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.
My Own Experience With Low Myopia
A quick post today, for those among us who are battling low myopia. As you know, I used to wear a -4.00 prescription, with quite a bit of astigmatism correction, and was told that I really needed to think about a -5.00. It wasn't smooth sailing getting that down to -1.50 territory, no astigmatism correction, but once I figured out the system, it was fairly predictable. Except that last diopter. That wasn't easy at all. We talked about all this [...]
Ignoring Low Myopia: Posture Problems & Social Anxiety
I can spot low myopes who refuse to wear glasses, just by the way they walk and the way they interact with people, strangers in particular. When you can't see clearly, your body hunches, and you avoid eye contact. This goes much further than people think. Ignore it long enough and you might actually believe that you are a socially awkward introvert with chronic back pain, rather than just a mild myope who doesn't want to wear glasses. The myope [...]
Q&A #17: Equalizing Low Myopia
Cutting it close today, on the daily blog. 10:13PM, just getting home, have to get this up so you get the daily dose of all the things. Since I don't quite have the energy left to talk about studies or improvement reports, we'll have to make do with the latest video Q&A for today. Little bit of pointless trivia: There was a time that I had gotten it in my head that I'd need a bit of a nest in [...]
Christian’s Last Diopter! From -1.25 To -1.00
Let's catch up on some more of the progress updates today. If you have forum access, it's really sometimes quite handy to click on the person's name next to a post you find intriguing. You will get to a page showing all topics started by them, as well as all threads commented in. With this you can often get a whole picture of progress, challenges, questions, problems, everything that the student dealt with to get to this point. And since [...]
Paul’s Progress: -2.00 to -1.25 (in 3.5 months)
Here's Paul's progress report from the forum: Hi Jake, long overdue, but today I will add to your unicorn farm of progress reports, with some questions attached. So how is it going? I started at the End of July, so approximately 3,5 months into the program. I started with prescriptions between -1.75 and -2.00 and I noticed my eyes were getting worse (that’s another reason I joined this program). After some starting issues I did one lesson everyday and started to notice [...]
From -2.25 To No-Glasses Clear Flashes
Matthew posts an update in the forum: I posted last month about a nice prescription reduction and my excitement about the progress I have made since last year. I reduced to: OD -2.50 *-.25 *177 OS -2.00 *-.50 *177 I adapted to the reduction faster than I thought, and could consistently clear to the 20/20 line on my snellen in good lighting. After 4 weeks at that prescription, I decided to try another reduction. Now, I am at: OD -2.25 [...]