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:
Eye Doctor Left Speechless: Eli’s Progress (-8.00)
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 [...]
Should You Fear The Optometrist? (Or: How To Drop 2 Diopters In 10 Months)
The forum, ever the goldmine of participant insights, most recently with Cadence posting about her unfortunate experience at the optometrist: I went down to the optometrist today where it was a really bad experience. The first shop that I went to is the one that prescribe me my glasses 1 year ago. When I went in, the regular optometrist is no longer there and was replaced by an unfriendly lady. For measurements of my eye she [...]
Nate’s Progress: -6.75 to -3.25
Nate posts in the forum: A quick question about when to decrease normalized prescription. I started with a prescription of -6.75. I heard about myopia rehab at gettingstronger, and did it on my own for about 2 years. At the start of this year I had a trip to the optometrist, and was told that my fully corrected prescription was -4.75. I started the year with a normalized prescription of -4.25. This year I’ve slowly worked [...]
-6.75 D to -4.75 D: A Pathologists Experience With Improving Eyesight
Here, a guest post from Nathan (who you might know from occasional forum posts). I had asked him to write something for you, since his vocation is particularly well suited to the topic of myopia rehabilitation. Nathan is a pathologist, so he is used to applying knowledge of the human body to logically analyzing the subjects we look at here in the blog (and the course, obviously). --- First, I’d like to thank Jake [...]
Steve: High Myopia Progress Report (7 Months: -7.50 to -6.00)
I get a lot of e-mails from readers asking about high myopia and the possibility to reverse it. As I always tell them, high myopia is (in practice) no different from low myopia. You're just starting out a bit further away from full recovery to 20/20. Of course there are some differences in physiology (potential axial myopia), but none of that matters for how you approach your improvement goals. People often struggle to believe me. Can [...]