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!
Can We Help? A Matter Of Credibility
"Nope Jake, it sounds fishy. The whole vision improvement thing sounds like a scam to me." "Snake oil, all of it. " "Didn't really read it but I think it's fake." "Can you give me the short version?" "I tried something like that once, didn't work." That and hundreds more comments like it, the net of a bit of research I did over the past two months. I asked friends, strangers, people on the Internet. Go to this site. Tell [...]
If You Can’t Stand the Heat
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristIt's blurred. My distance vision, when I emerge from my house during the day, and even more so at night, is blurred. This I have been noticing over the past couple of weeks with my latest normalized prescription, although I have had it for 6 weeks now. But something has changed in my vision I feel, and not for the better. My ciliary muscles are in spasm, and it takes a good hour of distance focusing to relieve [...]
Astigmatism Caused By Ciliary Muscle
Above: Yes, sometimes it's the cornea. Other times, less so.Somehow we ended up talking about various potential causes of astigmatism in the forum. I briefly pointed to some studies looking at the connection between the ciliary muscle and astigmatism, even though I'm often less than entirely comfortable hypothesizing unnecessarily on this topic. Pointing out my approach yielded some interesting comments.Here's my original post/reply:I don’t have the drive with my favorite studies with me now, but if you look on Google [...]
From Glasses To No-Glasses 20/20 Vision
Every so often I'm asked whether students actually make it out of glasses and back to real, uncorrected 20/20. Of course they do. Figure that only a relatively small percentage post progress updates (I can't really complain, I'd probably be a non-poster myself), and that average myopia is at least 4-6 diopters for most people. That's several years of progress and I haven't been running the site quite long enough for most of them to be back to 20/20 just [...]
Pro Topic: Astigmatism Correction Changes
What follows is neither medical advice (heh, as if), or "prescription" advice, or anything otherwise mainstream sanctioned or licensed. As usual, we're discussing actual biological realities of a 16th century (simply focal plane changing) invention.Don't monkey with lenses unless you understand them, don't drive without adequate correction, consult a friendly optometrist.So much gold in the forum, we have to bring some of it to the blog, at least sometimes. I highly recommend browsing (if you have access), you'll find brilliant students [...]
Neuroplasticity & Curiously Disappearing Presbyopia
There are various vision boogeymen that you know we here @endmyopia consider to be vastly overrated. Astigmatism is one of them. Astigmatism isn't even a thing, seriously. (ok it's a thing sometimes, but far, far far more rarely than most optometrist will sell you lenses for) We have a whole astigmatism section here on the blog. Nothing reverses faster than astigmatism, and I scoff every time I hear anyone in the business 'diagnose' it. Get the f' outa here, with selling [...]