Starting Point: Very High (9+ Diopter) Myopia
Ouch, very high myopia starting point.
That’s quite stressful, watching your eyes “deteriorate” and all the so-called professionals and doctors telling you that nothing at all can be done. Till you end up on this page anyway, skeptical ideally, open-minded, hopefully.
Then here 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:
High Myopia Progress Updates
Megan: -10 Down To -6 (Optometrist Confirmed) | Shortsighted Podcast
Note: Also available as an episode in the Shortsighted Podcast 🎙. To listen to it in your favorite podcast player, see our podcast page for all available directories. So, kittehz. As you may have noticed if you're watching the endmyopia Tubes of late, we started doing video chats with participants. Jaaaaaaaaaa. Discussing improvement reports now going beyond just posts in the Facebook group, and lazy copy-paste jobs from my inbox. There's this playlist I made, to [...]
Simone: From -10 Diopters Down To -7
My most fellow darling kittehz. Welcome back! Let's jump into a little round of improvement updates and musings from the community. Because it's as always, overdue. Simone: -10 Down To -7 In some cases finding endmyopia is a really big deal: It's ein Christmas miracle, dahlings. Not to be flippant. But we're talking difference between being on the road to serious potential eye issues, vs. now nicely reducing diopter dependence. Much better scenario. Sharon: [...]
Christie: Optometrist Says, “No More Myopia”
Gains updates time, kittehz. First of all, please let me say that a darling guru is very, very far removed from the West. And all the curious and rapidly changing ideas about free speech, extra enhanced political correctness, and generally things that an old man finds quite confusing. Seems like we'd have more pressing problems than trying to practice being little fascists with each other while the big corporate machines continue grinding our lives into infinite [...]
Depression & (High) Myopia
This is a big topic, apparently. You don't find the ole guru digging too deep into emotional states and generally more intangible aspects of myopia. We should since that's one of the top reasons that you should start working on reducing your lens dependence. So if you feel despair about your myopia (high myopia in particular), watch this rambly video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHGJsSveHO4 Hopefully useful. One day at a time. Putting a lot into this resource to [...]
Holy Sh*t, SO MANY 20/20 GAINS
It's been a while, daaaaahlings. Time to get some of these progress reports off the inbox. Heads up, as always there are a zillion of them. Tip of the iceberg, scratching the surface of glorious beards, and acts of defiance against your rulers and institutionalized profiteers. Let's dive in. Mitja: -5.50 Down To -4.50 About the average for a year's progress. Cool part is that you can easily keep repeating this, year after year, till you're [...]
Louise: Optometrists, GTFO 😡
Let's kick off this latest round of improvement reports with some fun drama from the Facebook group. For a bit of background, for whatever reason the last couple of days has been stirring from sleeper cell optometrists in the group. Suddenly a flurry of activity there, recommending everything from atropine drops for myopia control (literally, poison) to ortho-k (literally, thousands of dollars for not addressing causality at all). And while your favorite darling eye guru [...]