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!
Vivian: Optometrist Confirmed Myopia & Astigmatism Reduction
We're overdue for some 20/20 gains updates! First up, Vivian making progress. This is one of those updates that doesn't fall into the category of unexpectedly massive gains, but rather the nice predictable variety. And while your favorite guru doesn't care what the optometrist says, many readers like the additional reassurance: Conservative, most likely. You're likely to self-measure more improvement than the optometrist will confirm. We talk about this occasionally in the blog, with things coming down to measuring environment [...]
Enrayer La Myopie – The 7 Day Free Guide, Available In French
A big shoutout to Pauline from Douce frugalité for translating the whole entire free 7 day newbie eyeballs guide to French. Yay! So if you are French or otherwise enjoy things written in French, stop over here to get the whole 7 day guide straight from Pauline's site, all properly in your tongue of choice (as long as your tongue of choice be French, yo). She also has a YouTube channel and fancy Instagrams and lots of vegan ideas. Accompanying [...]
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 [...]