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!
Endmyopia & The Powers Of The Internets
How the day (today) starts: I wake up to more than the usual pile of LASIK related e-mails. Actually that's not true. I wake up for the 14th time at 5AM which is sunrise, a bunch of roosters begging to be murdered, and my little boy who has a fever and has been puking all night, wanting to get up and see the world. And the e-mails. Multiple of these, today. Usually I ignore whatever causes spikes in particular inquiries. [...]
Got LASIK – Now Need Glasses Again?!
They won't tell you about this, the LASIK sellers: You will probably need glasses again! Why is this? If you're reading this post, then you probably already had the surgery, and your vision did get worse again. You go back to the laser shop and they'll sell you a "touch up" and reassure you that this is all perfectly normal. Well, they're lying to you. It's not normal. I get e-mails asking about post-LASIK eye problems, especially needing glasses [...]
Pro Q&A: Should You Equalize Your Differential Glasses First?
Equalizing (reducing the diopter ratio between left and right eye spherical correction) is one of the more advanced topics here on endmyopia. We have a whole topic category just covering the subject of diopter correction. Between that and the how-to guide category, there is a whole lot of material covering diopter changes leading up to where you may be wondering about equalization. Taking a step back, it is kind of amazing, just how much depth we have on free resources. ;) [...]
Ask Your Optometrist Just This One Question
Optometrists. Oh, boy. Optometrists are like the many mushrooms you might find in the forest. There are great, tasty, go-ahead-n-eat-em mushrooms. Also and conversely, there are holy-crap-should-not-have-eaten-this mushrooms. All of them, tasty or poison, called mushrooms. And many of them, look curiously similar to the untrained eye. Untrained eye, indeed. There are great optometrists out there, much like good mushrooms. And there are what may be possibly the other kind, like whoever this guy is that Boneco found out about: That seems [...]
Retail Optometry: Is That Even Science?
I swear, I keep saying I'll stop posting things that are anti retail optometry. It's pretty difficult though in the face of continually seeing some of these really shockingly ignorant practices that beg to be called out. Also: There are lots and lots of great, fantastic, knowledgeable and dedicated optometrists that we love dearly. This post, not about them. Science. You trust science. And professional degrees and certifications. As you should, really. It's the best way to vet the proven vs. the [...]
Night Vision Training? Is That A Thing?
*Imagine that guru style. Confiding myopia wisdoms amplified lusciously by all the beards. The Facebook group. Interesting questions. Interesting answers. Today, about night vision, in particular reduced night vision acuity while wearing lenses with reduced correction calibrated to reasonable daytime vision. Here's Alex, and his night vision question: Look at that wise, statuesque even, guru insight. Make sense? If you aren't overcorrecting your daytime vision, you might be loosing enough correction in poorly lit scenarios where you loose access to contrast [...]