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lglide71
Is it possible for a contact lens prescription to improve without having any vision correction? My prescription went from -3.75 to -3.50.
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Ray T Oyakawa, MD
A .25 diopter change is insignificant.
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probably losing a bit of your near-sightedness and gain some far sighted. anyway -0.25 not much different.
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