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!
One Amazing Trick For Instant 20/20 Vision (Eye Exercise)
Every day. Every single solitary day, at least one person decides to torture me with an eye exercise question. It'll never stop, so long as I may live. This is my fate, kittehs. "Hey brother Jake, good buddy, what eye exercise can I do, right this minute, to improve my eyesight, you know, like crazy good?" So, here's the truth. Yes, there is one amazing, incredible, totally secret trick, eye exercise, that'll totally make you go all 20/20. Bam, just like that. [...]
Troubleshooting Uncomfortable Blur
There's a long-ish thread in the forum right now, titled "first normalized experiences, can anyone relate". Topic of the thread, uncomfortable blur when moving from the full prescription to the first reduced distance prescription (the "normalized" prescription). It's not always easy to relate the subject of feelings, emotional subtext, into words that translate to others. What might be uncomfortable blur to one person, is just a welcome challenge to the next person. It took me some years to start working [...]
Headaches & Fatigue: Measure Your Pupillary Distance (PD)
PD (pupillary distance) can be an important part of your lens prescription, and notably affect your general well-being. If you have high myopia, and in particular high myopia and high astigmatism, an incorrect PD value can cause blurry vision, double vision images, headaches, nausea, and fatigue. In particular a small error in PD with a complex prescription might just give you a small headache sometimes, something that might be very vexing and difficult to pinpoint the cause of. I've had [...]
Never Change The Diopter Ratio
Roy posts in the forum: So I started my next reduction Right: -7.0 -> -6.5 Left: -7.5 -> -7.0 I just started yesterday and notice that my left eye gets the flash of clear vision more easily than my right eye. My snellen results are (if I check my vision in optimal light and pull focus for a good minute) Right: 20/30 Left: 20/25 Is that normal for one eye is pull focus faster? I felt like my right eye [...]
The Ciliary Pop: A Simple Trick For Healthy Eyes
You probably already know all about focusing muscle spasms. That spasm, the beginning of all myopia. The "pseudo" myopia, that first landed you in the optometrist's exam room chair. That muscle spasm, that got you into glasses. If you're working on getting your eyes back to healthy, you're spending a fair amount of your better habits on reducing close-up strain, and the focusing muscle (ciliary) spasm. Though unfortunately you won't be completely avoiding your eye's focusing muscle locking up in close-up [...]
Night Blindness: The Half Diopter Rule
Night blindness as a symptom can have several causes. Since we deal with myopia here, what we talk about usually goes back to the subject of how well you can see. Often times new students are confused about the impact of light on their eyesight. Note that there are several other causes of what's described as "night blindness", which we aren't discussing in this article. With an otherwise healthy eye, you still will notice that you can see notably less [...]