Which is better for children's myopia?

[Sunshinedayy]

Is an accurate prescription better or a full prescription?

Just that really. I know under correcting and over correcting are bad but is there a diffrence between accurate prescription and full prescription? If so which is better for children's myopia? Or are they interchangeable?

My younger kid.

8 years old

Just collected her new glasses last week.

Worth speaking to them re the lenses???

They did say the prescription has worsened slightly.

Not sure why they didn't mention these lenses then.

Why are you presenting this difference in axis as new information you have just realised after earlier today saying you were satisfied now with what the optometrist has said?

I haven’t looked your username up or anything, but at the bottom of this page for me there is a thread in “similar threads” which you started a week ago, where you complain about this difference in axis in the OP.

Why are you doing it all again and pretending you just realised that part this afternoon?

Is it all just bollocks?

@LegoEmergency

I only realised today that it is not normal to have such a huge difference in axis. I have been focusing on the sph and was satisfied with the new prescription until I realised the axis is clearly wrong on one of them! This is all new to me. It is my child's first glasses. I am learning all if this as I go along!

Yes I would, definitely. Not sure why they weren't mentioned to you... Unless the opticians you go to don't do them? Any reputable place should be able to order them though. Unless there's a clinical underlying reason for your child's myopia or they have very high cyls there's no reason not to try them.

My kids have the Miyosmart lenses and we are happy with them. If their eyesight worsens by more than -0.5 in either eye within 12 months, they replace them for free.

I will query it when we go and collect her new glasses. I may also go elsewhere for a THIRD opinion which I really did not want to do.

It would actually be her 4th if we go somewhere else. This is getting ridiculous. The third which is this last one was the same as the 2nd prescription apart for one eye. But the axis was more or less the same. It is the same opticians that we got the first prescription but a diffrent optom.I showed him the second prescription and he came back with this one. Im hoping he wasn't influenced by the second prescription.

It is all so confusing and I am tired of this. I just want my child to have the correct prescription so I can do my best to prevent her myopia from progressing.

Gonna ring them tomorrow

It was specsavers

@Th1sisnotadrill
I am hoping it is just a typo as that would make more sense. I still have her original glasses with the first prescription while we are waiting for her new ones. Could I take her first glasses to a different opticians to confirm the axis for me? This would then rule out if it was a typo.

No, we got Miyosmart for my child, to prevent them from ending up as bad as me! There's no helping my eyes, haha.

As in confirm what the axis is of the lenses in her glasses.

You didn’t though - you asked about it a week ago and loads of people discussed it with you!

The problem is (if it is real) that you had your child’s eyes tested, got glasses which the child could see fine with, but then because the optometrist “wasn’t very nice” you decided to have them tested again in case they got it wrong.

An optometrist being nice doesn’t mean they are more accurate.

But anyway, you will always get slightly different results each time to an extent. So now you have two different results and are less rather than more happy and now you want a 3rd/4th opinion!

At what point will you stop? How will you decide who is correct? Will it just be based on who was the nicest?

@LegoEmergency
That was the sph

Do you have glasses OP? You seem to be hyper fixating on a small part of the prescription.

The minus numbers are the myopia. For instance, my prescription swimming goggles just fix the minus numbers. Not the astigmatism. But I can see fine for swimming. The axis is the fine tuning. Your child's eyes will still be growing.

Note I'm not an optometrist, just someone with poor eyesight and whose family has poor eyesight. Both my children have overnight corrective lenses and they are superb so far.

That won’t tell you anything - the glasses will (should …) have been made to the prescription, but there might have been a typo in recording the prescription in the first place. How long ago was the first prescription?
You would be best to go and talk to the Optometrist again, they know all the details of your child’s eye-test results, they know what the earlier prescriptions were, go talk to the professional involved rather than people on the internet who really can’t answer the questions you are worried about.

@susey
No i dont wear glasses nor anyone in my family. This is all new to me. I am just worried that the wrong prescription will worsen her myopia. I am now happy with the sph but now worrying about the axis. I just dont understand how it could be measured so wrong. Surely it was for there to be such a huge difference.

@susey
I am worrying because from searching online it says that an incorrect axis on child's prescription can worsen myopia. I just seems so irresponsible to get it so wrong.

The first optom was a "locum" they said. Not sure if that makes a difference.

Hi OP I’ve been an optom for over 25yrs and never heard the phrase ‘accurate prescription’ I’d like to think all my prescriptions were accurate! I think what has probably happened here is the one that says 20 may have a typo and was meant to say 120, which is very similar to the 119 the other ones said (1 degree difference is irrelevant) I’d definitely speak to where you had the most recent one done for clarification, take both copies with you. You’ve had other good advice on here - myopia control in either glasses or contacts is a good idea and we don’t under correct with myopia, would always give full prescription. Hope you get sorted!

“Would you ask for a re test for your child if you got these diffrent prescriptions from diffrent opticians?
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Sunshinedayy · 22/02/2026 19:42
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??”

The above is what you posted a week ago and the astigmatism was discussed by people on tha thread. You haven’t just realised it.

As people have said, it is possible that it is an error and a figure 1 is missing from the 19 (or added onto the 120).

I think you said in another post that the cyl power is only -0.50, so it’s easier to get a big difference in the axis than if the cyl power was more. It’s unlikely though.

It was also suggested on the other thread that the two prescriptions might have been written in different cyl forms, which is also what immediately occurred to me, but you said the cyl power is minus on both prescriptions.

The fact remains though, that there was no good reason to have another test if your child was not having a problem with the glasses. By doing so you have just confused yourself more and now don’t know what to do.