I just found out this week that my two year old daughter needs to wear glasses due to her eyes crossing and being very farsighted. When I first heard the news I was a little bummed and surprised. I never wore glasses or neither has anyone in my family (except some of the older family members) so this was all a little foreign to me. Being surprised with the news I decided to take my daughter for a second opinion and got a completely different prescription the second time around.
The first doctor I visited was a pediatric ophthalmologist who prescribed my daughter glasses +5.50 for both eyes. However, the second eye doctor was a general eye doctor who prescribed: O.D. +3.00 , cylinder +0.50, axis 90; O.S. +3.50. Does this make sense? Is it possible one of the doctors made a mistake?
I don't know if this information is useful, but the pediatric specialist used modern equipment to examine my daughter’s eyes and was pretty quick with his diagnosis and figuring out the prescription strength. The second doctor used what looked like a much older system where she kept pulling individual lenses from a drawer to look at my daughter eyes. This second doctor took a much longer time with her examination before she gave her diagnosis. I'm sorry if I don't make sense describing this, I am not medically trained so I'm not sure how to explain my observations.
I just don't understand why such different prescriptions.