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Glasses are bad news. Glasses facilitate the transition for pseudo myopia to the much more dangerous progressive, lens-induced, axial elongation myopia.
But you should not simply stop to wear glasses. This won’t improve your eyesight to […]
Yes. Or rather, most likely.
Glasses are a simple solution to a complex problem. They change the focal plane inside your eye in a static fashion – meaning, unlike your eye which can refocus at many […]
Maybe. Sort of.
All myopia starts as “pseudo myopia”, also referred to as ciliary spasm myopia or NITM (near-induced transient myopia).
This isn’t real myopia, in that it would just go away if you stopped […]
No. And yes.
Myopia has two primary causes (or stages). Ciliary (focusing muscle) spasm, also referred to as pseudo myopia, or near-induced transient myopia. It then becomes lens-induced myopia if you start wearing glasses.
The degree […]
Lucy recently published an excellent article on the explosion of statin use. The problem is endemic of many areas of Western medicine where chronic rather than acute symptoms are to be dealt with. Acute symptoms […]
Rebecca writes in the forum:
I have a high prescription -6.5 with astigmatism in the left eye and -7.0 in the right.
Up to […]
Nate writes in the forum:
I need some help with my 9 year old son. He has been complaining about not being able to see […]
Jake Steiner here, bringing you some more eyesight
basics that the mainstream prefers not to tell you about.
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Here we will take a quick look at how the premise […]
Overprescription, with any sort of serious medication, is generally something most medical practices avoid – for all the obvious reasons. This is unfortunately not the case in optometry. In optometry, prescriptions are made for the […]