Anyone here have prescription sunglasses?

I stopped wearing contacts after high school. I currently have three pairs of glasses. Two with my distance prescription (one of them darkens in the sun) and one for working on computers (doesn't have my distance prescription).

The darkening ones are the best! They were expensive, but so worth it.

I actually have a fourth pair but they aren't traditional glasses. They are sport lenses that look more like swim goggles than glasses. They are permanently dark and have an elastic to go around my head.

So, to your questions... Tons of styles available. Generally more than regular Rx glasses because you have to pay for the tinting.

Interesting post, @Coralmist My father used to have sunglasses which clipped on over his ordinary glasses. Unlike @sarabee1995 I have been wearing contact lenses (hard ones) since I was sixteen-and-a-half - the youngest age that the specialist optician would prescribe them. The greatest indignity for me - I've eventually got over it - was when I started to require reading-glasses for close work when I have my lenses in. I found some off-the-shelf dark reading-glasses but they are awkward and I've never bothered shelling out for photochromic ones.

My glasses are Transitions and I love them.

My nephew wears glasses and a few years ago for his 15th birthday I got him prescription sunglasses from eyebuydirect because he was going to start driving. I got them on sale. I think it was around $60. We put in his current prescription numbers and it had us measure the distance between his pupils by holding a card up underneath his eyes and taking a picture.
They were nice and there were a lot of styles to choose from.

For the past few decades, I have always gotten my glasses in pairs: one normal, the other tinted. They are always the same prescription, same price.

The first time, there was a buy-one-get-one-free deal, so that is why I did it. Recently, I got new glasses from Visionworks. Paying for it was complex: if I used insurance, some of the first one was covered, but zero of the second one, yet I got 50% off. If I did not use insurance, it was buy-one-get-one free. I told them to give me whatever was cheaper (duh). The first option was cheaper. It still cost about $600. My eye exam was covered, though, with just a standard copay.

I like my new prescription: things are so sharp now. Yet the lenses are smaller making sunglass coverage less, which is annoying. Also, I had to increase my screen fonts on my computers to 125%. Everything was out of focus.

Me yesterday:


Or, you could get non-prescription clip-ons.

I have had prescription sunglasses -even with bifocals-but they are no use if your prescription changes!
Wonder if you can still get normal sunglasses that clip over your prescription ones?
Haven’t seen any for years.

I have transition glasses. I need to get a new pair and an updated prescription since I got these senior year highschool

I had my prescription sunglasses made last year and they are amazing. I love them.

Ummm, you know there are transition lenses too 🤔

They go from regular glasses inside and turn into sunglasses outside. Mine do that and have a lens that’s progressive - almost like regular glasses and bifocal. They’re good for reading or long distance, inside or out.

I do use Costa’s if I’m on the water. They’re really good for the glare.

I have prescription sunglasses. I mostly use them for driving. They are great. The cost of lenses aren't too bad either. Though I got mine at Wal-Mart vision Center. It is worth it.

Yeah I've bought them they come in a zillion styles. Check out some discount glassware sites like zenni for that.

They're roughly the same price and have a great selection. Do you not like transitional lenses? A lot of people choose that option.

An absolute must to protect your eyes and worth every penny (roughly the same cost as regular prescription glasses).

I still have them even though my eyes are 20/20 after cataract surgery

I got transitions and sunglasses. Somedays Im out all day and I dont want them to change

I have transition lenses in n mine…in sunlight, they just become sunglasses

No, just regular sunglasses, which I mainly wear for aesthetics.

I wear prescription sunglasses. 🙂

Go with the transition lens

You can get sunglasses in any frame.

Yes. Great.

Nah. I don't even have normal glasses. I need new ones.

My wife has them,normally the ranges of sunglasses aren't that many,but always gets a set for alongside her normal glasses

I want to get them, because that time is coming, but that would require me to go in for an eye exam, lol.