Progressive Lenses from Zenni's - a question I'm hoping someone can answer!

[kkhh]

Hi everyone - I'm new here so please pardon any mistakes I'm making.
My husband needs new glasses and we're looking at ordering from
Zenni's - it'll be our first excursion into buying glasses online.
Optician didn't include his PD as part of the prescription and
following instructions I've measured it myself at 73. (Hubby has a
wide face - we have limited choices in frames that will work for
him). I've read in a few places that with progressive lenses you
should ideally have two PD numbers - one for distance and one for
reading. I'm wondering if he's going to have problems with the new
glasses if they're made using just my measurement. Would anyone have
any words of wisdom to share on the topic?

[CoolSimple]

Strongly encourage you to visit a local optical shop to get the PD
checked. LensCrafters will check it if you ask. PD of 73mm seems kinda
high and PD must be pretty accurate for progressives. I usually get a
reading PD 4mm less than my distance PD (64.5mm) for progressives. I
recently found free-form progressives and will not go back to the
older tech lenses. Free-forms give you much better adaptability and
wider near and intermediate vision. The free-form lenses at
coastalcontacts worked great for me. They are a little more expensive
but I loved the feel right away. They feel more like single vision
rather than progressives!

[Patrick]

As you are ordering progressive lenses, better go to your doctor for
measuring both the near PD the far PD, or at least let the doctor
measure your far PD, as the lenses factory will normally reduce 3mm to
be your near PD while making the lenses.

Progressive glasses are more complicated glasses, which need more time
to adapt. If something goes wrong, you may never adapt to.

[Lucille]

On Jul 9, 11:38 pm, kkhh <c413bh01...@gmail.com> wrote:

I ordered progressives from Zenni last year, with just one PD
measurement, and they're fine.

[Adam]

There wasn't even a 'near PD' field to fill in when I ordered (or did
I somehow miss it?)

[kkhh]

Thank you all for your very helpful comments. My husbands eye doctor
refused to include the PD because he wasn't buying glasses there -
it's not mandatory here. We tried the optical at Walmart and were
told the same thing. Hubby has a very wide face, large head so I
suspect that's why the PD that I measured is so high - I've checked it
several times. Decisions, decisions. I think with the price
difference - $85.00 as compared to $350 - it's worth the risk of
ordering a pair from Zenni's. Thanks again!

[powrwrap]

> On Jul 19, 10:09 pm, Adam <quickstr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There wasn't even a 'near PD' field to fill in when I ordered (or did
> I somehow miss it?)

There isn't, but you could have added the dual PD measurement in the
comments section. For example, in my case I would add:

Progessive lens PD = 67/64.

[Chuck Knight]

Zenni states on their site that they assume your near PD is 3mm less than your distance PD.  And, that's correct for a good 98% or more of people...but there are exceptions, especially people with an unusually wide or narrow PD.

It's a rule of thumb, but it's one that serves me well.  Whenever I order online (or anywhere else) I make as few assumptions as possible.  So, I include as much information as they could possibly ever need or want, and they can disregard anything extraneous.

     -- Chuck Knight

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[Adam]

Darn! I thought I read somewhere on Zenni's website that they only
wanted the distance PD for progressives.. I wrongly assumed that even
if I did include it in the comments, it wouldn't get used.

My fathers PD is 64/62 [2 less than Distance PD]. Is that going to
annoy him to no end?

Right now he has some free-forms from Costco that cost around $300
just for the lenses. He wanted some cheap [less than $100 total]
glasses that he could wear while working construction.

The full script :

-7.25 -1.50 x 175
-6.25 -1.25 x 150

ADD +2.25

PD Dist 64
PD Near 62

On Jul 21, 10:58 am, Chuck Knight <chuckkni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zenni states on their site that they assume your near PD is 3mm less than
> your distance PD.  And, that's correct for a good 98% or more of
> people...but there are exceptions, especially people with an unusually wide
> or narrow PD.
>
> It's a rule of thumb, but it's one that serves me well.  Whenever I order
> online (or anywhere else) I make as few assumptions as possible.  So, I
> include as much information as they could possibly ever need or want, and
> they can disregard anything extraneous.
>
>      -- Chuck Knight
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, powrwrap <powrw...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Jul 19, 10:09 pm, Adam <quickstr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > There wasn't even a 'near PD' field to fill in when I ordered (or did
> > > I somehow miss it?)
>
> > There isn't, but you could have added the dual PD measurement in the
> > comments section. For example, in my case I would add:
>
> > Progessive lens PD =  67/64.
>
> > --

> > Check us out at the oft-updatedhttp://glassyeyes.blogspot.com!