Mar 15 2010
Can I use my contact lens prescription values for eyeglasses?
My contact lens prescription contains all the information I need. My only question is, how significant a difference is there between the values for contacts and eyeglasses for the same person?
If you have a prescription for both, how much do the values vary?
My contacts and glasses have always been exactly the same prescription. If you are getting a new pair of glasses and you are not getting them from the eye doctor that gave you the prescription – they might want you to have a prescription specifically for glasses and not just contacts.
on 15 Mar 2010 at 6:26 pm
My contacts and glasses have always been exactly the same prescription. If you are getting a new pair of glasses and you are not getting them from the eye doctor that gave you the prescription – they might want you to have a prescription specifically for glasses and not just contacts.
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on 15 Mar 2010 at 6:47 pm
Sometimes the glasses and contact prescription is the same and some times it is not. It is best to get one for both. The glasses is sometimes a bit stronger than that of the contacts.
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on 15 Mar 2010 at 6:58 pm
no, you cant. not only will the optician refuse to fill a "contact lens" Rx with glasses, they’re different from each other.
a CL Rx is "vertexed", which means adjusted for the distance from your eye to the lens (zero). a glasses Rx is not vertexed.
plus most glasses Rx’s are much more specific…ie -0.25 diopters of astigmatism at 23 degrees…contact lens Rx’s cannot be that close.
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http://360.yahoo.com/princeidoc
on 15 Mar 2010 at 7:29 pm
my glasses perscription is actually -.25 less than my contacts
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on 15 Mar 2010 at 8:10 pm
you need to be measured for contacts if you didn’t have this done. You always see better with glasses. Even the founder and former President of Con-Cise contacts, the largest contact manufacturer in the US wears glasses.
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