You Want A Quick Hack, Or Years Of Tweaks & Testing?
Marie-Claire writes in the forum:UpdateClose up:I reordered the differentials with AR this time, what a difference! No more glare fatigue. I take walk-around breaks every hour, and look away from the computer screen whenever I can. Get up and stretch, look as far as possible over the other cubicles to engage distance vision. Use the half-hour lunch to walk outside. The close-up saga continues. By afternoon, the edge of blur seems to be a source of strain rather than a challenge, and [...]
(Pro Topic) Are You Getting Double Vision With Reduced Diopters?
This, absolutely a pro topic. If you're a casual reader, skip this one!As you start practicing active focus with reduced diopters, you realize that your environment doesn't fade straight to blur, from clear vision. Instead there is an intermittent layer of double vision, almost as though your eyes are trying to hang on to the clear image, and slowly losing the battle over to blur. We talk about the causes of this double vision experience quite a bit here in the [...]
Turn Any Writing Into Your Own Impromptu Eyechart
Val posts her latest status update in the forum (-8.50 to -.7.75, pretty good!), and with it, some awesome MacGyver math. Instead of putting up an eye chart like basic guru Jake usually suggests, Val turns any outdoor writing into her own personal Snellen servant. Val's math post excerpt:The formula: Font height / distance to sign *180/pi*60 = arc minutes Handy trick, just paste the whole thing into the Google search box to get the calculation result. If you can get to [...]
Joel’s Progress: -4.75 Diopters Down To -3.00 Diopters
You don't have to buy anything from me, to improve your eyesight. Everything here is provided without prejudice (but with some sarcasm). Anyone can come, take, use these tools, and never necessarily have to contribute or give anything back.I say this often, and it's even one of the first lines in my e-mail signature. Right now there is the free e-mail course which definitely includes some nudges towards the (paid) BackTo20/20 option. BackTo20/20 is the serious R&D project part of this site. The [...]
It Was Just One Glass
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristSo it's graffiti now, really? Will he stop at nothing?? I'm just glad that wasn't my shop..Anyway, enough about Jake. The point of today's post is alcohol, and that one glass of wine. It really was just one. In spite of carnival week out here, I really have been very good, with Jake's session on alcohol and myopia (you know the one) ringing in my ears every time I even think about enjoying a glass of the [...]
A Word About Normalized
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristI'm having a great time with my normalized this week, now that the Godzilla of a headache has gone. I'm finding it really comfortable and at most times of the day I can see very well. I'm lucky enough to live somewhere that has 360 days of bright sunlight. As you have probably noticed by now, this makes a tremendous difference, especially when compared to vision in the basement room of a gym. Fluorescent lights all round, [...]