Equalizing your prescription is a huge milestone in any vision improvement undertaking.
First there are all the basics to cover, which takes a while. At some point you understand blur, you understand centimeters, you understand strain, you have a differential and a normalized correction, and you start lowering both of those successfully.
Once you are past all of that, you get to the real pro level sessions.
Equalizing is a huge one in that section. Reducing prescription complicity is an important part of succeeding at reversing myopia. Having one single focal plane correction for both eyes goes a very long way in facilitating further reductions, it prepares you to overcome the challenges in reversing low myopia (once you get to low myopia), and it eliminates all sorts of variables that may affect the visual cortex part of the whole myopia equation.
You can’t start with equalizing. But once you get to that point, you’re ready for the challenge (hopefully). Roy recently arrived at that stage, ready to make the leap to equalized. He went to -6.5 diopters for both eyes, reducing the left eye by a half diopter (which is more than I’d generally recommend). It took 16 weeks, but now the verdict is in:
16 weeks, equalized that half diopter. That’s strong, strong work.
Much of the mainstream, old-timey, lens prescribing profession will flat out tell you that what you just read here, is impossible. Can’t be done, they’ll tell you. No, sireee. And that’s where you have to really stop and think. How much faith can be put in an individual’s ability to diagnose and treat some “illness”, if they don’t actually know what is reasonable possible, in the realm of our eye’s biology?
But let’s not be petty, and take every opportunity to take snarky jabs at the old-timey lens sellers. Right? ;) Let’s just say, awesome job Roy, good job sticking with it, and thanks for sharing with us!
Housekeeping: I mentioned on Twitter yesterday that I’d be quite disagreeable today. Really it was just about the little new branding exercise of calling rampant lens prescriptions what they are: Old-timey. Instead of getting pushed into arguments of who is “right” and who is “wrong” by optometrists and the establishment, let’s just reframe the conversation to something more fitting. It’s either medical-practices-from-the-16th-century, or looking at myopia according to 21st century clinical science, ie. not some mysterious illness to be profitably medicated for life.
Also …
That should be interesting, n’est-ce pas?
Cheers,
-Jake
