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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 371137" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Interesting. The long time in the chair - they wanted to make sure they got it right.</p><p></p><p>As for the prescription today, vs the prescription that got made up and the discrepancy - they can't understand it. OK, I'm sceptical. Of course they won't admit that they made a mistake (my former specialist never did either). It's easier to claim your eyes read one thing on one day and now somethi g totally different. But in general your eyes don't change shape that fast or that much, and that could be the only explanation for such a wild variation.</p><p></p><p>If you keep worrying over it, you will still not get any answers but will instead become paranoid over "Did I perhaps say that it was Ok when int fact it was still a bit blurry?" I actually asked my optometrist that, when I had the problem with my script just like this. And the answer made me feel a lot better - she said that at the level of me not being sure if this or that was slightly better, is so marginal that it would not make any noticeable difference once the glasses re made up. I've learned that if there is an error big enough for me to notice, once the specs are made up - you WOULD notice at the time of the examination.</p><p></p><p>The most likely explanation is that someone simply wrote the wrong numbers down, the first time. What got made up is what was written down, so their records show that your eyes really were like that when they first examined you. But from your reaction, I doubt what they recorded, was how your eyes really were.</p><p></p><p>It is easy to transpose a digit, or to write down the wrong one because you read it off the lenses wrongly. It happens.</p><p></p><p>I left my former eye doctor because it began to happen too often, and again he would not admit to it. It was when he wrote me another prescription (after my optometrist had referred me to the eye doctor for a retina check and he did me a new prescription at the same time). I took the eye doctor prescription to the optometrist, who called me in, got out the sample frames and quickly put in the lenses to mock up the eye doctor's prescription. She asked me, "Can you see well with that? and I couldn't. She then swapped around some lenses and said, "How about this?" and it was brilliant. She then showed me how the second prescription was the one she had recommended for me previously. If I'd gone ahead and had the eye doctor's script made up, that would have been another wasted pair of specs. That was when I decided I'd had enough.</p><p></p><p>My optometrist told me that day that ophthalmic surgeons insist they're better at doing prescriptions because they know to NOT over-prescribe. We only need 20:20 vision, and the bottom line on the eye chart takes it a lot further. But from my experience, it was the eye doctor who kept trying to over-correct, and often made mistakes in the prescription. </p><p></p><p>Regarding over-correction - soon after I got my first specs from my former eye doctor, I remember looking out to sea and I could see that the horizon was bumpy. For the first time ever, I could make out the waves on the horizon. But I got bad headaches form those glasses and found a lot of trouble walking on uneven ground, because the spherical aberration was such a problem. So from the beginning, he was over-correcting. It's not normal to be able to see that sort of detail on the horizon.</p><p></p><p>I'm glad you didn't get charged for the repeat consult and new specs. I hope you enjoy the transitions lenses.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 371137, member: 1991"] Interesting. The long time in the chair - they wanted to make sure they got it right. As for the prescription today, vs the prescription that got made up and the discrepancy - they can't understand it. OK, I'm sceptical. Of course they won't admit that they made a mistake (my former specialist never did either). It's easier to claim your eyes read one thing on one day and now somethi g totally different. But in general your eyes don't change shape that fast or that much, and that could be the only explanation for such a wild variation. If you keep worrying over it, you will still not get any answers but will instead become paranoid over "Did I perhaps say that it was Ok when int fact it was still a bit blurry?" I actually asked my optometrist that, when I had the problem with my script just like this. And the answer made me feel a lot better - she said that at the level of me not being sure if this or that was slightly better, is so marginal that it would not make any noticeable difference once the glasses re made up. I've learned that if there is an error big enough for me to notice, once the specs are made up - you WOULD notice at the time of the examination. The most likely explanation is that someone simply wrote the wrong numbers down, the first time. What got made up is what was written down, so their records show that your eyes really were like that when they first examined you. But from your reaction, I doubt what they recorded, was how your eyes really were. It is easy to transpose a digit, or to write down the wrong one because you read it off the lenses wrongly. It happens. I left my former eye doctor because it began to happen too often, and again he would not admit to it. It was when he wrote me another prescription (after my optometrist had referred me to the eye doctor for a retina check and he did me a new prescription at the same time). I took the eye doctor prescription to the optometrist, who called me in, got out the sample frames and quickly put in the lenses to mock up the eye doctor's prescription. She asked me, "Can you see well with that? and I couldn't. She then swapped around some lenses and said, "How about this?" and it was brilliant. She then showed me how the second prescription was the one she had recommended for me previously. If I'd gone ahead and had the eye doctor's script made up, that would have been another wasted pair of specs. That was when I decided I'd had enough. My optometrist told me that day that ophthalmic surgeons insist they're better at doing prescriptions because they know to NOT over-prescribe. We only need 20:20 vision, and the bottom line on the eye chart takes it a lot further. But from my experience, it was the eye doctor who kept trying to over-correct, and often made mistakes in the prescription. Regarding over-correction - soon after I got my first specs from my former eye doctor, I remember looking out to sea and I could see that the horizon was bumpy. For the first time ever, I could make out the waves on the horizon. But I got bad headaches form those glasses and found a lot of trouble walking on uneven ground, because the spherical aberration was such a problem. So from the beginning, he was over-correcting. It's not normal to be able to see that sort of detail on the horizon. I'm glad you didn't get charged for the repeat consult and new specs. I hope you enjoy the transitions lenses. Marg [/QUOTE]
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