posted on November 3, 2006 12:05:36 PM new
have you seen those fancy Silhouette glasses? Rimless Titanium hingeless frames? My DH tried some on and gagged at the price at the optical shop so he told me to find him some on Ebay.
Well even on Ebay they're kind of high - and getting lenses (drilled cause they're rimless) put in them is $$. He asked at his optical shop and they said $400.00.
So I found these and he thought they would be worth trying.
posted on November 3, 2006 12:24:45 PM new
How would you store a pair of hingeless glasses?
Also, I checked the pricing on gradient(bifocal) lenses. Price goes up considerably.
posted on November 3, 2006 12:48:14 PM new
Ai! Carrumba!
Where to start?
From experience, I can tell ya that these frames (or very similiar ones) were extremely difficult to adjust. If you have a very simple, single vision RX, go for it...BUT, anything complicated, the FIT to yer HEAD is extremely important -- HAVE FUN walking into somebody's local optical shop and asking for an adjustment to make the frames FIT yer noggin...
With PROGRESSIVE ADDITION LENSES, fit is 50% of the battle for successful adaptation (the other 50% is the correct selection of candidates -- some folks RX's work well with PALs, and some are just asking for DISASTER) -- I would never buy a PAL (except for exacy duplicate of what yer already wearing & adapted to) via LONG DISTANCE mail order...
posted on November 3, 2006 12:48:22 PM new
"How would you store a pair of hingeless glasses?"
I don't know?! They are so flexible you can stretch them out flat! They do come with a case though.
He got transition lens for $79.00.
DH used to wear bifocals but had not had his eyes examined in about 20+ years. He kept harping about wanting rimless glasses but I said I would not order any until he got his eyes re-checked. Turned out his prescription strength that he used to wear was double what he needed and he no longer needed bifocals! (I thought something was up when he kept having to take his glasses off to read something!)
Anyway he loves these because he says it's like not wearing glasses at all - they're so light. They really look just like the higher priced name brand ones.
posted on November 3, 2006 12:57:00 PM new
I thought you'd be along with a comment tomwiii
my only complaint is that I wish there were a page where you could print out the actual lens in real size so you could cut them out and try them on for size.
edited to add: hey tom - I want to go to Boston to have a session with the Mad Russian. Do you want to go with me?
posted on November 3, 2006 01:57:06 PM new
How do you store them? The manufacturer gives you a little plastic case and you just squash the ear pieces down and stuff them in BUT if you do it even a few times an ear piece can snap off. I had a pair that were sold to me by a very upscale optician. I only folded them at most 3 or 4 times when I was traveling. One day one of the ear pieces snapped. It was a nightmare.
I have a very complicated prescription because of double vision and I had to wear the glasses with one ear piece for two months while the frames were on order. Mine had rims for the lenses because one of my lenses is very heavy. If you have the rimless I guess it is not as complex because you can replace the one earpiece. My glasses cost of $800 because of the complex prescription and they were a few weeks out of warranty when they broke. I was really mad but they replaced them for no charge since this seems to be a problem with this frame.
Now I told you more than you want to know about my glasses didn't I.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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posted on November 3, 2006 02:05:37 PM new
Some mail order sites send your order to Pakistan or India.
This question is for Tom-
I wear progressive lenses(bifocal and stigmatism) and I would like a rimless pair but my local eyeglass clerk told me it wont look nice on me due to my prescription strength,the lenses would be too thick to look good.
Is that so??
posted on November 3, 2006 02:45:19 PM new
Silhouette is the brand. They were really expensive. Hwahwa they said I could not have the rimless because both are progressive and one lens is much thicker than the other.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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posted on November 3, 2006 04:22:26 PM new
eeek photo! I'm glad we didn't spend all that money on that name brand pair! 2 MONTHS waiting on another pair? geez. ours were a little over 7 days!
posted on November 3, 2006 04:39:02 PM newStop:
I wear progressive lenses(bifocal and stigmatism) and I would like a rimless pair but my local eyeglass clerk told me it wont look nice on me due to my prescription strength,the lenses would be too thick to look good. "Is that so??"
>>>I need the RX to give you a reasonable answer -- "bifocal and astigmatism" really doesn't tell me nada...
posted on November 3, 2006 04:46:41 PM new
The model I had was out of production when it broke and replacing my lenses would have cost over $500. Turned out they had to make more of the model because there were so many that failed. It is no fun to have glasses that tilt on your face when you move too fast and fall off if they get bumped. The specialist optometrist at the hospital sold me on them because my lenses were so heavy and he said these frames would not add much weight.
The next time I change my prescription I will get frames that are easier to adjust and repair.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on November 3, 2006 05:20:35 PM new
I invited the seller to the forum or to read and I'll post his replies at the very least.
It could be a different day over there by now
photo - it must be hard to wear glasses when your lens are so different. Aren't the Silhouette style light though? DH is bouncing with joy with his new glasses!
posted on November 3, 2006 07:13:37 PM new
Glassgrl, Yes they are very light. I loved them for the first few months but then I learned how easy they were to get out of whack and had to go back so many times to have them adjusted. The last straw was when they snapped and I had to wear them for 2 months with a missing ear piece.
I will get a more traditional style when I change my prescription or talk my doctor into surgery on my bad eye.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on November 3, 2006 08:06:10 PM new
Tomwiii, Three years ago I had a cataract removed from my right eye. The surgery was very successful. Too successful! My eyes are now so different that they can not focus together. After the surgery I could not read or work on the computer because I saw two of everything. My doctor tried a "slab off" or some such weird lens that never worked. I went to a specialist who treats children with double vision and she worked out a trifocal for my left eye that blanks out my close vision but gives me binocular distance vision. It does not work perfectly but well enough for me to read and see the computer screen. My aim is to have the small cataract in my left eye removed. I am told that my eyes can then be made to "match" but my doctor is very conservative and says it is not bad enough for surgery.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on November 3, 2006 08:31:29 PM new
Sorry, I didn't read your whole post...
YES, cataract surgery works BEST if both eyes are done relatively close to each other -- some surgeons I scrubbed with waited no longer than a month!
In the OLD days,,,back when I was trainijg at GEORGETOWN, (74-76), cataract surgery was a real disaster because the entire lens was removed & no IOL was used. The patient then wore "cataract" glasses which were horrible because they magnified everything 33%
NOW, since the IOL is used, & it is placed back where the original human lens was, magnification is vastly reduced -- only about 7% -- but that is still enough to cause diplopia because that eye is sending a BIGGER image to your brain than the unoperated eye, and, since you are an adult, you cannot "suppress" it...
The good thig is: as the cat in you unoperated eye gets worse, your diplopia will decrease, since the cat will act like a patch...
posted on November 4, 2006 05:24:49 AM new
Tomwiii, I have worn think glasses since I was 3 and was close to blind without them. When I was a kid the playground bullies would grab my glasses and stumble around yelling "Oh no, I can't see!" The fixed eye is amazing. My distance vision is so good now that I can't believe what I can see without my glasses. Just being able to see the alarm clock when I wake up is a marvel to me. The other eye, which was always the weaker one is just not able to function. I am an addicted reader. I will read the back of the cereal box if nothing else is available. In the months that we were struggling with solutions to my double vision I was beyond desperate. The pediatric specialist who gave me this prescription gave me back my sanity. I think my doctor and surgeon are both way too conservative. -----o----o----o----o----o----o----o----o
“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
Twill be essentially impossible to use BOTH eyes at once until the OTHER eye is operated on just because of plain ole PHYSICS -- the optics are too different...
Your operated eye is sending an image of one size to your brain & your other eye is sending a different image of different size -- the ADULT brain cannot handle this (cannot "fuse" two disparate sized images into one) & ya get the diplopia...
Kids (under six) have an amazing ability to "suppress" out the different image size which is both GOOD & BAD! Yes, this eliminates diplopia, but if not treated, they will end up with amblyopia ("lazy eye) -- once that really takes hold (untreated about age 7-8-9), there is NO way to ever restore useful vision to that eye...STRABISMUS is actually pretty fastcinating...
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posted on November 4, 2006 06:51:50 AM new
Tomwiii, Looks like we have taken this OT thread into another OT direction. Thanks for your understanding words. The surgeon who fixed my cataract kept trying to shift the blame on me. I was not trying hard enough to make it work. Duh! I loved it when he called in an expert consultant to back him up and he said (in front of me) "Of course she can't see. Why would you ever make such a radical change to only one eye."
In addition to her finding a solution to my problem I also loved going to the pediatric specialist. Instead of reading the boring charts of letters or lines of type I had long ago memorized it was "how many bunnies do you see with this lens" and "tell me when the teddy bears overlap." That was about the only light moment in the entire tiresome experience.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
The decision for or against surgery is complicated -- there are many variables involved, and I would never offer a criticism...
FOR EXAMPLE:
Sometimes a cataract is very large or swollen (tumescent) and surgery is indicated just to prevent a certain type of GLAUCOMA. So, even though the surgeon realizes that Anisometropia http://www.fpnotebook.com/EYE78.htm
posted on November 4, 2006 11:25:53 AM new
Tom, I've known for about three years now that I have Fuchs' Dystrophy. The doctor I've seen, for glasses only, has never told me I should see a specialist so I haven't. I don't seem to have any symptoms other than blurry vision in the morning which clears up quickly.
I know this disease is the leading cause for corneal transplant & that doesn't scare me, what does is that when it's advanced you develope blisters on your eyes & I hear the pain is excruciating. Question is, does it always progress to this & is there any treatment.
Philly has WILLS EYE...
http://www.willseye.org/
one of the BEST OPHTHALMOLOGY centers in the country...
Danville, PA, has Geisinger Med Center http://www.geisinger.edu/consumers/
not quite on the par of Wills (IMMHO), but still quite excellent...
If I had FED, I would be seeing a CORNEA specialist regularly...
"seem to have any symptoms other than blurry vision in am..."
ARE YOU SEEING AN OPTOMETRIST or an OPHTHALMOLOGIST?
If you are going to an OPTOMETRIST, and you are describing the above, I would really recommend you go to an OPHTHALMOLOGIST (MD) and get referred to a CORNEA guy...
posted on November 4, 2006 12:17:11 PM new
15 miles from Philly so not far from Wills eye.
ARE YOU SEEING AN OPTOMETRIST or an OPHTHALMOLOGIST
Don't know, went to Perle Vision for my glasses. Probably was an Ophthalmologist.
She mentioned it, but offered no other information.
What I said wasn't quite accurate, really wasn't thinking.
I had cataract surgery about 4 years ago & when I went back the second day for follow up the doctor said, as I was leaving "Oh by the way you have fuchs dystrophy" That's all nothing else so I asked him how to spell it, went home & googled it & what I read scared the hell out of me, but I thought if there was any treatment he would have told me.
And as I said when I went for new glasses a few months ago the doctor mentioned it too, but never told me if I should see anyone about it. They were both so casual about it I thought there was nothing to be done except let it progress until I would need a transplant. It doesn't seem right to me not to be referred, but because I still see pretty well I just let it go.
I'm going to call Wills Eye on Monday.
posted on November 4, 2006 01:30:15 PM new
Have to agree about Philly, was a great place way back when. Were it not for the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, etc there would not be much reason to go there.
Even John Wanamakers is gone.
But, your prize about 1 week in Philly & 2 weeks in Philly is a very old joke, W.C. Fields, I think, so it always seemed to lack something.
The food is great though & I'll bet you would love to have a Hoagie or a Cheese Steak & don't try to tell me you don't miss them.
posted on November 4, 2006 01:37:30 PM new
Sadly, there is NO PLACE in the country that can make a "Hoagie" anywhere near as GREAT as in Philly...
Same goes for the CheeseSteaks...
Special occasions when I was a kid was dinner at Old Bookbinders -- Oh! How I loved Philadelphia Pepper-Pot Soup until my jerk brother told me the main ingredient...NEVER AGAIN after
And I'd take the "EL" downtown & meet my parents at Horn & Hardouts and gorge myself on the Baked Beans -- remember the ceiling?
posted on November 4, 2006 02:35:40 PM new
Just how much money are they making on those frames?Sophia Loren,Ralph Lauren,Calvin Klein,Ivana TRump etc??
And are the sample ones just as good??
with his new glasses! 
