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:
Wendy: -6.00 Reduced To -4.50 In 14 Months (30% Improvement!)
Wendy improved her eyesight significantly, over the past year. In the process, she figured out several tricks to save money on all the lens changes, and when to make the next reductions. Get her first hand account, from our FB group, in this post. You know I'm phoning it in a little, when you see these post titles. It's probably the easiest and most fun articles to post here. Improvement reports. Also fascinating to me is [...]
Melissa: -6.75 Reduced To -5.00 (+ Pregnant, Toddler, & Full Time Job!)
Huge backlog of improvement reports! Let's work on that today. ;) Today let's have a look at Melissa, in BackTo20/20, making some very solid 20/20 gains - despite being pregnant, having a full time job, and also a baby. Side note: How does anybody even do that? I've got no job and one toddler and a girl who takes care of him and I still feel as though I'd drown if we had another kid. [...]
Eli: -8.75 Down To -6.25, Optometrist “Baffled And Excited”
I think this e-mail from Eli might almost work best without me saying anything: Eli is right up there on guru level 4, with all those 20/20 gains. He's even baffling the professionals! And he is also part of our FB group of rebels and troublemakers, so you can stop over there and congratulate Eli yourself. It's always a wise idea to suck up to the OG kittehs with the serious multi-diopter 20/20 gains, gleam some of [...]
Tim’s -8.50 To -5.75 Progress (With Interchangeable Lenses)
Lenses. Lots and lots of lenses. Once you start reversing your myopia, you realize how many lens reductions you'll need. You could be some optometrist's best friend ever, going down by 0.25 diopters, on two sets of glasses, every 3-4 months. Seriously, that's a lot of lenses! And there are lots and lots of tricks and strategies and way to deal with all these lens changes. Some use contact lenses which are cheaper and easier to [...]
Eye Doctor Left Speechless: Eli’s (-8.00) Progress
Eli reports his progress in the forum: I just got back from the eye doctor. He had ordered me a trial pair of -7.00 contacts (I guess he was not expecting much after I put them in). To his amazement I was able to get to 20/20 (without squinting) with the new lowered script. He was almost speechless. When he did talk he said “whatever you are doing, keep doing it”. I said “I plan on it, [...]
Dimitri: -8.00 D Reduced To -6.75 D (at 20/20)
Let's keep catching up with student progress reports! I like posting these not only for your motivation, but also since many of them offer hints and strategies as told by the students themselves. Some explanations may resonate particularly well with you, your style, or your current lens needs - which is why I want to include as many of them as possible. Here's Dimitri: Well done, Dimitri! The better you understand how focal plane changes affect [...]