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You know I get cranky about various vision improvement methods. Cranky.
Especially if you’re part of our Facebook group and witness the reactions when people talk about eye vitamins and acupuncture and worst of all, eye […]
Written By Despina
Contributing Optometrist
People with milder cases of visual impairment, such as low degrees of myopia, still suffer significant, negative impacts on their quality of life, new research in the UK finds.
Myopia is the […]
Today was going to be a no-blog day but alas, I can’t skip Matthew’s BackTo20/20 forum post:
I’m one month into a fully equalized set of lenses at -1.25 / -1.25. I spent 100 days […]
If you’re improving your eyesight, you already figured out that most optic shops overcharge massively for glasses.
500% or higher markups on lenses, perfectly normal. Gouge-town, city limits.
Not entirely surprising if you already realized what a […]
This is pretty amazing. Barb reports a 40% reduction in myopia in a month and a half.
Sometimes you read these progress reports, and you just have to think. How’s that even possible? What’s the scheme here? Is […]
Imagine a piece of glass.
Imagine a pebble hitting the piece of glass. Slow motion. It’s a single point of impact. The glass cracks.
But it doesn’t just crack where the pebble hit it. The […]
(In particular for high myopes, these considerations.)
The tradeoff with glasses over contact lenses (for close-up use) is:
1) Cost (you’re going through a lot of lenses coming down from high myopia, and some people prefer higher […]
Every so often we talk about glasses and depression, here in the blog. (Some of the previous articles, 1) anxiety, depression, weight gain, 2) headaches, depression, overprescriptions)
I like sticking to natural myopia control and […]
Every so often I’m asked whether students actually make it out of glasses and back to real, uncorrected 20/20.
Of course they do. Figure that only a relatively small percentage post progress updates (I can’t really […]
If you’ve known me and my eyeball musings for a while, you probably already know that you can live in rural Russia and get solid myopia prevention advice from Russian opticians (though maybe that doesn’t […]