Explore All The 20/20 Gains. Browse detailed student reports, hundreds of them, going back years and years in the history of @endmyopia participants. These reports are taken directly from the BackTo20/20 support forum, from e-mails to us, and from our Facebook group.
In many cases you may be able to find the student, be it in the support forum or our Facebook group. A lot of the reports include ideas, strategies, personal challenges, and other insights that may help you on your own vision improvement journey. Enjoy!
Kim, 0.50 Diopters Improved: Sometimes Glasses Are A Good Thing
You already know what I think of most optometrist's advice. Yes, sure. If you don't care about your eyes and want a quick fix, by all means .. get that gigantic minus prescription. But then there's the other contingent of foolish advice. (mostly online, this) I'm talking of course about the guys who tell you to never wear glasses. Whenever you read anywhere that you shouldn't wear glasses at all, just close the tab. Click, out, nothing else they say [...]
Will: From -5.25 to -3.50 In One Month
Will posts his rather impressive first month progress report in the forum:I’m in month 2, measuring cm’s for the normalized prescription.Here’s what’s happened so far:Starting point: (contacts)R: -5.0L: -5.25Starting cm’s:R: 20L: 18.5Day 1, after understanding strain, I immediately put +2.5 readers over my contacts, and within a few days I could see 20/20 with +1 readers for distance.I ordered different strenght contacts starting at -4/-4.25 and moved all activities possible outdoors. Computer use is max 3 hrs/day at work. Frequent [...]
Shannon’s Progress: After 5 Weeks Reduced To -6.00
Shannon posts her latest update in the forum:After 5 weeks at -6.5, I was feeling everything was quite clear. I went to my dad’s farm, and looked around and the leaves in the trees looked clearer than I had seen in the last couple of years with my full prescription. Everything is looking more beautiful than ever before. This weekend, on my 5 week mark of my first prescription decrease, I have switched to a -6.0. I am feeling a lot [...]
William’s Progress: -5.00 to -3.50
William posts his progress in the forum:Starting point:Glasses: (never wore)Right: -5.00/-0.25/30Left: -5.75/-0.5/177Contacts:Right -5.00Left -5.25I started by wearing a +2.5 reader over my contacts, and very rapidly I was able to drop my contact scrip.Today:Contacts:Right: -3.50Left: -4.0020/20 each eye inside, 20/15 or better both eyes open.I’m wearing a +1.25 reader over those for any close work.Couple of observations/questions:1. Left eye only double vision on Snellen: with both eyes open, things work great, but when I cover my right eye, the left [...]
Steve (-7.50) Beats Myopia: Optometrist Confirms ~1 Diopter Improvement
The hardest test of your vision improvement, is visiting the optometrist. Once you learn how to measure your own eyes, you realize just how much that optometrist exam room stacks the deck against your eyes. The dark room, the poor quality, narrow spectrum lighting, the possibly unevenly lit chart. The clicking of lenses, of which you aren't told the strength, and the disembodied voice, forever asking "better now, or ... now". It's an eye inquisition. It's no fair trial. [...]
Kim (-7.50): Improved by 1.5 Diopters in 3 Months
Greetings, dear blog readers! While I don't write often these days, do know that I read. And I certainly see when you guys pick on my English accent. Yaaa, I know all. Jake instigates, and you think it's funny. ;-) Meanwhile I continue to receive encouraging e-mails, it is really great to see many of your benefitting from this resource. Here is a message from Kim, in my mailbox last week: Hi Alex, I started off at -6.5 L [...]