frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agoHow come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription?message-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down11
arrow-up182arrow-down1message-squareHow come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription?frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squarePieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoThat’s what people in the US mostly do. You are still getting a glasses prescription, but since you are purchasing from the eye doctor who examined you, the “need” for a prescription is abstracted away. If you called and asked for a written prescription, they would give it to you
That’s what people in the US mostly do.
You are still getting a glasses prescription, but since you are purchasing from the eye doctor who examined you, the “need” for a prescription is abstracted away.
If you called and asked for a written prescription, they would give it to you