Eye Doctor Left Speechless: Eli’s (-8.00) Progress
Eli reports his progress in the forum: I just got back from the eye doctor. He had ordered me a trial pair of -7.00 contacts (I guess he was not expecting much after I put them in). To his amazement I was able to get to 20/20 (without squinting) with the new lowered script. He was almost speechless. When he did talk he said “whatever you are doing, keep doing it”. I said “I plan on it, order me a box of these new contacts”. I [...]
Things To Do With Natural 20/20 Eyeballs – DIVING
I'm going to start asking you a question more often. I want you to think about this question more often. What will you do, with your own 20/20 eyesight? Because really, what's the point in doing all this work, if you're just going to live in front of screens. You want to have a goal, a dream, a thing that'll carry you through all the learning and work and milestones of digging out from those artificial diopters. Start with a goal that gets you emotionally invested. [...]
Q&A: Too Many Focal Plane Changes + What’s This Double Vision?
It's not unusual for me to spend about as much time on a single forum question as I do on an entire post here for the blog. No wonder you say, Jake, that the blog is such a wind blown shack then. You get what you pay for. That's why I only do 10 invites every month, otherwise I'll end up completely fretting about whether I'm providing decent support. That's why you see consistent low volume of support requests in the forum, because [...]
Netflix Is Killing My Distance Vision
Netflix. Jake is going blind. Netflix, what did you do?! If your eyesight sucks and isn't getting better, I may just have stumbled into your problem. Terrifying Netflix. Seriously, I'm almost squinting at the screen right now, typing you this last plaintive warning, from the edge of the grave of my wrung out eyeballs. This should really be a quick video edit. I can't properly emphasize the gravity of this latest discovery, with just words on a page. (but then the video gear is all [...]
Bates Method Eye Exercises
Hey, look. It's time for a Bates Method (and eye exercises) rant. Or is it? I should put a standard disclaimer on all Bates Method posts. I'm not anti-Bates Method at all. In fact, if optometry back in those old-timey, we-don't-know-much-about-biology times would have gone the Bates direction, I'd say we wouldn't have a myopia problem today. At all. Millions of people would be having other jobs, besides in optometry and lens making, and LASIK surgery selling, and retinal detachment check-up-ing. Bates Was On [...]
Ismail 280 Days Progress: -5.00 Diopters Down To -2.50 Diopters
Heads up: Some unrestrained adult language in this following e-mail to House Van Jakerstein. As you read below e-mail, resist the temptation to ask me how Ismail did it. Because kittehs, I don't know. Giant overprescription plus lots of ciliary spasm myopia? Maybe. Is he overstating his -5 into a -7 because of the close-up distance? While that's actually not entirely inaccurate, it's also twisting the numbers a bit. Anyway, here it is: What do I say to this? Not a whole lot. Jake [...]