[charlie49]

Can anyone suggest a good place for a contact lens exam? I wear gas permeable hard lens and I am due for a prescription change. I live near Lang Eye, but I have heard mixed reviews on them including long waits!

Thanks,
Charlie

[mikeandnancy1112]

I wear gas permeable also and had to get new ones 6 months ago. Dr. Orr is the Optomotrist. She practices at Walmart on 466 in the vision center a couple of days a week. I received a complete eye exam and was very pleased with the service and staff.

[GMONEY]

Our Family also uses Dr. Orr at the Wal-Mart on 466

[dp000]

I go to Dr. Julie Beckwitt at Ocala Eye, located in Laurel Manor complex. She specializes in contact lenses and is excellent.

[GMONEY]

Never heard of a Specialist for contact lenses. Most any eye doctor is trained for contacts and glasses. Cost more if you specialize in that area?????

[clod]

Try Peeper's down in Colony Shopping, down from Publix.

[getdul981]

OK now people, I know that Wal-Mart has a vision center, but it just don't seem right to me to go to Wal-Mart for health care. My wife and I have always gone to an Opthamologist (sp) for our eye care and not an optomotrist (sp). Are there any good Opthomologists in or near TV?

[dmgrillo]

I go to Ocala eye and Dr. Armstrong is my Ophthamologist ( an MD who specializes in eyes). She gives me a prescription for my eyeglasses, however, I need to see an Optomotrist in order to get my contacts. Very different. Back home one doctor did both! Dr. Beckwitt is no longer with Ocala Eye so I now see a Dr. Volmar. I like both of them very much.

[rhsgypsylady]

Originally Posted by GMONEY

Never heard of a Specialist for contact lenses. Most any eye doctor is trained for contacts and glasses. Cost more if you specialize in that area?????

If you were as hard to fit in contacts as I am, you would want a contact lense specialist. It took me a long time to find an eye doctor that could put me in contacts that I could wear AND see out of. I've been going to him now for close to 20 years. I just hope when I move to TV, I get lucky enough to find as good an eye doctor.

[mikeandnancy1112]

I just went to Walmart on 466. Dr. Orr is wonderful. I also wear gas permeable and had no trouble getting in. She is there on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. My contacts were delivered to the store in about 1 week. It costs $65 for a contact lens exam and I believe $120 for the contacts. I highly recommend her.