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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: Should You Start Wearing Glasses?
Let's dive into the forum a bit today, for interesting stories. I feel that regular blog readers miss out on some of the most insightful and intriguing experiences by not having access to the forum. To rectify that at least occasionally, look for various highlights and excerpts here in the blog.Toshiki writes:Hi, my first day on the program – yeay! And even though that’s at the fourth method I’m trying in the course of only five months (1st: Bates, 2nd: some [...]
Despi Weights In
Jake has been on the optometrist-war-path again. Just when we thought it was over, and he had started to behave. It was the fever, he said. He was delirious. Not himself. Poorly educated, us optometrists, he says.. no way. Arrogant, he calls us.. well maybe, some of us.But as the week wears on and there have been no new rantings, I am assuming and hoping he has recovered, back to nice old Jake. So that's why I'm still around. Doing this [...]
Optometrists Calling Us Names (Again)
Before we get into people calling us names, let's take one wee step back for a little background.Despina, our contributing optometrist just wrote a draft post for the blog. In it, as always with well chosen words, she sounds less than completely excited about my recent lapse of tactful discourse (probably this post here). And she is indeed spot on, sometimes I lose patience, and that all still makes into into the blog and onto Twitter on occasion.Her post should be [...]
Eye Health Alert: These Antibiotics Cause 500x Higher Retinal Detachment Risk
A whole class of antibiotics, often prescribed for respiratory and urinary tract infections, have been found to cause a 500x risk increase of retinal detachment. The University of B.C. raised alarms about this problem a staggering four years ago, in 2012, and it has taken Health Canada until 2016 to finally require a warning label to be added to the entire class of Fluoroquinolones which create this serious risk of permanent blindness.22 incidents of retinal detachment associated with the consumption of [...]
LASIK: Should Be An Epic Scandal
From Straigtstimes Singapore: Mr A was an unusual patient. I had just completed an operation and was walking into my clinic when a boyish-looking man dressed in office attire stood up and followed me from the lift lobby into my consultation room. There was a look of trepidation on his face and his brows were knitted with worry. Even before I could sit down, he started telling me there was a shadow in his field of vision that would not [...]
Cruel, Cruel Winter
Perhaps you've noticed that there haven't been a whole lot of coherent words from me in the last few days, here on the blog.I left sunny, warm Bangkok with the slightest bit of a bug of some kind.Whatever the tiny bug was, it sure likes Japan. And the cold. And me, being a dumba** as usual, insisting on spending entire days outdoors, despite howling winds and low single digit temperatures. My logic for not even buying a hat? I'd only [...]
