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!
Even Mild Myopia Linked to Poor Quality of Life
Written By Despina Contributing Optometrist People with milder cases of visual impairment, such as low degrees of myopia, still suffer significant, negative impacts on their quality of life, new research in the UK finds. Myopia is the most frequent cause of distance impairment in the world and is creating an alarming global epidemic which affects the quality of life and economic health of individuals and nations as a whole. In addition to being immediately disadvantageous, myopia increases the risk of [...]
Not All Optometry Business Is Created Equal: How To Choose Wisely
Written By Despina Contributing Optometrist I have been reading Steve's post in the forum entitled 'The Dark Side of the Vision Industry', and it brought back memories of the good old days in the optics business. The family-run business, providing a professional service to loyal patients that came back year after year, the child patients that grew into adult patients, and the ones that came in just for a chat. Sometimes they needed new prescriptions, sometimes they didn't. Perhaps we [...]
Abhineet, “Could Always Be Worse”: -22 Diopters At Age 18!
Are we doing the right thing with @endmyopia? Why aren't we monetizing the living cr#p out of a fairly awesome myopia control method, in which there is a decade of fine tuning and perfecting invested already? I do have days where I think about it. Human nature, get whatever we can for ourselves. Upgrade the lifestyle. There's always a bigger house, a bigger boat, a bigger hot tub with more girls to put in. But then there are stories like [...]
Kim’s Optometrist Confirms Improved Vision (but Kim made some mistakes …)
Kim's eyesight improved to such a degree that even an optometrist confirms it's real. That's a bigger deal than you might think. Remember that most optometrists test you in worst case scenario settings. Dark room, artificially lit eye chart, not telling you how much correction they're adding, asking you, sneakily, whether additional diopters make the vision clearer or not. You could literally improve your eyesight but almost a diopter and it might not show up at all in those particular testing [...]
PRO TOPIC: High Myopia First Differential (focal plane challenges)
High myopia can be tricky to start working on, especially if you are starting out with a complex correction scenario. Astigmatism, likely even different diopter value and different degree values for both eyes, plus the high spherical correction, plus diopter ratio in left vs. right eye - it's a delicate knot that you want to start to untangle with some care and planning. On this subject, here's a post from Marina in the support forum: This, not an entirely unlikely initial [...]
Free Guides & Blog Vs. BackTo20/20
Is it worth paying for BackTo20/20? Posting this one as a quick article summary since it comes up in e-mail inquiries frequently, and this way I can just copy-pasta the link to this page from now on. I have also answered this question in various forms on the site, see this free-stuff-works for example. Short answer, I put everything, and I mean everything into the free guides / blog. Lots of reasons for this, some of which are: I limit BackTo20/20 invites [...]