Confused about my contact prescription?!


Question: I went to my eye doctor today to get a copy of my perscription and when I got home I was confussed about some of it. First, under the section where it says Axis one eye says x160 and the other says x004 I dont understand x004 because when I got to order contacts on the internet they don't have a x004 choice under the Axis section the numbers only run from 10 to like 160. Could the x004 actually be 40 that's what I think. Also, on my perscription under CYL it says -0.50 and -17.5 could this be right. I don't understand how one eye could be -0.50 and the other -17.5 can someone tell me if this could be wrong I just don't understand. If someone could explain what the Axis is for that would be great.


Answers: I went to my eye doctor today to get a copy of my perscription and when I got home I was confussed about some of it. First, under the section where it says Axis one eye says x160 and the other says x004 I dont understand x004 because when I got to order contacts on the internet they don't have a x004 choice under the Axis section the numbers only run from 10 to like 160. Could the x004 actually be 40 that's what I think. Also, on my perscription under CYL it says -0.50 and -17.5 could this be right. I don't understand how one eye could be -0.50 and the other -17.5 can someone tell me if this could be wrong I just don't understand. If someone could explain what the Axis is for that would be great.

You are a glaring example why doctors why doctors don't release contact rx's...
The axis your doctor has written is correct.. 160 and 004.. they are both close to the same axis of 180,, 180 is a horizontal line and 160 and 004 are in the same realm..

just call the optomitrists

i think something might have gone wrong at the doctor. go back and recheck.

wow, if i were you i'd get a diff eye doctor!! i don't even think contacts go as far back as -17.5???? Go to another eye dr!

It sounds like you received a prescription for glasses, not contacts. My hunch is that in your left eye the cylinder is -1.75 not -17.5. If you have a current contact lens prescription, ask your doctor for it. If you don't, you need to be fit and evaluated for the contacts, which is different and additional to the standard comprehensive eye exam.

That must be a prescription for glasses, not contacts.

Toric contacts ( for astigmatism ) usually come in 10 degree increments. That's why a fitting has to be done to see if you would be better with 180 degrees, or 10 degrees...to repace the 004 degree axis that your glasses would require.

180 is just 4 degrees less than 004 by the way.

On the eye you have the 0.50 in the cylinder section, you wouldn't need a toric lens there, but if the other is 1.75, then you will need it for that one.

Either way, your prescription wasn't prepared for contacts , so you can't order them with that.





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