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:
Eric”s (from -4.25) Optometrist: “Amazing! What Did You Do?”
Opening e-mail is a bit like Christmas, these days. Lots and lots and lots of great stories. Check out what Eric just sent over, brilliant experience (and he's lucky too, to have found an optometrist with some sense and curiosity, and not an outsized ego). There's hope for myopes, yet! Big thumbs up to Eric for making those gains, and especially taking the time to write! If you haven't started yet, take inspiration from Eric. He [...]
Kris Reduces Glasses From -6.00 To -4.50 (In 4 Months)
Youtube comment today, from Kris, a viewer and reader of the blog: I love getting these bits of feedback to share with you! Of course a reasonable diet matters (insulin issues often tie to eyesight problems) and from there it's not that much further to get some better eyesight habits as well. Nicely done, Kris. Housekeeping: Still in Indonesia for a few more days here, I brought various cameras and things but haven't done any proper [...]
Matt Improves From -4.25 To -2.50 (and more stories)
Let's look at some reader and student e-mails, today. First up, Matt improves from -4.25 to -2.50. That's a healthy start right into low myopia territory. Well done. Avoided the LASIK. Lucky Matt! Some days it's easy to take all the improvement stories for granted. Especially if you've been following @endmyopia for a while, or if you're me, clicking through hundreds of e-mails a day (yes, I skim and hit delete liberally, and the e-mail [...]
Third Normalized Glasses!! (From -5.00)
Written By Despina Contributing Optometrist So I am on my third normalized glasses prescription now, after just over 3 months on the program! From my original contact lens prescription of -5.00D in the right eye and -5.50D in the left, I am now wearing -3.50D right and -4.00D left. Just the idea that I am into the mid-myope range is amazing for me, after x-years as a high myope. With the arrival of summer and the [...]
50 Years Young, Making 20/20 GAINS: Shelly Goes -4.00 To -2.75!
Hey, guess what. Progress report time!One of the things that saves Jakey's sanity quite often, is the awesome, amazing, wonderful invention of automatic e-mail scheduling. I have no idea how I'd manage to poke you at the right time, check in, see how you're doing.And to tell you fun stories, of course. I tell you fun stories, and you might remember poor ole Jakey, opt to hit the reply button, and regale and old man with stories [...]
A Tale Of Two Myopes (-5.50): Small Changes, 1/2 Diopter Better Eyesight
Two reader e-mails today, both illustrating how small amounts of habit and lens changes can have a measurable positive impact on your eyesight. Since they're a bit long for screenshots, I copy/paste the text version here. First, David: Hi Jake, I guess your question was just an automated email, but I thought I'd give you an answer just in case you are interested. Things are going remarkably well. In 4 months my eyesight has [...]