Angela: When I’m Just About To Give Up
Do you ever look through your reduced diopter glasses and feel like you're just not making any progress? Do you look at the world and blur just won't clear up? Have your centimeters not changed in what seems like forever?If you had any of these experiences, this post is for you.Just the other day, we had our first quitter of the year.Swagger-bro type. "Hey Jake, I need the sessions faster." "Hey Jake, this is redundant." "Hey Jake, I've already read half that stuff in the blog."Part [...]
The Importance of the Eye-Test
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristThe recent case of the London optometrist who was convicted of manslaughter requires a mention here.The optometrist failed to spot abnormalities in the eyes of a child who was suffering from hydrocephalus -fluid on the brain. Sadly, the child died of the condition shortly after the eye-test. The optometrist was found guilty of manslaughter through gross negligence, for missing signs that would have been obvious to any competent optometrist. A tragic story, but thankfully an unprecedented one. Optometrists are trained professionals whose first duty [...]
Crazy: Italian Opticians Know What Causes Myopia
If you've known me and my eyeball musings for a while, you probably already know that you can live in rural Russia and get solid myopia prevention advice from Russian opticians (though maybe that doesn't necessarily mean you should move there immediately). Likewise in various other countries, especially ones not dominated by Essilor and their cohorts lens rep locusts. Locusts, those company reps. Basically wherever there isn't a strong financial motive to sell lenses, or a general lack of lens availability, or little presence of [...]
Maybe They Are Right
Look at those bags under Jakey's eyes.Your darling eye guru is mildly depressed, today. Mildly.Baby mama started a Burmese fitness channel a few days ago. It already has more subscribers, likes, comments than @endmyopia managed in the past three years. Awesome for her, and trying to ignore the many things one could imply from this story. And who can blame them.Any wonder that I make fun of clueless eye doctors who gleefully ignore both medical science and common sense? I'm just jealous. At least those [...]
How Long To Get From -2.25 D To No-Glasses 20/20?
"How fast can I improve my eyesight?" Jake. Tell me, tell me now!In the top 5 of most common questions, no doubt. And while I can fully appreciate the sense of urgency, I would be doing you a disservice by not telling you what you actually should really know. More on that, in a moment.Adele asks in the forum:There it is, the "how fast" question.Btw, notice how things are getting nicer, bit by bit, in the forum? We've got the centimeter charts happening with more students, we [...]
Singapore Eye Doctors: Reign Of The Clueless & Inept
Does that title sound like there's a rant coming on?Oh, kittehs. I'll try to just shut up and let the eye doctors do the talking for all of us. Because as we know, doctor knows best:Ok, don't mind us, scratching our heads a bit."Wearing glasses, unlike to contribute anything significant." That's classic, really. Unrelated and real quick, if you go to Google Scholar and search "lens induced myopia", how many results do you think come up? (47,800 for me). That confirms the good doctor's opinion, [...]