How To Read Your Eye Prescription

E g 62 single pd 33 31 dual pd or 62 60 distance pd near pd.

How to read your eye prescription. On any prescription pd can be written in different ways. Because contacts sit directly on the eye the prescription is different than one for eyeglasses. Cylinder abbreviated cyl follows sphere power in your eyeglass prescription. If you re near sighted or far sighted check the sph column to find out how strong your lenses need to be. You might see this instead of od because some optometrists have stopped using the latin names.

Os oculus sinister means the left eye and od oculus. 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. You ll first need to scan an onscreen qr code then hold the credit card up to the screen and scan that. When you look at your prescription for eyeglasses you will see numbers listed under the headings of os and od. Sometimes figures like this appear on your prescription.

Similarly to the sph there. Sphere sph and cylinder cyl always have a or sign. A higher number regardless of whether there is a plus or minus sign means you ll need a stronger prescription. If this column is blank it means you have no astigmatism. Re stands for right eye.

A contact lens prescription includes measurements specific to the size and brand of your contacts. A plus sign or no sign means you re farsighted. If the number contains a minus sign it means it is correcting nearsighted astigmatism. Before filling a prescription you also need what s called a contact lens fitting to see if they re right for you. If you need a prism for one or both eyes it will look similar to this.

They are latin abbreviations. So the numbers and letters corresponding to the os row or column may not match your right eye. To read an eyeglass prescription look for the labels o d and o s which stand for right eye and left eye respectively. Some prescriptions have this figure which looks like a sideways 8. The first step to understanding your eyeglass prescription is knowing what od and os mean.