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.
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 [...]
The Industry Looks Forward To Your Retinal Detachment
The retinal detachment surgery market is growing at a rock solid 7% per year. In 2015 it's going to surge past 2 billion dollars in revenue for the first time, much to the excitement of surgeons and device manufacturers. Well done, optometry, creating such a profitable sales funnel! Money, money, money money money. It's not just retinal detachment though, which is a direct and primary consequence of axial elongation from lens-induced high myopia. There's also retinopathy, driving the surgery market to [...]
Fountain Of Youth? Fixing Your Eyes When You’re Over 70
You know the eyesight intro course you can subscribe to from all over the site? Well, I did something pretty stupid with it when I set it up. How stupid? I set the "reply-to" e-mail address as my main e-mail. My reasoning at the time? I didn't want to blast out e-mails in a one way type of dialog. I wanted readers to be able to hit reply, tell me whatever was on their minds, and for me to actually receive [...]
Steroids To Boost Dynamic Visual Acuity
So my friend wants to come visit at the hospital, see the small monkey. She's taking the skytrain which stops at a station conveniently just a few kilometers from the hospital. I tell here I'll pick her up on the bike, help us dodge rush hour traffic. Since I haven't slept properly in days and spent all my remaining time indoors and reading books, my eyesight isn't amazing today. It's also after dark and rainy, altogether not making for ideal [...]
Q&A: Disrupted Tear Fluid = Corneal Abrasion
First and unrelated, an interesting comment from the forum today: I invested in a pair of +1.50 reading glasses yesterday (I know that I’m getting a LITTLE ahead, but having been teased about it in the 7 emails, I knew I was going to have to give it a shot eventually), and I have to say that wearing them is an eye-opener (see what I did there?)! It is becoming really clear to me that my eyes have been coasting along [...]
Why I Love Bodybuilders
A couple of days ago I teased a bit about plateaus in vision improvement, and how to overcome them. I didn't really get into a whole lot of detail there. Because of course, Jake-bad-guru. Or maybe not because that. But it's an advanced topic. You'll have been working on your eyesight for quite a while, successfully, before you ever encounter a real plateau. For the large majority of casual readers discussing plateaus is just going to cause overthinking things, and paralysis by [...]