Ljupka: From -3.00 Down To -1.50 (In 7 Months!)
Today let's look at another progress report, this time from the BackTo20/20 support forum. You probably noticed that we get a lot of 20/20 gains stories from our Facebook group, as well as some that I repost from my e-mail inbox. I like to cover as many of these as possible since any one of them may be closest to your own situation and provide you with the most relevant insights. These reports aren't "testimonials". Look at them both as inspiration, and a resource for [...]
New Glasses: Massive Eye Pain!
Have you ever left the optometrist's office with new glasses, and your eyes hurting like never before? "Oh you'll get used to it", they tell you. If you were to ask a sagely bearded eye guru, he'd probably tell you that you should go home and measure your own focal plane error and that you might have way more diopters than you need. Maybe. Also look for diopter ratio changes, or changes to cylinder correction. This is the sort of thing where you either trust [...]
(Another) DIY Diopter Measuring Tool
This post is if you, if you're looking to make your own diopter measuring tool. Of course first there is the whole topic of centimeters and diopters covered in various posts in the lens and diopter blog category. And also of course with endmyopia being by far the largest and most comprehensive science based vision improvement resource online, readers and students have created various similar forms of diopter measuring tools. Adding to the list is this DIY solution, posted by Charleen: Simple and effective. Of course [...]
Initial Improvement Experiences: Stephanie & Eli
As usual, we're behind in posting improvement updates. Today a few that aren't of the zillion-diopters-reversed category. Those are awesome of course, but what can be even more tangibly inspirational is the gains you get when you first try Jakey's magical recipe. Starting out with reduced corrections can be daunting. Less clarity. More blur. You put those glasses on and every time you wonder, am I nuts doing this? Eli posts in the FB group: Starting gains. This isn't the headline grabbing stuff. But it [...]
Taking New (Lowered Diopter) Glasses On Vacation?
If you're about to have a vacation coming up, and about to be ready for reduced normalized glasses, this article is for you! Discussion courtesy of the BackTo20/20 forum, and David: And centimeter gains! My comments: Familiar environments during focal plane changes, good idea. As with most things here it makes perfect sense once you know. Make it easy for your visual cortex to sort out a focal plane change, by not also changing your visual environment at the same time. People tend to underestimate [...]
Glasses vs. Contact Lenses: The Correct Focal Plane
Are your contact lenses and glasses the same exact (relative) correction? They better be! Focal planes are the key to all things myopia. Your eye being a dynamic system, constantly adjusting to seek ideal eyesight, uses focal plane feedback to calibrate itself. This aspect of our biology is elegant and so complex that we barely begin to scratch the surface on how it works. And yet ... we go monkey around with artificial focal plane changes, like it's no big deal. Every so often [...]