Thread: Need help understanding eye prescription.?

SPH R - +225 L- +025.. *I think* Cly R - -075 L- I'm not sure exactly what it says but I think it says 502... Axis - 160

If its not clearly written down for you, I would recommend you to speak to your optician again.

Have a look at the link below.
http://visioneyewear.co.uk/faq/?page=prescription

For some of the numbers, you have both + and - signs and there may be decimal points and some numbers missing. I think you ought to go back and insist they write it legibly (it seems optician's hand writing is almost as bad as that of doctors)

Typically, it should look something like this: NOTE this is just an example, NOT YOUR'S!

R or (OD) SPH - 1.50 CYL - 0.75 axis 170
L or (OS) SPH - 2.00 CYL - 0.50 axis 10

Depending on your actual prescription, each of the signs could be + or - , the axis# will not have a sign. The decimal points, signs, etc are VERY important, make even a seemingly insignificant error and you could wind up with totally wrong glasses!