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:
The 30 Day Trick, From Matthew (-4.00 TO -1.25)
Matthew started at out a -4.00, two years ago. He since managed to reverse most of his myopia (to -1.25), with persistence and good habits. If there's one thing I'll teach my child, it'll be to set yourself a goal, and then surround yourself with people who already accomplished what you're just setting out to do. There's no sense going at it alone, or listening to anyone other than those who are already where you're trying [...]
Paul’s Progress: -3.25 Reduced To -2.25 (& eliminated astigmatism)
Today was supposed to be about optometry, hypocrisy, and pseudoscience. Very fun and interesting stuff. Understanding pseudoscience as a premise will help understand where retail optometry strayed from the path of actual science. You might say, Jake, it's obvious. Mainstream optometry is a bunch of lens sales shops, making money. And you would of course be correct. But we get optometrists coming here, shouting, "show us the science"! Are they actually interested in science, though? Are they basing [...]
Johnny’s 2 Year Update: From -5.50 To -0.75 Diopters
In keeping with the recent promise of spending more time on good news, let's look at Johnny's latest update from the forum today. As a bit of background, Johnny started two years ago, before yours truly took over stewardship of this project. The first update is here, and others are here, here, and here. If you have forum membership you can find a whole lot of this kind of timeline of updates. I recommend browsing [...]
Matthew: From -4.00 Down To -1.50 (In A Year And A Half)
Yes, I glamorized the title just a little bit. Still, there is quite a feat here, something to help get you motivated. Here's Matthew's progress report: There's lots more in Matthew's complete thread, including his 2016 plans, and some interesting tricks he has come up with to help maintain patience. If you have forum access,visit the thread here. Cheers! -Jake
Fara: -4.00 To -2.25 In 2 Months
Topic of today's post had already made it over to Twitter a couple days ago. (and apologies, the title is a wee bit glamorizing reality) I get a fair amount of e-mail, of two varieties. There are the ones who ask tons of questions about glasses and myopia and process, that a quick search of the blog would answer. And then there's the other ones, which grab the bull by the proverbial horns, and figure things [...]
Roberto’s 10 Month Progress: From -3.75 Reduced to -2.50
There is one phrase I type so many times that my fingers probably twitch these keystrokes while I sleep: You don't need to buy anything from me, to improve your eyesight. Everything you need is in the blog. Usually it's something I mention responding to e-mails from people saying they wish they could afford BackTo20/20, or that they'll do it eventually, or asking whether they can get an extension for sign-up, or an exception if their invite [...]