Would you ask for a re test for your child if you got these diffrent prescriptions from diffrent opticians?

[Sunshinedayy]

My child recently got her first glasses. The optometrist wasn't very nice unfortunately and I was curious about getting a second opinion since hearing about children often being under or over prescribed.

Anyway I went to a different opticians to get another opinion as I was a bit worried about her wearing the wrong strength although she can see very well out of the glasses prescribed.

The optometrist from the 2nd one gave her a prescription of 0.50 less in one eye and a 0.75 less in the other eye and also an Axis of 120 when the 1st ine gave an Axis of 20.

I am now really worried and confused about what she needs.
Should I contact the 1st opticians and ask for a re test??

This is surprising. Usually with the first set of glasses if the child has a "high" presciption they ease you in and slowly build up. Why do you want to have it remeasuered with the first optician and not just stay with the second if you think they were better? If it was on the NHS I think you are only elibible for a retest if the child feels that something has changed or they get headaches etc. How long ago was the first test?
In other countries they always use eyedrops for children as it is claimed that this is the only way to get an accurate measurement as without it changes if the child is tired for example.

What age is your child?
Did either optician use drops?
Can you post the full prescriptions for both tests?

I suspect one is written is plus cyl and one in minus cyl.

So +2.00/+0.7x20 can be written as +2.75/-0.75x110 so looks totally different but same power

This is not the correct way to start a child in a glasses prescription. On the whole full prescription immediately is the best way

It doesn't hurt or go to a third optician. My daughter is in year 1 and one of her friends has 3 eye tests. She had the first but the glasses weren't comfortable so she went somewhere else and that test was 2.00 higher than the first but the child struggled more with the exam as she struggled with the optician. So she went to a third opticians and the opthalmologist was brilliant and the mum was most confident in this eye test. It was very close to the result from the first optician. They had a different range of glasses which suited her much better. Tomato for reference as they do smaller frames and she is small for her age

On first test was Sph -1.70 and Sph - 1.50 with Axis 75 and 20.

The second test was Sph -1.25 and Sph - 0.75 with Axis of 120 just on one eye. The eye that said it was 20 previously.

No, they didn't use drops in both tests.

If she has a axis she will also have a cyl part to her prescription does one of the prescriptions have a - and one of them have a + in front of the cyl part or both have the same sign?

The Cyl on first test was - 0.25 and - 0.50

On the second test is was -0.50 again just on the one eye.

@whereareyousleep
What would it mean please?

@whereareyousleep
There was no +

I'd take him somewhere new and insist on drops. But also there's only an axis if there is a cyl not just a sphere

@Barnbrack The Cyl on first test was - 0.25 and - 0.50 on the second test is was -0.50 again just on the one eye.

Ddi either of them use drops?
The tests are more accurate if drops are used
What age is your child?

No drops used. My child is 10.

Do YOU think they don't need glasses? Or are you just concerned with which prescription is more accurate?

@Barnbrack
I am just concerned which prescription is more accurate as I want the best possible outcome for her. We also want to get myopia control lenses as soon as possible and want an accurate prescription for this also.

So although your child could see very well out of the first prescribed pair ( by your own admission ) , you made the decision out of curiosity to get a second opinion ? You mentioned the optician wasn’t very nice , that may be true but it doesn’t mean the prescription is incorrect.
Now what you’ve done is muddled yourself and cast doubt on both prescriptions and unnecessarily cost the taxpayer two NHS funded sight tests and two GOS 3 spectacle vouchers .
The first optometrist won’t recheck again as you took your child elsewhere, it’s now down to the second optometrist to explain and reassure you . Optometrists have to work within our governed bodies regulations and we cannot just perform a fresh test on a new child patient based on a parents curiosity without going through the appropriate channels which usually takes a few weeks .
Do not go for a third opinion or back to the original optometrist, go the the last optometrist who will be happy to explain the complexities of prescribing children and how their eyes have stronger accommodation , cyclopentolate drops etc,
If you seek a third test and the prescription is different again which it may well be you’ll be eve more baffled. You just need the optometrist to explain
the findings and how a child’s focusing system works You could go to five different optometrists in one day and come out with five slightly different prescriptions.
Best wishes.

Ah just seen you are considering myopia control lenses, these are a wise move and you are right in that you really want to have continuity of care so that we can monitor the myopic progression ( which hopefully will be minimal, great success with myopia control lenses )

My DD has had 3 tests in a row , because the glasses prescribed didn’t seem quite right - according to DD, obviously - there’s not much else I can base it on - but she said the whiteboard still wasn’t clear. For the last test they used the drops. DD still says it isn’t clear. Is that likely? Is there something else I’m not thinking of?!

Why ware you putting your child through all these tests?

What are there so many hyper focused threads lately

Maybe she just needs to get used to the glasses.

You eeally need to get the drops.
my 8 yrs old was told that dhe didnt need glasses. I knew she needed some as I could see the signs (I had them all my life until i finally got glasses at 18 because ai had a 20/20 vision - yeah guess what i problem is when reading close not vision).

anyway i went back a week later and insisted on the drops and she found the prescription. I was correct.

bottom line, you didnt like the first one. Go back to the second one, explain the situation with the different prescription and insist on the drops. The you ll have your answer. No fretting no upsets, just a mum doing due diligence.

I’m not sure if you are responding to my post or the OP’s, but I got multiple tests because she kept saying she still couldn’t see the board properly. This was over about a year, by the way, not a few days.

@Barnbrack

Is there a difference between an accurate prescription and a full prescription?