Magda writes in an e-mail:
I was given glasses at age 2yrs.
At this age I had two lasik surgeries per eye which brought the left down to 20/40 and the right to 20/20
Dr. Mark Speaker performed the surgeries, one of the best in the business, although I’ve since heard that lasik can cause permanent damage to the cornea.
Over the last 12 years my vision has regressed.
I went to Dr. Speaker when the eyes had still only regressed to -1.25 and he delivered the fatal blow; he prescribed glasses. The rest is easy to deduce. I wore glasses until last June at which point the vision was at -4.75 in left and right approximately.
I removed the glasses and did some Bates techniques, and Meir Schneider.
Now the left is -4.25 and the right is -3.25 or -3.50.
I seem to have plateaued here and I need to get to 20/20.
I’ve been told that lasik may damage one’s ability to rehabilitate because the cornea has been weakened and may not be able to hold the distance focus. I do not believe it, but what is your considered opinion.
Please advise on courses of action I might take, blogs to read, things to bare in mind or focus on. etc.
I need to get the two eyes working together in a balanced fashion, I see double at a distance and the image bounces off and appears to float in mid-air. Example: White window frames have shadows and are they seem displaced from where they ought to sit. “
If you have read this site for a while, if you know about myopia causes – can you read an e-mail like that, without cringing?
This is why I have such a problem with the mainstream vision industry, and the quick fix.
We discussed the two stages of myopia and the progression that inevitably occurs once you begin to wear minus lenses. There is no doubt, question, or argument in any vision science journal, related study, that a minus lens makes your eyes more myopic.
I hope that one day the profession of ophthalmology will look back on our times, and shake their heads at the sheer lunacy of how we treat myopia today.
First they give Magda glasses, to treat an initially transient symptom (also exceedingly well understood by science today). Which is the wrong choice, though it is done by 99% of practitioners. Then, as due to Magda’s genetic predisposition for increasing myopia (a secondary factor) her myopia spirals out of control, they opt for a permanent lens, carved into her eye (LASIK).
Then when that does nothing to halt progression, since nobody ever stopped to consider the actual cause during her treatment, they give her more glasses. Where else in medicine do we apply an entirely dysfunctional treatment, and continue it even as it makes the patient more sick?
The next stop for Magda will be the serious risk of retinal detachment. Entirely avoidable, a real risk created entirely by the treatment.
We can’t reverse the axial elongation of her eyeball after LASIK (which is really a high risk factor, at a 14 diopter correction, considering 1 millimeter for every 3 diopters of growth). Until that procedure, there is at least some opportunity. After LASIK, that is more or less permanent. And creating an unnatural and permanent strain on the attachment of the retina to the eyeball.
Meanwhile, ophthalmologists refuse to even look at rehabilitation.
Worse yet, I see them refuse to read published studies in industry science journals, that make the same point. At what point should a practitioner overcome an outsized ego and ingrained dogma, to actually begin helping his/her patients? Even a cursory glance at the client reviews here should be enlightening.
And all I see online, is the faith healers peddling Bates Method and eye yoga. Just like the other side, they attack sites like this with rumor and disinformation.
I do have to say, things didn’t appear nearly this bleak, in a local practice. The Internet certainly opens the gates to a whole bigger picture, one that on days like today, I’d much rather not be aware of.
Throw in a few belligerent e-mails, and the fact that it’s Sunday, and the idea of real retirement is more than a little tempting.
Please, do better than these guys. And help spread some vision health awareness.
