When I take it to my optician (who is in the same office as my optometrist), she puts in a new nose piece.
thelabdude
No, and neither would an optician.
My optometrist’s clerk has a pad already signed by the optometrist. When I ask for my prescription, she merely writes on it and gives it to me (since it is already signed).
Well, that’s not been my experience, at least since I’ve lived on my own (and thus paid for my own glasses). I remember because I was surprised the first time it happened.
It’s true that glasses make images sharper where they’re naturally fuzzier for the given patient. But that’s done by wearing convex or concave lenses for farsightedness or nearsightedness, respectively. The former will make images slightly larger, the latter smaller.
These size changes are very slight when looking through the glasses while on your face. But if you take your glasses for nearsightedness off, hold them at arm’s length, and look through them, you’ll notice that images seen through them are much smaller than naturally (sans glasses).
Had a chance to talk to somebody that knows today. You must have a prescription to buy any corrective lenses. They only get away with the +readers because they are classified as magnifying glasses.
