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:
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 [...]
Kim’s -7.00 Reduced To -3.00 (In 18 Months): Amazed By Habit Effectiveness
How do you get from a -4.00 diopter correction down to -3.00 without even thinking about it? Is that wishful thinking, or did Kim just do exactly that? You keep hearing me saying this: Habits kitteh, are key to all the 20/20 gains. Not eye exercises. Forget about exercises. Life gets in the way. You've got things to do. Sure maybe you're the super motivated type and you can do an hour a day eye exercise [...]
Angie’s Must-Watch Eyesight Update (YouTube)
Vision improvement is a fringey topic. The sort of Internet health thing littered with all the unicorn pony farming and feeding on your hope and trust to sell you magic herb vitamins and secret-handshake eye exercises. Which, some people live for that stuff. Vague symptoms and magic weed cures. As much fun as that might be, our goal here is to get you all the 20/20 gains. I don't waste your time on the esoteric nuances of the self [...]
Cataract Alternative Treatment? Debbie Reduced -8.50 D To -2.50 D
Today let's look at a nice one year progress report involving high myopia as well as a cataract. Debbie is attempting this one in part as alternative cataract treatment, to lower her myopia before considering potentially surgical options. This one is somewhat complex since it involves work with a cataract (and interesting progress with eye drops), high myopia, and high astigmatism. Worth a read since it shows just how much you can accomplish before ever considering [...]
Kicked 2 Diopters: -6.25 Down To -4.25 Since August!
Warning: This post turned into a tiny bit of a rant. Yikes! ;) Yes, "kicked diopters". Because, let's look at diopters realistically. They're not much else than a (manufactured focal plane) drug addiction. You were fine without the diopters. Then at some point you had a focusing muscle spasm (blurry vision) and the establishment said, wow great, come in here, we can fix that for you right now. With this product. With this subscription-based, come back next [...]
