I had a college age student in my office yesterday. She had two complaints. Her vision was blurred at night. Also, her eyes were bothering her on the computer. Her distant vision was a little less than 20/20. Even though her vision was pretty good, her complaints were significant for her.

In her case, I had to prescribe for both the distance blur as well as for her complaints concerning working with the computer. This required two different small prescriptions. I have seen this type of case quite often. If I were to prescribed for her just the distance prescription, this could actually make the up close vision worse.

Every patient is different. Sometimes the prescription for distance and near is the same and sometimes it's not. The findings are determined during the examination and demonstrating its results to the patient.