Can anyone explain my eye prescription to me?

[WaterMess]

I've had very mild prescription glasses for a long time now, mainly for concentration tasks. I've been getting headaches and blurriness and finding I need to wear my glasses more often so I've just had another eye test. The optician said that my right eye is getting worse so I've ordered new glasses and will wear them most of the time.

I've looked at my new prescription and to me it looks like on the whole my vision has improved and my right eye in particular has improved SPH and CYL is the same! Does this sound right? I've attached a pic, old prescription from 2021 is on the left with new 2023 prescription next to it.

SPH has increased from +0.25 to +0.75 which is the lens power increasing? Presuming you use glasses to see more clearly close up. The numbers change in 0.25 increments, that’s a really mild prescription though I’m surprised you need glasses all the time. For context I am short sighted (can’t see things far away) so my lens is a - but I’m more than -10 in both eyes. I think when I first got glasses I was about a -2 which was just enough to need them all the time.

It's actually decreased from +0.75 in 2021 to +0.25 now which is why I'm very surprised! The way the optician explained the need for glasses was it's more to do with the astigmatism than the mild long-sightedness but for years I only ever needed them when I was reading, on the computer etc.. now it's very uncomfortable when I'm not wearing them at all.

Hopeful bump!