Help with eye prescriptions!!

[Christie11]

Hi,

I have a bit of an issue with my eye prescriptions at the moment and wondered if anyone could offer any advice...

I know how important it is to get my eyes checked regularly due to my diabetes so I booked an eye test and got a prescription but heard that the opticians I'd used wasn't the most reliable. I then went for a 2nd opinion somewhere else and got a completely different prescription!
Today I went somewhere else yet again to get another check and again it was totally different!!!

How am I supposed to know what prescription to use for my glasses?! I don't want to end up with something too strong or not enough! They're not even similar in the slightest!!

Thanks,

Xx

 

[AlisonM]

Have you tried Specsavers? I've been going to them for the past few years and they've been incredibly thorough, especially once I said I'm diabetic. They photograph my eyeballs and everything, just like the clinic. In fact the girl who did that for me first was a trainee then and now works at my local eye clinic.

 

[LeeLee]

Before doing anything else, I'd see the GP. Wildly differing results could indicate there is something else going on. Might be nothing, but you need to know. Filling any one of the prescriptions without knowing for sure could be an expensive mistake!

 

[pav]

I also use spec savers and so far this year had to have 2 prescriptions for lenses.

The amount of changes you are experiencing could be a case of your blood sugar levels being out of control, or fluctuating between high and low.

Mine was due to the fact that on my first eye test my levels were in the 20's had not been monitoring my self. When I got control my eye sight had improved drastically which resulted in the need for a far weaker lens prescription.

 

[AlisonM]

Mine was due to the fact that on my first eye test my levels were in the 20's had not been monitoring my self. When I got control my eye sight had improved drastically which resulted in the need for a far weaker lens prescription.

Good point.

 

[Caroline]

if eye tests are wildy differeing see the doctor. Could be something and nothing. The service you get from Specsavers varies from area to area. My local specsavers is so abismal I wont go there and the staff are often rude, but my mum who lives less the 5 miles away gets brilliant service from her specsavers.

 

[Christie11]

Thanks everyone. Don't think it's to do with my control as my blood sugar levels are normally quite consistent and the tests were all within a few days of each other. One of the tests was Specsavers and it's probably the most reliable one I'd say but don't want to get the wrong glasses! Have booked an appointment with my GP to double check so hopefully he can help!

 

[trophywench]

Yet, being gobsmacked that my eyes could possibly have improved so much when my usual optician tested them (except it wasn't the same actual person) I booked a test with another optician, only to be told it was totally unethical for them to do a retest and I should go back to No 1 and ask for a retest.

So I did and this time saw the usual bloke, and the other employee was right - they had improved! (still had my glasses from the other one though, far better choice of frames and far cheaper)

But I agree - if your BG isn't firmly settled at the right level - then it does affect your eyesight.

Newly diagnosed people - whatever type you have - should NEVER go to the expense of new lenses until they are well and truly stabilised, because they will only change again when they are.