Starting Point: -2 To -3 Diopters
You officially have less myopia than many students of the beardly guru. That’s pretty good news, though it’ll take you a little while to make it back to 20/20.
Promising news, yes? So far all the so-called professionals and doctors have been telling you that nothing at all can be done about your shortsightedness. They say suck it up, you can’t see sh*t without us. Give us your credit card, consider yourself lucky we’re here, and buy these glasses.
And then you end up on this page anyway, skeptical ideally, open-minded, hopefully.
Then you start finding out that retail optometry knows that minus lenses cause myopia and that myopia in most cases isn’t an illness at all. Myopia is usually nothing more than a refractive state, meaning that your eyes simply adapted to both strain (from close-up) and stimulus (of the wrong kind, from minus lenses).
Oops. And you may look and find more and more articles on the subject, realizing that you’re neither hopeless, nor broken.
That part isn’t really in question, at least not once you explore a bit of the clinical science and studies that can easily be found on Google Scholar. The real question is, is Cooky VonJakenstein off his regal rocker, or is this particular dirty stock trader and capitalist Schweinehund on to something, with all this talk about reversing myopia?
This is the question. Is endmyopia just more Internet unicorn farming, or is it the real deal?
Spoiler alert, at the very least it’s run by a amusingly deranged creature of the beard.
But whatever. What counts is results, and so let’s look at some results for those who started out just like you:
Eva’s Progress: From -2.50 D To -1.00 D (And No Glasses)
Step into the Holy, Unholy Temples of MEOW, darling kittehs. For some 20/20 gains. No matter whether you're arriving here with high myopia or with low myopia, it's all just refractive states. And those refractive states are simply a matter of stimulus (and strain). You can see what you want to see. You can see what you habitually see. If all you see is screens, eventually all you *will* see is screens. Om shanti shanti, kittehs. [...]
Shelly: How I Reduced -4.25D To Just -1.75D
Awe Jake. The crickbait is strong with you! Because for the 'how' part you'll have to actually dig into endmyopia and learn some biology and some optics and do some prodigious experimenting of the self. C'est la vie, kittehz. The inspiring bit here, 40% less myopia. 40%! Already down so much that it's now at a level where Shelly can almost get away without glasses for close-up (a huge milestone), and that she can definitely [...]
Karen’s -3 D: 1 Diopter Of Natural Focal Plane Gains!
Getting back to the roots here, posting more of the daily incoming improvement reports. Karen is on track with initial improvements, which can be as high as a full diopter in the first ninety days in some cases. Of course from there things settle into a more measured pace, but the initial boost is a great place to start! That's 25% less diopters! This is where you want to be. Imagine being able to lose (or [...]
D.B.: -3.50 To -2.50 Progress Report
Today, a nice e-mail progress report from Dan. As you read, note his progress rate which is right around the figures most eye gurus suggest. Handy also his access to online shopping options, circumventing the massive markups and often condescending attitudes of local chain store outlets. Patience and reading the blog before getting started with diopter changes is key to success. Unless you are doing the structured BackTo2/20 approach, take the time to learn the basics [...]
Troy (-4.00) IT Job & The 20/20 Gains
The nay sayers are right. Jakey is a terrible eye guru. We're so many improvement reports behind right now, it's pretty much official at this point: we'll never ever get caught up trying to post all of the great 20/20 gains reports here. Also, hey. How many optometrists have you ever heard saying anything like that? Too many improvement reports to keep up with? Fortunately these guys are still the sanctioned stewards of our collective vision [...]
Ljupka: From -3.00 Down To -1.50 (In 7 Months!)
Today let's look at another progress report, this time from the BackTo20/20 support forum. You probably noticed that we get a lot of 20/20 gains stories from our Facebook group, as well as some that I repost from my e-mail inbox. I like to cover as many of these as possible since any one of them may be closest to your own situation and provide you with the most relevant insights. These reports aren't "testimonials". Look [...]