Do you *have* astigmatism, or need bifocals? If not, then those other
values are zeroes, and can be left off.
Most of my prescription is astigmatism...the same is not true for
everyone. Your "half-a**ed excuse" for a prescription may be totally
complete, except for the PD value.
I would call/visit the doctor and confirm the values.
-- Chuck Knight
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:15 PM, evixir <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I had an eye exam with contact lens fitting on Friday at Kaiser
> Permanente and was issued two prescriptions -- one for the contacts
> and another for eyeglasses. The eyeglasses prescription only lists
> two items:
>
> OD: -5.50-sph
> OS: -5.50-sph
>
> It includes "wear type" of Full-Time, "lens design" of Single Vision,
> and "material/coating" of Plastic and Anti-Reflective. But absolutely
> no information about cylinder, axis, PD or other measurements (of
> course, the PD not being present was unsurprising). Understandably,
> this is a major problem when trying to shop for glasses online.
>
> I have to go back to get my eyes dilated for a visual field test, at
> which time I will most definitely firmly request my full detailed
> prescription, but it's troublesome to me that they would issue this
> half-a**ed excuse for a prescription. Since my (new) doctor had me
> speak with both the contact lens specialist and the optician about
> buying goods there, I am suspicious that they are stonewalling and
> trying to force me into buying glasses from their stock rather than
> other vendors by withholding information.
>
> Brick-and-mortar vendors have pocketed thousands and thousands of
> dollars from my family over the past decades, so I have no compunction
> about refusing to line their pockets any further, especially when the
> eyeglasses would be for intermittent/nighttime use anyway. If they
> want to get pissy about online eyeglass shops stealing all their
> business, perhaps they'd also better take a look at the contact lens
> industry as I imagine they've delivered a bit of a wallop as well.
>
> Anyway, I searched the discussions and posts but did not see any other
> entries about this issue, so I thought I'd toss it out there as a
> potential abuse. Rest assured I will be returning to them with FCC
> paperwork in hand if they give me any problems!
>
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