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!
Retinal Detachment Risks
Before it gets lost in the back pages of forum topics, let's bring a particular post about retinal detachment risks to the blog. Retinal detachment risks can be considerable for high myopes. It doesn't begin to make it on the radar of things to worry about until you are in the double digits with myopia (which you never should be, under any circumstances, with just basic preventative steps). If you have more than a -10 diopter correction, use it daily [...]
How Is Astigmatism Measured, And Why Is It Flawed?
If you missed the first installment of the Astigmatism Guide, see it here. There are three frequently used ways to measure astigmatism. The type of measurement you are likely to get, depends on the kind of facility you visit for the measurement. Most myopia prescriptions originate from optic shops. If you want to know why I hold this particular type of 'medical facility' in some measure of contempt, take a look at this post. Let's take a look at the [...]
Success Stories: Reversing High Myopia
Samson posts an update of his vision improvement progress in the forum: My name’s Samson and I’m 20 this year. It’s my first time posting here so I thought I’d share my experiences so far! About 3 months ago, I had -7.75 diopters of myopia and -7 diopters in my right, according to the centimeter calculator. I stopped wearing my glasses about 3 years ago (it was -9 for my left and -8.5 for my right, probably insanely overpowered) after [...]
Do Glasses Create Myopia? Look at this Monkey Study
For those of you who are interested in studies of the significant myopia-inducing effects of minus lenses on the eye take a look a this abstract. This is from the IOVS (Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science), an ARVO journal. ** If you enjoy this post, "like" it on Facebook, help me spread vision health knowledge! A quick excerpt: Methods. Starting at 3 weeks of age, eight infant monkeys were reared wearing −3 diopter (D) spectacle lenses over one eye that produced [...]
Success and Failure in Vision Improvement
Early on, when I started to put the core part of our clinic program online, I knew that the Web would be a challenge. A challenge for you, not having my office as a reference, not getting a real life handshake, not having the people and place to relate to. Without all that, this is just another Website on the internet. I realized that we would need to have some way to interact in a fashion that others could follow. [...]
How To: Preventing Dry Eyes
Dry eyes can contribute to reduced focusing ability. You may have noticed this, especially if you are using correctly reduced prescriptions - when your eyes are dry, your ability to refocus on objects close to your blur horizon is diminished. There are a number of causes for dry eyes, some of them chronic. While we can not account for all of them here, let's take a look at of the easily prevented scenarios: Ambient Air Flow If your eyes are [...]