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how frequently do you get an eye exam?

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  • more than once a year

  • once a year

  • every 2 years

  • when things start to look blurry

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I'm diabetic and wear disposable contacts, so I get checked every year. My insurance covers it, so no reason not to.
 
When I need new contacts or glasses and my old prescription has expired.

If I didn't wear corrective lenses, I'd only go if things looked blurry.
 
I get checked every 6 months until I was 16 or 17, but only because my eyes changed prescription very fast. Now in my late twenties, I get checked once a year.
 
I get it done every year. I have vision insurance - covers yearly exam + new lenses. I get new frames every 2 years under the same plan.

I never realize how bad my eyes have gotten until I go in, take the exam, get the new glasses and it's a similar visual improvement as when I first got HD channels on my HDTV =\
 
I should get one early next year. It may be time just to see if anything is not quite as it should be. Damm trifocal progressive eyeglasses. My insurance will cover the exam, if you use a doctor that is part of the network. They provide a very minimum amount towards cost of frames and lenses, unless you pick something from their line, which is usually cheap, looks terrible. And their lenses are usually plastic only, not glass, without photogray. Those cost extra.
 
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Whenever I'm told I need to in order to purchase more contacts.

Every 1.5-2 years I guess. Just stocked up on contacts the other day because I know my rx is going to run out next month.
 
Having one tomorrow. Its technically my 3rd of the year. Crazy story involved and I'm certain ATOT doesn't care. I have difficult to correct astig and use gas perms (of many differing kinds now from synergeyes to bi-torics, to plain gas perms, to gas perms with soft covers.)
 
I get them checked at least once a year, although I'm there pretty much every year due to my effed up eyes.

Having one tomorrow. Its technically my 3rd of the year. Crazy story involved and I'm certain ATOT doesn't care. I have difficult to correct astig and use gas perms (of many differing kinds now from synergeyes to bi-torics, to plain gas perms, to gas perms with soft covers.)
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I feel you. I wear a scleral RGP in my left eye. I've tried everything in my right eye (RGP, scleral RGP, the hybrid RGPs with soft skirts) in my right eye and nothing works. So I wear nothing. Cornea is too thin for intacts. Screw keratoconus.
 
I had LASIK done to my eyes about 9 years ago. Since then I have been to the eye doctor 3 times - twice shortly after the operation for post-ops check ups and once a year ago when I got some metal fragment lodged in my cornea when I was drilling though sheet metal
 
Every year or I can't get new contacts. If you count surgery-related visits.., pre-op, op, and two post-ops so far with another scheduled next Spring.
 
Every 2-3 years when I notice my eyesight deteriorating and becoming more blurry, or my glasses break and require replacement.
 
Whenever insurance covers it. Last time was ~2 years ago, next one is early next year. Need new glasses, current ones sucked.
 
Ophthalmologist when there's a problem. Optician/optometrist about every 5 years when I need new glasses (vision has changed). Unfortunately, healthcare no longer covers routine exams. 🙁
 
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