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!
Q&A: Ergonomic Distance, Differential Glasses Indoors, Low Myopia Glasses
What's "ergonomically comfortable close-up distance", and how do glasses affect it? Should you wear differential glasses or normalized glasses correction indoors? How about -1 D (just diagnosed myopia) - do you want to wear glasses, or is it better to avoid them? This, all covered in today's video Q&A. He's back again. Your favorite grizzly faced, freezy wind swept, mountain cave bound eye guru. This one's been having some guilt issues, not posting to the endmyopia YouTube channel more frequently. Not entirely true. A Jake [...]
14 Year Old Reduces Myopia By 0.75 D From -5.00 (Optometrist Confirmed)
An update today from your favorite irresponsible e-mail chaperone. Yes, a Jake's been a bit lagging in posting improvement reports. Let's fix that today with a particularly inspiring one. As you read this one, think no help or support from the parents, no guidance from any optometrist, no BackTo20/20 membership. Just the blog, determination, and the ability to put the various two's and two's together. Here's Anne awesome e-mail: Hats off. Somebody is going to have no trouble finding [...]
7 Year Old Child: Reduced -2.25 D To -1.50 D & Astigmatism Eliminated
Li posts in our Facebook group: Progress update of my 7-year-old son Myopia detected February 2017 (optometrist confirmed) Right -2.25 cyl -0.25 Left -1.5 cyl -0.5 Spectacle introduced. March 2017 (computer check at optical shop) Right -1.75 cyl -0.25 Left -1.5 no cyl Spectacle adjusted. April 2017 (optometrist confirmed) Right -1.50 no cyl Left -1.25 no cyl Spectacle adjusted. Here are the changes we made. I wrote lengthy, but is just a little change. - distance during closed up activities [...]
(Pro Topic) Nick: Is Time To Equalize Diopters?
Pro topic, Q&A time. Equalizing is a topic we discuss in BackTo20/20, as part of the effort to reduce your diopter complexity as you get closer and closer to not needing to wear glasses for most activities. Equalizing: Reducing the difference between left and right eye spherical diopters. Diopter Complexity: The degree of difference between left and right eye spherical diopters. Amount of cylinder correction. Degree of difference between left and right eye cylinder. The simpler your diopters, [...]
Cataract Alternative Treatment? Debbie Reduced -8.50 D To -2.50 D
Today let's look at a nice one year progress report involving high myopia as well as a cataract. Debbie is attempting this one in part as alternative cataract treatment, to lower her myopia before considering potentially surgical options. This one is somewhat complex since it involves work with a cataract (and interesting progress with eye drops), high myopia, and high astigmatism. Worth a read since it shows just how much you can accomplish before ever considering cataract surgery and potentially [...]
Michael: 6 Month CM Update (& 20/20 Gains Rule)
Progress updates, maybe the best part about following endmyopia. Whether you're just getting started, or even if you've been making lots of 20/20 gains, you always will get a boost from reading the updates others are making. Keeps you motivated, gives you reference points, so much better than just doing things by yourself all alone. This post, a follow-up of Michael's previous 3 months update. Graphs! You can find the original thread here. Worth pointing out here, the benefit of [...]