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!
Matthew: (An Inspiring) Low Myopia Progress Report
Today was going to be a no-blog day but alas, I can't skip Matthew's BackTo20/20 forum post: I’m one month into a fully equalized set of lenses at -1.25 / -1.25. I spent 100 days with the L -1.25 / R -1.50. I checked at the end of those 100 days, and again after 30 days on the -1.25 / -1.25 to see how my right eye was doing. I can see the 20/30 line on the Snellen with the [...]
Do. Not. Measure. Your. Eyesight.
This is a public service announcement (per mainstream optometry rules): Do not try to measure your refraction. In fact, do not measure anything, when it comes to your eyesight. Don't measure and most importantly, don't adjust diopters. Just don't do it. You're *not* qualified and very bad things could happen. Very. Bad. Things. This is nothing less than curved, clear plastic we're talking about here. Curved, do think about this means. Think about what you're messing with. You are bending light! That's [...]
Bill’s Myopia Is Almost Gone! From -1.25 Down To -0.25 Diopters
Here's another low myopia progress report, today from Bill (who is also part of our FB group): Almost there. If you have low myopia, you might want to do a quick search for "endmyopia low myopia" and look around the many guides on the topic specifically. While your eyes respond the same to strain and stimulus in theory, in practice it's worth adapting a few new habits when you're in low myopia territory. Nice work, Bill! Remember, getting rid of [...]
Somebody Has To Be The Awesomest
I was going to make the title more something like, "an ode to the wise and immortal eye guru". Restraint, kittehs. A virtue, they tell us. The way I deal with all the improvement reports and stories and e-mails and comments, is to make screenshots, save them in a folder. Then when it's time to do blog posts, open that folder, grab one of the stories, put it up here in the blog for you. And, backlog. The folder is always rather [...]
Jane: Reduced -5.75 To -4.75 (4 Months Progress)
It's been a minute since we looked at e-mail improvement stories. And they're piling up. Let's look at Jane today, who says she's been enjoying the stories here on the blog. That and also your Facebook musings, and even the shrouded-in-mystery and subject of enduring legends that is the BackTo20/20 program. It warms your darling eye guru's little heart, to share success stories with you! Here we go: Lovely, yes? That's a full diopter signed off, and heading straight out [...]
Careful! You Could Be Contacted By The Media
Repost here of what I posted today in our Facebook group: HEADS UP! The media vultures are circling. :D A documentary film maker is yet again contacting students, looking for a scoop on natural myopia control, our approach, a take on mainstream alternatives, and generally doing a story on myopia. I turn these requests down for years now, since it's quite the Pandora's Box. Here's why: It's quite difficult to tell our story (or generally, any working natural myopia control), [...]