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:
Leah From -8 D: Optometrist Confirms The 20/20 Gainnzz
Another day, another glorious reportage from the misty mountain temples of Gainzzzville. Stop it Jake, you're thinking. You're not 12 years old. But your jokes are about to be 12 years old right about now. Fair enough. So then here's just Leah and her very professionally confirmed diopter reduction, vision improvement update: Gaiiiiin .... ok ok fine I'll shut up. There are plenty more of these in our darling Facebook group. I like posting these reports [...]
Ani’s Optometrist: Improved Eyesight From -7.00 D To -5.75 D
Let's add another eyesight improvement progress report to the blog, Facebook member written, optometrist confirmed, ticking all the boxes. Note as always that I am not suggesting that you need the optometrist to tell you that you're on the right track with your vision. You can put up an eye chart on your own, you can have your own test lens kit, you can measure your own centimeters. The numbers don't lie, and measuring myopia is nothing [...]
Wayne, Joseph, Paul: Sharing Progress Updates
Today, let's look at a few improvement reports, status updates, thoughts and musings. First up, Joseph: Sure, "eyes wanted more diopters". Caveat emptor, with the lens sellers. All Joseph needs now to keep making the 20/20 gains is to work on a good outdoor habit. Walks with active focus, or some hobby involving using distance vision. Pretty simple from there to keep reducing the plastic lens focal planes. Next up, a post from Wayne in the [...]
Sudden Onset Child Myopia: From 20/20 To -6 Diopters (in a day?!)
Sudden onset so-called child myopia. One day your child sees just fine, the next day - hugely short sighted. High myopia diagnosed. No explanation, no treatment besides glasses. This happens, and I wish every parent in this situation would find this post before saying yes to glasses. At the risk of sounding like an elderly matron turned Internet unicorn hippie: Odds that your child suddenly becomes highly myopic in some irreversible manner, pretty slim. Odds that [...]
Nicole: Ophthalmologist Confirms -3.5 D Myopia Reduction
Dear all the holy gods, old and new, please let us find the serenity not to launch into an epic rant in this post. Shanti-amen. Here we go. Nicole improves her eyesight. Reduces her myopia. Has a supportive proper ophthalmologist (not just some runty chain store optician) to help her along the way. Nicole makes all the 20/20 gains, reports her progress in the Facebook group. Like so: That's right. All is well. That's it. [...]
Irene 14 Month Progress Update: -10 D Reduced To -7 D!
Progress update time! Today we have a post from Irene in the Facebook group, sharing her fantastic reduction from a starting double digit minus correction. These are particularly inspiring since it's really like stepping back from the cliff - high myopia creates a lot of potential serious long term vision health issues you really don't want to encounter. You don't want to ever experience lattice degeneration or retinal detachment or glaucoma. You do want to experience [...]