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!
Appointment Day
Written By Despina Contributing Optometrist Ophthalmologist appointment day today. I have come to dread these 6-monthly appointments (and all doctors appointments for that matter) to check on my glaucoma. This is the day my intra-ocular pressures are measured, and my optic nerve fibres are checked for further damage. Even miniscule changes, which are not yet noticeable to me, are terrifying. Sometimes I think it would be better not to understand the biology, what's going on at cellular level. On the other hand, [...]
We’ve Been Sitting On A Goldmine
I really wasn't going to talk about the Facebook group today. But wow, kittehs. How can we not! Seriously. Who knew what's been waiting out there. Join requests kept pouring in all day yesterday, I finally started putting a bit of a lid on accepting new members as we were barreling towards 400 members in less than 48 hours (how'd you all find the group, so fast anyway?). Me being a bit of a crybaby I expected mayhem to break out, [...]
Endmyopia Facebook Group
I sent out a few e-mails yesterday to some of you, about our new Facebook discussion group. My estimate was that we'll start out with maybe 30 or so participants, see where we go from there. It makes sense to me that it may be helpful to be able to chat with other myopes, share success stories, make fun of terrible optometrists (no, of course not!), and just generally have a place to connect. 30. Or so. Clearly I did something [...]
Andrew Visits The Optometrist: -3.75 D Reduced To -2.25 D
Welcome back, kittehs! You know one of my most favorite kind of stories? It goes something like this. Guy (or girl) wears glasses. Guy (or girl) hears from a friend, or from the Googles, that there's something fishy about the mainstream myopia story. Girl (or guy) digs in, becomes a student of the endmyopia ways, begins improving eyesight. Optometrist visits ensue which confirm continually improving eyesight, and lower diopters. You say, well Jake. Not sure why you're always such a [...]
Whose Duck This Is
Heads-Up: Jake is in Rant Mode I come from a family of medical doctors, as you may know. My father was a general practitioner for a large part of his career, and my mother a pediatrician. They both had private practices, and ran clinics at various stages of their work. We didn't have the best relationship, while I was growing up. This should probably be a general disclaimer for this site, the fact that I probably have a chip [...]
Dimitri: -8.00 D Reduced To -6.75 D (at 20/20)
Let's keep catching up with student progress reports! I like posting these not only for your motivation, but also since many of them offer hints and strategies as told by the students themselves. Some explanations may resonate particularly well with you, your style, or your current lens needs - which is why I want to include as many of them as possible. Here's Dimitri: Well done, Dimitri! The better you understand how focal plane changes affect your vision, the more [...]