It Takes Time To Get Back To 20/20.
And as most beardly sages will tell you, the path is the goal. Or something.
In this subject matter it’s every diopter that matters, they’re all milestones that will give you a better vision experience than the previous, higher diopters. -10 diopter myopia is nothing like -5 diopter myopia. At -10 you can barely wear glasses, your field of vision is seriously compromised, everything is smaller and more distorted. -5 looks like super high definition magic 8K reality, compared to -10.
And -4 is nothing like -2. At -2 you almost don’t need glasses for close-up, and you’re likely to get clear flashes even without glasses. And once you get to the last diopter, you can be without glasses in good outdoor lighting, and likely experience increasing amounts of great eyesight.
I also wrote several posts on the rate of improvement, and also did a quick and as-usual rambling video on the “how fast” question:
All that said, because newbies always ask this question (and who can blame them), here’s some updates from darling students who made it all the way to 20/20, or are just about there.
Because yes of course, you can (and should) go all the way back to 20/20. So enjoy some of the 20/20 gains reports here below.
20/40 To 20/20 Range Improvement Updates:
Amanda’s Daughter: 20/63 Improved To 20/40 (In One Month!)
Child myopia? It's not a thing! There's literally no good reason to let your children become profit centers for mainstream optometry. Literally none, unless you don't feel like doing the annoying you-know-what thing - actual parenting. And as a darling eye guru is discovering having a 2 year old now, actual parenting indeed is a giant pain. Having a [...]
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: [...]
Eva’s Progress: From -2.50 D To -1.00 D (And No Glasses)
Step into the Holy, Unholy Temples of MEOW, darling kittehs. For some 20/20 gains. No matter whether you're arriving here with high myopia or with low myopia, it's all just refractive states. And those refractive states are simply a matter of stimulus (and strain). You can see what you want to see. You can see what you habitually see. If [...]
Optometrist Confirms: Rich Down To -0.5 Diopters
20/20 gains. Science. How-to guides. And yet people keep asking, "but what about the optometrists, Jake". What indeed. The short answer, plenty of them know what's going on. There are smart individuals in a dumb field. Or maybe just in a field that's got nothing to do with you seeing well at a distance and everything to do with [...]
Back To 20/20: Emily Passes DMV Vision Test
People ask, every so often ... Jake, do any your students actually get all the way back to 20/20? They realize that they read hundreds of improvement reports, diopter after diopter, but the full 20/20 stories are comparatively few and far between. So it's fair to wonder, at first glance. Does endmyopia just offer some vision improvement, based on the [...]
Angie Goes To Gainsville: NO MORE GLASSES*
No more glasses. That, nice progress. There needs to be a little *. Which is, no more glasses for close-up specifically. An important milestone in the journey to being glasses-free, is no longer needing them to read up-close. Which if you want to reminisce about the past, you used to not need in the first place. Real quick, when did [...]
