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!
Why You Might Not Want To Do “Plus Lens Therapy”
So, plus lens therapy. Yet another thing floating about the Interwebs, when you search for answers about myopia.I made a quick video a while back, about plus lens therapy.In it I point out that I didn't like how the implied premise might be highly misleading to most myopes. You might want to wear plus lenses before you end up with glasses, at a point where you're probably still largely just contending with a ciliary muscle spasm as cause of your low [...]
Bad Optometrist For Your Eyes? Check These Warning Signs
Clicker VanClickbaitigan writes the post headlines. Not your darling eye guru Jake, obviously. It's real simple, the right vs the wrong ("bad") optometrist. You want one who is conservative with handing out prescription increases. You don't want the guy (or gal) who throws diopter increases around like it's candy, in the process accelerating your slide into bad times progressive myopia. Making that point eloquently, with a good backstory, Sarah in the forum: Hi! I’m Sarah and I wanted to make [...]
DANGER: This One Thing Creates 14 (!) Times Higher Risk For Glaucoma
Ohhhh, Jake. Never gets any less weird, does it.From the Straits Times, a major Singaporean news publication:High myopia increases the risk of eye diseases such as cataract, glaucoma, retinal detachment and myopia macular degeneration, all of which can cause irreversible vision loss.In some of the relevant studies quoted in Ophthalmology, high myopia increases the risks of glaucoma by 14.4 times (for -6.00D or more), retinal detachment by 7.8 times (for -8.00D or more) and cataract by 3.3 times (for -6.00D [...]
Reduced Prescription By 1.5 Diopters, Can See 20/15 – Why??
You stop by @endmyopia, read the blog. You wear your regular glasses, from the friendly optic shop. You read about rampant overprescription. What, you think, are they talking about? I'm not overprescribed. My glasses are just right! I can see fine, so what's all this fretting about?If you're that guy, wondering, I'll show you exactly what the fretting is about. Take a quick read at Tim' form post, here:Wow. Just ... wow.Above isn't because Jake waved his magic camel over [...]
Optometrist Says Better Eyes Just An Instrument Error
Today we have Andrew's latest post in the forum, a 0.5 diopter improvement since January!The improvement is probably to be expected (if you're spoiled by this site and students consistent reports of great progress). The hilarious part is how the optometrist is looking for any excuse, going as far as blaming expensive testing gear and the process, just to discount the possibility of actual vision improvement.Check it out:Original thread. Interesting, right?Another way to look at it is the optometrist insisting that their [...]
Johnny: -5.50 To No-Glasses 20/20 (In Two Years)
Johnny posts his latest update in the forum: Hi everyone, time for an update on my progress Well this is the big one….the short version of it is that I’ve stopped wearing correction completely during the day! Even though this has been something beyond my wildest dreams for years and years when it actually happened it felt like a non-event. I feel I should be more excited but it wasn’t a huge jump in terms of eyesight and blur, as [...]