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
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 [...]
Oskar: 17 Years Old, Reverses 5 Years Of Myopia (-9.25)
Looks like we've been neglecting updates from the Temple of Gains, lately. So let's get to a bit of catching up. Today we've got Oskar - who is about to escape the madness of double digit diopter myopia: Lens pimps, not thrilled by this. You know you love these progress updates. And we'll skip making fun of old-timey lens sellers today. We're going to resist starting any kind of meme theme with similarly insightful theories as the "myopia is genetic" [...]
Carole Shares: -10.00 D Reduced To -6.00 D
First, yes. A little click-baiting, that title. Carole did the first three diopters without the help of endmyopia. That would seem both heretical and implausible, a case of worshipping false gods and still reporting answered prayers. Smiteth, thee! But we'll let that slide (and graciously take credit via the post title). Here's Carole's improvement report post in our Facebook group: Nice progress. Almost cut in half, that myopia. High myopia is a gateway to all sorts [...]
(-9.50 High Myopia) Went To See The Optometrist Yesterday …
Not me. I didn't go to the optometrist. I've developed a profound fondness for avoiding optometrist consults years ago, even as my eyes started to improve measurably. Seeing those guys just made me either anxious, angry or depressed. It took me a long time to get lucky and find anybody in that profession who gave my results an actual thumbs up. Stefanie though, she did just go to the optometrist. And Stefanie has much better [...]
Michelle: From -10.25 Improved To -7.00
Michelle posts her latest (awesome) status update in the forum. If you're a high myope feeling trapped by your glasses or contact lenses (or have a friend who is), this is a bit of a quick must-read: I waited 6 weeks before updating my first normalized prescription to -7 contacts for the new normalized. From the 4-6 week point with the -7.5 contacts, I started wearing +.5 glasses inside as I could see well inside with [...]
Cadence Progress Report: From -10.00 Down to -7.50 (In A Year)
There's a backlog of progress updates from the forum, and encouraging e-mails. A backlog! Love it. :-) Very awesome to read that many of you are benefitting from the blog and BackTo20/20. Even more awesome (and many thanks for the inspiration) that some of you are taking the time to write and share the details. You're helping others get inspired, find insights, gain self confidence. And it's keeping me motivated to dig into the e-mails every day and [...]