How To Read Your Eye Prescription

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How to read your eye prescription. Le stands for you guessed it left eye. Cylinder abbreviated cyl follows sphere power in your eyeglass prescription. A higher number regardless of whether there is a plus or minus sign means you ll need a stronger prescription. Sphere sph and cylinder cyl always have a or sign. If you re near sighted or far sighted check the sph column to find out how strong your lenses need to be.

They are latin abbreviations. To read an eyeglass prescription look for the labels o d and o s which stand for right eye and left eye respectively. When you look at your prescription for eyeglasses you will see numbers listed under the headings of os and od. If this column is blank it means you have no astigmatism. 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.

Os oculus sinister means the left eye and od oculus. Re stands for right eye. So the numbers and letters corresponding to the os row or column may not match your right eye. It indicates the amount of lens power needed to correct astigmatism measured in diopters. Some prescriptions have this figure which looks like a sideways 8.

These are not needed to make your lenses. A contact lens prescription includes measurements specific to the size and brand of your contacts. You ll first need to scan an onscreen qr code then hold the credit card up to the screen and scan that. You might see this instead of od because some optometrists have stopped using the latin names. Before filling a prescription you also need what s called a contact lens fitting to see if they re right for you.

A plus sign or no sign means you re farsighted. If you need a prism for one or both eyes it will look similar to this. Sometimes figures like this appear on your prescription. From there you ll hold your glasses between the phone and the screen for various readings. We can provide lenses with a prism correction but you ll need to contact us to discuss this.