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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!
Optometrist Review: Retinal Detachment in Myopes
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristWe have learned in this program that increasing axial length of the eye, caused by the effects of wearing minus lenses, results in increasing myopia. But perhaps the more serious aspect of this increasing axial length are the longer-term sight-threatening consequences associated with it, such as glaucoma, cataract, and retinal detachment.As far as retinal detachment is concerned, it may be considered the most serious of the three, in that it is a medical emergency and needs urgent [...]
Virtual Reality: The Next Myopia Tsunami?
A reader sends this e-mail:Hey Jake, Coming from a long-time blog reader, I believe this will interest you. VR technology is creeping into the mainstream. With Rift expected to ship this month, it's highly likely for us to see widespread use as early as this year. The promise of experiencing an immersive virtual environment is great. It's unprecedented and it's exciting. But there's just one massive catch - the way it works is by placing a screen under 15 centimeters from your face. [...]
Optometrist Forced To Admit: She’s Legal To Drive!
This is a bit of a crazy story, that Stefanie is telling. Strap in, because she went from, what, 20/70 to 20/40 in a month? Legal to drive with a 1.5 diopter lowered prescription? Is that even possible? What is going on over here, in wizard land? Check this out: The title here was a bit clickbait-ey, I admit it. The optometrist is obviously pretty cool. Look at those numbers, though! February, we're starting with a -8.5 diopters. March, we're down [...]
A Word About Normalized
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristI'm having a great time with my normalized this week, now that the Godzilla of a headache has gone. I'm finding it really comfortable and at most times of the day I can see very well. I'm lucky enough to live somewhere that has 360 days of bright sunlight. As you have probably noticed by now, this makes a tremendous difference, especially when compared to vision in the basement room of a gym. Fluorescent lights all round, [...]
Squinting Child: What Does It Say About Eyesight? (also, 20/50 to 20/25!)
I was told recently that things around here started looking quite professional. Cat meme, to fix that entire misconception. If you're a regular reader here, you know that it's a good idea not to be squinting at things. You can blink, especially if you understand active focus, and get a much better result than squinting. You'll also avoid all sorts of squinty-wrinkles in the long run! ;) Why the squint topic today? It's a quick aside along with [...]
Expensive Glasses? The SHOCKING Scale Of The Lens Ripoff
You probably already know all about lens-induced myopia, and how basically all of clinical science knows that minus lenses are the single largest contributing cause to progressive myopia (in a large majority of cases).You know that the old-timey lens prescription dogma causes progressive myopia, because Google Scholar (and because thank you science).You also probably already know the huge, massive, mind boggling profit that creating this condition is netting the lens-manufacturing industry (and optometry at large). When we're talking about actually creating a vision [...]