Most optometrist intervention in your eyesight is like applying a sledge hammer. There’s not exactly a whole lot of finesse in the common, mainstream approach. You come, you sit, you get cranked to 11.
It does accomplish the intended goal, of instantly “fixing” your eyesight.
And that’s fine. If you care about your eyes as much as you would a disposable Casio watch, then by all means. 11 is perfect. Going to McDonalds if you’re hungry solves the food problem quickly and easily. It won’t be so great for your long term health, but hey … that’s the trade-off in most quick, instant fix solutions.
I know. You’re here reading, because you don’t consider your eyes to be like a 7-dollar Casio watch. You care.
Yesterday’s video about my stuck ciliary prompted a number of e-mails from some of you. Indeed, you’ll never notice that things have gone awry, unless you finesse your diopter use down to reasonable levels. “Tuning”, you might think of it as. It’s a static focal plane change, which by itself is a potentially problematic intervention. Your eyes are neither short nor long term designed for static focal planes.
Short term, immediately, your eyes vary focal plane by an amazingly, complex, beautiful system involving primarily your lens and ciliary muscle. Long term, your eyeball adjusts its axial length for (apparent) ideal focal plane.
Glasses don’t do either. They throw a wrench in the natural process, itself finely tuned to a degree that we’ll not come close to replicating in our lifetimes.
So if you need to use a system as crude as a piece of plastic lens in front of your eye, you want to know what goes on. Tune it, to the prevailing distance you use it for. Close-up? Dial it down, to where it just covers the range of distance you need there. Distance vision? Give it an extra diopter, maybe 1.5, cover a larger diopter bubble, get more distance. The whole time you think clear, double vision, blur. You know how much you need, you use just enough to see clearly but also always challenge your eyes for focus.
That’s the tuner approach. You think, hey, do I really need all those diopters right now? Am I using them? No? Well then let’s make sure to adjust appropriately.
And that’s what I am referring to, in today’s quick video recap. You need low enough diopter correction to actually be able to recognize a stuck ciliary.
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Yikes. See?
Cheers,
-Jake
