glasses prescriptions - not the glasses themselves

[Batch]

my near vision is getting fucked. Asda optician was good but the 'sales staff' shite.

so I got a pair from glasses4u. lenses good, frames meh but they are only for reading (£15 delivered, soapy tit wank).

onto the question:
  - can the same prescription printout the optician have be be used for distance glasses? or doesn't it work like that?

my distance vision is ok but deteriorated a bit. so might pick up a cheap pair for driving (though I'm legal without)

[Jimmy Quinn]

my near vision is getting fucked. Asda optician was good but the 'sales staff' shite.

so I got a pair from glasses4u. lenses good, frames meh but they are only for reading (£15 delivered, soapy tit wank).

onto the question:
  - can the same prescription printout the optician have be be used for distance glasses? or doesn't it work like that?

my distance vision is ok but deteriorated a bit. so might pick up a cheap pair for driving (though I'm legal without)

Have you considered varifocals that's what I use saves the need for two separate pairs and you only use them to suit.

[Quagmire]

my near vision is getting fucked. Asda optician was good but the 'sales staff' shite.

so I got a pair from glasses4u. lenses good, frames meh but they are only for reading (£15 delivered, soapy tit wank).

onto the question:
  - can the same prescription printout the optician have be be used for distance glasses? or doesn't it work like that?

my distance vision is ok but deteriorated a bit. so might pick up a cheap pair for driving (though I'm legal without)

I’m going to sound very cliche now, but go to Specsavers.
Have always found the sales staff really helpful, and after a couple of years of having cheap glasses, I went and had my eyes done properly by them, spent £70 on a pair and it was the best thing I did.

[Jimmy Quinn]

Have you considered varifocals that's what I use saves the need for two separate pairs and you only use them to suit.

Edit : I'm with Quaggy go to specsavers rather than buying online plus you get two pairs for the price of one.I personally choose varifocals as I prefer having the option of reading close up plus still being able to look far away rather than switching glasses depending on what you are trying to focus on.

[Jimmy Quinn]

They also measure you to ensure the glasses fit correctly.

[Mexicano Rojo]

If it's any help there is a sale on at the Specsavers in Fuengirola at the moment.

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

my near vision is getting fucked. Asda optician was good but the 'sales staff' shite.

so I got a pair from glasses4u. lenses good, frames meh but they are only for reading (£15 delivered, soapy tit wank).

onto the question:
  - can the same prescription printout the optician have be be used for distance glasses? or doesn't it work like that?

my distance vision is ok but deteriorated a bit. so might pick up a cheap pair for driving (though I'm legal without)

Getting old Mate it’s shite.

[Jimmy Quinn]

Sadly true....it happens to us all🤣

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Sadly true....it happens to us all🤣

My health check yesterday.
Blood pressure very good, cholesterol fine, just stress relate pressure.
She asked the causes, work, family ?
I said no, we are just shite at holding onto leads in the 87th minute.🥊

[Jimmy Quinn]

My health check yesterday.
Blood pressure very good, cholesterol fine, just stress relate pressure.
She asked the causes, work, family ?
I said no, we are just shite at holding onto leads in the 87th minute.🥊

I'm surprised your cholesterol is is fine considering all those burgers you must eat following the Town up and down the country😆

[4D]

Welcome to being in your 50s Batch. I use to have great vision, but it's fuzzy beyond about 25ft and I have to hold my hand further from my face to read anything. Got glasses for driving, and got some cheap reading ones from Wilko, about £4 I think 
Didn't realise how bad my near vision was. Moaning about the small fucking print on labels   

[ron dodgers]

I had my lenses replaced, only need readers now

[NotHarryAgombar]

Varifocals are fine for most things - I have needed distance and reading specs for some time and found them much better than switching pairs all the time.
However to play golf I found I needed a distance only pair (as with the varifocals I found I was trying to hit the ball while looking through the reading rather than the distance bit and I really struggled with that - it may just have been I’m not very good at golf, but it is  definitely better with distance only specs).
I’ve also heard of people who needed a separate pair for using a computer as their screen was placed between the optimum distances for reading/distance of their varifocals.

[Batch]

all good stuff but not quite what I was asking

my question was on the actual eye test paper, is it
  - one set of values which cover both your long and near vision
 - if you are both near and short sighted you need 2 days of values.

[fuzzy]

Welcome to being in your 50s Batch. I use to have great vision, but it's fuzzy beyond about 25ft and I have to hold my hand further from my face to read anything. Got glasses for driving, and got some cheap reading ones from Wilko, about £4 I think 
Didn't realise how bad my near vision was. Moaning about the small fucking print on labels   

I'm sorry to be intruding on your day to day life......