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:
Reducing From -5.00 Diopters
The writer reports both eyes at -5 diopters and had long-standing eye and head pain from constant close-up work. After starting EndMyopia habits and using -3.5 differential glasses, they say their centimeter measurement improved from 11 cm to 18 cm and their eyes feel more comfortable. They have only been at it a short time and report no change in their diopter numbers yet. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
-4.25 Diopters To -3.50
Over 5 months (November 2023 to April 2024), the person reports their right eye improved from -3.50 to -3.00 and their left eye from -4.25 to -3.50. They mention using a differential prescription of -1.50 for the right eye and -2.00 for the left. They wrote from India. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
Tim C.: -5.00 Diopters To -3.50
Tim was prescribed -5.00 diopters in both eyes for 40 years and associates that history with vitreous detachments in both eyes and a retinal tear in one. About 4 years ago he found EndMyopia and applied the techniques. He now reports -3.00 in one eye and -3.50 in the other, with 20/20 vision in one eye. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
-6.25 Diopters To -3.50
A long-time follower reports their highest prescription was -6.25 S -5.00 C and that they wore -5.75 contacts for several years. After about two years of working on their eyes, they now wear -3.5 contacts and say they are down another diopter from last year. They also describe their daughter, prescribed OD -1.5 S -1.00 C and OS -2.00 S -0.75 C at age 9, whose prescription was never filled and who is now using +1.25 [...]
Michaela: -6.25 Diopters To -3.00
Michaela reports going from -6.25 to a -3.00 normalised. She says she plans to reduce soon to -2.75 and that she sees better and better with no correction. See more documented cases in the EndMyopia Case Report Registry.
Saswati: -3.75 Diopters To -3.00
The writer found EndMyopia while looking for an alternative to LASIK for high myopia and glasses. An optometrist measured -3.75 D sphere in both eyes with -0.75 astigmatism in the right eye and -0.5 in the left, and they began their journey with -3.25 D normalised lenses, reducing them every three months. They now use -3 D SPH both eyes for normalised and -1.75 D SPH for differentials, and are working on active focus at the [...]