Pro topic.
You may have low myopia (below 2 diopters) and simply never started wearing glasses. While in principle this is a smart move towards protecting your distance vision from lens-induced myopia, it doesn’t alone address […]
Generally speaking, you can reduce by 0.50 diopters – but quite likely you shouldn’t.
In some cases (high myopia) it can make sense to do so – see here a more detailed breakdown.
But then also […]
You’re working on your eyesight. Things are going well.
Except, not really. You got one eye improving like a champ, and the other is lagging. It’s making you a little nutty, and you wish you knew […]
Just can’t wait to drop those diopters? Are you smarter than the last of the living eye gurus? Did you say hey whatever, I can hazz what I wantzz! Drop the diopterzzz now!
Good for you. […]
So we already had the detailed discussion about how to reduce your normalized diopters.
Of course what you were missing is having all this sagey goodness in video format. Because what would key concepts be […]
Jake, I hate reducing normalized! The blur sucks! It’s like starting all over again every. single. time!
I’ve been getting this a lot, for years, and every time I offer the same age-old eye guru trick […]
Today, an interesting progress update in our darling Facebook group.
This one goes a long way to make the point about when to reduce your diopters. A divine and sacrilegious eye guru has been heard saying […]
Here’s a common question, about the use of corrective lenses while indoors.
You have your normalized for distance vision, often emphasized for outdoor use. And you have your differential glasses, for sustained single point focus close-up […]
The question of low myopia and high astigmatism has come up multiple times in the BackTo20/20 support forum, this week.
Low myopia, as in 1-2 diopters.
High astigmatism, as in at least 2 diopters, likely even close […]
Have you ever left the optometrist’s office with new glasses, and your eyes hurting like never before?
“Oh you’ll get used to it”, they tell you.
If you were to ask a sagely bearded eye guru, he’d […]