Here’s Dodgy-Town. A whole category on questionable myopia therapies, ideas, snake oil sales, and various shortsighted treatments that warrant a closer look (and probably some derision by a certain indisputably wise and considerate eye guru).
Whether it’s Atropine drops (poison!) being advocated by “doctors” for your kid’s eyes, or Ortho-K to temporarily flatten (and possibly permanently damage) your cornea, or using subconscious sales tricks to get you to buy glasses, this category has it all. You’ll see it all, you’ll marvel and wonder how you may have missed out on all the ways you could be getting screwed. Enjoy!
Abhineet, “Could Always Be Worse”: -22 Diopters At Age 18!
Are we doing the right thing with @endmyopia? Why aren't we monetizing the living cr#p out of a fairly awesome myopia control method, in which there is a decade of fine tuning and perfecting invested already? I do have days where I think about it. Human nature, get whatever we can for ourselves. Upgrade the lifestyle. There's always a bigger house, a bigger boat, a bigger hot tub with more girls to put in. But then there are stories like [...]
Caveat Emptor: LASIK – Amrit Just Got His Eyes Butchered (Forever)
So, kitteh. Thinking about LASIK? I know you're not. You read this blog after all, so you know better. But let's just take a moment to put the bits into perspective. You go for a regular eye checkup. The guy is a doctor, he's got a medical office/practice, he's all professional and there are lots of machines and things that he's using to do your eye exam. You feel like you're in good hand. He's confidence inspiring. He moves efficiently, he's [...]
Do. Not. Measure. Your. Eyesight.
This is a public service announcement (per mainstream optometry rules): Do not try to measure your refraction. In fact, do not measure anything, when it comes to your eyesight. Don't measure and most importantly, don't adjust diopters. Just don't do it. You're *not* qualified and very bad things could happen. Very. Bad. Things. This is nothing less than curved, clear plastic we're talking about here. Curved, do think about this means. Think about what you're messing with. You are bending light! That's [...]
Myopia Madness: Are Your Glasses (Way) Too Strong?
Are your glasses way too strong? How can you tell? And if they are, is that a (huge) problem? These are questions most people don't ask. And yet this is exactly where mainstream optometry myopia treatment and optometry science tell completely different stories. Your average optometrist is taught to give you as much minus as possible (for the best possible symptom treatment, letting you see as clearly as possible). And yet the science shows that too much minus increases the [...]
Let’s Stop Calling Glasses “Prescriptions”
The title, pretty much says it all. You probably already know that glasses were invented sometime in the 16th century (some say, much earlier). They were not invented by doctors, not by medical science, not by optometry or ophthalmology. It's an important point, that medical professionals today would probably rather not have you contemplate a whole lot. Glasses were appropriated, many centuries later, by the lens manufacturing industry and by modern optometry as the "medical treatment" you're familiar with today. [...]
Barb’s First Normalized Glasses: Dropped From -3.50 To -2.00 (In 1.5 Months!)
This is pretty amazing. Barb reports a 40% reduction in myopia in a month and a half. Sometimes you read these progress reports, and you just have to think. How's that even possible? What's the scheme here? Is Jake preparing some kind of eagle eyed cult scenario over there, wherever he is in Asia? Let's figure that out. First, a quick look at Barb's support forum post: Look at that centimeter graph. Data! <3 Centimeter graph to show us what's going on. Starting [...]