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!
Bad Optometrist For Your Eyes? Check These Warning Signs
Clicker VanClickbaitigan writes the post headlines. Not your darling eye guru Jake, obviously. It's real simple, the right vs the wrong ("bad") optometrist. You want one who is conservative with handing out prescription increases. You don't want the guy (or gal) who throws diopter increases around like it's candy, in the process accelerating your slide into bad times progressive myopia. Making that point eloquently, with a good backstory, Sarah in the forum: Hi! I’m Sarah and I wanted to make [...]
DANGER: This One Thing Creates 14 (!) Times Higher Risk For Glaucoma
Ohhhh, Jake. Never gets any less weird, does it.From the Straits Times, a major Singaporean news publication:High myopia increases the risk of eye diseases such as cataract, glaucoma, retinal detachment and myopia macular degeneration, all of which can cause irreversible vision loss.In some of the relevant studies quoted in Ophthalmology, high myopia increases the risks of glaucoma by 14.4 times (for -6.00D or more), retinal detachment by 7.8 times (for -8.00D or more) and cataract by 3.3 times (for -6.00D [...]
Reduced Prescription By 1.5 Diopters, Can See 20/15 – Why??
You stop by @endmyopia, read the blog. You wear your regular glasses, from the friendly optic shop. You read about rampant overprescription. What, you think, are they talking about? I'm not overprescribed. My glasses are just right! I can see fine, so what's all this fretting about?If you're that guy, wondering, I'll show you exactly what the fretting is about. Take a quick read at Tim' form post, here:Wow. Just ... wow.Above isn't because Jake waved his magic camel over [...]
Optometrist Says Better Eyes Just An Instrument Error
Today we have Andrew's latest post in the forum, a 0.5 diopter improvement since January!The improvement is probably to be expected (if you're spoiled by this site and students consistent reports of great progress). The hilarious part is how the optometrist is looking for any excuse, going as far as blaming expensive testing gear and the process, just to discount the possibility of actual vision improvement.Check it out:Original thread. Interesting, right?Another way to look at it is the optometrist insisting that their [...]
CooperVision: “Treat Myopia With Contact Lenses”
Blog header image contains no political preference innuendo. Maybe you wonder ... where does all the optometry disinformation come from? Why do doctors tell you plain and utter nonsense, things you can conclusively disprove with a quick Google scholar search?They get it from people they trust, established "leaders" in their industry. If you don't read much optometry industry "news", you are spared a lot of head shaking. Your darling host Jake literally has an appointment for Monday, for an osteopath [...]
“You Could Change Axial Length With Certain Lenses”
“When I started practice, [the cause of myopia] was genetic or due to a near environment,” Jeffrey Cooper, MS, OD, FAAO, said. “It was one or the other. Early experimentation showed that (in animals), if the eye was occluded, the axial length grew.Animal models showed you could change the axial length by putting certain lenses on the eyes. The peripheral portion was found to regulate growth.”And if by "certain lenses", we mean the ones you're wearing right now, for old [...]