Re: Cnnot use with glasses so need prescription lens inserts
My last pair were over £600
Likewise - although, because both my eyes breach the -10 dioptre limit I get a grant from the Government of an amazing £5 per lens. [1]
The optician doesn't bother to apply for it - doing the paperwork would cost more than the £10 they would get so they just give me the discount and move on.
(I have to have two sets of glasses - one for close work and readong and one for driving or anything else that needs longer vision - my prescription is such that they can't make a lens that allows me to do both especially when you take presbyopia into account..
I did wear contacts (hard gass-perms) for many years - gave me pretty much perfect vision and automagically fixed the cylinders of astigmatism that I have in both eyes. But I was getting to the stage of needed reading glasses anyway and wearing the lenses all day was becoming more and more uncomfortable so I went back to glasses full time.
I really envy people that can wake up and just *see*. You really don't know how lucky you are. My sight gets notably worse if I have a headache so I think my brain is doing its best to make sense of the images it does get!
[1] I don't count as partially-sighted because, with the glasses, I do get a fair degree of vision (I can read down to the 4th line of the sight test). The chromatic abberation is somewhat of a pain though - especially at night with oncoming car headlights.