I occasionally joke about what sometimes may look like an endless barrage of improvement stories.  We could literally turn this blog into just improvement stories and myopia control progress reports, and cover every single day of the year.

Who else, licensed or otherwise, can make (and back up) such a claim? 

You’re the star of this show.  You take what is certainly a challenging amount of information, from biology to optics to clinical science, you add your own patience and persistence, and turn lots of theory into actual, tangible better eyesight.

You are dong this even if the whole old-timey, 16th century medicine mainstream for-profit optometry profession tells you that it’s impossible.

Odd as it may sounds, you are your own pioneer in this arena.  The rest of the world still believes that the current massive myopia epidemic is some wrathful thunder god’s doing (or “genetic” or “not enough outdoor time” or whatever else nonsensical most journalist hacks put out in their publications).  You’re proof that individual fitness and intelligence = survival.  

But enough of all that. Let’s look at Kim’s progress update:

It’s been a while since I’ve given my update.

Recap: Started last year late January with -6.5 left eye, -7.5 right eye. Progress was pretty rapid, managing to drop down 2.5 diopters for left eye and 3 diopters for my right eye by the time the year ended. 

I was basically stuck in a rut for a while with -4(L), -4.5(R) last year in October. I believe the shorter daytimes had something to do with this. I think what definitely helped was the various vacations. I didn’t have much close up (maybe on average 1 hour a day) and was mostly hiking or out and about. After resolving some double vision, I managed to drop down to -3.75(L), 4.25(R) late January 2016. It seemed I somehow “skipped” over this prescription though because I could see 20/20 with these glasses after a few days. I just ordered -3.5(L), and -4(R). 

From my cm test results lately, I can now see pretty clearly around 30.48 cm. Occasionally, there will be some double vision. This is about the distance I sit away from my laptop, so I’ve been trying to resolve some of this double vision without wearing my glasses when I am at work. However, once my eyes feel strain, I end up going back to my differential prescription, and moving the laptop further back to around 45-55cm. Pretty excited about the progress.

I can also now see people’s facial features from a few feet away without my glasses. Still a little blurry, mostly double vision, but it’s something! ?

04/April/2015 Differential: L: -3.25 R: -4.00
11/Nov/2015 Normalized: L: -4.00 R: -4.50

Well done!

I’m slowly working on turning BackTo20/20 into it’s own clinical science project, with tools to help put all this data from hundreds of students, into a single, usable format.  The program is entirely unprecedented in its effectiveness, with participants like Kim putting in the work to translate the sessions into personal success stories.

As a science project BackTo20/20 might temporarily be even less “open to the public” than it already is.  But even the blog as a tool to get you on track, is producing lots and lots of improvement accounts, from all walks of life (and very much varying English proficiencies as well):

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See that, bros?  There is hope for all!  ;)

Cheers,

-Jake