How To Order Glasses Online With Contact Prescription ?
November 28, 2009 by admin
Filed under FAQ on advance for astigmatism
hello, i have my contact prescription on the box and i wanted to order some glasses online with the same prescription as my contacts. I also have astigmatism. on the box reads:
BC 8.9
PWR -0.25
CYL -1.00
DIA 14.5
Axis 090
the online site asks for :
OD-SPH, OD-CYL, OD-AXIS, OD-ADD and also for the OS of each. both my eyes are the same and i needed help with filling them in. THANKS
To begin with, you can’t order glasses from your contact lens prescription.
There is a 99.9 % chance that your glasses prescription isn’t the same as on your contacts box.
Go back to the Dr. where you get your contacts and ask for a copy of your glasses prescription. You will see that the numbers won’t be the same as on your contacts boxes.
With Toric lenses like you have, the powers are usually ” rounded off ” to the closest power available in that brand.
Rounding off works for contacts, but not for glasses.
Hi, I’ve been an optical advisor for nearly 10 years and am (for my sins, lol) married to an optician. You cannot order glasses with that prescription for several reasons. Firstly, your contact lens prescription is different to your glasses prescription because the contact lens is that much closer to your eye, therefore it doesn’t need to be as strong as the one you would have for glasses.
Also, contact lenses are not made in every single axis…generally they are available in 090 and 180. Therefore if your glasses prescription calls for an axis of 62 degrees, your optician will simply order the contact lens that is closest to that. However if you were to do this with glasses you would find that things would appear as though they were sitting at a strange angle/sloping.
Your best bet is going to be to go and have an eye test and make sure you get a copy of your glasses prescription at the end. In fact, you must have an up to date prescription for glasses in order for you to be supplied with contact lenses, so all you’d need to do is go to your opticain and ask for a copy of your prescription, which they are legally obliged to give you.
Once you have this then it should be pretty clear which number goes in which section of the order form.
If you have 2 seperate pairs of glasses for reading and distance then the reading add should come into play, however you probably won’t have this unless you are over 45ish.
With regard to what you should order the best lens for you would probably be the 1.57, your prescription isn’t strong enough to warrant paying more for the thinner lenses….(the higher the index number the thinner the lens). Photochromic lenses are the ones that change in sunlight, (often reffered to as reacto-light lenses)
Just to let you know, bifocals are the lenses with the line going across the lens….a lot of elderly people have them. The to part of the lens is for distance vision and the lower section is for reading. Varifocals are similar in that at the top of the lens is the distance section, and then the lens gradually changes as you move to the bottom, and becomes the reading prescription.
Sorry to have rambled on! Hope this helps.
P.S. you’ll find it helpful as well to ask the optician to write down your P.D. measurement. This is the distance between your pupils and you will need it to order glasses as well.