One of the great benefits of the structured approach of BackTo20/20 is the built-in “plateau prevention”.

With data from thousands of recovering myopes over quite a few years, and having a consistent process for everyone made it possible to predict plateau risks.  This means that if you are making consistent improvements and are following the sessions correctly, your odds of long plateaus is greatly reduced.

Here are some of Jon’s observations on the subject, in a recent forum thread:

I’ve had two times that I felt I plateaued. The first was at the end of 2014. Around September 2014 I had started doing the program based on only the public info on the website as a way to prove to myself that it was legit before investing in the program. By the end of December, I felt I wasn’t seeing any FURTHER progress, but I had good progress prior. I was convinced enough and there was a sale on the paid program at the time, so I did it and as I went through the program over the following weeks and months, I made forward progress. I think I got past the plateau within a few weeks of starting the paid program.

the second was sometime after May 2015 and only recently broken.

Hard to say how long the plateaus were exactly, but you could take a look at my colorful graph with the varying correction levels and try to interpret from that. For the recent one, it looks like 4 months less the time it would normally take to drop a level of correction, so take 6 to 8 weeks off that and you get 2 months of “lost” time I suppose. It is hard to pinpoint an exact cause, some I am a sample size of one. Could be bad habits like using too strong a correction for close up (i.e. forgetting to switch glasses when at the computer as I just caught myself doing now), and not doing as much active focus and similar work. All these would be true for me. I also didn’t try to lower my correction as aggressively as I could I think.

For the older plateau, I’m fuzzier on how long that lasted and I also didn’t have the full complement of techniques and concepts learned yet, so any thoughts from back then might be biased as such. That was also the period between initial lowering and reducing ciliary strain to the slower progress which follows that initial jump.

Blog vs. paid program.  There are definitely benefits to the latter.

One thing I did to try and not get too disheartened during the latest plateau was to remind myself that I’ve already erased the last 15 to 20 years of myopia in just 1 year. Can’t really complain about that!

That’s about 1/3 of the correction, but half my life. The progression in my early years was fast (-3.25 by age 13), while under my current eye doc, there was almost no decline over the past 7-8 years. My descent slowed after college overall, but especially so since going to my current doc who doesn’t recommend new prescriptions if the change is small. I have yet to visit her since starting this program. I’m due but haven’t scheduled an appt yet.

<3 to awesome insights like Jon’s, in the forum.

Lots more cool stuff in the works .  Meanwhile I’m trying to make it through the first few weeks of baby time, which means not much sleeping and a lot of adjustments.  Fortunately we’ve got some great additions to the team to keep things going behind the scenes.  The PR and social media guys are working hard, and once a Jake is semi lucid and functioning again, we’ll get into more of all that here.  ;-)

Cheers,

-Jake