A Question for Any Opticians / Opthometrists out there
Discussion
I had my eyes tested some time ago, There was no change to my daily contact lense prescriotion, although they did suggest reading glasses for close work and told me the prescription to get.
Some months later and those glasses have broken and I can't remember the strength.
I called my optician but due to GSPR they can't give me the prescription over the phone, however 5 days later they emailed it to me.
It contained my contact lense prescription and my "spectacles" prescption, with distance and reading variations. .
I replied to the email and reminded them that I needed this info for reading glasses but the reading glasses I had were nothing like the reading presctiption, They replied saying this was my "reading presctiption", but I think they assume I will get two different pairs of glasses to wear without lenses, rather than a pair of reaing glasses to wear with my contact lenses.
Does anyone know if / how I can work out the reading glasses presctiption from the distance / reading spectacles measurements and contacts presctiption or is what I'm asking something completely different and I need to speak to my actual optician who told me the reading glasses strength in the first place?
I thought it was -2.5 but tried those in a shop and they seemed way stronger than the reading glasses I've been using these last few months.
I go on holiday on Thursday night and really need to get something sorted.
Some months later and those glasses have broken and I can't remember the strength.
I called my optician but due to GSPR they can't give me the prescription over the phone, however 5 days later they emailed it to me.
It contained my contact lense prescription and my "spectacles" prescption, with distance and reading variations. .
I replied to the email and reminded them that I needed this info for reading glasses but the reading glasses I had were nothing like the reading presctiption, They replied saying this was my "reading presctiption", but I think they assume I will get two different pairs of glasses to wear without lenses, rather than a pair of reaing glasses to wear with my contact lenses.
Does anyone know if / how I can work out the reading glasses presctiption from the distance / reading spectacles measurements and contacts presctiption or is what I'm asking something completely different and I need to speak to my actual optician who told me the reading glasses strength in the first place?
I thought it was -2.5 but tried those in a shop and they seemed way stronger than the reading glasses I've been using these last few months.
I go on holiday on Thursday night and really need to get something sorted.
Are they reading glasses to wear over your contact lenses, if they are a pair of +1.00 ready made reading glasses would at least tide you over your holidays as your contact lenses should correct any difference between your 2 eyes.
Any optician with an on-site lab would probably be able to cut your existing lenses in to another frame, although you might be limited frame wise.
There are two ways a prescription could be written either the distance plus a reading add so something like -1.00/-1.00x90 +2.00 add (the add is always a positive number. You then these numbers together to get the reading strength so +1.00/-1.00x90 (the -1.00x90 is the astigmatism correction which might be in your glasses prescription but not your contact lenses and always stays the same)
Same prescription might be written as distance -1.00/-1.00x90 reading +1.00/-1.00x90.
If you are moderately short sighted your reading prescription your reading strength will still be a negative number, if you are moderately long sighted the two prescriptions added together may be higher than the 4.00 maximum limited for ready made readers,
Hope that makes sense, sometimes it's difficult to explain something you do everyday without thinking about it
Any optician with an on-site lab would probably be able to cut your existing lenses in to another frame, although you might be limited frame wise.
There are two ways a prescription could be written either the distance plus a reading add so something like -1.00/-1.00x90 +2.00 add (the add is always a positive number. You then these numbers together to get the reading strength so +1.00/-1.00x90 (the -1.00x90 is the astigmatism correction which might be in your glasses prescription but not your contact lenses and always stays the same)
Same prescription might be written as distance -1.00/-1.00x90 reading +1.00/-1.00x90.
If you are moderately short sighted your reading prescription your reading strength will still be a negative number, if you are moderately long sighted the two prescriptions added together may be higher than the 4.00 maximum limited for ready made readers,
Hope that makes sense, sometimes it's difficult to explain something you do everyday without thinking about it
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