When reading prescription, how do read Jibberish to order glasses online?

Nobody should have tried to write cursive numbers. That's just a recipe for disaster

They are consistent. Parent comment missed the negative signs in front of the cylinder corrections.

134 indicates that this is a prescription for glasses and not lenses. Lenses are typically only available in increments of 10.

If that's the case, you should get a new prescription specifically for lenses, because the spherical correction (-4.5) will also be different between glasses and lenses, because of the distance to the eye.

It was written as 134. I don't know if that's what they intended.

I would highly encourage a new eye exam. No need to get glasses or order anything from your optometrist but an eye exam.

It sounds like none of the above give you that nice crisp 20/20. I find every like 2 or 3 years my eyes change a bit and that slight change in prescription sometimes makes a significant difference before and after new vs old glasses.

I can see you're frustrated with the handwriting on this prescription, and with them telling you you need a new eye exam. I don't know that folks here can help any more than they have - I've had the same experience where Zenni or Warby Parker wouldn't let me order new glasses without a more recent prescription.

Seems like the best way to move forward is to get a new exam, and right after verify that you can read what the prescription says. If your eyes are temporarily out of whack afterwards you could bring an acquaintance to read it, or even ask the closest stranger to verify.

Not negatives. They're "cursive zeros". My old doctor used to do that. Annoying as hell.

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

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.

I filed my first complaint against a coworker for arguing with me about ISO standards. I'm an AV engineer and use YYYY-MM-DD for my print sets which he found "confusing" because most fools write M-D-YY. I told him I got approval to do it that way and it might even become mandatory (true) but he wouldn't drop it. He sarcastically told me I should teach a class on date formats because I think I'm so smart.

We're an international company and I'm gonna keep using the international standard for dates, douchebag.

You've got a bunch of people who told you what's written on it so no it's not as bad as you think it is.

ohh i believe you lol, I had a prescription once and the docyor put something in ink on it, the pharmacist had to call the doctor to work it out.

Because in the domain of what they're writing, there's certain expected values, so they're writing can get pretty wild, as long as the technical practitioner matches it to the closest value they're expecting it works.

And absolute worst case scenario, the technician will call the OD office.

-4.25, 0.25, 134

-4.50, 0.50, 70

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?

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.

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 😂.