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!
Buying A No-Name Chinese Scooter: DIY Vision Improvement
So yesterday was a little bit of a rant about plus lens therapy.I imagine you come to read the blog, and wonder if you'll find some solid discussion about clinical studies this time, or detailed and insightful student progress reports, or instead another extensive rant by the (probably you think by now) bi-polar eye guru.Could be anything, you never know. If this show was run by your standard well-groomed, properly licensed, meticulously bearded ophthalmologist, you'd probably not get a rollercoaster of [...]
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
Warning signs of a poor optometrist include over-prescribing, brushing off your questions, and never discussing focal-distance habits or prevention. A good one measures carefully and explains your options.
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 [...]
