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:
Jane: Reduced -5.75 To -4.75 (4 Months Progress)
It's been a minute since we looked at e-mail improvement stories. And they're piling up. Let's look at Jane today, who says she's been enjoying the stories here on the blog. That and also your Facebook musings, and even the shrouded-in-mystery and subject of enduring legends that is the BackTo20/20 program. It warms your darling eye guru's little heart, to share success stories with you! Here we go: Lovely, yes? That's a full diopter signed off, [...]
Wendy: -6.00 Reduced To -4.50 In 14 Months (30% Improvement!)
Wendy improved her eyesight significantly, over the past year. In the process, she figured out several tricks to save money on all the lens changes, and when to make the next reductions. Get her first hand account, from our FB group, in this post. You know I'm phoning it in a little, when you see these post titles. It's probably the easiest and most fun articles to post here. Improvement reports. Also fascinating to me is [...]
Ismail 280 Days Progress: -5.00 Diopters Down To -2.50 Diopters
Heads up: Some unrestrained adult language in this following e-mail to House Van Jakerstein. As you read below e-mail, resist the temptation to ask me how Ismail did it. Because kittehs, I don't know. Giant overprescription plus lots of ciliary spasm myopia? Maybe. Is he overstating his -5 into a -7 because of the close-up distance? While that's actually not entirely inaccurate, it's also twisting the numbers a bit. Anyway, here it is: What do [...]
Andrew Visits The Optometrist: -3.75 D Reduced To -2.25 D
Welcome back, kittehs! You know one of my most favorite kind of stories? It goes something like this. Guy (or girl) wears glasses. Guy (or girl) hears from a friend, or from the Googles, that there's something fishy about the mainstream myopia story. Girl (or guy) digs in, becomes a student of the endmyopia ways, begins improving eyesight. Optometrist visits ensue which confirm continually improving eyesight, and lower diopters. You say, well Jake. Not sure why [...]
(-4.00 Progress) Eye Exam Confirms: 63 Year Old Cuts Myopia In HALF
Can we brag a little bit, kittehs? No, not the post picture. That's just lacking creative ideas today. Go ahead, Jake, you say. Probably no worse than your Instagram. So some days I've got the most awesomest e-mail inbox. It's been overcrowded one lately (since I managed to break myself with an especially dumb self experiment, lucidity to answer e-mails has been lacking). But as I keep digging through the backlog, so much of what I read is like Christmas, over [...]
Optometrist (-5.50 Progress): “Eyes Gone Back To An Older Prescription”
There's one key premise that made me moderately successful in my previous career: Never take anyone's word for things that will be critically important to your decision making. An example: I wasn't an accountant (I'd be the worst accountant, seriously). We'd get these in-house accountant summaries of financials, a neat few pages covering dozens of boxes of paperwork. Everybody was using the summaries. Everybody but Jake. I'd kept an eye on the in-house accountants, and I didn't trust them. I had my own [...]