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!
Keith Goes Back To Wearing Glasses (20/30 – 20/10)
Some of the vision improvement voodoo on the Internet says that glasses are the root of all evil. Stop wearing glasses, they say. Which of course is sucky advice, since you end up giving up all of your clear vision. And while your myopia will reduce to a small extent, it won't likely reverse your myopia or improve your quality of life. It's why Jakey says, don't just stop wearing glasses. Instead learn what causes myopia, understand concepts like [...]
Beware Of Bad Vision Advice: Don’t Quit Glasses Cold Turkey
Don't just quit wearing your glasses. I find myself saying this a lot, lately. Must be something in the air, or in the water, or maybe Google is ranking crazy-talk more highly than usual. A lot has been said here already about not wearing glasses. Like here, or in video format and explaining in detail why and how glasses might benefit your eyesight. Read those things, understand how diopters affect your eyesight. Realize that glasses aren't necessarily the problem, but [...]
Overnight High Myopia Shock: 5 Year Old Goes From 20/20 To -5.00D!
Imagine, you have a young boy. Everything is all fine and great, boys will be boys. Until one day, that is. One day which is today when he comes running up to you and says, all scared sounding and confused: Daddy, I can't see! Yikes! You're freaking out, naturally. Freaking out and taking the little one to the optometrist as fast as you can. And this is where it all starts. Sit back and grab your favorite pipe [...]
Rachel’s (-7.00) Update: Optometrist Excited!
Have you ever heard of an optometrist getting excited about measuring clients improving eyesight? It's a rare thing, for sure. Read on! I had planned to get through some of the usual backlog of improvement stories today, get some motivating and great first hand accounts posted here for you. It's not to be though, at least for today. Because something else came along. Also an improvement story of course (as most are), but this one with a particularly heart [...]
Got LASIK – Now Need Glasses Again?!
They won't tell you about this, the LASIK sellers: You will probably need glasses again! Why is this? If you're reading this post, then you probably already had the surgery, and your vision did get worse again. You go back to the laser shop and they'll sell you a "touch up" and reassure you that this is all perfectly normal. Well, they're lying to you. It's not normal. I get e-mails asking about post-LASIK eye problems, especially needing glasses [...]
Ask Your Optometrist Just This One Question
Optometrists. Oh, boy. Optometrists are like the many mushrooms you might find in the forest. There are great, tasty, go-ahead-n-eat-em mushrooms. Also and conversely, there are holy-crap-should-not-have-eaten-this mushrooms. All of them, tasty or poison, called mushrooms. And many of them, look curiously similar to the untrained eye. Untrained eye, indeed. There are great optometrists out there, much like good mushrooms. And there are what may be possibly the other kind, like whoever this guy is that Boneco found out about: That seems [...]