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
(-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 [...]
Optometrist Confirms: Roy’s (-0.75) Astigmatism Is Cured
I'm only using the words "astigmatism and cured" together, because Google. People search for these things. In reality, it's not a cure, because of course Roy's eyes were never ill in the first place. Astigmatism, in the majority of cases, is not an illness. Roy's eyes were simply affected by artificial focal plane changes, introduced by unnecessary prescription complexity with his previous glasses. Once Roy started working on the right kind of stimulus, and addressing prescriptions, his [...]
Shannon’s First Week: -9.00 Lowered To -7.50
Shannon kindly took the time to post an update in the forum: My job is that I make online courses for universities, so I love self-directed learning. I would say that so far the course has been a completely transformative learning experience for me because I didn’t know that myopia rehab was a possibility at all. It’s like being in a wheelchair, being told you’ll only get worse, and that you have no control over your condition [...]