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!
Taking New (Lowered Diopter) Glasses On Vacation?
If you're about to have a vacation coming up, and about to be ready for reduced normalized glasses, this article is for you! Discussion courtesy of the BackTo20/20 forum, and David: And centimeter gains! My comments: Familiar environments during focal plane changes, good idea. As with most things here it makes perfect sense once you know. Make it easy for your visual cortex to sort out a focal plane change, by not also changing your visual environment at the same [...]
Glasses vs. Contact Lenses: The Correct Focal Plane
Are your contact lenses and glasses the same exact (relative) correction? They better be! Focal planes are the key to all things myopia. Your eye being a dynamic system, constantly adjusting to seek ideal eyesight, uses focal plane feedback to calibrate itself. This aspect of our biology is elegant and so complex that we barely begin to scratch the surface on how it works. And yet ... we go monkey around with artificial focal plane changes, like it's no [...]
Mantas: -5 D To -4 D Progress Update
Some say that Jakey may occasionally seem like a bit of a tyrant eye guru. Guru VanCrankypants. Most of that though, just predictably appropriate responses to various types of questions. For instance if you were to ask how long till I'm at 20/20, Jake. Or, how many people got to 20/20, Jake?!! It's like going to see your business advisor about starting a business and your first question being, when will I be a millionaire. Or going for your first run and [...]
(Q&A) High Astigmatism, Low Myopia – Sph. To Cyl. Ratio Control
This Q&A, applicable if you have spherical correction at or below cylinder correction (high cyl to spherical ratio). A repost here from two BackTo20/20 support forum threads. While I only provide case specific support in the forum, you might be able to come to your own relevant conclusions based on reviewing these scenarios. Not sure if my mesurments are very accurate. Having a hard time telling where the actual blur starts. Think this is the astigmatism. For example this [...]
Myopia, Glasses, Destroyed Vision: Did They Hack You?
Ever been to the zoo, see broken looking wild animals in their cages? You're thinking, nobody goes to the zoo anymore Jake. Don't be melodramatic about some patchy old depressed looking toothless tiger in some five dimes zoo. But that's exactly the problem. "Bad" eyes, no teeth, same difference. Your brain isn't all that different from your phone or your laptop in interesting ways. Your brain is running an operating system, a large set of rules that govern how [...]
Frustrated, Thinking About Quitting, No 20/20 Gains
It's not all sunshine and easy gains, all the time. Check out the BackTo20/20 forum excerpt below. This student had recently been talking about quitting. Frustrated, not making gains, not really responding to guru inputs. Happens once in a while where I feel like I'm unable to get through to a person when I say take it easy, focus on good habits, THE GAINS WILL COME. This student got lucky, getting independent confirmation that this isn't just idle platitudes. Understand [...]