You should have your doc trial Toric Soft Lenses, Some of the popular are the BL soflens 66, Acuvue Oasys,Air Optix, And Cooper Vertex. We use soft lenses for anyone wanting vision for sports, even 9 and 10 year olds.
On Oct 24, 1:03 am, "Chuck Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Each line of your prescription is 3 numbers...SPHere, CYLinder and AXIS. > There may be a field for ADD as well...that's the reading part of bifocals, > which you obviously don't have. > > The sphere is the overall magnification/reduction that you need, in order > for you to see. The cylinder is the astigmatism correction...yours seem to > be 1.5 in each eye. The axis is how much the astigmatism part needs to be > "twisted" in order to give the right correction. > > You didn't include any signs on your numbers...make sure that you note + or > - for each number. It's important. > > As to astigmatism and contacts...there are several options, but one of the > more popular ones is called a toric lens. It's a special kind of contact > lens, for those of us with astigmatism. We've just had a post from an eye > doctor (onlineidoc) who explained the use of hard lenses, and soft toric > lenses, in treating astigmatism... Should be right near yours in the > archives. > > -- Chuck Knight > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:15 PM, toygua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > how do we know if we have astigmatism? > > my prescription is 4.25 - 1.5 - 170 and 5.00 - 1.5 - 7 (sphere - cyl - > > axis) > > > I am wondering because i am thinking of getting contacts for sports as > > glasses really get in the way but I heard that astigmatisms affect the > > ability to use contacts. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://www.glassyeyes.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
