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:
Is 5.5 Eyesight Bad
Did you go to the optometrist, and they handed you a paper that says, -5.50 diopters? And then they told you that you need to spend a bunch of money on glasses. It was all very confusing probably and nobody is giving you clear answers. That's all by design. And now you're wondering ... Real Talk: Is 5.5 Eyesight Bad Super super short answer, yes it is. It's not as bad as Google claims: That's just [...]
Brittany: -3.75 Diopters To -2.50
Brittany started the program in January after an eye doctor prescribed her -3.75 lenses. She measured her own vision the previous day at -2.50, less than a year later. The starting number was optometrist-prescribed but the ending number was self-measured. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
Jerry: -5.25 Diopters To -2.50 (and lens free bike rides)
Ditch the eyeball handcuffs.
-4.50 Diopters To -1.25
The sender reports going from -4.5 net (including astigmatism) to about -1.25 in daylight and -1.5 for night driving, now pure sphere with no astigmatism correction. They say they are at the point where they only need to travel with one set of glasses and hope to stop wearing glasses within a year. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
-5.50 Diopters To -0.25
The writer started at -5.5 and is now at -0.25 in the left eye and -0.25 in the right eye. They say they hardly ever wear their glasses at all now. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
-8.00 Diopters To -4.25
A person began at -8.00 in 2017 and is now at around -4.25, roughly halving her myopia. Progress has been slow, and she attributes the slowdown to a stressful, artificially lit, screen-intensive work environment. The report was relayed by a correspondent who has been emailing her for about six years. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.