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.
A Tale Of Two Myopes (-5.50): Small Changes, 1/2 Diopter Better Eyesight
Two reader e-mails today, both illustrating how small amounts of habit and lens changes can have a measurable positive impact on your eyesight. Since they're a bit long for screenshots, I copy/paste the text version here. First, David: Hi Jake, I guess your question was just an automated email, but I thought I'd give you an answer just in case you are interested. Things are going remarkably well. In 4 months my eyesight has improved by half a [...]
Time to say Goodbye?
Written By DespinaContributing OptometristAs I keep saying, I love my contact lenses. They have served me well for over 30 years now. All types. I started with hard lenses, that's how desperate I was to be rid of glasses, the permanent redness winning hands down. I then progressed to gas permeables, and then, comfort at last with soft and disposable lenses. They have seen me through life until middle age quite successfully with no major hiccups or interesting stories.Recently, though, [...]
DANGER: This One Thing Creates 14 (!) Times Higher Risk For Glaucoma
Ohhhh, Jake. Never gets any less weird, does it.From the Straits Times, a major Singaporean news publication:High myopia increases the risk of eye diseases such as cataract, glaucoma, retinal detachment and myopia macular degeneration, all of which can cause irreversible vision loss.In some of the relevant studies quoted in Ophthalmology, high myopia increases the risks of glaucoma by 14.4 times (for -6.00D or more), retinal detachment by 7.8 times (for -8.00D or more) and cataract by 3.3 times (for -6.00D [...]
Optometrist Says Better Eyes Just An Instrument Error
Today we have Andrew's latest post in the forum, a 0.5 diopter improvement since January!The improvement is probably to be expected (if you're spoiled by this site and students consistent reports of great progress). The hilarious part is how the optometrist is looking for any excuse, going as far as blaming expensive testing gear and the process, just to discount the possibility of actual vision improvement.Check it out:Original thread. Interesting, right?Another way to look at it is the optometrist insisting that their [...]
Matthew: More Than About Eyesight
Matthew posts in the forum:For me, and for many us, myopia recovery is about much more than eyesight. It began for me as a kid, when I absolutely did NOT want to get glasses. Eventually I accepted them because I didn’t know that I had a choice. The thought occurred to me every year for a while, when the eye doc told me that I need a stronger prescription, that there might be some connection between the stronger prescription and the [...]
I’ve Got The Worst Focusing Muscle Spasm
A quick cautionary tale today, about taking care of your eyes. Yesterday morning I got on the subway in Bangkok, and then the train, and then sat in the airport, and then on a plane. I tried to stick with podcasts for all this sitting around, but phone close-up did accumulate. Phone close-up is especially no good, since you tend to hold a phone way closer than the distance you'd use with your computer screen. Jakey also didn't use plus [...]