Contact Lens Prescription vs. Spectacle Prescription

Contact Lens Prescription vs. Spectacle Prescription 

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Contact lens prescription does differ from spectacle prescription, mainly due to the distance between the spectacle and your eyes.

For those with spectacle prescription less than -4.00 D, the difference is insignificant. Patients can choose to wear either the same prescription or slightly lower. Spectacle prescription of -4.00D above, the difference with contact lens prescription will become more significant.

The chart below, is a conversion chart of spectacle prescription to contact lens prescription.

(-) Minus prescription is refer for short sighted or myopia. (+) Plus precription is refer for long sighted or hyperopia.

Besides that, a simple calculation can be done to determine your contact lens prescription (as the diagram below)

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What if the prescription you are looking for is not available?

1) Try to keep the left-right eye balance 

For example, I am shortsighted and have a left eye spectacle prescription of -6.00, which according to the chart, it is -5.62, my right eye is -5.25, according to the chart I need -5.00. 

I would like to keep my left - right eye difference ( which is now by a 0.75 difference) 

So I choose  -5.75 for my left, and -5.00 for my right. 

2) Try to choose the power closest to your prescribed power. 

So some contact brands does not have -5.75 prescriptions. They only have -5.50 or -6.00. 

So I decide to go with -5.50 instead of -6.00, because my real prescription according to chart is -5.62 (closer to -5.50 an further to -6.00)

3) Go with your feeling. 

Sometimes you just need to try to know which one is better. Just try and feel it out. Order both prescriptions and try them out for a day. 

Hope this helps and Good Luck!