More than one way to write an eyeglasses prescription?!
Question: More than one way to write an eyeglasses prescription!?
I am very confused by my eye doctor!. During my recent vision test, I showed him my last prescription from two years ago!. He said, "Oh, we write ours differently here!." He tried to explain but I didn't get it!. For example, he showed me how he would've written that last prescription:
Old doctor wrote OD -7!.25, +0!.50 axis 110; OS -7!.00, +2!.25 axis 085!. New doctor said his version of the same prescription was OD -6!.75,-0!.50, x020; OS -4!.75, -2!.25, x175!.
Huh!? To a layperson, those look like two entirely different prescriptions, don't they!? But they're the same!. The doctor even wrote on the slip "2006" to show me that what he'd written was a translation of my old prescription!.
I am asking for more than just curiosity!. Basically, I'm unhappy with his optical shop -- over the past two months, they've done everything wrong with my new glasses and I'm about to go somewhere else!. Everything = their screwups have caused two remakes and I'm still not seeing right!. I think my prescription is right, it's just that the frames and lenses are junk and they won't admit they used the wrong PD!. But I'm not sure how to tell a new optician to translate my new prescription, which according to the new doctor is OD -6!.75, -0!.50 x 015; OS -5!.00, -2!.25, x174!.
I used up my insurance benefits on this junk, and if i can avoid paying out of pocket for a new eye exam before I go to a new optician and pay out of pocket for new glasses, that would be great!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Old doctor wrote OD -7!.25, +0!.50 axis 110; OS -7!.00, +2!.25 axis 085!. New doctor said his version of the same prescription was OD -6!.75,-0!.50, x020; OS -4!.75, -2!.25, x175!.
Huh!? To a layperson, those look like two entirely different prescriptions, don't they!? But they're the same!. The doctor even wrote on the slip "2006" to show me that what he'd written was a translation of my old prescription!.
I am asking for more than just curiosity!. Basically, I'm unhappy with his optical shop -- over the past two months, they've done everything wrong with my new glasses and I'm about to go somewhere else!. Everything = their screwups have caused two remakes and I'm still not seeing right!. I think my prescription is right, it's just that the frames and lenses are junk and they won't admit they used the wrong PD!. But I'm not sure how to tell a new optician to translate my new prescription, which according to the new doctor is OD -6!.75, -0!.50 x 015; OS -5!.00, -2!.25, x174!.
I used up my insurance benefits on this junk, and if i can avoid paying out of pocket for a new eye exam before I go to a new optician and pay out of pocket for new glasses, that would be great!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
You don't have to tell the optician how to translate your prescription!. We are all aware of how to do that!.
The way it is now , is the way it has to be converted to anyway to be useable!.
The Opthalmologists write it with the + on the 2nd number, the optometrists use the - form!.!.!.the whole industry except the Opthalmologists use the - form , so we all know how to do the conversion!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
The way it is now , is the way it has to be converted to anyway to be useable!.
The Opthalmologists write it with the + on the 2nd number, the optometrists use the - form!.!.!.the whole industry except the Opthalmologists use the - form , so we all know how to do the conversion!.Www@Answer-Health@Com