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First one since school...so that would be 1989 at least!
Use a Mac every working day which can't have helped over the last 10 years...close-up vision gone off a cliff in the last 6 months.
Need to get it sorted, but where's the best place to get an eye test? Boots any good? Would have thought they would be.
Cost not really an issue as work are paying and I want a good thorough test...cheers all.
get someone to help you find the opticians.
Are you 50?
No Wrightyson...not for a good while yet. Are you? 😉
Your work may have an optician that they wish you to go to.
I've never been to a chain optician, but I can't imagine that you'll have an issue wherever you go.
I use Specsavers, and the always seem to be pretty good, but I imagine most of the tests they carry out and the equipment they use is pretty standard.
Watch out for the glaucoma test though, I hate it. They puff air in your eye (3 times in each eye, last time I went). It doesn't hurt, just a bit of a shock, but it's the anticipation of it happening which gets me.
Boots for me. They do the full eye pressure, visual field and imaging stuff - bloody impressive.
Their kit and service is much better than the local hospital eye department.
I used Vision Express for the first & probably last time, on Monday last week after losing my only pair of specs. Despite claiming they're lab would have me in new specs within a few days, I'm still spec-less a week later, so I may have well spent half as much & gone to Specsavers. I'm tempted to go round & paint over the [i]Express[/i] on their sign.
I use Vision Express.
Consider this. They use Oakley. Oakley glasses are the sh*t.
tesco, free of charge and do a lot of tests like the puff thing etc
Not a butcher's
Find an independent high street optician and get friendly with them because the same rules apply as with your LBS: if you buy glasses from them and support them they will reciprocate with good service and discounts.
My local is Ideal Eye Care in Wilpshire, Blackburn. The owner Zunaid is a star bloke and made me some smashing cycling specs from a frame I bought for £11.99 at TK max.
Listen to him ^
if you work near a university...get in touch with their ophthalmic department and ask if they have a vision centre that they are connected to...if they have then i would recommend you use them as they have all the cutting edge equipment for all manner of eye examinations....if you're in manchester then you should try the manchester vision centre at manchester uni