goggles over glasses

[Omi-san]

How much does it cost to bring the RX insert to an optometrist? Considering how they rip us off with regular lens and frames....

[LUTNIT]

I've read several times that a good pair of goggles, RX inserts, and lenses in total will run you around $300.

Also I don't see how optometrists rip you off with glasses and lenses, I've worn glasses since I was 6 and checked everywhere for them and the precision that is required with grinding lenses is hard to copy cheaply. My lenses in my glasses are $90 each, $180 for a pair, but I have compressed anti-scratch, anti-glare lenses. My brother got cheapo basic lenses and it was $65 for the pair plus cheapest of the cheap $40 frames.

Anyway I've considered RX inserts many times but never found it worth it because my prescription changes from time to time. I don't really have a choice but to switch my normal day to day lenses but to have to spend the cash to switch a set of RX inserts in addition would suck. With using goggles that just go over my glasses I only have to change out one pair of lenses when my prescription changes.

[Dynamo]

you can do what im doing, get your eyes fixed.
getting my eyes LASIK'ed in the fall.
for about the price of a highly upgraded AEG, you'll never need glasses again untill you get old and need reading glasses.
going to cost me around 2k to get my eyes done. i say its well worth it considering how much i have already spent and will spend on glasses if i dont get this done.

[DarkAngel]

Tell me how that turns out Dynamo, I was thinking about it, but i dont have 2 large to drop on anything besides college. :/ Interested tho to hear what they do, how it went, any discomfort etc etc

[Ace of Spades©]

My mom had that done like 6-7 years ago, when Lasik were still in there teens. They have probably improved since them, but Laser Eye surgery is never a perfectly exact procedure. For 5 years, her eyes stayed a good 20/20, but slowly they became worse, and now see needs glasses for reading.

I'm pretty sure that they mention in the contract that the surgery will correct your vision to between like 18/20 and 20/22 area (or something like, two points off from 20/20)

[WarChild7]

ESS LandOps goggles will fit over glasses. http://www.essgoggles.com/Land-Ops_4_detail.html