>>>>>>>Title says it all - trying to find some new glasses and despite my best efforts I can't find these anywhere. I find oval ones but not ROUND ones arrrrg!
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>>>>>>>Anyone?
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>>>>>>My optician can apparently make any shape rimless glasses.
>>>>>>Small shop, not sure that works in a chain store.
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>>>>>>My head is a bit wide - he just made the lenses wider, and of course the frames are anchored to that.
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>>>>>I did find a shop in downtown Honolulu (Chinatown actually...) that can make what I want - but the glasses would end up costing almost $2,000. I'll keep looking though.
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>>>>Sheesh - that's laser-eye-surgery kinda money.
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>>>no kidding! I've considered the surgery - but ummmm...well I'm chicken hahaha.
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>>Nothing wrong with that. I've heard it said that eye surgeons have a difficult time finding surgical assistants/nurses. You'd think experienced ER/trauma nurses would be good candidates but apparently that's not always the case, some freak out at the idea of working on eyes... so there is something special about them.
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>>I was a fairly early adopter of PRK (1995) which has worked extremely well for me.
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>>If you ever consider laser eye surgery, get it done as early as possible (as long as you have a stable prescription). That way you have the greatest number of years before you start to need glasses for other reasons e.g. reading glasses.
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>I'm already on progressive lens so it's too late for me already I would think - Id still have to have reading glasses & maybe another set for computer work. Plus I'm chicken to let someone start slicing my eyeball with a laser. I will say this though - everyone I've talked to that's had it done said it was not painful, just a little sore for couple of days, and worth it 100 times over.

Yeah, sounds like it is probably a bit late for you if you're on progressive. Although laser surgery can fix other problems that aren't easily addressable by glasses or contacts e.g. astigmatism. If you talk to a surgeon you can get the spiel and the most thorough eye exam you've had in your life typically with no obligation.

When I had it done laser surgery was not yet approved for the general public in Canada so it was done in the guise of a "study". At the time the surgeon I used had done ~8,000 procedures and was the most experienced PRK practitioner in the world. He told me some of the history of early eye surgery. Apparently there are people with functional eyes but who have severe eyeball focal length or corneal shape issues. Before laser surgery they would use the thickest available contact lenses PLUS the most brutal coke-bottle-bottom glasses just to avoid being legally blind. Process them with PRK and the result was no contact lenses plus light glasses (usually under 1 diopter) to get 20/20 vision. Literally life-changing for those people. The glasses were typically needed because correcting from such a large diopter deviation is not an exact science, even today.