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!
The Ortho-K Nightmare (Oops, Side Effect: Permanent Corneal Scarring)
Ortho-K. *jedi hand wave* Ortho-K. That's the magic word(s) you need to whisper conspiratorially, for anyone in the mainstream to acknowledge the possibility of myopia control. If they're not selling ortho-k (side effects glossed over) then myopia is an incurable genetic medical condition. If they are selling ortho-k then well, you can spend a few thousand dollars on that option (per year, darling, of course) and myopia control is suddenly an option. Et voila, mes cheres kittehs. C'est le fric [...]
Marie: Eliminated -2.50 Diopters Of Astigmatism
File this one under "just with the free guides". This is a great story (and potential motivation). Starting at -3.50 and -2.50 astigmatism correction (yikes, the latter part), Marie makes it all the way down to just -1.75/-2.25 spherical. Best part, zero cylinder (astigmatism) is left, from the initial -2.50. That's a truly huge improvement, from high astigmatism to zero astigmatism. Here is Marie's e-mail: That's how you go to heaven - sending Jake e-mail progress updates. And [...]
An Avoidable Childhood Fate: Bullied Because Of Glasses
Imagine a piece of glass. Imagine a pebble hitting the piece of glass. Slow motion. It's a single point of impact. The glass cracks. But it doesn't just crack where the pebble hit it. The crack spreads, like a spiderweb, moving outward in all directions, moving through the entire surface. One small pebble, a singular point of impact, affecting so much more than where it hit. What, Jake, you say, sipping your coffee. What are you on about, [...]
Despina: Update
Written by Despina Contributing Optometrist Touching down in London always fills me with a sense of excitement, however often I travel back here. Those of you that know London will get what I mean. Flying over the city centre as you come in to land is like nothing else..the London Eye, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, the River Thames and its bridges, all sprawled below, illuminated, welcoming visitors, new and old. It's breathtaking. I will be spending the coming [...]
Dina: How Astigmatism Fix Cured A Lifetime Of Headaches
Do you get a lot of headaches? Do your glasses (contact lenses) include astigmatism correction? Then you, kitteh, may have astigmatism headaches - and must read this post. ;) The endmyopia Facebook group has only two rules. One of them, the more important one, is: Don't give diopter specific advice. In other words, don't comment "hey I think you should try a -4.50, that sounds about right". Why this no-diopter-advice rule? Well, liability potential for one. But also because in [...]
Cheryl: -3.00 Down To -1.75
I get a fair bit of e-mail from readers who try various vision improvement methods prior to finding endmyopia. Sometimes they start with promising results, but rarely lasting ones. Most of those programs have some "breakthrough" premise (tempting!), a well packaged theme perhaps, sometimes using recognizable names (the "Bates Method" and others), or some person with supposedly fancy credentials and camera-ready poses, promising you the moon. None of that here. All I've got for you is building good habits around strain [...]