Starting Point: -6 To -8 Diopters
This isn’t super awesome, mostly just because it’ll take you a little while to make it back to 20/20.
Which one could say, is actually kind of awesome. So far all the so-called professionals and doctors have been telling you that nothing at all can be done about your bug-eyed level of shortsightedness. They say suck it up, you’re a genetic dumpster fire. Give us your credit card, you tragic aberation, and buy these here 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:
Kim: -6.5 D Down To -4.25 D
Let's look at a great detailed progress report from our very own Facebook forum moderator, Kim. It is fantastic that some of our students come back to endmyopia to help others along with their journey. And in this case, even volunteer with some of the things that may otherwise drive an old eye guru a little (more crazy). Here's Kim's full report: Hey guys, this is going to be a long post. I started this [...]
Melissa (-7.00): Eyes Damaged, Uncorrectable – Said The Optometrist
Today let's look at a case of "eyes damaged in a way uncorrectable with lenses". You'll notice a guru-trend here in the blog of things that require a measure of sarcasm, presented in quotations. Like "eye doctor", or "Bates Method teacher". And it's perfectly normal to attribute all the derision to some natural proclivity of an elusive eye guru to be grumpy old geezer-stein. But then if you read enough here in the [...]
Ben: -9.25 D Reduced To -7.50 D (in 3 Months!)
The improvement reports, the 20/20 GAIIIINS, they just keep rolling it. It's quite interesting, the volume of e-mails. And also the membership growth of our darling Facebook group (15 to 20 new members added every day - with about 70% of member requests getting approved). Like a tiny little fire burning at the edge of the forest, all of this. Here's Ben: Backing away from the abyss. There's something extra menacing about double digit [...]
Steven: Improved From -6.50 D To -5.50 D (Optometrist Confirmed)
It's time for another (supportive) optometrist confirmed improvement report, darlings! Look at this one for all the ingredients of good progress. High myopia as a start, proper measurements of diopters required, improvements logged fitting the average expected annual rate of myopia reduction. Courtesy of Steven, posting in our Facebook group: Original post here. Bring out the horse, Jeeves, for this next bit. Myopia is one of the largest "health epidemics" humanity is facing today. Failing vision [...]
Optometrist Confirmed: Jayesh Reduced -8.50 D To -7.00 D
Despite my best attempts to diversify the blog content, improvement reports remain our single most common feature. Why, you ask? Because we're awesome, that's why. Here's Jayesh: Full thread. Note that even the autorefractor, aka. optometry's Magic Eightball(tm), comes to the same conclusion here. How's this possible, day in, day out, all these gains from all these darling students? The only entirely reasonable explanation is the obvious one. Jake is actually back from the future, [...]
Sylvia: -8.50 Reduced To -7.50 (In 18 Weeks)
Let's do another full diopter progress report today. Sylvia writes: Solid start. And here's the chart that Sylvia references: I love chart. You should always keep a log, especially when just getting started. Measure frequently and later on when you're well into successful reductions, still do at least 1-2 measurements a month. You'll want that graph to look at in times you're feeling not sure, progress seems slow, or you just need that extra bit of [...]