The #1 cause of slow or no improvements is unchecked ciliary lockup.

Or maybe #1 is not enough stimulus.  Either way, these are the two high level main issues to troubleshoot if you’re not making expected progress.  It’s almost always either not enough (or the right sort of) stimulus, or you’re locking up your focusing muscle with close-up.  It’s very easy to check the latter, and you should always be doing this (I still do it, every day, myself).

In a thread in the forum about the winter blues (which are also going to slow your progress, but that’s just what it is), I explain how to check for ciliary lockup:

The other thing is to realize when you are overdoing it with close-up. You need to compare your distance vision before work, to after. If you can’t clear the same distances (just any outside written sign will do), in similar lighting, then your ciliary is locked up. Three hours is a pretty common limit for close-up, getting outside, reading distant signs till your vision is back to what it was in the morning, to confirm that your ciliary has full range. Same later in the day. If you are doing day after day with ciliary lock up unchecked, you’ll stop making progress even with all the right lens wear. (that’s part of the flaw in the studies that use reduced lenses and get no positive results)

This is simple to check, and key to checking off the box on not-too-much-close-up-strain.

You can do anything and everything else correctly, if your distance vision reduces during the day, in a single day, you’re over-straining your ciliary muscle, and you’ll see very little progress.

Strain and stimulus.  Those are the two key ingredients in the whole system.  You want to get outside, check your vision, during the day.  If it’s reduced over the morning, you want to be in distance vision mode till your eyesight returns to the distances you experienced at the beginning of the day.

If you live in northern climates, your eyesight may not improve much in the winter.  You’ll catch up in the spring.  But you do have to make sure that you’re not locking up your ciliary muscle, day in, day out.  Especially during the time when there isn’t much to do besides reading, playing games, and going to work!

Cheers,

-Jake

Writing these blog posts, not wearing plus.  Bad Jake!

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