Do I or do I not require glasses?

Question

I got my eyes tested today and my prescription reads as follows

OD - Sphere = Plano / CYL = -0.75 / Axis = 178

OS - Sphere = +0.75 / CYL = SPH

The optomotrist told me that my eyes were good, that I could take a driving test without glasses and pass the vision test.

I wanna make sure that these glasses wil actually make a difference or if I would only be a little better off by wearing glasses because I don't like the idea of dropping big money on something that hardly helps.

Answer 1

Yes, given your eyes were otherwise OK, you would be legal driving a car without that, but most people (not everyone) would find it useful to have that made up, as it would be likely to make prolonged reading and computer work a little clearer and a lot less tiring.

With one eye slightly shortsighted and one slghtly longsighted, one with a spherical Rx and one slightly astigmatic, your accommodation (refocussing for near) and binocular coordination is probabably under pressure (but coping, while moaning a bit.)

There's no absolute way to be sure but, if you find reading tiring, the glasses are probably going to help.

They may make driving, TV, cinema less stressful, too.

Extra *sharpness* isn't really what an Rx like yours is about.

Answer 2

With that prescription, you don't really HAVE to have the glasses, but they should help a bit.

The first time I got my eyes checked, I didn't really think my vision was bad, but I was getting headahces. So I went and got them checked and I had a -0.50. It was a very slight prescription, but wearing them at times that I had to see far away, like for driving at night, or movies in the theater, totally helped with the headaches and kept my eyes from being so stressed.

Just know that if you don't get them now, you should at least be aware of your vision, and see if it gets worse later.

Answer 3

Your eyes are good you most likely could take a driving test without glasses and pass the vision test.  IF they did not show you the difference in the phoropter when you had your exam, how would you know? Most of the time they show you. Did they do that? If not ask them to "trial frame" you. They should have an apparatis called a trialframe...it is ugly but you coudl see if it makes a diff or not. Some people would see a difference, some people would not. It is a toss up.