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:
Joel’s Progress: -4.75 Diopters Down To -3.00 Diopters
You don't have to buy anything from me, to improve your eyesight. Everything here is provided without prejudice (but with some sarcasm). Anyone can come, take, use these tools, and never necessarily have to contribute or give anything back.I say this often, and it's even one of the first lines in my e-mail signature. Right now there is the free e-mail course which definitely includes some nudges towards the (paid) BackTo20/20 option. BackTo20/20 is the serious R&D project [...]
Cut Lens Prescription In HALF! (-6.75 Diopters To -3.00 Diopters in 5 Months)
Almost every day that I go through my e-mail, there's a story like this one.Somebody takes all the content on this site, digs through the science, does the free e-mail course, and gets to work on reducing their own lens prescription dependence. For most people who are determined and reasonably intelligent, it does turn out something like this:Do take this particular vision improvement story with a few grains of salt, because:Centimer, while an accurate measurement, is easy to look [...]
Kim’s One Year Update: -7.5 Diopters Down to -4 Diopters
I occasionally joke about what sometimes may look like an endless barrage of improvement stories. We could literally turn this blog into just improvement stories and myopia control progress reports, and cover every single day of the year.Who else, licensed or otherwise, can make (and back up) such a claim? You're the star of this show. You take what is certainly a challenging amount of information, from biology to optics to clinical science, you add your own patience and persistence, and [...]
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
Johnny: -5.00 to -1.00 Progress Update (amazing!)
Johnny posts another update in the forum. If you are into improving eyesight, this is definitely a must-read (there are previous updates from Johnny, here, here, and here). All the challenges, hurdles, strategies, insights, absolutely things you want to be aware of. Here's the latest update: Hi guys update time I last posted in July where I was at about -1.75 / 1.5 ish. My vision was pretty good with these but I did have double [...]