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!
Sara: -3.25 Diopters To -1.25
Sara reports that two years into the process her right eye improved from -3.25 to -1.25, a drop of a full two diopters. Her left eye is lagging behind at around -1.50 to -1.75. She notes her night and low-light vision sits about 0.5 diopters behind her day vision. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
-7.00 Diopters To -6.00
The person started at -7.00 in February 2024 and began wearing -5.75 differentials. In March 2024 their optometrist lowered their prescription to -6.75. They have since steadily reduced their normalized and differential corrections, and their current norms are -6.00 with differentials at -4.75, with plans to drop norms to -5.75 in February. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
Imran H.: -3.00 Diopters To -1.25
On 28 February 2019 an autorefractor at Al-Noor Eye Hospital read about -2.75 in the right eye and -3.00 in the left. By 25 January 2020 the autorefractor read about -1.00 in the right eye and -1.25 in the left. An optometrist prescription from the same January 2020 date recorded -0.50 right and -0.75 left with 6/6 vision in both eyes through unifocal glasses. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
Martin: No Longer Needs Glasses
Martin started EndMyopia in March 2020 and made big improvements in his left eye astigmatism during the first 5 months, while his right eye was already almost at 20/20. He now does not wear glasses and is comfortable with his eyesight. His left eye is not yet at 20/20 but he reports it is close, and he says he is not measuring it. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
Down To -0.75 Diopters
The writer started active focus and could clear text at about 3 meters, then within roughly two months an optometrist in Calicut said their glasses were overcorrected and issued a new prescription with about a 0.5 D reduction. The optometrist confirmed the change, saying it looked like a reduction in lens power. More than four years later the writer reports being at about -0.75 or -0.5, sometimes -0.25 (all minuses). See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
What You Can’t See: The Myopic Lifestyle
A bit of a philosophical, zoomed out, weird one for you today ... The Big Picture (The Small Picture?) One of the things I noticed over the past two decades of being into eyeballs and vision and seeing things, took me a while to formulate There is a myopic lifestyle. A myopic way of functioning. A compensated sort of smaller bubble to exist in. It's the hardest thing to fix if you're trying to fix your eyesight. It's a [...]
