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!
Better Myopia Treatment In Sight?
A client forwarded me an excellent article from NPR, titled: "How Parents And The Internet Transformed Club Foot Treatment" I can't describe how much hope that gives me, the words "Internet Transformed Treatment". Here are some choice quotes from the article itself: Just a decade ago, up to 90 percent of babies like Snyder's daughter Alice were treated with surgery that usually had to be repeated several times. That created a buildup of scar tissue that often left patients with [...]
Jessi: Where Is My Improvement?
This is part two of this article based on this forum thread.I was curious to see what might happen, if I don't jump in but rather let readers use Jessi's clues to find an answer to her question. The (part 1) article was meant to highlight that sense of struggle that is common especially when we are working our way back from high myopia.Coincidentally (and ironically perhaps), the article coincided with quite a traffic spike, which may have confused some [...]
14 Year Old Improves From -2.25 to -1.75
Image above, entirely in jest. Optometrists aren't plunging you (or your kids) into progressive myopia on purpose. --- Lucia writes in the forum: I have joined up for my son who is 14, his prescription was -2.25 in right eye and -1.50 in left eye with slight astigmatism when we visited the optician for first time. He has been print pushing with plus lenses on for close up work at home and Working on far away signs and number plates and [...]
Jessi: When The Program Fails To Deliver
Jessi recently posts this question in the forumI haven’t posted for awhile but I have been keeping up with pushing focus and active focus as well as religiously wearing the normalized and differential prescriptions. I’ve been doing the program for a year now and while I’ve noticed improvements in the vision I can achieve (measured on the snellen chart) with both prescriptions, my vision without glasses remains the same at 11cm/12cm. I’m starting to get a little disheartened. Can anyone [...]
Defined: Differential Glasses Prescription
A recent question in the forum: Can you define what a “differential glasses prescription” is exactly? I understand it refers to either a plus lense or reduced minus lenses but the term just seems mysterious to me. Of course we discuss all the terms in the Vision Improvement Course. But it makes sense, that we should have a glossary of terms, as we are using these references quite a bit in the blog and the forum. As I find time [...]
When You Should Not Quit Wearing Glasses
Teal observes in the forum: I have noticed that I have become very lazy with focusing. It’s like I have just gotten used to the blur and don’t even try. Or maybe it is the fact that I have relied on glasses for so long. The push focusing has definitely made me more aware of my ability to focus. The other day I was looking putting away some of my earring (no glasses on) and realized that even though I [...]