Jake has been on the optometrist-war-path again. Just when we thought it was over, and he had started to behave. It was the fever, he said. He was delirious. Not himself. Poorly educated, us optometrists, he says.. no way. Arrogant, he calls us.. well maybe, some of us.
But as the week wears on and there have been no new rantings, I am assuming and hoping he has recovered, back to nice old Jake. So that’s why I’m still around. Doing this program and politely writing on this blog. Plus selfish reasons of course, to reduce my myopia. At -5.00 and 47 years of age, I don’t have time to lose.
Turns out my first differential was a bit of a disaster. I ignored a vital number you see, the number 47. My age. It’s not that I can’t read with my distance correction on, ie my contact lenses, but putting the differential prescription on top made close-up a great deal clearer. This is not supposed to happen. Basically, the differential was just a pair of reading glasses for me. And to find active blur, I was taking the page further away until it blurred, and focusing on it to clear it up. Jake has advised me not to wear them for now, and get to the distance vision part of the program. We will go back to the near vision later.
Now, though, amazingly, when I read without them, close-up is less clear than it was before I started wearing them at all. It seems that my eyes have adjusting to the help from the lenses, after just two weeks of use! The same thing has happened here as it does for myopia with minus lenses in the distance, just with plus lenses for near. This is another example of the rapid adverse effect of lens use. And I’m glad to have been a guinea-pig.
Time has not been wasted though. I got active focus, a major achievement! I will read on now and soon reduce my distance prescription. Have a good weekend!
