carguy123 wrote: If you have horrible, coke bottle lenses then you'll love it, but if you have minimal near sightedness and you're just wanting to get to perfect you'll hate it. Lens replacement is the way to go.
Pretty much why I refuse to look into that laser. At 20:40 at least I can squint and see. No sense risking making it worse.
I've always been a cheap skate, skin flint bastid but lately it's gotten worse. I used to think of everything in terms of decent cars and new car parts, like I'm sure a lot of people here do. Now I look at the price of things and compare that to how many Stincolns I could buy or how many cast off parts I could snag for that amount. 
Worked in the optometric field for about 8 years. You get what you pay for. Walmart brand progressive lenses do NOT compare to say Varilux progressives. Zeiss AR coating is good. Crizal is better. Being fitted correctly in your progressive lenses can make all the difference in the world in your adapting to them. Who you buy them from and how their people are trained in fitting lenses really does make a difference. Expect to pay $500 on them and get a warranty...crizal offers a lifetime one and if your doctor tells you differently then they are lying. The markup on single vision lenses if phenomenal. We paid $5 for a lower power lens and maybe as high as $40 for a higher power thinner and lighter. We sold them for between $79 and $210. As for progressives, those started at $229 and went up to $400 for thinner ones. Add the AR coating (Crizal) and that was another $89. Frames can range from $59 to $300.
There are always people that have issues with any type of surgery and Lasik is no different. I did preop and postop for probably 200 people and honestly never had anyone have an issue that couldn't be dealt with easily...but it DOES happen and I'm sorry that it did for you. But anything has risks.
Properly fitted glasses are very nice. My optometrist has an office full of well dressed, attractive women who wear low vee cut blouses and have to lean over a counter to do the adjustments. I go regularly.
Seriously, I bought an absurd looking set of stinky expensive Porsche design frames last time, partly to satisfy the women around me, but mostly because the embarrassment of wearing goofy looking glasses with bright red arms was outweighed by the fit, comfort, and their ability to stay on my head when I'm working. I don't know how that would happen with online purchases.
The bifocal/progressive argument...My first glasses (far sighted, and my left eye needed some distance correction too- right eye was plain glass up top) were round top bifocals that I put on for my 45th birthday and never took off again. I loved them. At about 49, I was needing more close-up help, so I went to progressives. I am still wearing them 3 years later, but holy crap, what an adjustment. The narrow field of vision is horrible. I kept my last bifocals, and wear them in the race car. Strapped into a full containment seat with hans is no place for your peripheral vision to be bad.
You wanna try something impossible, put on your progrssives and try to hit the studs towards the floor when you are hanging a sheet of drywall.
No line bifocals with Stetson titanium unbreakable frames, $325 at Wal Mart. Have had ~zero~ problems with them. I still have my 'old' pair that I use in the shop, the prescription's not perfect but it's close enough. Have no problems with banging in nails, welding etc. In really close up work (less than 18" or so) they have to come off but that's because I am nearsighted.
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