Reversing Low Myopia: Your eye is a stimulus response system. The degree of myopia is largely irrelevant to your ability to reverse it – in other words, you can always reverse both pseudo- and lens-induced myopia.
The devil though, is in the details. It may seem more challenging to reverse that last (or only) diopter. The reason for that though is largely because it’s a) a bit trickier to get the right sort of stimulus and b) it’s harder to quantify a 20% improvement (for example) when you’re just dealing with low myopia to begin with. Read through this section for ideas, student feedback, and how-to guides for the low myope.
(Low Myopia Pro Topic) Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff
I just wrote a rather lengthy response in the forum, addressing a low myopia question. This is definitely a pro topic, so if you're a casual reader, don't start monkeying around based on anything you read in this post. Also, everything is here is perfectly unsanctioned, non-medical, fully unlicensed (and yet highly guru-esque and professional) advice. Here's just an excerpt of the forum question: I like to go on walks at night. Recently, I’ve been outside and tried my various [...]
20/20 Gains: Mark Reduces From -2.50 To -1.50
Today let's look at an e-mail from Mark, who is getting well and nicely comfortable outside of the mainstream single prescription paradigm. Great to see people learning about their eyes, about optic, about myopia! Look at a sane and appropriate use of lenses here, as described by Mark: Jake, I'm writing to you to give you an overview of my progress (as it's exactly a year since I subscribed) and ask a couple of questions. I've realised, through your teachings [...]
Kristina Did It! (18 Year Old High School Student Reverses Myopia)
You want to know what tangible success looks like? How about six months to reduce a full diopter in lens prescriptions? Big deal, you think. You show us these stories all the time, Jake. But this one is Kristina, who is an 18 year old high school student. And before anyone gets their huff-pants on about how age doesn't matter, let me just interrupt that right now. We've actually got a strict minimum age of 25 for BackTo20/20, exactly [...]
Johnny: -5.50 To No-Glasses 20/20 (In Two Years)
Johnny posts his latest update in the forum: Hi everyone, time for an update on my progress Well this is the big one….the short version of it is that I’ve stopped wearing correction completely during the day! Even though this has been something beyond my wildest dreams for years and years when it actually happened it felt like a non-event. I feel I should be more excited but it wasn’t a huge jump in terms of eyesight and blur, as [...]
Omar: Reduced From -1.00 To -0.25 (In Six Months!)
You know what is amazing? We could literally do only eyesight improvement stories, and cover every single day of the blog. We're actually pretty close to where we could do only eyesight improvement stories from just blog readers (not even students), and cover every single day. That's huge. Oh boy, I can't resist right now ... Right?! Anyway. This one is interesting because it's low myopia, which really takes getting everything right, not being torn by doubts of what's possible, and taking [...]
The 30 Day Trick, From Matthew (-4.00 TO -1.25)
Matthew started at out a -4.00, two years ago. He since managed to reverse most of his myopia (to -1.25), with persistence and good habits. If there's one thing I'll teach my child, it'll be to set yourself a goal, and then surround yourself with people who already accomplished what you're just setting out to do. There's no sense going at it alone, or listening to anyone other than those who are already where you're trying to go. Cut [...]