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!
Differential Glasses Prescription vs. Normalized Glasses Prescription
In the forum we talk a whole lot about individual prescription recommendations. It tends to take at least one round of reductions of experience to get a good understanding on what makes a viable prescription. As much as I can I provide help and pointers, to also serve as a basis for ideas for readers of the site and forum. You may notice that I'm more flexible on the normalized prescription than the differential. Here is why: The Differential Glasses [...]
Neck Pain, Migraines, Computer Work, and Close-Up Vision
There is a significant long term cost to the type of symptom-only treatment of many aspects of Western medicine. Just today I spent some time making it through a client e-mail, which included a laundry list of secondary symptoms that took several pages to describe. If you imagine your myopia as a knot in the string of your health, you are working on untying that knot through rehab. Sometimes, when other aspects of health are ignored, and there is a [...]
3 Meter & 6 Meter Snellen Alternative Eye Charts
A kind participant has sent over two child eye charts that should do nicely for easy printing at home. They are set up to print on A4 sized paper, one for 3 meter distance, and the other for 6 meters (the latter taking two pages to print). Print shops usually offer inexpensive laminating as well, making it easy to get good looking and durable eye charts for a few cents. We can get more of these to help keep variety [...]
Johnny: From -5.50 To -3.00 Diopters In 5 Months
Johnny writes in the forum:Hello all + Dr AlexI thought I’d relate my experience of eyesight improvement as some may find it interesting/useful.First some background. I started wearing glasses about the age of 12, when a school nurse tested all the kids in our class and decided I needed glasses. From that day I hated being short sighted with a passion. I refused to wear them until my myopia progressed to the stage where I didnt have much of a choice. [...]
Amazing Android App Measures Your Myopia
Today I finally had the opportunity to play with what might be the first ever Android diopter measuring app. It's quite fantastic. You need to feed it a one time only measurement of the distance from the bridge of your nose to your chin. After that, you just put the phone in front of your face, the app activates the camera to watch your face. You move the phone away from you until you start to see blur on the sample [...]
Accuracy In Question: Snellen Eye Chart vs. The Autorefractor
Shaun from Singapore writes: Hi this is Shaun from Singapore. I've been religiously practising active focusing and pulling for 6 months now... Recently, I paid a visit to the optometrist and had my eyes checked. From the eye machine, my eyes had improve from -5.50 OD and -6.00 OS to -5.00 OD to -5.50 OS. However, I've been wearing a -4.00 OD and -4.50 OS glasses for pulling focus(basically for daily wear) and the puzzling thing is, I can see the [...]