What is your eye prescription?

[Underworld345]

Just curious. I had a check up yesterday and I’m short sighted. Changed from -2.5 to -3.5 in 2 years.

I walked away thinking I don’t even know if that’s bad? Average?

Probably people with a lot worse but just wanted an idea of how mine compares to general population.

Forgot to mention I’m only 30

Mine is -9.5 and -7.5, that’s in contacts which I think is worked out slightly differently to glasses. I’m 37

That's fairly minor. Can't remember offhand whether it's long or shortsighted, but mine was on the +/- 7 so huge thick glasses. Had lens implants and now only use weak glasses for reading. Otherwise glasses free.

Mine at my last eye test (when i was 18, three years ago oopsies) was 0.5 and 3.5 but i do have a lazy eye!

Over -6D is considered high.

Time outside (at least 40 minutes a day) is protective against myopia development. Make sure too you have enough close vision/vdu breaks

-12 here. -10 in contact lenses.

-7 in both eyes

@yellowallpaper I'm really interested in your experience of lens replacement.
I'm shortsighted with a strong prescription of -11 in my varifocal glasses. I also wear mono vision contact lenses with one lens for distance and the other for near vision.
To the OP yours is fairly low but enough to need correction.

Contact lens prescription of -6.5 and -7.5 before I had them lasered.

My contacts are -4.5 not sure what my glasses are. The optician said I had "quite a high prescription". I'm 28.

Varies between -2.25 and -2.5 in my dominant eye - optician says it's been remarkably stable over the years (c40 years) that I've been wearing lenses.

Other eye is, I think, -3.5 - but not sure, since I no longer wear a contact lens in that eye, as I use it to "read" write posts on MN while I use my dominant (corrected) eye to see distances (watch TV/drive).

It means my depth perception is slightly affected and I do keep glasses and/or my left contact lens in the car so that I can have fully corrected vision for night driving.

I'm -7.50 in one eye & -8 in the other, so really quite short sighted.

-7 in one eye - 6.50 in the other.. Plus astigmatism and now a reading prescription so verifocals. Can't see a fan thing without my glasses!

I’m 46. I’ve been wearing glasses since I was 9. I was told the prescription would settle down in my twenties but it continues to worsen. My prescription is currently -14 and -12. I also have an astigmatism. I had to get varifocals when I last changed my specs because now I’ve started to get long sighted as well as short sighted. I wear contacts occasionally (although I can’t see terribly well with them) for nights out etc. The last few times I’ve worn my contacts when going out for dinner, I haven’t been able to read the menu because of the long sightedness 🙄🙁.

-2.5. I don’t think it’s that bad but I still struggle without glasses or contacts.

-2:25 and -4.25 for contacts but glasses has got slightly better in recent years as I’ve got more long sighted with age. The worse one earns me all the hard sells on expensive lenses as it’s ‘so high’. I’m feeling quite now seeing some of the prescriptions on this thread! I first got glasses at 11 and contacts in my teens and I think my prescription was something like -1.75 and -4.00 then so not huge change.

-6.5 in one eye and -5.5 in the other. They got progressively worse until I hit 35, were stable until I was 42, and now they're getting better. I expect to be able to see perfectly again by the time I'm 75. Unless the longsightedness kicks in...

Sadly, betty, when I suggested that to my ophthalmologist, she just laughed and said ‘bifocals’.

I'm +10 in my right eye, and a +9.75 in my left eye. I'm only 16.