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Contact lens prescription?
I recently got brand new contacts. I had been wearing a pair of glasses that were +1.25 in the left eye and +3.50 in the right, respectively. Lo and behold, my contact prescription is +3.25 in the left and +4.00 in the right. Is that a deterioration in vision, or is it simply a refractive change because I'm using contacts now?
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It sounds like a deterioration. Contacts don't make a difference in your prescription (except for with astigmatism. but that is irrelevant). But this drastic of a change might indicate something wrong with your eyes. Maybe see an ophthalmologist, as such a change in prescription is very unlikely. Again, this has nothing to do with the contacts, and is simply a change in your vision.
Source(s): Optometrist - Mischele, RN♥Lv 61 decade ago
It's a deterioration in vision. Contact prescriptions and glasses prescriptions are usually the same. More than likely the glasses you had been wearing were supposed to be +3.25 in the left (instead of the 1.25) but either the handwriting was poor or the doctor just plain messed up. It's unusual to have that much of a variation from one eye to the other.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No, your vision has not deteriorated; you have simply been prescribed what is needed. Your glasses were way off. There was no refractive change.
Source(s): Optometrist