1. This prescription is issued in vertical format, while most the prescriptions are of horizontal ones.
2. This prescription use the plain English with no abbreviations from Latin.
3. SPH= Sphere=Spherical, is the strength of your prescription,
bears sign “+” or “-”, “+”refers to farsightedness and presbyopia,
“-”refers to nearsightedness. If “PL” or “Plano” is stated at the place of SPH on your prescription, please enter0.00 for this option.
4. CYL= Cylinder= Cylindrical, i is the diopters degree of the astigmatism. This number also has “+” or “-” signs. If “DS” or“SPH” or “spherical” or “PL” is stated at the place of CYL, it means you have no astigmatism and 0.00 is the option required to choose.
5. Axis, is a number between 0 and 180 degrees, and means the
orientation of your astigmatism. There is no sign before this number.
6. PD= Pupillary Distance, in this sample, the PD is written as
“62/59”, in which “62” is the “ Far PD”, while “59” is the “Near PD”
7. Add= Near Addition, means the power strength to be added to the
Sphere number for making single vision reading glasses or bifocal and
progressive eyeglasses. In this prescription, the “Add” numbers are put
under the “Add” spaces. Some of the doctors may write one number with
sign such as “+2.00” in the middle of the space under “Add.”, which
means your both eyes have the same Add numbers.
8. In writing the decimals in this prescription, all the decimals
are written with the decimal points being clearly there. You can just
enter all the numbers as shown on the prescription sheet in our webpage.
Notice: Please pay special attention to the “+” or “-” before the numbers ( SPH and CYL ).
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