General Vision Health Topics. Mostly we talk about myopia here, which we don’t consider to be an illness. While on that subject we do often end up crossing over into related issues that you may encounter, while working to reduce your myopia.
Everything from dry eyes, to the dangers of certain antibiotics, to risks of retinal detachment and glaucoma and lattice degeneration, you’ll find all the vision health related topics in this category.
Virtual Reality: The Next Myopia Tsunami?
A reader sends this e-mail:Hey Jake, Coming from a long-time blog reader, I believe this will interest you. VR technology is creeping into the mainstream. With Rift expected to ship this month, it's highly likely for us to see widespread use as early as this year. The promise of experiencing an immersive virtual environment is great. It's unprecedented and it's exciting. But there's just one massive catch - the way it works is by placing a screen under 15 centimeters from your face. [...]
Insanely Sketchy Stem Cell Treatment Restores Woman’s Eyesight
Perhaps you read this blog and sometimes think, man, this Jake character is definitely a little .... out there. You'd be right. I openly throw rocks at a 100 billion dollar a year industry, which could squash me at any time, like a tiny little bug. I call an entire medical profession old-timey, outdated, following some 16th century pre-medicine dogmatic nonsense that creates a global health epidemic. I'm pushing my luck, partially for effect. It takes a little controversy, a [...]
Went To See Optometrist For New Contact Lenses
There's so much great e-mail coming into @endmyopia everyday, I really wish we could get a lot more of it into the blog. I think of a lot of what I'm reading, like small cracks in the mainstream, old- timey lenses-are-forever narrative of retail optometry. Take a look at this one, for example:More and more people continue to have this kind of experience. Their optometrist gets to measure reducing myopia objectively, and before long there will be enough open minded, forward thinking [...]
Fluorescent Lights Part II – Headaches & Fatigue
Yesterday we talked about fluorescent lights and vision health.It's rather quite difficult sometimes to stick to just myopia when we talk about vision health. Things very quickly branch out into lots of related topics, which I often try to avoid getting into. While I know a whole lot about myopia, I'm no expert on the many related subjects.Sometimes we broach subjects like lattice degeneration and macular degeneration and cataracts and LASIK, and depression. Your eyes are your window to your [...]
Fluorescent Lights Vs. Vision Health
Fluorescent lights. Those things have always given me the creeps.They belong in horror movies and movies about sitting in an office cubicle all day, and in mental institution abandoned hallways. They have that creepy noise too, especially when the ballast is less than new. Everything about fluorescents, just feels like they were invented by the same people who formulate fast food artificial flavors.Why this, today? Because Kellee posted this comment in the forum:I’ve been thinking a lot about feelings [...]
It Could Happen To Me: Link Between Myopia & Glaucoma
By DespinaContributing OptometristOver 40-check. Hereditary factor-check; Female-check; High myopia-check. So why was I in a state of shock after being told I had glaucoma? Well, because it was another eye disease that I studied at university and screened patients for and warned them about throughout my career. Helping save people's eye-sight meant it wouldn't happen to me. But it doesn't work that way. Luckily, being in the right place at the right time (ie. an optometrist's consulting room, not such [...]