Just about exactly one year ago, Val posted this progress report in the support forum:

Hi Everyone, 

I just got back from the optometrist, and my eyes are still dilated, but here’s some good news.

My prescription for distance vision, corrected to 20/15, no longer has any astigmatism, and the difference in the eyes is down to only -0.25 diopters. I knew that from my cm reading, but my snellen suggested my normalized of -8.00L -7.75R was pretty damn equal in each eye. It turns out that my Zenni normalized was actually more like a -8.25L -7.75R, according to her measurements. Oh well. The close up differential was measured to be exactly right at -5.75 in each eye. 

She then had me try to read 20/20 and 20/15 in my normalized, and apparently I got enough right at the 20/20 line to pass. In my old driving pair, I could easily see 20/15. 

after doing 1 and 2 or 3 or 4 about 10 times, she said I don’t have any astigmatism, and every time she put it in, I rejected it and preferred the straight spherical. Woot! Her final prescription, that she would give any one else is:
-8.50L -8.25R

This compares to my normalized -8.25L -7.75R (as she measured on her machine). Not bad. Maybe it’s time to weaken my normalized 0.25…

She also prescribed me a computer pair, just 0.75 weaker in each eye: -7.75L -7.50R. I’m obviously not gonna use that one as my differential, but probably halfway between that and my existing pair

I’m excited that I’m officially back to where I was in 2009 or 2010. I kinda cheated by fasting, and pull focusing a lot before stepping into the office, but it’s all good.

That was good progress.

Val remembers to give us another update, with another forum post just yesterday in the forum:

Slightly late 1 year update. I’m down almost 2 diopters, but that takes into account the rapid improvement early on. I’ve been wearing -6 for normalized, -5 for the computer for about 5 weeks and I think it’s almost time for another step down. I just did the math and it’ll cost me ~$300 in glasses to get all the way down to 0 diopters. Not bad.

I’m really happy with my progress and my confidence of getting back to 20/20 is still increasing. When I signed up I thought I’d have a 10% chance at perfect vision. 2 months later ~50%, 6 months: 95%, and now I’m probably at 98 or 99% certain. The reductions just keep coming ?

Beautifully done.  (full thread here if you have forum access)

It’s often difficult to get long term progress update postsbeen making those 20/20 gains for

Cheers,

-Jake