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!
#1 Way To Improve Vision: Positive Stimulus – Here Is How To Get More
It's no secret that the whole world is becoming myopic as a direct result of our close-up lifestyle. For this reason the paid vision improvement course is focused primarily on how to deal with this most common lifestyle (close-up vision). Every so often though, participants come around who don't fit this mold. They may be spending far more of their time outdoors, or otherwise engaged in activities where close-up isn't their main mode.These participants have a whole lot of opportunity to [...]
How To: Test If You Need Astigmatism Correction (for Normalized Prescriptions)
The question about astigmatism correction comes up a lot, and there is no definite answer that covers all cases. In this post we'll look at a simple DIY at-home test for astigmatism, and various considerations that may apply to your own prescriptions needs. (Note that you may also very like.ly be able to reduce your astigmatism by addressing the cylinder correction of your glasses or contact lenses - more on that later) Testing Astigmatism Without the proper tools to [...]
How To Convert Your Contact Lens Prescription To Glasses Prescription
Need to convert your contact lens prescription to glasses? It's very simple to do. First note that below -3.50 diopters you don't need to make any changes to the diopters between glasses and contact lenses. Although the net clarity from contact lenses will be slightly higher since they sit closer to your eyes, slightly increasing actual diopters. Contact Lens To Glasses Conversion - Quick Take Here's how you convert contact lenses to glasses: Any prescription over -3.50 to -4 diopter, [...]
Active Focus: Prescribed -5.50, Can Read 20/20 with -4.00
The title of this post points to something interesting: If you can read 20/20 with a -4.00 prescription (after a month or two of basic efforts) why did the optometrist prescribe you a -5.50? Consider, that's almost a 30% higher prescription than this individual needed to see 20/20!It is an interesting thread on the subject of prescriptions and active focus in the support forum, created by Can (link below). It is a fairly common scenario, one that most new participants will [...]
How To Stop Your Tablet From Significantly Increasing Myopia
Especially in the child myopia section of the blog, I talk quite a bit about the absolute importance to control the distance. Close-up is where myopia first starts, and this is where you have to head things off, if you don't want your child to become myopic. Likewise, when you are rehabilitating your vision, you want to be conscious of that minimum distance for yourself. You already know that I'm suggesting against using smartphones extensively, when possible. But what about [...]
Differential Glasses Prescription vs. Normalized Glasses Prescription
In the forum we talk a whole lot about individual prescription recommendations. It tends to take at least one round of reductions of experience to get a good understanding on what makes a viable prescription. As much as I can I provide help and pointers, to also serve as a basis for ideas for readers of the site and forum. You may notice that I'm more flexible on the normalized prescription than the differential. Here is why: The Differential Glasses [...]