Wearing eyeglasses over contact lenses

Is it possible to wear eyeglasses over contact lenses? My right eye is
a -11.00D, and Dres Hertzog and Ryan, my opthalamologist and
optometrist --respectively-- gave me a balance lens, b/c my frames'd
look horrible w/ a -3.00lens for the left, and a -11.00D lens for the
right. So, could they give me a -8.00D contact lens for my right eye --
and plano contacts for my left--, and me wear my glasses over them?

Thanks!!!!

 

I've worn glasses over contact lenses for years. It's not at all
uncommon, and -- at least IME -- not particularly challenging for the
eye docs.

 

Funny, Dres Hertzog and Ryan never suggested that...but my Sam's Club
optician, Ms. Kim, did. Weird.

 

Yes you can do that -- but why?

The minus contact can take care of your distant vision for you.

Otis

 

I'd just add that going the contact route will also make it so your
left and right eyes see things as the same size. With that
prescription, glasses-only would make things in your right eye look
around 20% smaller than things in your left eye.

 

I'm also amblyopic in my right eye, and Dres Hertzog and Ryan didn't
seem to want to give me a prism. Should the prism be in the
eyeglasses, or the CL?

 

No suprise there...I'm up on my optometry and opthalmology too, you
know.

So, I assume anisometropic amblyopia can be treated w/ prism lenses,
right?

 

I'm not presbyobic...I'm 16.5!!!!

 

I know that now.

Why wouldn't anisometropic amblyopia be treaed w/ a prism? Is simply
correcting the anisometropia enough?

 

Well, Dres Hertzog and Ryan did say I have an amblyopic right eye --I
can close my right eye, and be able to function normally; it only
gives me a little periphial vision, and I have trouble walking down
stairs and escalators--...so, again, would correcting the
anisometropia be enough?

 

Nope, never. My anisometropic amblyopia is due to grade 2 retinopathy
of prematurity --born at 22 wks--, if that helps you guys out a bit
more.