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.
Samuel Making The 20/20 Gains: -2.00 Down To -1.25 In 5 Months
*above, what all people in Finland look like ... more on that in a moment. The e-mail is the usual torrent of messages, and your darling eye guru has been getting lazy. Yes, it's true. I've been neglectful about taking screenshots and re-posting some of the gains our readers have been making and writing in about. Bad Jake! Let's get back on that subject since it's so key, and one of my very favorite things about this whole project. It's Samuel's [...]
Low Myopia, Plus Lenses, & Doubts About Progress
Do you have low myopia? Tempted to tinker with plus lenses? Wondering if you're actually making progress? Yes? Then this post is for you! Toshiki posts an interesting and highly relevant round of observations in the support forum (in response to another post, the whole thread is here). I'm reposting his comments here, since you're going to want to refer back to this, sooner or later: Objectively measurable long-term progress can be a bitch. I started in early February this [...]
Eye Strain Awareness: Prevent Pseudo Myopia
Eye strain. It's what put you on the path to myopia in the first place. It's insidious because you're eyes are like the slow boiled frog. You don't notice the eye strain as it's been building up over the years. You were doing really fun things (computer games, books) or really challenging things (school tests or job assignments) and before you knew it, your eyes were already strain habituated. And also you probably had pseudo-, or near-induced transient myopia. [...]
From Glasses To No-Glasses 20/20 Vision
Every so often I'm asked whether students actually make it out of glasses and back to real, uncorrected 20/20. Of course they do. Figure that only a relatively small percentage post progress updates (I can't really complain, I'd probably be a non-poster myself), and that average myopia is at least 4-6 diopters for most people. That's several years of progress and I haven't been running the site quite long enough for most of them to be back to 20/20 just [...]
Nakanita: From -3 Diopters To 20/30 Without Glasses!
We don't really Facebook. Mostly that's your darling host's fault, who just doesn't have the attention span for juggling the social media. All for the better anyway, considering the type of heresy that we appear to be inciting all over the world. I'm embarrassed, frankly. Take a look at Nakanita's insouciantly flaunted disregard for professional advice: Go ahead, shake your head. There we go, people not listening to their retina specialist about further increasing a -3 diopter prescription - and then [...]
Down to -1.50 D: Progress, Patching, Observations
* progress chart forum signature: Janna The forum is really very helpful for perspectives and insights and individual experiences with reducing myopia. I highly recommend reading it regularly (if you're in BackTo20/20), there's much you can learn from the collective experiences there. Here's Matthew's update from yesterday, working on low diopter equalization: I’m almost 30 days into a new normalized of L -1.25 / R -1.50. I have been working on patching for several months now, too. Here’s my observations: [...]