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:
(-4.50 Progress) You Can’t Force The Clear Flash
I struggle with the blog articles sometimes, and even with the sessions in BackTo20/20. Some things I really want to convey, just don't seem to quite make it. It's one part of the reason I want to get good at video. There's quite a bit of nuance to work out. There are the aitactual parts of centimeter and reductions and stimulus and diopters. And then there are the less tangible aspects, like finding active focus and the wide [...]
William (-5.25): 50% Improvement In 6 Months
Lots of interesting stories and commentary in the forum, today. Quick aside: I've been doing screenshots instead of text copy/paste lately just because it somehow feels more authentic (but then also slightly more blurry, ironically). Here's William's comment: "0.5 centimeter improvement, per week". Great work. Always remember to check Snellen as well. While both measurements *should* produce similar results, in practice they tend to vary, especially in various stages of improvement. You may get some months [...]
Fara: -4.00 To -2.25 In 2 Months
Topic of today's post had already made it over to Twitter a couple days ago. (and apologies, the title is a wee bit glamorizing reality) I get a fair amount of e-mail, of two varieties. There are the ones who ask tons of questions about glasses and myopia and process, that a quick search of the blog would answer. And then there's the other ones, which grab the bull by the proverbial horns, and figure things [...]
Al Does It With Just The Blog: -4.75 To 3.00 Progress
You can significantly improve your eyesight, just using the blog. I often say that you don't need to buy things from me. The e-mail series, plus reading, will definitely give you all the right ideas. Al reduced his prescription dependence by 1.75 diopters, in 11 short months. Inspiring, right? Al posts his progress update in the comments, in response to my freak-out rant from earlier:What a great post. I once had a martial arts instructor who [...]
Roberto’s 10 Month Progress: From -3.75 Reduced to -2.50
There is one phrase I type so many times that my fingers probably twitch these keystrokes while I sleep: You don't need to buy anything from me, to improve your eyesight. Everything you need is in the blog. Usually it's something I mention responding to e-mails from people saying they wish they could afford BackTo20/20, or that they'll do it eventually, or asking whether they can get an extension for sign-up, or an exception if their invite [...]
Matt: Improved From -5.00 to -2.50 (Since April Last Year)
Matt recounts his progress in this forum post, today: Hello fellow endmyopia readers! I have some good progress to report. Last year, about April 2014 I was wearing a prescription of: OD -5.00 *-0.75 *177 OS -4.00 *-1.00 *177 On the way to high myopia and all the risks that come with it. I remember, I couldn’t see my wife when I woke up first thing in the morning, or the alarm clock, without glasses on my [...]