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!

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 [...]

By |Myopia, Questionable Therapy|
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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 [...]

By |Just With Blog, Myopia, Optometrist Confirmed|
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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 [...]

By |Glasses, Nearsighted: Q&A, Shortsighted: More Guides, Video|
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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 [...]

By |News|
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Step Into My Time Machine

First rule of endmyopia club, let's have fun with all the things. Yesterday, the drama with Bates fans in the Facebook group.  That's fine, let's get all wound up on occasion.  Then Jake says, enough with the Bates talk.  But even then, several people still have to have the last word.  If you like to read into things, you might almost think they're heckling the poor old frail eye guru on his little mountain hideout. "Think about it Jake, you are [...]

By |Bates Method, Video|
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Bates Drama & Why I’m Such An A**hole

There's been a huge pile of drama in the rapidly growing (about to hit a thousand members in just a few weeks!) @endmyopia Facebook group. Subject of all the drama?  Bates.  It all started with Cliff innocently enough posting about being contacted by an optometrist who saw his YouTube video about his improving eyesight.  That, a great story, great (and rare) initiative, really the sort of thing we need more of.  Unbiased perspective, first hand experience, level headed perspective, sharing experiences, [...]

By |Bates Method, News|
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All contents on this site should be considered research material only.  We are not offering medical advice or treatment or cures for any illnesses. The reduced lens method is strictly experimental. Before considering taking steps to control your own myopia, you should definitely visit a qualified ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eyesight checkup.   Specific diagnoses illnesses aside,  most) myopia may be considered to not be an illness at all.  Most myopia is likely just a matter of environmental strain, and excessive prescription use.  You yourself may be able to control and reduce your own myopia by 1) managing eye strain, 2) conservative prescription lens use, and 3) targeted positive stimulus. We recommend finding a prevention minded optometrist to supplement your journey with professional advice and prescription management help.  While not a requisite, a supportive optometrist may make your journey that much more enjoyable! Potential Side Effects: (1) You may experience astigmatism-like symptoms, especially if you reduce too fast or without paying attention to this (transient) symptom. Search our Youtube channel or Website for 'transient astigmatism'. This can easily be prevented or managed. (2) Some people report an increase in eye floaters when practicing active focus. In general floaters are considered harmless but a sudden increase in floaters should be evaluated by a medical trained professional, as they could be a sign of retinal detachment or other serious medical condition. Generally taking it easy, not over straining, practicing gently and with patience should help. (3) Headaches. You're taking on a very much unsanctioned self-experiment changing diopters. Anytime you overdo things or change too much or aren't educating yourself first, you may expose yourself to strain symptoms. You should be experiencing no pain, headaches, or discomfort if you do things correctly!