Questions & Answers. You have questions. And Jake has answers, especially if they haven’t been covered in one of the other sections of the blog / free guides.
Many of the topics here originate from your e-mails, or from Quora, or threads in our Facebook group, or even YouTube comments on occasion. Natural myopia control is a wide ranging and complex subject, and this might be the section to find answers to some of your questions. Browse and discover!
Pro Q&A: Should You Equalize Your Differential Glasses First?
Equalizing (reducing the diopter ratio between left and right eye spherical correction) is one of the more advanced topics here on endmyopia. We have a whole topic category just covering the subject of diopter correction. Between that and the how-to guide category, there is a whole lot of material covering diopter changes leading up to where you may be wondering about equalization. Taking a step back, it is kind of amazing, just how much depth we have on free resources. ;) [...]
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 [...]
Retail Optometry: Is That Even Science?
I swear, I keep saying I'll stop posting things that are anti retail optometry. It's pretty difficult though in the face of continually seeing some of these really shockingly ignorant practices that beg to be called out. Also: There are lots and lots of great, fantastic, knowledgeable and dedicated optometrists that we love dearly. This post, not about them. Science. You trust science. And professional degrees and certifications. As you should, really. It's the best way to vet the proven vs. the [...]
Night Vision Training? Is That A Thing?
*Imagine that guru style. Confiding myopia wisdoms amplified lusciously by all the beards. The Facebook group. Interesting questions. Interesting answers. Today, about night vision, in particular reduced night vision acuity while wearing lenses with reduced correction calibrated to reasonable daytime vision. Here's Alex, and his night vision question: Look at that wise, statuesque even, guru insight. Make sense? If you aren't overcorrecting your daytime vision, you might be loosing enough correction in poorly lit scenarios where you loose access to contrast [...]
Lisa: Did LASIK, Got Warped Cornea
Every LASIK related story I get involves a bit of real heartbreak. Of course people who are happy generally don't ask me questions, but the volume of post LASIK complication inquiries here at endmyopia is really discouraging. Here's Lisa and her warped cornea outcome: Ouch. Now, does that seem worth it, not having to put on glasses? As I always say and will continue saying, LASIK is a horrible, horrible idea. It's like a hundred years ago when "accredited medicine" [...]
Can Myopia Be Cured? (Optometrists & Doctors Weigh In)
Some time ago I responded to somebody asking on Quora, whether myopia can be cured. The other day I revisited the question, and the results were rather quite surprising. Thirteen people had responded to the question besides me, including an optometrist, an ophthalmologist, another M.D., a hospital representative, a vision-unicorn-pony seller of some kind of miracle cure, a blogger, and various others. A bunch of people from various perspectives, answering the question whether myopia can be cured. Upvote: The Truth [...]