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!
Visionworks Optometrist Calls Us A Hoax
If you found this site by searching for help with your eyesight, you're in good company. Most everybody who visits here did it the same way. Welcome, to you. ;)It's less word of mouth, because most people don't really care about health issues that can be remedied with a quick and easy fix (glasses, FTW). It's less advertising, since your darling host of-this-show is a bit phobic of large crowds, and low barriers of entry. It's less referral type traffic, [...]
The Bionic Eye
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristAn article in the British optical press caught my eye today. The world's first bionic eye, Argus 2, is waiting for approval by the National Health Service. In other words, the £150,000 price tag will be paid by the government and not the patient.High myopia is one thing. Blindness is quite another. We've all used the expression, ' I'm so blind without my glasses', and we've all played blind-fold games as children. But the reality of actual [...]
Boris: Started At -4.25, Reduced To -3.75 (in 40 days!)
Boris put the first 40 days of his vision improvement journey in BackTo20/20 to some excellent use. Rather than me spoil it for you, here is all that, straight from him:Nice! (original forum thread, here)And if you were to ask me whether to go to the optometrist after 60 days, I'd probably furrow various eyebrows and suggest you give it some time. I might say that the optometrist tests all go for worst case scenario, and if you haven't been [...]
The Brien Holden Institute Needs Your Help
Be positive, Jake. Say nice things to your darling readers, today. Deep breath! So there's the Brien Holden Instiute, which for those of you not keeping track is another one of these organizations who "develop innovative vision correction products for the treatment of the most common eye conditions." (according to their own Website)You see where this is going, I bet. Brien Holden's CEO, Kovin Naidoo recently expressed his concern (?) about the growing myopia epidemic:"Addressing a full theatre as keynote speaker [...]
Optometrist Experiences Myopia Reduction First Hand!
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristOK, so he could brush up on his spelling (that lady is right, but I was too polite, like most of you, to mention it). And he continuously insults my profession, despite swearing he'll change his habits. So why am I still not offended, and unsubscribing from this program? BECAUSE MY CENTIMETRES HAVE CHANGED!!!Yes, changed!! After just under a month of wearing my normalized prescription, my cm have increased by 2cm in each eye!!! And I am thrilled!!! [...]
(Pro Topic) Are You Getting Double Vision With Reduced Diopters?
This, absolutely a pro topic. If you're a casual reader, skip this one!As you start practicing active focus with reduced diopters, you realize that your environment doesn't fade straight to blur, from clear vision. Instead there is an intermittent layer of double vision, almost as though your eyes are trying to hang on to the clear image, and slowly losing the battle over to blur. We talk about the causes of this double vision experience quite a bit here in the [...]