Do I really need to get my eyes dilated when I get an eye exam?!


Question: Do I really need to get my eyes dilated when I get an eye exam?
I'm getting my eyes check tomorrow for a new pair of glasses. I know I need a new pair, and I'm going to be ordering them as well. I need them desperately, I'm getting tension headaches from my current pair.

Thing is, I don't have anyone willing to drive me home tomorrow if I get my eyes dilated. I don't think I need them. If I wait until someone can drive me home from my eye appointment, I'll have to wait about another two weeks or so. Thing is, I need my glasses way sooner than that. I've already had to put them off for almost 6 months now because other stuff would come up and I'd have to use my eye glass money for new tires (my tires went flat) or other car repairs or other crap that I had to get done.

I don't want to wait around in the waiting room either 2-3 hours after my eyes get dilated either so I can see well enough to drive home.

I know the purpose of getting my eyes dilated, I really do. How can I get out of having my eyes dilated?

Answers:

Tell them you'll come back another time. Or, if you don't want to do it it all, just tell them you're not comfortable with it. I passed out once when they did it to me (I hate those friggin drops), so I told them I never want to do it again. And they agreed not to do it! A place I used to go had some similar but not quite as acurate test to do instead - where I looked into some machine at a picture of a balloon or something. I didn't feel anything, it was just a machine that took a picture of my eye somehow. Someone else on another question ( I don't remember who it was but I can't claim credit for ths) said they do the dialation to open the pupil wider so they can see better into the back of your eye. I geuss to look for any problems?
If they really insist on the test in order for you to get glasses and you really don't want to do it, be firm - tell them you aren't doing/can't do the test, and that if that means you can't get glasses, you'll have to go somewhere else (there are plenty of places that look kind of "dinky" from the outside but are perfectly legit eye docs, that need business and probably won't turn you away over that). I don't think the test has anythign to do with your glasses prescription, just general eye health. I told my new optometrist I fainted during the eye drops once, and without any further investiagtion he just said "ok, well we won't do that then." and I still got glasses and contacts. Some are a lot more chill about it than others.

2 eye doctors, once getting eye drops, once a different test, once no test. I still got contacts and glasses!



It's an important part of your eye examination but is not necesary to give you a prescription, no doctor can make you do things you don't want to do, they can only explain the pros an cons of doing it and not doing it, you should do it for your own good but if you don't want to right now you don't have to

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