Disclaimer: I'm not an optometrist, opthomologist, optician, etc., just a 42 year old guy who's been wearing glasses and contact lenses since he was 13. I always wonder about the changes in my prescription and have a general idea of how it will change. For my last exam, I noticed it was getting harder to see out of my left eye, more so than my right eye and the doctor increased my left eye by .5 and my right by .25. She did also put a .25 cylinder and 130 axis in the left, something that wasn't there before. She also bumped down the axis in my right astigmatism from 80 to 67, but kept it at .75.
One thing to ask is did your old prescription work? If you got glasses from it, were you seeing clearly, was there any double vision, halos around lights, or anything like that? Did you ever get headaches or eyestrain from it? If not, it was probably right. Are those things happening now with that prescription? Have you had new glasses made with the new prescription? Ask yourself the same questions if you have. My wife has recently gone through the same sort of thing, the doctor bumped down the measurements and her glasses didn't work at all, even though they were optically correct. Also, why did you switch optometrists? I was referred to one by my wife's coworker who said he was great and he barely took 10 minutes to do the exam, and one contact lens was giving me eyestrain afterwards. I went back to my previous doctor and she gave me a stronger contact in that eye and now I'm fine. I also had glasses made from that prescription and even though I see fine out of them, there is occasionally some distortion that shouldn't be there, so they may be slightly off. The reason I wanted to try someone else is I thought this doctor was OK but not great, and seemed to be trying to run me out of the room so she could get the next patient in. She was a Wal Mart optometristbiy in spite of this, she took more time with me than the other one I tried, who had an independent practice. I'm not sure what to think of your prescription changes, you'll only know for sure if you have glasses made. Fortunately, many online retailers have good return and remake policies, so that will work to your advantage. Good luck. RedStickHam On Aug 12, 6:51 pm, phillo <[email protected]> wrote: > I visited 2 optometrists 1 year apart and now need to order new > glasses but when I compared the newer prescription to the older 1 this > particular difference jumped out but doesn't make sense: > > old script - OD-CYL:-2.00 > > new script- OD-CYL:-1.75 > > I'm assuming that closer to 0 = less correction so -2.00 should be the > newer prescription/more correction but I'm having a hard time > validating or negating this assumption online and I'm in contact with > neither of the optometrists that examined me. If anyone could clarify > I'd really appreciate it. > > FYI COMPLETE PRESCRIPTIONS > > Old script: > ____________ > OD-SPH:-0.25 > OD-CYL:-2.00 > OD-AXIS: 95 > --------------------- > OS-SPH:-.50 > OS-CYL:-1.50 > OS-AXIS: 80 > > New script: > ____________ > OD-SPH:-0.75 > OD-CYL:-1.75 > OD-AXIS: 95 > --------------------- > OS-SPH:-1.25 > OS-CYL:-1.75 > OS-AXIS: 80 -- Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.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
