Seriously, what the fuck is this?
Have you considered CALLING your fucking optometrist and asking for clarification?
Edit: after reading your other replies in this post its clear you’re just trolling. Go get another eye exam, Mr. “Perfectly Stable Eyes.”
Have you not heard? Walmart is shutting down all of it’s health centers…
Thanks for the positive words though, all I need is lenses that aren’t scratched to hell and back.
You have a 3 year old prescription that you can’t parse. You need a new eye exam and new prescription. Walmart isn’t the problem here. You are.
Oh come on, how many people do you expect to read that weird character as a zero? That’s not common Arabic numerals…
You’re talking about the “weird characters” in the cylinder corrections? They are minus signs in front of the zeros. The other commentator missed them as well.
Spherical corrections are given in diopters, which are rarely outside of +9 (very farsighted) to -9 (very nearsighted) with 0.25 precision: You will only see .00, .25, .50, or .75 after the decimal point in those fields.
Cylinder corrections are also in diopters with 0.25 precision, but are usually pretty small.
Axis is in integer degrees, so will be a number between 0 and 360. This is the angle at which the cylindrical correction should apply, to correct astigmatism.
You may encounter “Add” for bifocal/trifocal lenses, which is given in positive diopters with 0.25 precision.
“PD”, or “pupillary distance” is the spacing of your eyes, given in millimeters.
Once you know what should be in each of the fields, figuring out the handwriting is pretty straightforward.
I’ve already been educated. Apparently my eye doctor didn’t know how to write a fucking zero.
How am I supposed to know that weird Greek looking symbol is meant to be the Arabic numeral 0 ?
It looks absolutely nothing like a zero.
My bad, sorry I don’t know how to read chicken shit. Been wondering for years…
Your doctor does know how to write a zero. They did not write a zero. It’s not a “zero”. It’s a minus 0.25 and a minus 0.50.
If you don’t have those minus signs, the cylinder correction is going to double your astigmatism, not negate it.
Nope. Same handwriting, according to you, would yield…
-0 .5 -0
That’s how the doctor apparently wrote his zeroes.
God damn maybe they can’t afford it. Stfu
That’s fully legible, but probably only because my handwriting is just as bad.
What is the y?
What is the backwards f?
What are the preceding symbols?
What the hell is that weird symbol in the Cylinder column?
What TF does any of this even mean?
I mean fuck, everyone tells me to order glasses online, but what the fuck does any of these cryptic symbols mean?
Life Pro Tip: trace the writing and you’ll know
Nope, fuck that. My old prescription works better, even in the opposite eye.
Just look at the prescription when you get it and ask what the numbers are.
Those are your eyes, and you paid for those numbers, either directly or via health insurance / taxes.Doesn’t count after one year, they can’t give me the numbers after one year, by some stupid law they claim.
I have to have a new prescription for them to help me, despite the fact they literally know my prescription stays stable for at least 5 years.
That’s bullshit, but still…I meant, when you went to the doctor, you got the prescription, you looked at it, you couldn’t read it.
Why didn’t you ask?You’re literally reading it. What’s a swapout Walmart employee supposed to make of this chicken scratch?
Dude, the guy who wrote it gave it to you at some point.
You took it, looked at it, and didn’t ask what it even means. So why didn’t you ask then?Oh, also… did you check the date on the prescription?
That was during lockdown, they were super stupid strict about dealing with people then. They wanted to keep their distance and get people in and out as quickly as they could.
So I didn’t get my prescription paperwork until after they made my glasses. Corporate streamlining…
And now Walmart is shutting down all their health centers, ain’t that fantastic?..
I probably should have, but ya know what? My eyes were still adapting after the exam and I couldn’t fucking see to read.
In principle you should get retested but either way, you should be able to figure out your old prescription by measuring the focal lengths of your old lenses. I guess that could be hard for some exotic corrections but typically it’s not too bad.
They can’t legally measure my old old lenses. You know, the ones I tell them work the best?
Yeah, for ‘liability’ reasons, they can’t go by my 6 year old lenses, even though they’re the best I can see through, as a backup monocle…
You can do it yourself with a tape measure.
That’s gotta be the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.
But sure, I’ll bite. How do you measure the exact curvature of a prescription lens with a tape measure?
Simplest case is you are farsighted. So your lenses are magnifiers. You move them away from a printed page til the magnification is at maximum. The distance to the page is the focal length. Diopter is 1/FL in meters, so eg. 50cm FL is 2.0 diopter. Negative diopters, astigmatism corrections etc are more complicated.
It looks like you can also test your own vision with a phone app and simple device:
Idk anything about that though.
Seems neat I guess. I just wonder why the hell I can’t just go in with my old prescription, tell them straight up that this is perfectly fine, I just need new lenses that ain’t all scratched up…
Just be glad it’s not in Russian
Are we sure it isn’t?
Just go to Zennie and put in the numbers it gives you. You will need to figure out your own pupillary distance (PD) to finish the order, but that’s pretty easy to do with a friend of you can’t read a ruler without your glasses.
Put in the numbers it gives you? What’s that supposed to mean?
My original question is how the hell do you read this shit?
Another commenter managed to interpret the doctor’s hieroglyphics for me, long after the prescription expired though.
It might sound a bit harsh and be uncomfortable to do but if that happens another time before you leave ask them to write it again. Tell them you can’t read what they’ve written.
That’s seriously bad. If they’re good people they’ll rewrite it and apologise. If they get arsey… move opticians. Fuck them.
They’re not allowed to do that after a year. They’re required by law to do a fresh eye exam every year, even though my eyes are basically stable over 5 years…
That’s fair, but I was talking about when they first write and hand the piece of paper to you. Much easier to get it corrected straight away. Although I must admit I would feel a bit embarrassed asking them as well 😂.
Maybe I blocked too much information. These current glasses I have came from COVID lockdown time, from Walmart, and I’ve already cashed in on the warranty just a couple weeks before it expired.
Fuck Walmart glasses, they’re shit.
