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!
I Need Your Help, Kittehs
*Photo: Marco in Yangon, about to get his first passport Did you do the 7-day free course? Did you like it? Hate it? Don't remember it? Either which way ... I need your help! The course is a relative tragedy right now. There's a long list from various consultants on things that need improvement on @endmyopia. One that I've been ignoring since the dawn of time, anything to do with e-mails. Jake doesn't like e-mails. And yes, I wrote the [...]
Ian: “I Was Skeptical, But Wow!” (From 23 to 41 cm In 3 Weeks)
Your darling friend Jakey is the world's biggest skeptic. Getting ever so slightly older now, I'm realizing that while there are many benefits to this attitude, I likely missed out on various interesting experiences as well. Sometimes people use language different than what you are used to, and that's all it might take for you to shake your head and dismiss new ideas. New perspective is a tricky thing to appreciate. Anyway. Ian. 20/20 gains, that's today's topic. Let's [...]
Tim’s -8.50 To -5.75 Progress (With Interchangeable Lenses)
Lenses. Lots and lots of lenses. Once you start reversing your myopia, you realize how many lens reductions you'll need. You could be some optometrist's best friend ever, going down by 0.25 diopters, on two sets of glasses, every 3-4 months. Seriously, that's a lot of lenses! And there are lots and lots of tricks and strategies and way to deal with all these lens changes. Some use contact lenses which are cheaper and easier to deal with. Others make [...]
Natural 20/20 Goals: HORSES
Why bother with reducing myopia? Fun goals, lights at the end of tunnels, reasons to do something and not find yourself procrastinating. For me the trigger was wearing over -4 diopter lenses and the optometrist telling me I really needed a -5 to see properly. I felt like I was at the edge of the abyss and I really didn't want another diopter. But there are more positive ways to find motivation. Here's Jaqui from the FB group: Yea? [...]
Brilliant DIY Centimeter Measuring Tool
I love this student solution to measure high myopia centimeters! If you have really high myopia and try to measure your centimeters, you already realized how frustrating it can be. Getting that close to the screen, trying to measure tiny changes, it's far more difficult than if you have average myopia. Read this post on the topic, which also points to a much more detailed discussion in our FB group. In the Facebook thread, I re-post (from the BackTo20/20 [...]
Myopia Therapy: Paragliding, Kitesurfing, Motorbike Excursions
Matthew asks one of my favorite questions, considering new outdoor hobbies. That's the truly best question of all, "what could I go do outside"? Just like measuring centimeters will first get you hooked on following down the rabbit hole on myopia, getting outside consistently will get you the most 20/20 gains. I added a few of my own outdoor finds to Matthew's thread. See if any of these get you daydreaming: "Love the question, Matthew! I keep thinking about this [...]