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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!
Headaches & Fatigue: Measure Your Pupillary Distance (PD)
PD (pupillary distance) can be an important part of your lens prescription, and notably affect your general well-being. If you have high myopia, and in particular high myopia and high astigmatism, an incorrect PD value can cause blurry vision, double vision images, headaches, nausea, and fatigue. In particular a small error in PD with a complex prescription might just give you a small headache sometimes, something that might be very vexing and difficult to pinpoint the cause of. I've had [...]
Never Change The Diopter Ratio
Roy posts in the forum: So I started my next reduction Right: -7.0 -> -6.5 Left: -7.5 -> -7.0 I just started yesterday and notice that my left eye gets the flash of clear vision more easily than my right eye. My snellen results are (if I check my vision in optimal light and pull focus for a good minute) Right: 20/30 Left: 20/25 Is that normal for one eye is pull focus faster? I felt like my right eye [...]
The Guru vs. The Medicine Man
Twitter. Not sure what I just got us into, with the social bits. Yesterday I received a tweet thing, someone asking whether I have a medical degree. I respond with a link to Steve Leung's interview. I feel it addresses the question while adding necessary context. If I'd taken more time, I might have added this: I'm not "practicing medicine". In the sense that we understand the term, we refer to a very specific and regulated profession which deals with [...]
The Most Fascinating Thing
One of my favorite friends is a TV show producer. He used to be a high roller. These days you mostly find him complaining about how YouTube is taking his lunch money. You should hear him. The youth is all going to online media and nobody is buying TVs or traditional media subscriptions. He says that traditional media is completely freaking out, behind closed doors. The writing is on the wall. He's now trying to learn how to get his [...]
The Ciliary Pop: A Simple Trick For Healthy Eyes
You probably already know all about focusing muscle spasms. That spasm, the beginning of all myopia. The "pseudo" myopia, that first landed you in the optometrist's exam room chair. That muscle spasm, that got you into glasses. If you're working on getting your eyes back to healthy, you're spending a fair amount of your better habits on reducing close-up strain, and the focusing muscle (ciliary) spasm. Though unfortunately you won't be completely avoiding your eye's focusing muscle locking up in close-up [...]
We’re Coming, Optometry. 2 Weeks, 1,000 Followers
Jakey's no health blogger. You don't need me to be famous. I wouldn't look good in a beard anyway, and my Indian accent is pretty awkward. What's the goal of all this work, of #endmyopia, if not beards and Indian accents? Here's a possible mission statement: We want an easily discoverable truth, by anyone afflicted by poor eyesight, that myopia isn't an illness. And there is an actual plan to get there. Central to this plan, is you. You need to enjoy better eyesight, first [...]