Starting Point: -4 To -5 Diopters
Congratulations, sort of. You have less diopters than many, though it’ll take you a little while to make it back to 20/20.
Which one could say, is kind of good news. 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’re a failure in the vision department. 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:
Dave: -4.50 Down To -2.50 (Optometrist Confirmed)
Gains report time, darlings. This one to balance our last post, where unfortunately an old guru about went off the rails again, discussing the collective ineptitude of the so-called vision care establishment. Ss with everything in life, it's not all one way. Today it's the opposite of the less than stellar experience we looked at yesterday, with clearly someone who knows what they're talking about, and supports their customers (not 'patients', since we're not sick here). [...]
Dawn: From -4.00 Down To -0.50 (11 Months Progress)
Looks like we've been neglecting progress updates again as of late. Oops! There are dozens of new progress updates in our Facebook group and while your old guru has managed to save a few of them, the actual posting here has been a bit wanting. A bit wanting and also my favorite part of the blog. Darling members making all the 20/20 gains! Here's Dawn's recent update: Beyond expectations. That's not in any way a rate [...]
Will: -4.00 D Down To -2.25 D
Progress updates, darlings! Before we go there though, let's take a moment and appreciate all the deeply authentic photography of the guru available here on endmyopia. Biding time while waiting to get back to places with faster Internet, to get back to some how-to videos for you. If you're getting bored and hoping for updates, I have also been taking the time to answer some of the thread in the Facebook group and Le Meow. [...]
Vivian: Optometrist Confirmed Myopia & Astigmatism Reduction
We're overdue for some 20/20 gains updates! First up, Vivian making progress. This is one of those updates that doesn't fall into the category of unexpectedly massive gains, but rather the nice predictable variety. And while your favorite guru doesn't care what the optometrist says, many readers like the additional reassurance: Conservative, most likely. You're likely to self-measure more improvement than the optometrist will confirm. We talk about this occasionally in the blog, with things coming [...]
Justin: From -4.50 D Down To -2.25 D (Since May!)
Time for a quick improvement update post. We've been doing mostly updates from our enormously popular, biggest ever, incredibly meow-rific Facebook group. Probably Facebook updates because an old guru is filled with personal insecurities and highly susceptible to external criticism, and I used to really cringe whenever somebody would claim that I'd make up the e-mailed improvement reports. Yea I know, those trolls were years ago. But there's a point in there somewhere. The Internet is [...]
Sander: From -5.00 To Martial Arts Without Glasses
Your favorite old beardly sage quite likes to read your improvement updates. I sometimes say there's no way I can post them all, but that's not me complaining. Getting them is great, they're the best part of my mornings while making it through e-mail and messages. Even if I don't manage to find the time to save each of them to post in the blog, do know that you're adding to my motivation by sending me [...]