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!
Hao: Improving 1 Diopter Per Year
Hao writes in the forum:I’ve been myopic since grade school. I started wearing glasses at 12 yo, -2.25/-2.25 at the time. Around this time last year, February 2013, I went to the optometrist and was prescribed -4.75OD/-5.25OS, with -1.00/-0.50 astigmatism corrections, respectively. I was scared that my visual acuity would keep getting worse and worse. Plus, the new glasses didn’t feel right. I thought my eyes were telling me they were too strong. So I started looking into myopia rehab and [...]
Jessi: Where Is My Improvement?
This is part two of this article based on this forum thread.I was curious to see what might happen, if I don't jump in but rather let readers use Jessi's clues to find an answer to her question. The (part 1) article was meant to highlight that sense of struggle that is common especially when we are working our way back from high myopia.Coincidentally (and ironically perhaps), the article coincided with quite a traffic spike, which may have confused some [...]
14 Year Old Improves From -2.25 to -1.75
Image above, entirely in jest. Optometrists aren't plunging you (or your kids) into progressive myopia on purpose. --- Lucia writes in the forum: I have joined up for my son who is 14, his prescription was -2.25 in right eye and -1.50 in left eye with slight astigmatism when we visited the optician for first time. He has been print pushing with plus lenses on for close up work at home and Working on far away signs and number plates and [...]
Jessi: When The Program Fails To Deliver
Jessi recently posts this question in the forumI haven’t posted for awhile but I have been keeping up with pushing focus and active focus as well as religiously wearing the normalized and differential prescriptions. I’ve been doing the program for a year now and while I’ve noticed improvements in the vision I can achieve (measured on the snellen chart) with both prescriptions, my vision without glasses remains the same at 11cm/12cm. I’m starting to get a little disheartened. Can anyone [...]
Kelly: Persistence
About six weeks ago I met a woman at the local climbing gym. We ended up having a conversation, which I wish I could have a video recording of. Inspiration, personified.She is in her mid 60s, and outclimbed men in their 20s, up and down the rock walls, on the most difficult levels, for the better part of two hours. I approached her, just because I could not pass up an opportunity to talk to someone who clearly has a [...]
Claire: Prescription Reduction Timing
Claire asks, in the forum:I’ve had a -1.75 prescription (reduced from -2.25) for about 2 months. I did one month of the program and plan to do the 2nd month but for the moment I am just using what I learned from month 1 about focus pushing while reading, lots of breaks, outdoor walking.My question is, when you have a reduced prescription, are you supposed to wait until it becomes constantly blazing sharp to reduce it again? With this -1.75 [...]