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!
Katarina: -8.00 Reduced To -6.50 (In 5 Months)
Initial gains! Important to note as you read this, that initial gains are usually 1) reducing over-correction from the optometrist and 2) reducing ciliary muscle spasm. It's not the magic part of getting all the way back to 20/20, but it's a great start. Here's Katarina: Beginner gains. It's great for motivation! Of course you can get beginner gains from doing all kinds of things. There are a million ways to reduce ciliary muscle spasm, and it doesn't take a [...]
Larisa: Presbyopia GONE, Threading Needles Without Glasses
Ok, so this is confession time. I really, really want to cover both more presbyopia talk, as well as more last diopter myopia reversing details. Been super busy lately with actual work, while also trying to get get things crossed off the endmyopia to-do list. High on that list is finally doing some podcast interviews for endmyopia to get us more attention, and also updating the very ailing code base of the BackTo20/20 member and session management code. Yes nobody [...]
Justin: From -4.50 D Down To -2.25 D (Since May!)
Time for a quick improvement update post. We've been doing mostly updates from our enormously popular, biggest ever, incredibly meow-rific Facebook group. Probably Facebook updates because an old guru is filled with personal insecurities and highly susceptible to external criticism, and I used to really cringe whenever somebody would claim that I'd make up the e-mailed improvement reports. Yea I know, those trolls were years ago. But there's a point in there somewhere. The Internet is full of treachery and [...]
LASIK, Need Glasses Again – Can I Still Fix My Eyesight?
So you had LASIK. You had the LASIKs and a couple years have passed, and you're noticing that things aren't as clear as they used to bee. Oops. This is a very common problem. It happens because LASIK does nothing to address the root cause of your myopia, and is in fact just another lens changing the refractive state of your eyes. The minus lens created stimulus that leads to progressive myopia just continues, so if your myopia wasn't [...]
Low Myopia, Close-Up Glasses: A Plus Lens Use Case?
Today, a quick video on low-myopia differential glasses (plus lens) scenario. Note that while this covers the general, common scenario, we're talking about biology here. Biology which varies from one person to the next, and there are countless exceptions, tweaks, and considerations. Watch this as a starting point, and one piece of the puzzle (rather than an absolute answer for everything). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyyN8ed3JN4 A bit of a pro topic. Some of these videos are only available from the Pro Topics playlist. [...]
SOOOO Much Endmyopia (& Member) Content!
Just finished looking over everything we’ve got going on. We’re at almost 4.000.000 (four million!) watch minutes on our meow-rific Youtube channel. Wow. And the private community forum is adding dozens of new conversations every day. Even this blog is hitting almost 4.000 users every single day now (hundreds of thousands of page views per month). Of course there’s the darling FB group, with over 10.000 members already. And best of all, we’re even starting to get videos from the [...]