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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!
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 [...]
Chinese Eye Acupuncture, Blue Healing Orbs, And The Shanti Shanti
Chinese Acupuncture, Alex? Really? Well ... A Quick Word Of Warning:It is Sunday, I am deeply disinclined to be productive. Dozens of e-mails about technical problems and advertising recommendations are accusingly staring at me with increasingly non-current date stamps, from my e-mail inbox. Instead of dealing with any of that, today is going to be entirely about something reflecting my mood of the moment. I hope you may find it in your heart to forgive me for not being more practical with your time [...]
How To Switch To Your First Normalized Prescription
How many of the same questions do I answer, over and over, in the forum? I'm so used to decades of answering the same questions thousands of times, that I often forget how this Internet thing can work so much more efficiently. I could just answer it once, properly, and then refer back to that answer. There is no need to repeat the same thing, thousands of times, in the forum. You know though, what they say about old dogs ...Well, finally [...]