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Steve (-7.50) Beats Myopia: Optometrist Confirms ~1 Diopter Improvement
The hardest test of your vision improvement, is visiting the optometrist. Once you learn how to measure your own eyes, you realize just how much that optometrist exam room stacks the deck against your eyes. The dark room, the poor quality, narrow spectrum lighting, the possibly unevenly lit chart. The clicking of lenses, of which you aren't told the strength, and the disembodied voice, forever asking "better now, or ... now". It's an eye inquisition. It's no fair trial. [...]
Behind The Scenes: Jake?! What Happened To The Site!
It's official. The dogs have been let off the leash. Hounds, is it? One of these days we'll have to get a bit more autobiographical to help you make sense of what madman is at the wheel here. Why Alex insisted that I take over this site and all of the associated headaches. There was a rather nice list of proper optometrists who offered Alex good money, but he insisted that I do it. Because Alex is sneaky. Or [...]
Shots In The Dark: Clinical Myopia Studies
For the child myopia book I'm revisiting hundreds of the more relevant studies on the subject, looking to pick out some of the better ones to help parents understand the full picture of myopia.It turns out that there are plenty that have considered the negative impact of minus lens use for close-up, and looked into smarter alternatives to "minus for everything".Here is one, as example:"To examine baseline measurements of accommodative lag, phoria, reading distance, amount of near work, and level [...]
Retinal Surgery Devices Market To Grow to 2.01 Billion Dollars
As you probably already know, retinal detachment risk increases by 4x for mild myopia, and as much as 10x for high myopia (over -5 diopters).It's a real risk, and you only have a very small window to get to surgery before the detachment is likely irreversible. Which means, blindness. If you misinterpret the symptoms or don't rush to the hospital, your myopia does increase your risk of going blind by 4x to 10x.If you want the gory details, we have [...]
How Migraines Got My Optometrist To Fix My Prescription
Suzannah lives in Ecuador, and has a hard time getting reduced prescriptions. This is where we should look at a story about migraines. I have had a number of clients over the years who entirely stopped having migraines once they stopped wearing full minus prescriptions while using computer screens or reading.From this, I borrowed some inspiration for Suzannah's prescription quandary. Take a look at my reply to Suzannah in the forum, which may hopefully help her (and indeed maybe you as well):I’ve [...]
Beware, The Mean Bully Optometrists
Optometrists can be huge bullies, if you say the wrong thing at the wrong time.Shannon reveals in the forum:I started endmyopia while I was ordering new glasses, which sucks so much because I have to keep talking to the optometrist. It’s extremely emotionally draining. I said my glasses were too strong, so they did a retest, and he only changed it by .25 in one eye and then upped the astigmatism to make it the same. It’s hard to even tell [...]