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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!
Vision Improvement Secrets (Low Myopia)
Here's something you probably already noticed, in your personal life. You may have heard something said a hundred times. You heard it and heard it, but it never sank in. You never somehow translated in your own head, to make it meaningful to you. You go, yea yea, I know, got it, but it doesn't actually "click" for you. This happens quite a bit, with me and students and BackTo20/20. I say all these things, really key pieces, as often [...]
It Could Happen To Me: Link Between Myopia & Glaucoma
By DespinaContributing OptometristOver 40-check. Hereditary factor-check; Female-check; High myopia-check. So why was I in a state of shock after being told I had glaucoma? Well, because it was another eye disease that I studied at university and screened patients for and warned them about throughout my career. Helping save people's eye-sight meant it wouldn't happen to me. But it doesn't work that way. Luckily, being in the right place at the right time (ie. an optometrist's consulting room, not such [...]
Christian: My KEY To Improving My Eyesight
Christian posts in the forum:First of all, I apologize for not having been too involved in the forum for the past two months. I was on vacation from school and tried to use as much time outdoors as possible. I only used my computer for errands that I had to get done and for reading the blog.———Now, to let you know, in the past six months or so I have improved my vision more than the year and half before [...]
Improved Glaucoma Detection: Singapore Study
From Today Online:Singapore — He was diagnosed with glaucoma in 2014, but 61-year-old Mr Ismail Busri does not know when the insidious eye disease first crept up on his left eye. Characterised by progressive damage to the optic nerve and loss of vision, glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide.“I was very surprised when the doctor told me I had glaucoma as no one else in my family has it. By then, about half of the vision [...]
(-9.50 High Myopia) Went To See The Optometrist Yesterday …
Not me. I didn't go to the optometrist. I've developed a profound fondness for avoiding optometrist consults years ago, even as my eyes started to improve measurably. Seeing those guys just made me either anxious, angry or depressed. It took me a long time to get lucky and find anybody in that profession who gave my results an actual thumbs up. Stefanie though, she did just go to the optometrist. And Stefanie has much better luck than I ever [...]
Johnny’s 2 Year Update: From -5.50 To -0.75 Diopters
In keeping with the recent promise of spending more time on good news, let's look at Johnny's latest update from the forum today. As a bit of background, Johnny started two years ago, before yours truly took over stewardship of this project. The first update is here, and others are here, here, and here. If you have forum membership you can find a whole lot of this kind of timeline of updates. I recommend browsing a bit, to help [...]