contact prescription 24 by Articles Uncovered
Published Date: 11/05/08
Contact Prescription
Many people don?t take their eye health as seriously as they should. They don?t want to listen to their eye doctor when they tell them that they must come in once a year to renew their contact prescription, and they keep using old lenses. This can have a bad effect on your vision, and you may end up making things worse. If you have been longer than a year between appointments, make sure you go in for a new prescription before you attempt to order new contacts.
Your contact prescription should be good for one year before you have to get a new one, though a prescription for glasses is good for three years. Subtle changes in your eyes can affect how a contact fits, as well as the strength of the lenses you need, that is why it is important to go once a year for a contact prescription. You may think it is a waste of time and money, but it is essential for your eye health. I?m not an eye doctor, but this is something that I really believe to be true. You may even end up with an eye infection if you aren?t careful, and there may be no lenses in the world that can help you after a bad one.
If you want to order contacts online, you should have your contact prescription on hand when you do. If you don?t know what it is, you just have to look at your last box of lenses to find it. The information you need is on the side of the box. Make sure you get it right when you give the order or your contacts will be wrong when they arrive. Many companies who take orders online or over the phone will need your contact prescription information, and you should know that they may check with your eye doctor to be sure it is current before they fill your order.
If at any time in between visits you think your contact prescription may be off, make sure you speak up and call your eye doctor. There are many things that can go wrong with the eye that you should have looked at as soon as you feel something is wrong. Subtle changes, like I said, can affect your sight and you will know it because your contact prescription will be off. That will be one of the first signs that something may be wrong that needs immediate medical attention.
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