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!
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 [...]
Pro Topic: Centimeter vs. Snellen Measurement for High Myopia Cases
You already know the basics about how to measure diopter equivalents for your eyesight, with the centimeter measurement. You probably already also know all the caveats here: Centimeter reflects accommodated vision, which can be different from your true distance vision. Measurement accuracy is key. If you misjudge the blur point, your diopter equivalent result will not be accurate. High myopia / small centimeters create a measurement accuracy challenge. A very small amount of centimeter change equals [...]
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So, here's a great story. Dennis started with endmyopia 3 months ago and is already down from -6.00 diopters to -5.00 diopters, a whole full diopter of 20/20 gains. It's an impressive piece of work! Fortunately Dennis breaks it down a bit too, in a detailed e-mail. But I'm not posting it here. If you want to read how he got that first diopter lower, stop over in the FB group. Dennis is also a member there, and he may [...]
Samuel Making The 20/20 Gains: -2.00 Down To -1.25 In 5 Months
*above, what all people in Finland look like ... more on that in a moment. The e-mail is the usual torrent of messages, and your darling eye guru has been getting lazy. Yes, it's true. I've been neglectful about taking screenshots and re-posting some of the gains our readers have been making and writing in about. Bad Jake! Let's get back on that subject since it's so key, and one of my very favorite things about this whole project. It's Samuel's [...]
Normal Tension Glaucoma: ‘Normal’ Isn’t Always Normal
Written By Despina Contributing Optometrist I promise this is the last time I talk about glaucoma (unless there's some amazing discovery). The important thing is to catch it in time, use the eye-drops and check it regularly. My glaucoma, I'm happy to report, is under control. But before we forget about this topic completely, I need to tell you one more really important thing that you may not be aware of. In case you are thinking that normal eye pressures [...]