How did you go about obtaining separate optical prescription

Hi there

We are starting to realise that we are all wearing Odessa's prescription glasses.
Differences in eye sight seem to be negligible for some of us, rather annoying for others.

What I was wondering is how you went about obtaining your separate prescriptions?

I have been diagnosed privately as we would prefer not to have our diagnosis on record and we're rather weary of letting even an optician know that we're a system.
The most workable idea we've come up with so far is to obtain our separate prescriptions from separate opticians using our internal names rather than the legal one. And probably giving fake addresses while we are at it. However, that seems a lot of stressful lying to go through just to collect up seven prescriptions :S

Any of you guys done this already?
How did you go about it?
What was that like?

Thanks

If the need for the different prescription lens is fairly infrequent, maybe you do like I did and get a couple different strength reading glasses from the dollar store to make everybody happy?

thanks dissociated1

sadly that is not going to cut it. we have lots of things physically wrong with the eyes. no way the supermarket is going to carry anything remotely close for most of us :'( might work for our little Poe though.. her eyesight is ridiculously good compared to the rest.

I don't know if you're in the States or not, but I think you would do just as you've done...go to separate doctors. My BF (I'm support person) has separate opticians. They simply do the exam, write down the prescription and that's about it.

We've gone to different places. It's been expensive but worth it for those that are the most out (we're a very large system, to get glasses for everyone I'd have to be quite rich). We went to a dollar store type store and bought glasses for one of our littles though who's eyesight is horrible and opposite of the rest of ours (we're relatively high on the + side and with significant problems with other things with our eyes which her's is -3 ). For us the easiest thing was to just go to different places. It's not an official record so you can have them destroyed after if you want to and you can all use your real names as they won't be tied to anywhere (unless perhaps if you go to the same chain, but even then it'd be unlikely - you can even ask by saying you remember having been to another store years ago and don't remember what prescription you got and ask if they can check for you - if they can, they have a record, if they don't you know they can't check for your name in other stores).

I don't know if this made a whole lot of sense but it's our best tip at least

Thanks Patience & lifelongthing

I guess internal names and multiple opticians it is. Thanks

I am hoping we can get an appointment just walking in because if Rae & Mal (both frequent Hosts who don't see so good) have to keep individual appointments.. that'll be interesting. We always keep our appointments but not necessarily the Part who originally planned to attend.. so this optician thing feels like Mount Everest right now

I'll be sure to post my sigh of relief when all the frequent Fronters have managed to get their prescriptions checked..

Odessa

Best of luck with getting your appointments in order

We got there in the end

Explained during the first eye exam that "I" would be back for a second and third one. Explained very briefly that my eye sight appears to vary at different times and explained I had a disorder associated with physical changes like this.

She was adamant that changes like this are normal (if a singlet has three eye tests in a week they are likely to get three slightly different prescriptions too) but I kept countering that I understood that, but that thanks to my disorder I had a "roadmap" to when which prescription would be right for me. End of.

At first the optician seemed a little territorial (because I kept disagreeing with her), but on our second visit (possibly having looked DID up in the meantime?) she was actually really nice about it.

Madness of madness: I had a voucher for one free eye test but got all three for free Sweet, huh?

So far two of us have their own glasses and I wear our old prescription. No world shattering difference in prescription but enough to make everybody really happy to fish their own specs out of our bag when they switch in.

And it actually helps the husband a little to tell us apart (us three main fronters appear very similar, our voices are pretty much indistinguishable)

Thanks for all the advice - I was really anxious about this but it was well worth it
~Odessa & Co