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!
A Tale of IOL (Intraocular Lens) Surgery Procedures
Most of us don't care about our health, as long as we have it. Prevention isn't high on the list. Not for me, and probably not for you. When we talk about myopia as a problem with potentially unfortunate consequences, most people nod and move on to check their Facebook updates.But should they. You want to wait till you are looking at lens implants as a way to keep your eyesight? Well, maybe you ought not to ...---Lens implants (IOLs) [...]
Vision Improvement Scams – Easy Ways To Tell The Rip Offs
You want to know some interesting tricks to tell who is trying to scam you? Some of these pointers work for all sorts of Web scams, not just in the eyesight health arena. --- I just put together a quick FAQ item for the topic of scams. We get a lot of participants who have been scammed previously. I myself took about a dozen different Web courses over the years, just to see what sort of mayhem and lunacy lurks [...]
In The News: Eye Treatments That Might Make You Worry
Trying new things for you to enjoy on the blog. Featured today, news!Get ready for: Vision implantable contact lenses, new drugs approved to be injected into the eye, heavy lifting linked to retinal detachment, new pills for diabetics with eyesight problems, and polar bears as the possible cause of ice berg accidents.---Imagine you owned the Titanic. It sank. Bad scene. So you call a meeting, the finest engineers, all in your office. You ask the obvious question. What do we do [...]
Your Health vs. Their Profit: HBO Talks About The Billion Dollar Prescription Scam
HBO's "Last Week Tonight": Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars a year, marketing to doctors. Drugs are prescribed for unrelated symptoms. Doctors are heavily incentivized to write more prescriptions.As you read this article and watch the HBO video, consider: have you ever gone to the optometrist and not been sold prescribed something? How about that mantra of "it's genetic, there is no cure"?---If you are a long time reader of this site and have been rehabilitating your vision, you undoubtedly [...]
Improving Eyesight As You Get Older
Yesterday we get this comment on the original myopia-squatch post:Maybe we need a new category. "Silly things optometrists say". Aka the myopia-squatch hunt.Yes, yes. Hardening of the lens. A furry paw print in the dusty office closet. What the optometrists usually like to quote is accommodative range, and the reduction thereof with age. It's something I don't fully agree with (in terms of the numbers), but it's a fairly well established progression:That's the reduction of accommodative range. If the term is [...]
Scientific Questioning of Eye Doctor “Wisdom”
Be serious, Alex. Don't start some ridiculous online quest for the actual creature responsible for myopia. People will have a hard enough time taking myopia rehab seriously, without your jokes. But then, how much of a joke is "oh it is genetic"? Jake says go ahead, who cares. Our audience is a tiny niche, they read, they think critically, they won't mind. So, do blame Jake for above image. Could the white furred beast be the real reason for your myopia?---If you have been [...]