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.
God damn maybe they can’t afford it. Stfu
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.
-4.25. 0.25. 134.
-4.50. 0.50. 70.
But this prescription expired 2 years ago. Get a new one.
You missed the negative signs on the cylinder corrections.
Not negatives. They’re “cursive zeros”. My old doctor used to do that. Annoying as hell.
Why do three of the seven zeroes on that page not have those weird lead-ins? (Left axis, and both date fields each have non-cursive zeroes)
The other two non-controversial zeros are each after a “5”. The horizontal stroke of the 5 extends to the top of the zero.
Coming to the controversial ones, why do we expect them not to look like the zeroes in the axis or date fields? Why are we expecting them to be “cursive” with so many examples of non-cursive zeroes present? Why are we thinking there isn’t the horizontal stroke of a minus sign in front of them?
“cursive zeros” are only this annoying when they’re the first number in the sequence. I don’t know this doctor, so this person could have meant negatives.
I’ve never actually seen a positive cylinder correction on a script, and I just read this page which suggests that pretty much every cylinder correction will be written as a negative number.
That’s interesting and not at all comforting lol… I have a positive cylinder on both eyes.
I didn’t ask a medical opinion. I only asked a handwriting interpretation. Thank you though, for whatever it’s worth.
Would have been nice to know how to read this garbage before the prescription expired though…
You didn’t get medical opinion. You got the written number. And if you wanted to know three years ago, you probably should have either posted or called your doctor three years ago lol
Ah, yes, during lockdown no less…
What’s the doctor’s name again? Let’s read the paper together…
Dw R
Edit: I have no clue what her name was. Plus Walmart is shutting down all it’s health centers…
Dude. You went to the doctor. You have their number. You don’t need to read it off the paper. You need to just call the place you went to when you got this prescription. Word of advice: don’t be a dick to those who are trying to help, for a day will come when willing help will cease.
Walmart done shut down their health centers homie.
Recently. Not 3 years ago. 3 years ago, they were active. You could have called then, instead of waiting to now. To each his/her own, though, and I hope you get what you need. I would recommend getting a new prescription at this point anyway.
I do realize that I should get a new prescription sometime soon. But over the years, people have suggested I can order glasses online. But how could I do that when the prescription looks like Greek?
The whole point of my post/question is to learn to decipher doctor’s chicken scratch handwriting.
I’m cringing at the date format “1-20-21”.
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?
-4.25, 0.25, 134
-4.50, 0.50, 70
This is not right. You missed the negative signs on the cylinder corrections. This will worsen OP’s astigmatism.
This is probably the most helpful comment I’ve received here. Looks about right, I guess, I think…
Thank you. 👍
It’s the same info provided in this comment and you started arguing…
Thanks for the reminder link, but I’m not sure how anyone would consider my response questions as arguing…?
I’m legit trying to learn to read doctor’s hieroglyphics, otherwise I have no way to order online as so many people over the years have suggested.
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?
Indeed, how are babby form?
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.
