Have you seen your eyeglass prescription recently?  If you haven’t, it might be worth a look!

Chances are, it is anything but straightforward, and looks like something in the above image.  There will be a difference between your left and right eye spherical values.  Then, there will most likely be an astigmatism correction.  This one adds a whole lot of complexity to the lens that you see the world through.  You have different values for each eye, and then also the axis to which that correction is applied – also probably different for each of your eyes.

This is a whole lot of complexity.   Think of what this means:

The glass in front of your eyes introduces distortion on several different planes, and different for both of your eyes.

And the worst part of it all?  Changes are that these distortions, billed as “necessary for your eyesight”, are not correct.  Back in the office days I would frequently joke that I would take a 10,000 Euro bet that no matter what prescription you bring me, it will not be correct for your eyesight.

Multiple correction on multiple axis, varying for each eye.  Not a rehabilitative strategy.

With that, I mean that you can go back to any optic shop, making sure they don’t have your prescription, and have them measure a new one.  Will it be the same, astigmatism correction and all?  No.  I will say this with at least 90% certainty.

Think about this!  Your prescription, the permanent, all-day, every-day vision distortion you were prescribed, can most likely not be identically reproduced by a new measurement.

So what is it, that you are wearing then, what is affecting how you perceive the world?

It is the wrong prescription.  Almost certainly.

The other side of this story is that no matter what, a static prescription of glass will never be accurate.  If you have been doing your own Snellen eyechart tests at home (as you should!) and maybe even centimeter measurements, you know why.  Your eyes change throughout the day, and depending on external conditions.

This is not just me telling you things, this is easily verified by yourself.  You can

a) measure your eyesight via Snellen or centimeter, multiple times, and get varying results – and

b) you can go to any optic shop, get a prescription, go to another optic shop, get another prescription – and they won’t be the same.

As I often like to say, here … don’t take my word for it.  If you need to get your own proof, just try the two simple things above.

The point is, your prescription, since it is static glass, will never be right.

This leads us to one of the premises of the #endmyopia Method.  I strongly advocate prescription simplicity.  Since you read everything above, you can already guess why – if the prescription will be wrong, at least let’s make it as little wrong as possible.

Why?  Any prescription value is a distortion of the image you see.  In the best case, this distortion gives you clearer vision.  The best case though is not adding a whole lot of complexity, which is wrong anyways.  We want to do as little wrong here as possible, since we can’t get it fully ‘right’, no matter what we do.

I am not saying that you should eliminate your astigmatism correction, or the difference between left and right eye correction.

What I am saying though, is that we need to evaluate your prescription.  We need to realize that obviously the single prescription paradigm, as advocated by your optic shop, is fundamentally flawed.  We also need to realize that the more complexity we can eliminate (slowly, over time), the better the odds that your physiology can recover from myopia.

Gradually, slowly, is key here.

There are quite a few posts on this and related subjects, such as this one about astigmatism correction.

You don’t need astigmatism correction for your differential (close-up) prescription.  Over time, as you participate in any of my programs, you will need less and less of the complexity of your original prescription.  Eventually you will be down to just a simple spherical correction – two numbers, one for left, one for right eye.  That’s when you are in the best place to shoot directly to ongoing improvement.

More on this subject in the Vision Improvement Courses, and of course the forum.

Enjoy!