Reading your prescription
Before placing an order, you need to get a prescription for corrective eyeglass lenses from your eye doctor. If your prescription does not have a PD value, you may contact your eye doctor or measure it yourself. The Pupillary Distance or PD is required to position the lens correctly in relation to the center of the pupils.
Your doctors prescription should look like the samples shown below in Fig. 1. They are just different ways of writing the same Rx.In sample 2, the doctors has left out the decimal point. In sample 3, both the near and distance vision Rx are printed in the table without the Add power.
In all prescriptions, the top row contains prescription for Right Eye ( O.D) and the bottom row contains prescription for Left Eye ( O.S).
SPH, CYL, AXIS , PRISM , ADD values are parameters used for generating corrective lenses for your eyes.
We offer many different ways for you to send us your prescription. You may enter the prescription online, upload the prescription as an image or Fax it to us.
Online prescription Form
Enter your prescription in the online order form exactly as you see it in the prescription table. Blank value should be left blank in the form and care should be taken with +/ - Signs. Corresponding SPH, CYL , AXIS and ADD values should be entered correctly. The online order form does not have the Prism column, if your prescription contains a prism, you need to check the box for Prism to enter the values.
If you do not enter the prescription correctly , your eyeglasses will not be made to your doctors specification. We therefore encourage all users to fax or upload their prescription.
