You know my position on prescription complexity.

No bueno.  Ratio of diopters between left and right eye way out of control, all sorts of astigmatism correction, different for each eye, also with varying ratios and on this axis and that axis.

Ugh.  What a mess for your eyes.

Of course you can’t just quit such a prescription, cold turkey.  It took years and years of slowly tying those knots into your focal planes.  Now you have to go slowly and methodically about metaphorically untying them.  (and yes, sometimes astigmatism prescription does make sense)

It’s easy enough, once you know how.  Small habit changes, small prescription changes.  A bit of positive stimulus.

What’s way better though, than all of this?

An awesome optometrist.  Well worth a proper search.

And before you say, Jake, no optometrist out there has your method.  I want only the eye guru sage advice.

I know.  You’re right.  But the right kind of optometrist, open minded, not a prescription sales drive through order taker, is so very much worth having.  I used to under-emphasize this, in favor of railing against mainstream optometry.  But there are awesome optometrists.

To wit, check out this forum post excerpt from Fleur:

fleur-optometrist-astigmatism

Seriously, how cool is that?

I read it twice.  Thinking, wow, I want to shake that optometrist’s hand.  An optometrist who straight up says to her client, “hey that astigmatism correction isn’t ideal, let’s just do spherical, more healthy”.

That kind of statement deserves to be framed, mounted, put on a little pro-healthy-eyes shrine.

And it validates both the endmyopia optometrist consultant’s comments, and makes me feel better about the new pro section and time going towards that.  You give an optometrist like that the tools we have here, and who knows what could happen.

Love these forum posts!  (Fleur’s full thread is all about new normalized and reductions, and skipping astigmatism, and equalizing – if you’re a student, you can find it and my comments here).

Housekeeping:  You may notice how much of the blog comes from your input.  The main method aside, almost everything you see here is a product of you reaching out and sharing ideas, thoughts, experiences.  

Also new FAQ in the experimental video section, #18 (why do you have a drawn out e-mail course, Jake?!)

Cheers,

-Jake