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!
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 [...]
Angela: When I’m Just About To Give Up
Do you ever look through your reduced diopter glasses and feel like you're just not making any progress? Do you look at the world and blur just won't clear up? Have your centimeters not changed in what seems like forever?If you had any of these experiences, this post is for you.Just the other day, we had our first quitter of the year.Swagger-bro type. "Hey Jake, I need the sessions faster." "Hey Jake, this is redundant." "Hey Jake, I've already read half [...]
The Importance of the Eye-Test
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristThe recent case of the London optometrist who was convicted of manslaughter requires a mention here.The optometrist failed to spot abnormalities in the eyes of a child who was suffering from hydrocephalus -fluid on the brain. Sadly, the child died of the condition shortly after the eye-test. The optometrist was found guilty of manslaughter through gross negligence, for missing signs that would have been obvious to any competent optometrist. A tragic story, but thankfully an unprecedented one. Optometrists are [...]
Crazy: Italian Opticians Know What Causes Myopia
If you've known me and my eyeball musings for a while, you probably already know that you can live in rural Russia and get solid myopia prevention advice from Russian opticians (though maybe that doesn't necessarily mean you should move there immediately). Likewise in various other countries, especially ones not dominated by Essilor and their cohorts lens rep locusts. Locusts, those company reps. Basically wherever there isn't a strong financial motive to sell lenses, or a general lack of lens [...]
