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!
Neuroplasticity & Curiously Disappearing Presbyopia
There are various vision boogeymen that you know we here @endmyopia consider to be vastly overrated. Astigmatism is one of them. Astigmatism isn't even a thing, seriously. (ok it's a thing sometimes, but far, far far more rarely than most optometrist will sell you lenses for) We have a whole astigmatism section here on the blog. Nothing reverses faster than astigmatism, and I scoff every time I hear anyone in the business 'diagnose' it. Get the f' outa here, with selling [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nakanita: From -3 Diopters To 20/30 Without Glasses!
We don't really Facebook. Mostly that's your darling host's fault, who just doesn't have the attention span for juggling the social media. All for the better anyway, considering the type of heresy that we appear to be inciting all over the world. I'm embarrassed, frankly. Take a look at Nakanita's insouciantly flaunted disregard for professional advice: Go ahead, shake your head. There we go, people not listening to their retina specialist about further increasing a -3 diopter prescription - and then [...]
Astigmatism Correction Greatly Exaggerated: Why We Love Test Lens Kits
Test lens kits. Three little words that get Jakey all kinds of riled up!I always say that most of modern retail optometry has zero to do with medicine. Look at any optic shop in any mall, and tell me that you expect to get medical advice in there, while looking through their shop window. Rows of fancy glasses, models sitting on the beach, two-for-one offers, sales pitches everywhere.Come on, what a sham, the whole thing.16th century invention, not by doctors, [...]
Did LASIK, Spent $4,000, Horrible Floaters & Headaches
Here's a comment Alex left on our Youtube video on crazy scary LASIK practitioners (if you haven't seen it, click over or read the blog post here): It's a serious gamble, no re-do's, this whole LASIK thing. On a lighter note, did you see the video edit of the story about the Indian boy who beats all of modern optometry? It's silly of course, but also watch it here: Thumbs up, subscribe to the channel for more videos. Count yourself [...]