An eye test takes twenty minutes, and nothing hurts.

11:00 am to 8:00 pm · seven days

What happens

About 20 minutes · nothing in it touches your eye

1. We ask what brought you in What brought you in, when it started, and what you do all day. Bring your present spectacles.
2. A first reading by machine Chin on the rest, look at the picture inside. A few seconds, no puff of air. A starting number, not the answer.
3. The proper refraction, by hand A trial frame on your face, lenses in one at a time, while you read the chart. Which is clearer? There is no wrong answer.
4. A look at the front of your eye Bright light, high magnification. It is how a cataract is found forming, and how dry eye is told apart from allergy.
5. We tell you what we found In plain language, with the numbers, and what has changed since last time.
6. Done

When to come

• Distance or print has gone blurred, or you are holding things further away to read them
• Headaches towards the end of the day, or after screen work
• Your spectacles are more than two years old, or the prescription no longer feels right
• One eye seems to be doing more of the work than the other
• You are straining to read at the distance you work at
• Your child sits close to the television, squints, or has been moved to the front of the class
• Your eyes water, itch, burn or feel gritty
• You have diabetes, and it is time for the yearly look

Anything urgent