If you are a parent with a newly myopic child, you have very likely heard of things like Ortho-K, or perhaps explored atropine drops to slow myopia progression. There is even now support for close-up specific focal planes, a premise previous decried and vilified by much of the mainstream.
These are signs of our time, where the mainstream is starting to look at myopia control.
I love it!
But not because I’d advocate Ortho-K (I wouldn’t), or putting poison drops in your eyes. Not even to buy bi-focal lenses, which are a bit of a sub-optimal (and needlessly complicated) solution.
I love it because once the mainstream let this particular cat of the bag, admitting that myopia isn’t this unstoppable, buy-your-glasses forever “illness”, more people now start questioning things. Greed, I suspect, could be the lens makers undoing, at least as far as a select curious group of people is concerned. Now you do a little Google search, you find @endmyopia, and you won’t quite be able to go back and not at least feel uneasy about those glasses.
Anyway, here’s the best myopia control method that I know of. It’s free, it’s highly effective, and mostly it just involves saying no.
Let’s have Ruth explain it:
Do you see it?
And this same exact story I’ve heard hundreds and hundreds of times. Some people have well tuned bulls## sensors, and they stop buying increasing prescriptions after a short while.
Common thread? None of them experience myopia increases.
There are rare cases where individuals express myopia in excess of two diopters, or become more myopic without lens prescription increases. This is definitely the exception to the rule.
If you read this blog regularly, you already know all this. Wear maximum distance correction, especially for close-up, and you’re stimulating axial elongation, and of course with it progressive myopia. Simply not consuming more, higher lens correction, most often serves as better myopia control than any Ortho-K, atropine, or other complicated, sold-to-you product.
Cheers,
-Jake
