I want to buy contact lenses online...but I am confused =_=" ...?!
Question: Hi, well I finally decided to buy contact lenses online, but ...I'm confused because I checked my prescription and it says OD = -200 (I'm guessing it is -2.00 as it says on the website where i want to buy them) and OS = -200 as well, then CYLINDER = AS (or something like that, you know how some doctors write so fast lol) and says nothing about the axis or prism or anything else. I checked my sister's and mother's prescriptions and they have values for the cylinder and axis ...but I don't...so I'm kinda confused even though they don't ask all that stuff when I go online to buy them but I'm curious because I'm not sure to buy color contacts with power or just plain... right now I only have some plain ones, but I have never used the ones with magnification so I can't imagine how they work... Do you think it would be a good idea just to go and buy them with the power -2.00? Thank You.
Answers: Hi, well I finally decided to buy contact lenses online, but ...I'm confused because I checked my prescription and it says OD = -200 (I'm guessing it is -2.00 as it says on the website where i want to buy them) and OS = -200 as well, then CYLINDER = AS (or something like that, you know how some doctors write so fast lol) and says nothing about the axis or prism or anything else. I checked my sister's and mother's prescriptions and they have values for the cylinder and axis ...but I don't...so I'm kinda confused even though they don't ask all that stuff when I go online to buy them but I'm curious because I'm not sure to buy color contacts with power or just plain... right now I only have some plain ones, but I have never used the ones with magnification so I can't imagine how they work... Do you think it would be a good idea just to go and buy them with the power -2.00? Thank You.
People with values in the cylinder and the axis have astigmatism. If you don't have numbers in either portion (I don't), then you don't have astigmatism (or it's not enough to correct). If you have a - correction, as in -2.00, you are nearsighted, which you probably know already. Your vision will be MUCH sharper if you order your color contacts in your proper prescription.