Contacts prescription vs glasses prescription?!


Question: Contacts prescription vs glasses prescription?
Why is it that my optometrist (who has messed up with my sister once before...) is giving me -5.75 & -6.00 as my prescription for both contacts AND glasses?
Glasses are a few centimeters away from the eye, shouldn't they be stronger for that reason?

Answers:

Does it say on the prescription that it is for both ?

Do you have 2 separate prescriptions that both show the same power ?

Do you have just one prescription , and he told you it was for both ?...if so , the one you have is for glasses.At that power, contacts would be 0.50 weaker in both eyes.

It depends where you are also...some places, like Canada, there is no such thing as a contact prescription. You take your glasses prescription to an optician and they will do the conversion necessary for the power.

Optician



No. Not necessarily

For a long time my glasses and contacts were the same scrip. Now my glasses are a teensy bit stronger than my contacts. But only because I asked for a stronger script.




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