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How To Guides.  There’s BackTo20/20, the exclusive lair of Jake’s personal students working on their eyesight.  And then there are the free guides, available to all readers, right here on @endmyopia.  So whether you prefer DIY, or don’t want to enable Jake by funding his debaucherous lifestyle, or are just dabbling, this section is for you.

A decade of eye guru experience, in hundreds of individual guide posts, many with student examples, all here in this section.  Dive right in!

Reducing Diopter Ratio: DIY Patching Solution (PRO TOPIC)

Diopter Ratio:  The percentage difference between your left and right eye spherical diopter values.  People sometimes refer to it as weak eye and strong eye, although I prefer not to use those terms - it is entirely normal biology for one of your eyes to be dominant (ocular dominance). We also talk about diopter ratio and ocular dominance here in the blog.  Here, here, and here.   If you're not familiar with ocular dominance and the basics on when and [...]

Glasses, Nearsighted: How To's|

(Pro Topic) Nick: Is Time To Equalize Diopters?

Pro topic, Q&A time. Equalizing is a topic we discuss in BackTo20/20, as part of the effort to reduce your diopter complexity as you get closer and closer to not needing to wear glasses for most activities.   Equalizing:  Reducing the difference between left and right eye spherical diopters. Diopter Complexity:  The degree of difference between left and right eye spherical diopters.  Amount of cylinder correction.  Degree of difference between left and right eye cylinder.   The simpler your diopters, [...]

Glasses, Nearsighted: How To's, Nearsighted: Q&A|

Child Developing Myopia – Uncooperative With Prevention?

There has been quite a lot of discussion in the Facebook group lately, about child myopia.  Likewise, endmyopia e-mails have a lot of child questions. So let's talk about child myopia, and child cooperation today. Important Note:  Before you start playing around with endmyopia concepts, it's really important to realize that children's eyes are still developing.  You can play around quite a bit with focal planes as an adult, and not go too far wrong - at least compared to [...]

Child Myopia, Nearsighted: How To's|

The Big Primer On Buying Lenses (And Cost!)

Quick Lens Education:  If you're being quoted hundreds of dollars for a new pair of glasses, you may want to read this post, first.   The very last pair of optometrist "prescribed" glasses that your darling eye guru ever bought (close to -5 diopters and lots of astigmatism correction), cost me over 700 Euro. They had a very cool boutique German designed almost rubber type of tiny frame. Or frameless really, since the lenses were drilled (single screw, with a [...]

Glasses, Nearsighted: How To's|

Where Are My Gains?!

If you started recently and not seeing all the 20/20 gains (yet), this article is for you. Are you experiencing slow improvement rate?  Let's figure out the scenarios.   After a decade and thousands of students, we've got a pretty good profile for the average myope profile that we encounter here.  Give or take a few variables, this is very likely close to your own scenario, too.   The Average Myope Profile Let's see how close (or not at all close) you are [...]

Just With Blog, Nearsighted: How To's|

Active Focus: The Learning Curve

Initial active focus is like the baby learning to crawl.   I get lots of questions on this front, mostly from the impatient ones, wanting moar, faster, Jake, right meow!   That's fine, it's great to have enthusiasm, channel it productively.  Less great is me answering the same question four hundred million times which of course at least in part due to lacking free instructional videos.   (If you listen closely, you can just hear the freeloaders moaning in exasperation, at [...]

Active Focus, Nearsighted: How To's, Nearsighted: Q&A|

All contents on this site should be considered research material only.  We are not offering medical advice or treatment or cures for any illnesses. The reduced lens method is strictly experimental. Before considering taking steps to control your own myopia, you should definitely visit a qualified ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eyesight checkup.   Specific diagnoses illnesses aside,  most) myopia may be considered to not be an illness at all.  Most myopia is likely just a matter of environmental strain, and excessive prescription use.  You yourself may be able to control and reduce your own myopia by 1) managing eye strain, 2) conservative prescription lens use, and 3) targeted positive stimulus. We recommend finding a prevention minded optometrist to supplement your journey with professional advice and prescription management help.  While not a requisite, a supportive optometrist may make your journey that much more enjoyable! Potential Side Effects: (1) You may experience astigmatism-like symptoms, especially if you reduce too fast or without paying attention to this (transient) symptom. Search our Youtube channel or Website for 'transient astigmatism'. This can easily be prevented or managed. (2) Some people report an increase in eye floaters when practicing active focus. In general floaters are considered harmless but a sudden increase in floaters should be evaluated by a medical trained professional, as they could be a sign of retinal detachment or other serious medical condition. Generally taking it easy, not over straining, practicing gently and with patience should help. (3) Headaches. You're taking on a very much unsanctioned self-experiment changing diopters. Anytime you overdo things or change too much or aren't educating yourself first, you may expose yourself to strain symptoms. You should be experiencing no pain, headaches, or discomfort if you do things correctly!