Interesting opto law

[ktmnate]

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Greetings,

I have a question from a patient's perspective.

For years I've had the same prescription of eye glasses, and I see very well with them. Every year I go to get new glasses, I have to keep coming back because they are always too strong and make me feel dizzy/sick.

Today I received another attempt form them to get it right and they are still too strong. I asked the "frame fitter" if I could just have a pair of glasses made to a previous prescription that still works perfectly and she said this.

"It's illegal to do that, it's like giving yourself your own prescription of codeine".

Getting a pair of eye glasses that permit me to see clearly and comfortably without taxing my medical insurance with repeated "re-calls" hardly seems criminal. I was wondering if anyone can provide a logical reason for this to be illegal?

 

[KHE]

Greetings,

I have a question from a patient's perspective.

For years I've had the same prescription of eye glasses, and I see very well with them. Every year I go to get new glasses, I have to keep coming back because they are always too strong and make me feel dizzy/sick.

Today I received another attempt form them to get it right and they are still too strong. I asked the "frame fitter" if I could just have a pair of glasses made to a previous prescription that still works perfectly and she said this.

"It's illegal to do that, it's like giving yourself your own prescription of codeine".

Getting a pair of eye glasses that permit me to see clearly and comfortably without taxing my medical insurance with repeated "re-calls" hardly seems criminal. I was wondering if anyone can provide a logical reason for this to be illegal?

To say that it's like giving yourself your own codeine prescription is a little bit melodramatic. However, it is technically not legal for a dispenser to fill an Rx for anything other than what is written.

That being said, a simple call to your doctor saying that the new glasses aren't working out and you would prefer to go back to the old ones should be a simple request. Any doctor in the universe (at least that I know of) would agree to write that out for you providing your vision was adequate with the original Rx.