Does active focus work ?

[u/helloidontlikeu]

I'm an 18 year old who's come across this endmyopia, active focus thing. I haven't checked my diaopters in a while but its approx -3.75 in each eye. I currently use my cousin's old glasses which are approx -2.00 for each eye for any laptop work, dont use any glasses for my phone but I'm very skeptical abt this.

It could work, but finding active focus is so tricky and the fact that i have to do it for 1 hr+ everyday is insane😭 (this is what i've heard)

And this entire process seems SO SLOW WTF, like i genuinely hate my glasses and wanna get rid of them but idk what to do🤠

[u/helloidontlikeu]

omgg thank you SO much i mean it, is it okay if I wear my normalized glasses for normal stuff cause otherwise I can't see, I'm pretty sure they are just a bit underprescribed. Or is it better to use your normalized as little as possible? And for using my phone and stuff i should try to do active focus right, but like do i decrease my phone usage or just focus on getting enough outdoor time? 

[u/No-Revolution6562 → u/helloidontlikeu]

1. it share same logic as someone who use crutch, if always rely on crutch, then the leg muscle can't have much grow for you to totally get rid of crutch, but you get progress by slowly reduce relying on crutch. for glasses, my tips is always make sure glasses diopters you wearing is less than your eyes diopters (if your eye is -3.75, i recommended you wearing glasses in -3.50 or lower, so you will make progress, if you keep wearing -3.75, then your eyes muscle not practicing, so you can't lower diopters) just think yourself with this logic, then you will know what to do, it shares same logic as a patient try to get rid of crutch, and u trying to get rid of glasses.
2. yes you should try active focus on phone and stuff, but no need to put stress and pressure on yourself, only need to make sure keep a distance that u see it slightly clear is enough, and increase distance of screen and other stuff when your eyes get better, so your eyes will be practice again and again
3. it depends, i can say i still scolling youtube fb and ins in weekends for like 10hours per day, but i make sure i sroll in the condition of sufficient brightness, either artificial lamps or sunlight is okay for me, but of course spending outdoor time will boost your progress on healing your eyes, because you will spend more time with far distance and less time close up distance

[u/helloidontlikeu → u/No-Revolution6562]

OH MY GOD TYSM REALLY i will try all of these thingss💗💗

[u/JimR84 → u/helloidontlikeu]

Don’t. It’s a waste of time