I believe it is a federal law that the prescription must be given to the patients WITHOUT them even asking!!!
The PD, however, is a matter of state law. Some states require the doctors to give you the PD measure with your Rx because these states recognize without the PD measurements, you cannot have your eyeglasses made. If you can, call your state board and ask them. Also ask what if the doctor refuses to give you the required Rx as stated by law? On the other hand, taking PD measurement is not difficult. It's very easy to do using a straight ruler with mm scales and a digital camera. You can do it with a help from your family or a friend. Here's how: - Hold the the ruler straight across your face just below your eyes. Keep it parallel to your eyes. - Have someone take a picture of you. Measure the distance in mm between your pupils in the picture. That's is your PD. The good thing is that you only need to do it once. Your PD does not change (I assume you are an adult already) for the rest of your life. Wal-Mart used to not care about giving anyone the PD measurement, but I think they now realize lots of people don't buy glasses from them so they no longer give PD measurement unless, maybe, you order glasses from them. Don't sweat the PD. Try to do it yourself. It's much easy than you think. Good luck! On Feb 21, 6:09 am, vi <[email protected]> wrote: > thank you very much for answering me > i went online to the state board and according to them > > '(d) Spectacle prescriptions shall specify any information that would > be relevant to manufacturing glasses including the dioptic value of > the sphere, astigmatism, prism, slab off, add power and axis or > orientation of the astigmatism correction. The expiration date of a > spectacle prescription may not be greater than 2 years.' > > not one place, nor eye doctor in this area, with the exception of the > one at walmart would honor that. they refused to give me PD. > > walmart said that it was part of the RX and glasses could not be made > without this measurement. > > unfortunately walmart is 54.00 for the exam, while the others take our > insurance and the exam would be only 25. with them > > but it is worth it at this point to make sure > we are also going to take our own PD following instructions here. > to double check > > thank you again > > vi > > On Feb 21, 1:14 am, thriftyM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's not a Federal law, but I believe it's a law in some states. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://www.glassyeyes.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
