A post in a great thread over in our secret Le Meow community forum:
Roughly one year and one period of losing and regaining interest further, today I did a further eye test, which confirms my roughly halved numbers of low myopia. You’ll remember, my maximum value of myopia are about 1 to 1,5 diopters with a little more on the left eye than the right one. Some quarters of which always fall on the cylinder part, but with inconsistent patterns. So I tend to forget about this and just go with spherical values.
Now, some weeks ago I facetiously put on a friend’s sunglasses while hearing him “warn” me they’re with diopters. And boy, did I see it. The distance vision WITH GLASSES was tangibly clearer.
There is no denying it: whenever I go through a period of slackening interest in my (distance) vision, myopia creeps back in. Up unto my fallback state, which is about 1 to 1,5 diopters, – but rather tends to deteriorate even further over the years if I were to continue doing nothing about it.
Yet, on the other hand, it took my just a few weeks of “training” and I worked my back to what is expressed by today’s result (and we all now how such testings tend to capture the weaker moments of our daily swings).R: -0,5 sph
L: -0,25 with -0,75 cyl (90°)Visual acuity, I was told, was “good”, confirms with my impressions, for what it is worth with no quantifications offered.
And, what’s most important: my daily seeing comfort is generally much improved (even though, on the flip side of it, increased awareness also comes with more discontent in bad hours as well.)
My own takeaways are
a) fluidity of visual acuity was apparent (for me) even while the testing procedure lasted. So the numbers “measured” definitively only reflect the minimum intervention guaranteeing stable acuity, not some cutoff-threshold beyond which my vision slightly/gradually but ALWAYS gets worse the farther away the focus lies, as the mainstream theory of myopia, were it true, logically would imply, – and
b) cylinder now on my left eye (instead of where it always tended to be, on the right one), confirms to me that all this is inconclusive.
I guess we could have prefaced this with, “this is definitely an advanced topic type of insight, for those who know endmyopia methods well already”.
Ooops.
Link to the original post and the full thread.
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The forum is quite awesome. Membership is available with any paid materials. Not necessarily any subscription stuff. It also helps to keep out the FB type riff-raff plz-bros (sorry, plz-bros), it helps pay the bills, and this whole thing is just by necessity and nature, a bit fringe.
Takeaway, you’re not stuck at the last diopter (there’s a whole last diopter category, yay). But you have to know your eyes, be aware of changes, have some experiments, tune things to your needs. And just like diet and exercise, there is no such thing as a one time effort with human biology.
Use it or lose it. Or something.
Cheers,
-Jake