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!
Marissa: -5.75 Down To -2.75 (In 7 Months)
Another quick announcement today, from your darling major of Gainsville. Marissa e-mails her 7 month update which of course has already been spoilered by the post title. 3 diopters in seven months, one might call that respectable: That's proper low myopia territory. You could wonder about all these lowered diopter stories here on endmyopia. How are all these gains possible, Jake? My optometrist tells me that myopia is genetic and can not be reversed! The most likely answer of course, endmyopia [...]
Kim’s -7.00 Reduced To -3.00 (In 18 Months): Amazed By Habit Effectiveness
How do you get from a -4.00 diopter correction down to -3.00 without even thinking about it? Is that wishful thinking, or did Kim just do exactly that? You keep hearing me saying this: Habits kitteh, are key to all the 20/20 gains. Not eye exercises. Forget about exercises. Life gets in the way. You've got things to do. Sure maybe you're the super motivated type and you can do an hour a day eye exercise regimen for the next [...]
Why I Get So Upset: 9 Year Old Up To -3.00 Diopters In 8 Months
Imagine your young child rapidly loosing his/her eyesight. This is a horrible story. If you have young children that you care about, you might not want to read this one. Because this is all about the standard ignorance and profit seeking joke that is mainstream retail optometry. And it sucks. Oh Jake, they say. Calm down. Focus on the positive. You know though, one of the things that keeps me going, spending time on this resource day in day [...]
Debi: 9 Months Eye Pain Miraculously Gone! And 20/15 Vision (-4.00)
Time to catch up on awesome stories from endmyopia students. Here's Debi, posting in our Facebook group: Part of getting old, that's seriously what the professionally trained, licensed optometrist tells you? People always tell me not to attack the establishment, and to just focus on what's possible with natural myopia control. It's a little hard though when you read these so-called professional assessments, to not add a little gratuitous commentary on how various professional titles really don't prevent people from being idiots. See? [...]
Reader Mailbag: -4.25 Diopters Eliminated, Optometrist Says “Myopia Reduction Possible”
Let's cover a few reader e-mails of great vision improvements (and one Facebook post) today. As usual we get quite a few of these e-mails. I try to post as many as I can, although the best thing is to be a member of our darling Facebook group where you'll get a lot more improvement reports, diopter discussions, and interesting Q&A threads. First one up, DeAnn's e-mail: 45 years of glasses! Nice part, DeAnn figured most of it out all on [...]
PRO TOPIC: Diopter Equalizing / Patching (Video)
Pro topic, Holmes. Don't monkey with diopter unless you know how all the pieces work together. If you do, here are some worthwhile posts on equalizing / patching: https://endmyopia.org/pro-tip-notes-on-diopter-equalizing/ https://endmyopia.org/whats-first-equalize-or-reduce-spherical/ https://endmyopia.org/pro-qa-equalize-differentials-first/ A lot of these scenarios are best evaluated case-by-case so be sure to learn all about diopter equalizing before trying things. Supportive, myopia control friendly optometrist also likely great to have around. And as always, there's quite a bit of excessive patching advice floating around online. Remember to introduce stimulus gradually [...]