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Skylark asked in HealthOptical · 1 decade ago

Are there over the counter eyeglasses for distance clarity?

I want to pick up some glasses to wear while driving to see in the distance, but don't want to hassle with eye exams, etc. Can you buy them over the counter the way you can buy reading glasses? Such as a -2.0 instead of +2.0?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No you can't.

    There are way too many variables in distance corrections, especially when you consider that 80% of eyeglass wearers also have some astigmatism.

    The placement of the optical centers becomes more critical also with distance glasses, plus the fact that most people have a different correction in both eyes.

    If you want to see clear, you will have to do it the intelligent way, and go through the " hassle" of an eye exam.

    Source(s): Optician
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    6 years ago

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    Are there over the counter eyeglasses for distance clarity?

    I want to pick up some glasses to wear while driving to see in the distance, but don't want to hassle with eye exams, etc. Can you buy them over the counter the way you can buy reading glasses? Such as a -2.0 instead of +2.0?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No. And it's certainly true that you should get an eye-exam and glasses with your personal prescription in any case.

    But that you can't get them otherwise, I would put more to the power of the eye-doctor lobby than anything else... Their arguments are true, but would equally apply to someone that's farsighted, and in many places you can get lenses which correct that without a prescription.

    Now, it's also true that it's probably more important that you be able to see clearly in the distance than up close - so, you'd want the best correction possible for that (whereas someone might get by with something less accurate for up close things) - but better to have a slightly inaccurate correction for distance vision than no correction at all.

    And if you didn't need a correction, wearing minus lenses would make you farsighted, which is less of a problem than going about in unneeded plus lenses that make things like you're nearsighted.

    Source(s): Personal opinion.
  • 1 decade ago

    You could end up putting your eyes under more strain than you think.

    I'd been going around with a weaker perscription than I'd needed for about 6 months. I barely noticed until I bought some new frames and went to get my eyes tested. My eyes were only a little worse this time...but my headaches stopped as soon as I got the new lenses.

    Go to the opticians, you may be surprised at how much you forgot you were supposed to see into the distance! I'd just thought the slight blurring was normal at that far away.

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    5 years ago

    Non Prescription Glasses

  • 1 decade ago

    No- you can only get distance glasses from an optician/optometrist etc as only reading glasses are sold over the counter.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago
  • 1 decade ago

    no. What he said.

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