How To Read Your Eye Prescription

To read an eyeglass prescription look for the labels o d and o s which stand for right eye and left eye respectively.

How to read your eye prescription. From there you ll hold your glasses between the phone and the screen for various readings. Some prescriptions have this figure which looks like a sideways 8. If the number contains a minus sign it means it is correcting nearsighted astigmatism. A contact lens prescription includes measurements specific to the size and brand of your contacts. The first step to understanding your eyeglass prescription is knowing what od and os mean.

E g 62 single pd 33 31 dual pd or 62 60 distance pd near pd. You might see this instead of od because some optometrists have stopped using the latin names. If you re near sighted or far sighted check the sph column to find out how strong your lenses need to be. Before filling a prescription you also need what s called a contact lens fitting to see if they re right for you. You ll first need to scan an onscreen qr code then hold the credit card up to the screen and scan that.

They are latin abbreviations. We can provide lenses with a prism correction but you ll need to contact us to discuss this. Similarly to the sph there. Because contacts sit directly on the eye the prescription is different than one for eyeglasses. Le stands for you guessed it left eye.

Re stands for right eye. Sometimes figures like this appear on your prescription. So the numbers and letters corresponding to the os row or column may not match your right eye. Sphere sph and cylinder cyl always have a or sign. If this column is blank it means you have no astigmatism.

A plus sign or no sign means you re farsighted. These are not needed to make your lenses. A higher number regardless of whether there is a plus or minus sign means you ll need a stronger prescription. If you need a prism for one or both eyes it will look similar to this. They are abbreviations for oculus dexter and oculus sinister which are latin terms for right eye and left eye your eyeglass prescription also may have a column labeled ou.