The Dominant Eye: Don’t Get The Wrong Prescription!
This, an important question, that comes up every so often and likely will be relevant to you:Should I reduce the prescription strength for my weak eye, to force it to work harder and catch up? Reading the numbers themselves is covered on its own page: how to read your eye prescription. You likely noticed this with your centimeter measurements - one of your eyes is stronger / can see further, than the other. This is entirely normal. It relates to a phenomenon often referred to [...]
Should You Fear The Optometrist? (Or: How To Drop 2 Diopters In 10 Months)
The forum, ever the goldmine of participant insights, most recently with Cadence posting about her unfortunate experience at the optometrist: I went down to the optometrist today where it was a really bad experience. The first shop that I went to is the one that prescribe me my glasses 1 year ago. When I went in, the regular optometrist is no longer there and was replaced by an unfriendly lady. For measurements of my eye she did not offer to do the chart testing for [...]
Stem Cell Treatments: The Future Cure Of Corneal Scarring
We focus here primarily on myopia, as the most common ailment of the eye. In that process we may sound less than idealistic about the mainstream treatment options and many of the practitioners advocating surgery or glasses. It's easy to loose track of just how much medical science is advancing, especially in terms of acute symptom treatment of eye related injuries. An example of this that is most promising to those with corneal scarring, corneal burns, or other corneal damage. Corneal infectious diseases alone affect [...]
Cataracts, Nanometers, & Sleep Disorders: Light Is The Food Of Your Eyes
Neha, Eye Health Practitioner: Who I Am, How I Ended Up Writing HereHello, dear readers of this great site! My name is Neha Gupta, I am a holistic health practitioner with a focus on eyesight related illness, here in India. This is my 14th year in the practice. I work mostly with prevention as we have less myopia here in childhood, and less aggressive prescription therapy locally. I am most frequently sought for sleep disorders, and health problems that relate to eyesight.I was first introduced to this site [...]
Cataracts, Nanometers, & Sleep Disorders: Light Is The Food Of Your Eyes
Neha, Eye Health Practitioner: Who I Am, How I Ended Up Writing HereHello, dear readers of this great site! My name is Neha Gupta, I am a holistic health practitioner with a focus on eyesight related illness, here in India. This is my 14th year in the practice. I work mostly with prevention as we have less myopia here in childhood, and less aggressive prescription therapy locally. I am most frequently sought for sleep disorders, and health problems that relate to eyesight.I was first introduced to this site [...]
Try One Simple Change To Immediate Reduce Sight Damaging Eye Strain
Rebecca writes: So far I’ve found integrating the program into my daily life has not been much of a problem at all. I’m not following it to the letter but revising as necessary to do what I can. I wake up in the mornings and go through my routine without my lenses and even as a high myope (-6.5/-7.0), I don’t have any trouble with this. In fact, I find the more time I spend without my lenses, the more I am surprised by what [...]
