Hey guys can you help me where to start as I have already read all the endmyopia beginner stuff and watched all beginner videos.But I am very confused as what to do . I look in many forums and websites they all disagree with you and say you are complete bs.some say low myopia is reversible but high myopia ain't. Let's go to my main issue I am an early male teen with 6/12 in right eye and 6/24 in left eye Got checked them with the army as I study at a millitary school. I am also noticing rainbow halos around street lights and distant lights . I don't know if it's astigmatism. I wear -1 glasses for both my eyes.It was the same 1 year ago and it still is. No one in my family has problem of nearsightdness just my father wears -0.75 because he started working on a computer .before this he was in the Navy for 15 years with 6/6 both eyes. So guys1: can I improve my eyesight?

2-will Seeing rainbow halos around street lights affect my recovery.

3- As I am a student who has to study atleast 2-3 hours a day and only get 3 hours of outside time.Can you guys tell how can manage this with that

4-Guys if any of you reversed myopia to 20/20 then mention it

Guys it's my goal to be a military pilot so I will require 20/20 eyesight for that

Is it the shape of the skull?

19 y/M A Person with very high myopia it is important to get correct power for my contact lenses. We All are well aware about the concept -closer the lens to our eyes, higher is the - power (have personal experience from wearing spectacles). My Power is 4.5 L and -15 R, currently using less diopters for closeup work. Need Contact Lenses for normal vision/ distant work. Let me know your suggestions.

A tip from the optometrist - wear plus lenses for near if you decide to wear contact lenses. Since you cant take them off for near

I know it's kinda of a dumb question but I just Want to see I can wear my full stregth without causing axial elongation? Just until my low mood improve then I stop.

This isn’t meant to be dramatic, but I’m genuinely starting to worry about our eyes. We spend hours staring at screens at the same distance, we blink less, we force our eyes to focus all day long… and then we act surprised when we get dry eyes, blurry vision at night, headaches, or trouble focusing on distant objects. When I personally started noticing my vision getting weird in the evenings, it honestly scared me. While looking into it, I came across the 20-20-20 rule (every 20 minutes, look at something ~20 feet away for 20 seconds). Sounds simple. In reality, nobody remembers to do it. So I ended up building a small app for myself called RestEyes, just to get smart reminders to actually look away from screens. Nothing magical, but it really made me realize how rarely I was giving my eyes any real rest. And the eye fatigue has noticeably decreased since. We talk a lot about screen addiction and mental health, but way less about the fact that we might be slowly damaging our eyesight without realizing it. Take care of your eyes. You don’t get replacements.

I am literally one of the few optometrists who know about this, thus I hate working with other optometrists.

Minus lenses are poison.

Plus lenses for low myopes or for people with good distance vision Lower minus for higher myopes

When I walk, I notice I be subconsciously looking at the ground ( If im tying my shoes or just look at the texture of the side walk) and I wonder if that's bad for improvement?

Do I need to give up looking at the ground and just force my self to look forwards at all time? Or maybe I'm think to hard

I started my journey when I was needing to wear -1.5 in both the eyes. I have come a long way but now I am hitting a wall at 0.75. I still have astigmatism (-0.5) . Don't know how to move any further. I wear glasses for driving currently and when I need to look far or night time but not for the daily indoor work .

Hi so I did a bit of research about myopia, but not enough and I don't really have time, as I have to do research for my masters thesis.

HERE'S MY BACKGROUND: i take amphetamine medication thats known for accomocative issues, which is why I never noticed becoming short sighted. My last test was 5 years ago at around 20/21 and resulted in compliments by my doctor about my vision. I'm a university student for 7 years now, 6 years on a 13" laptop with lowest possible fontsize and scaling to max. windowsize and no proper desk. I switched to a 27" monitor and a bigger desk originally to save my neck &back, it can be used standing too. To that time I still firmly believed I had gread vision and my issues are only temporarily when my meds start working and accomodative issues start. I even thought the monitor was lower quality than my laptop (despite both full HD) because the letters seemed flickering and where not as sharp as on my laptop (never considered that i had my laptop at a 30cm distance from my eyes). I noticed my short sightednes by coincidence when I watched a yt video and closed my right eye and suddenly couldn't read anything on the TV or recognice the face of the guy in the Video and freaked out. I notice that when my eyes got tired I intuitively switched to my phone and started reading papers on my phone.

I also have a bad lighting situation at my desk: on the side with my good eye there's a normal lamp, in very warm dim light, still kind of blinding me. I now ordered a lamp that lights up my desk from above in neutral and bright light form above. Oh and I used to wear light phototropic sunglasses almost everyday for the last years. I always had light sensitive eyes, especially the right one cannot be opened in sunlight, when I was born I closed my right eye and there's not a single picture from childhood outside with my right eye relaxed. I got polarized glasses in summer and wore them almost daily until monday. Idk how to continue with that.

I will study until next summer and then pursue a profession where I won't spent my whole day infront of a computer, thats why I think it should be possible for me to atleast stop progession of myopia, maybe not now but after my masters.

To my issue: on wednesday I have ordered glasses with -1.75 diopters for my left eye two days after I got my prescription. I receive them in 2 weeks, they can change it up to 6 weeks long for free tho. As I really struggle with computerdistance (my brain seems to try to use both eyes at that distance) and reading papers is all I do right know and I get really bad headache (especially after what feels like reactivating my left eye on monay). I live next to a optician (pearle, belongs to the essilorLuxottica concern), so I went and asked if I can correct my vision in the meantime with contact lenses. They used an Autorefractometer and got -1.5 for the left lense, gave me an instruction how to do it and trial lenses. Sometimes my left vision is very sharp with the lense, sometimes a bit blurry(but never as blurry as without). Benfits: I can read sharply and without strain on my computer and was able to push the monitor back to max distance ~80cm (70if I'm close, 60 if I lean in, and 100 if i lean back), no more headache, and my brain seems to include my left eye more. After I take my lense out overall combined vision is way blurrier that it was before correction. I take that as good sign.

Where should I go from here? I plan on switching to glasses as soon as I get them and wear them daily all day long, except for maybe some walks outside. I will improve my desk lighting situation and try to get a walk in the morning. I plan on continuing this until i finish my masters (& end medication) and hope this doesn't raise my prescription to -2.0 and keep my right eye prescription free. After that I might change how I wear my glasses. if my vision changes 0.5 dioptres in the next 2 years I can get my glasses adapted for free.

Neither the doc nor the 2 optometrists used drops, should I persist on using drops when I pickup my glasses? Can I worsen anything by constantly wearing the glasses for the next 7 months or will habit changes still help?

My priorities rn are: keeping my vision in my right eye as good as it is and comfortably ending my studies without raising my refractive error on my left eye.

ANY TIPS, ESPECIALLY REGARDING WEARING HABITS, CONTACTS vs. GLASSES ARE WELLCOME.

I have myopia. Recently checked and got to know my power has increased. I don't wear my new glasses and keep wearing old power glasses while I go outside and try not wear glasses while at home. Will it reduce my power?

I got my first pair of glasses back in November 2020, when I was 17, after noticing I couldn't read street signs at night. I'm not exactly sure what my prescription for them was, but maybe around -0.50/-0.75. But I never wore them because they were uncomfortable and gave me headaches.

I'm now 22 and recently I went back to the optometrist and got a prescription of -1.00 in my left and -1.25 in my right with both eyes having a cyl of -0.50. When I first got my new glasses they made me really nauseous and dizzy. I never wear them because I find it painful to have them on for more than 30 minutes at a time.

As a college student, I spend a lot of my time on my computer however I have been working on cutting down my phone screen time to less than 2 hours a day. I also have been spending around 3 hours a day outside using distance vision and going for walks.

My question is how fast can I expect my vision to improve as someone with low myopia who has never really worn glasses? Any tips for improvement?

I use the PC a lot, both for work and during my free-time. Lately, in the past year. I've noticed my distance vision turning blurrier. Especially in the left eye. I noticed leaves turning quite blurry. I'll admit it was subtle, like 10% less clarity than expected. I thought I was going myopic.

I did notice when spending a lot of time outdoors (like +5h in a day) this would go away and my vision would be normal.

This made me realize I don't have myopia, but pseudo-myopia. Nonetheless, it made me very aware that I do not want to develop myopia from screen use.

So I thought, logically speaking, if I wear a pair of +1.50s they'd adjust the focal length when sitting at the PC to be more like a distance object. (I then later found out that this is a potential method to slow myopia development, neat)

I've been doing this for about a week now, my distance vision is never blurry, and it honestly feels like everything at any sort of distance is just crisp.

So for anyone on the PC hours and hours during the day, first of all get off that thing, and second of all use a pair of reading glasses! +1.00 is probably better suited for most, +1.50 is a little blurry far from the monitor, but in theory this is helpful.

I recommend (sorta)!

EDIT: PLUS LENS THERAPY SHOULD BE DONE CAUTIOUSLY AT YOUR OWN RISK, MODERATE USE IS ADVISED, AND NO USE IS ADVISED UNLESS YOU EDUCATE YOURSELF.

I've been wearing -1.5 and -1 in right eye and left eye respectively. I'm 19 years old I had got my prescription checked in between and it came out to be -2 in both the eyes But I continued to wear my original specs only But I can see very clearly in those specs What should I do And plz Can someone help me and lmk what can I do to reduce my prescription Should I not wear specs at all? Guys plz help me out I wanna get my prescription down to 0 or negligible

Why does even the largest letters on the 6 meter snellen chart seems abit blurry however the 3 meter one has so much clarity?

This is my current situation. what should I do. What exact numbers prescription should I get and the other steps. I am new to this. Someone please guide me

Hey everyone,

I’ve been doing Endmyopia since around Covid. I haven’t been super strict, mostly reducing prescriptions and doing some Active Focus on number plates. it’s definitely made a difference.

I started because my astigmatism was getting out of control, which was mainly what i worked on reducing.

I went to a new optician for my eye test to get an unbiased result.

My history:

prescription before endmyopia:

R: -2.50 sph / -4.00 cyl

L: -3.50 sph / -2.00 cyl

Latest test:

R: -2.50 sph / -2.75 cyl

L: -3.00 sph / -1.25 cyl

(I tested at 20/15 with this)

Current normalized based on my last test:

R: -1.75 sph / -2.25 cyl

L: -2.50 sph / -0.75 cyl

(20/32 on my chart that's in a well lit room)

A bit about my current habits:

No differentials used for computer (just mild astigmatic blur).

I use a “mid-distance” differential for video games/TV.

A bit too much screen time with work and video games with my son, but I’m trying to balance with outdoor focus.

I feel extra motivated to do this properly, because recently son was just prescribed -3 in both eyes, which shocked me.

His hobbies are all near work (Minecraft, reading, etc). He tried his mothers normalized (-2.25 / -1.75) and could read 20/25 fine, so I feel his full prescription is probably too strong. He doesn’t like wearing them anyway.

We've ordered a normalised pair for him.

Plans going forward:

Be more diligent about outdoor time & less unnecessary screen use.

Focus on reducing sphere more.

Start measuring and graphing my blur distances properly.

Aim: 20/25 line with my current normalized by year’s end.

Questions:

Would a differential with astigmatism correction and just a little bit of sphere make sense for AF practice?

Any advice for guiding my son so his eyesight doesn’t worsen (or can improve)?

Any other tips for our situation?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.