live with visible marks in the field of vision. I'm edging towards leaving it because it won't cure the blurriness in that eye, it might, and I emphasise might, prevent it from getting any worse.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Three points:

1. You must read from right to left.
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My partner has been doing this for years apparently until I was like wtf when she mentioned it after her last one.

She thought because they used a mirror she should read it right to left.
 
1664kronenbourg said:
The thought of me wearing glasses gave me an idea;-
Just supposing I get a photo of me wearing them, put the photo in photop editing software and change the colour of the lenses...
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Yes 100% do this by making a thread in GD and uploading it and asking for one of the PS whizzes to make the edits for you. Lots of helpful people will get some really good results for you.
 
BDEE said:
Yes 100% do this by making a thread in GD and uploading it and asking for one of the PS whizzes to make the edits for you. Lots of helpful people will get some really good results for you.
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It's only going to be for a bit of fun. I'm getting my glasses from somewhere called Eyepad which is part of Limelight. I'm getting two pairs, one for normal use and the other for reading and it cost less that I was told it would for the test itself and the glasses but another problem I had was trying out the different styles and colours of frames. I had the usual test bust had to quit after so many eye charts.
I should get the glasses in ten days.
 
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