What to Bring to Your Appointment

The essentials

• Your medical insurance card and your vision insurance card. These are usually two different cards and which applies depends on why you are being seen.
• Your current glasses, so they can be read on a lensometer and compared against the new prescription.
• A list of your medications. Antihistamines, antidepressants, blood pressure medication and diuretics all affect the eyes more than people expect.
• Your sunglasses, so their UV protection can be checked. Not all sunglasses have any.
• A note of your screen working distance if you spend hours at a computer.

For contact lens wearers

• The boxes or packaging showing brand, power and base curve.
• If you have run out and do not know your power, ask your previous office to send it across.
• Your current lenses if you are updating or reordering.
• A backup pair of glasses.
• The bottles of any solution you use for cleaning and soaking.

For a child's appointment

• Any previous prescriptions, even from another practice. Two or three years of history shows the rate of change immediately.
• Their current glasses.
• A note of any concerns raised by a teacher or by a school screening.
• A rough sense of how much time they spend outdoors on a typical day.

If you are being seen for something specific

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