On Mar 4, 11:03 pm, Chuck Knight <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reading glasses are nothing more than your regular prescription with a 
> stronger SPHERE value.


That isn't quite right, since the regular prescription is for
nearsightedness, and thus a minus prescription. A reading or computer
prescription would be weaker in the minus direction, and with a weak
minus prescription to begin with, they might go into the plus
direction. The original inquiry is a good example of this.

My guess is that the reading prescription would be somewhere in the
+0.50 to +1.00 range. Try reading with +1.00 at a local store. (I've
never seen a weaker prescription than +1.00 at local stores; If you
happen to find any, try them, too). If that seems too strong, get an
inexpensive pair online with about +0.50, and you should probably
include your CYL prescription, too, though you might want to ask your
eye doctor about that. Use the smaller of your two PD values.

If the +1.00 seems too weak, local stores should have glasses that go
up in the standard 0.25 increments from that.
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