Hello everyone!!
This month, and as I already announced, I am going to talk about a method that I have found to reduce myopia.
In another post I talked about my experience with the topic of myopia, glasses, contact lenses, laser surgery … and I asked if anyone had a positive experience with any eye exercises. Well, those exercises have been around for a long time, they’re called the Bates method. In fact, today there is even a specific “yoga” for the eyes.
But that’s not what I’m going to talk about. What I have found is a method that I found researching on the Internet, which is quite logical to me and about which there are many testimonials of success. I’ve been applying it for some months, and when I had my annual vision checkup this year they told me that my eyesight was noticeable better. In fact, for the first time in a while it has not worsened, in fact it had gone down by 0.25 diopters. The idea is, if myopia arises and worsens because the eye “lengthens” itself, can’t the opposite also happen? Can’t it be made to happen?
The method has been “invented” by an American named Jake Steiner, and basically what he explains is that often the opticians prescribe an “overcorrection” of myopia, designed to see with a quality of 100% at a distance, and that makes us see worse and worse, because what we use glasses and contact lenses for (apart from driving) are often close-up activities (computer, mobile, etc …). What Jake explains is that many times it begins with a very low myopia that is due to an overexertion of the eye, and which could be corrected by itself with good lighting, looking into the distance, taking breaks when looking closely, practicing “active focus” when we look into the distance… But what happens is that we go to the opticians and they put glasses on us, we always wear that correction (regardless of the activities we do, and which are often “close up” activities ) and that means that in our next visit to the optician, myopia has increased. And so begins a vicious cycle in which we see worse and worse (the exception to this, as I have read in some testimonies, would be the hormonal changes of pregnancy, which often cause increases in myopia, but like other effects of pregnancy, I guess they revert later).
The solution he proposes is to measure oneself for myopia (you can have Snellen tests at home) and to wear 3 types of glasses: one with the maximum correction or the one recommended in the optician to see 100% in the distance if we have a job that requires it or to drive; other with half a diopter less than the first to see from afar but not perfectly; other with a diopter and a half less than the first for all close-up activities (computer, TV, being at home …). If you use contact lenses instead of glasses, bear in mind that the required prescription for lenses is 0.25 less than glasses, because contact lenses are glued to the eye.
With the method Jake proposes, the idea is to improve vision and reduce myopia by 0.25 diopters every three or four months or so. Thus, in a year we should reduce 0.75 or 1 diopter. He also says that once we have two diopters, we better try not to use anything for close-up activities.
The biggest problem with this method would be the cost of having so many different glasses and gradually changing them every few months. Jack criticizes the business of opticians and glasses, and proposes to buy glasses online. I have done it on the Zenni Optical website. There you put the graduation you want and you only need a pair of glasses that you already wear: the measurements are already on the temple. The web explains very well how to do it.
To give you an idea, I bought two pairs of glasses, each pair cost me 40 dollars. My prescription was 5.25 in the left eye and 4.75 in the right eye. But for one year I had been wearing my old glasses, which had a prescription of 4.25 in the left eye and 3.75 in the right (I had already guessed something about this issue of not carrying the full prescription for close up activities). Well, I ordered two pairs of the same frame glasses, one with a 4.25 to see from afar and another with a 3.50 for home and close up activities. I also ordered new contact lenses for 4.25 diopters (they are also cheaper online). Note that I do not drive, so I do not need a perfect distance vision at any time. It’s been two months now and, as I told you, the checkup at the optical shop went very well (I didn’t tell them anything about the experiment I’m doing).
Honestly, it was silly to buy two pairs of glasses, because I don’t use the 4.25 pair (to see farther), since for the street I always wear contact lenses. When I work or I’m at home I put on my 3.50 diopters glasses.
Well, I am quite happy with how the process is going, I recommend trying it to everyone, also to parents whose children begin to see badly (Jake also talks about this issue). I link here his website and youtube page. He also has a private Facebook group, where people talk about their experiences and raise questions. I recommend that you read it carefully and slowly, so that you understand everything.
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And if you are not convinced, I also link the page (in Spanish) of an optometrist who, although it has nothing to do with Jack’s method, gives very good advice on taking care of eyesight (for example, he talks about the issue of humidity and its relationship with dry eyes, the influence of screens on visual problems:
Have a good summer, and by the way, don’t forget your sunglasses to protect your eyes!
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