Question
Hi Dr. Axelrod,
I recently went back to wearing contacts after a 3 year break. During my fitting, my new optician checked the power on the glasses I've been wearing and instead of finding the expected correction of -2.5 on my right eye, she found that the lens had been ground incorrectly and was actually correcting for -3.75. The contacts I wear now have the right prescription, and while I recognize that it was going to take my eye some time to adjust back to the right script, it's been almost 4 months and my right eye is still blurry. Even more strange, my right eye used to be my dominant eye, but now it seems my left eye is the dominant one (per previous and current optician observations and my own "tests" after my current optician mentioned it). Is that possible and could this change be related?
For the record, I'm 33. The last time my eye prescription changed was in 2002 where it went from -1.75 to -2.25.
Thank you,
Jessica
Answer
Hello Jessica,
Something isn't right if your right eye is blurry. While it may be true that it takes a little while to adapt to a new Rx, it's been too long. Either something is wrong with the Rx or your eye: so you need to see your doctor again to have it figured out. The issue of eye dominance isn't important here and has no bearing on the blur.
Best of luck,
Mitch Axelrod, OD
