Hi Gemily, I send this to my immediate relatives. They have been wearing a plus, to prevent their refractive STATE from going down to -2 Diopters. They always check their Snellens. I think they "got the idea", that scientific prevention depends on the motivation of the person himself to do it! Otie
A+ for the reenactment, wasnt expecting that lol Yupe when tackling cly and myopia at same time its turtle speed with a broken leg for most. Glad to see u past the cyl 🙂
I've been looking forward to this video since last week. Love this video - it was so funny! Great news about the cylinder correction and spherical improvement too. Keep it up all the way to 20/20!
Epic. Worthy of an Oscar. Well done - loved it. But just one question ... why? Why spend all that money for lenses when you could've just said "thanks for the prescription" and walked away ?! It was a long week waiting for this video, but you sure delivered !!
Haha. Good question. 2 reasons. 1: I wanted to check the quality of my cheap glasses against the opto shop ones and make sure it was comparable (conclusion: yes, both are the same quality) and 2: I thought it would help me get on the opto's good side.
Haha, Gem, once you reach 20 20 or pass the DMV vision test: Please make a full movie like this about your endmyopia journey. I would pay Cinema Tickets for that. Loved it 🤓
A view years ago at an eyetest I bought the cheapest frame and the glasses the optomologist thought I needed -1,75 in both eyes. I used these glasses for about 15 minutes and never again. Then I bought cheap online glasses. Weaker once for daytime driving , -1.0, and stronger for nighttime driving, -1.5. Works fine for me.
This video was very entertaining 😊 I still would have taken a big pass on even getting the lenses from them, we know we have choices... you (or your insurance) paid for the exam, no worries walking out with only a piece of paper. Either way there is something truly gratifying about optometrist confirmed in writing improvements. Slow improvement is still improvement so congrats 😁😁
Yeah, I doubt I will buy new glasses next time - at least not from him. I was hoping it would help foster good feeling from his side, and hopefully it did. But now I can tick that off the list. XD
Hi Gem, 3:00 No glasses at age 20. That was wonderful. (Probably 20/30, if you had checked.) Then your cell phone did you in! This is where I insisted that my sister's children, either "commit" to wearing a plus lens, or lose their distant vision, permanently. ( All during the school years !! ) This is a science-based choice, never a prescription, never medical.
This video is amazing, congratulations on your progress! I am glad that you could get rid of that cylinder :) Can you please share what line can you see on the 6m snellen in good indoor light with your 1.5,1.75 normalized? Thank you :)
Hi Gem, I can no longer TRUST any OD measurement. I measure my own refraction, as I went fron 20/60, to 20/40, and then, very slowly to 20/20. You need an OD who states, "I help my kids with life time prevention". How can I help you?
Hi Gem, 1:00 This is a devastating falsehood. "Under-correction causes myopia - to get worse. " I stay very close to objective science, (dynamic eye ) on this issue. In pure science, a minus lens always creates myopia change, and causes myopia. This is where I draw the line to separate honest science, from the incredible (convenient) lies in Optometry. I always say, jusr tell me scientific truth, when I am at 20/40, and I will solve this problem for myself. ( i e , always keep Snellen better than 20/40. No minus lens for me! For life. That first minus, kills your vision, permanently. ) I see this as a matter of a wise, educated choice.
@@Skinbodycarestyle you're too under corrected. Try doing 0.25 increments, do active focus daily at least an hour a day , limit closeup work and where differentials during closeups.
you know how it works. basically optometrists is trying to get rays on the retina. So they find best sphere after with crosscylinder getting axis and cylinder power and after once again check spherical correction. Your doctor gave you undercorrected glasses so he wasn't able to measure cylinders properly and that's why just listened you. I mean in your age it really more subjective opinion about glasses. as soon as you do not have eye strains and may enjoy life, you may use whatever glasses are best for you.
Gem, The only result that has meaning, is not the OD, it is you reading 20/60, and 20/40 on a bright Snellen. You are getting close at 20/70. I hope you achieve that goal. I think you can reduce to -1.5 Diopters. Then, nothing for near and Jake's suggestions for a reasonable weak minus. Your commentary. Do not be a slave to an OD. Set a reasonable goal.
My opinion is that a person should only reduce until they have a challenge late in the day or whenever their eyesight is the worst during the day. In other words if there is any part of the day that someone doesn't see perfectly clear outside then that is low enough. If a person reduces lower than that then they will have a difficult time improving. I find that it is tiring for my eyes to be in too much blur. I only seem to need 2-3 hours of distance challenge and 2-3 hours of close-up challenge per day. That's not to say I am not ever outside during times when it is clear. Even when I see very clear outside, like in the morning on a sunny day, it is very good for my eyes. They may even be getting a challenge when I look far in the distance and I don't realize it. I've heard several people say they have improved while being overcorrected for distance (people who use differentials). The concern for eyesight improvement should not be are my lens weak enough for improvement, it should be are they strong enough for improvement in my opinion and experience of reducing too low.
It's my opinion from following your videos that your lens are too weak. I only need to wear 0.25 stronger to drive at night like others have said in Jake's podcasts. If you take this undercorrected slowing gains issue to the extreme then remember Jake and how he tried to improve by wearing his differentials for everything and how it took him way longer to improve. All this said. I cannot see and experience through your eyes what you are actually seeing so I don't know 100% what you should do. If you do get active focus practice still in close up and when using a computer, then I definitely think the right thing to do is to wear 0.25 weaker than you would wear to see driving at night for Normalized.
@@Ben-pk4cv You are correct. I absolutely agree. I have been in -1.75/-2 glasses until just recently, so I have changed my normalised to -1.5/-1/75 just a week or 2 ago, but not yet swapped my car pair - this is because I don't want to risk swapping the car pair too soon and having a night when my eyes are tired, the roads are wet, and everything is against me and think "oh no, these aren't strong enough". I find 0.25 MORE than I need only gives me eagle vision, so even though the -1.75/-2 pair are probably good now for night driving.... I am just being extra cautious. You are spot on though.
Felt like I was right there in the room with that reconstruction! Funny how they just dropped the cylinder. And funny how they add +1.25 for reading just to make you feel old when you probably read that small print card just fine in reality. Maybe that was them meeting their quota.
I can read way closer than most. My near vision is practically a super power. Have no idea why he put that in there, especially since he had no intention of selling my bifocals at this stage.
@@GemilyMez Nothing like a bit of extra prescription complexity to hopefully get the customer hooked on varifocals and the price tag that comes with them.
Congratulations to you🥳! Mam, I have a question that is it necessary to use differential glasses while doing close up works if my power is L -4 and R -2?
I would say yes. If you don't you might manage with you -2 eye, but there would be too much blur in your -4 eye so it would not have a useful amount of blur that it could work on to improve. Also, differentials are good because they allow you to be further away from your screen, which means less convergence of the eyes while in close up, which is helpful too.
@@GemilyMez Thank you so much for your reply. May I ask 1 more question that how can I equalise my power of both eyes because I feel very uncomfortable when I not wear my specs😔 & many endmyopia method users who had get back to 20/20 vision don't wear there specs all the day but my doctor had said to wear the specs all day otherwise my left eye(-4) and brain will get lazy and lazier by time.
@@anitaprakash5820 In endmyopia, the advice is to keep your glasses on until you are at very low myopia. EndMyopia also would warn against having one eye too undercorrected for the same reason. You say -4... is that the difference between your eyes? Or is one of your eyes at -4? If so, what is the other one at? EndMyopia would recommend having differential glasses and normalised glasses that reduce equally for each eye (so keep your diopter gap). Once you have made a couple of successful reductions, then you start equalising. So, for example, if you have -4 and -3 for your eyes, you would start with differentials that are about 1.5 diopters weaker, so -2.5 and -1.5, and then normalised that are about 0.25 diopters weaker, so about -3.75 and -2.75 (please not, due to ciliary spasm release, this is likely not to be accurate numbers - just an example). Once your eyes have adapted to that, you make another binocular reduction (keeping your gap the same), so differentials would become -2.25 and -1.25 and next your normalised would become -3.5 and -2.5. Then, once you were ready for your next reduction, you could try an equalising step - so making your diffs -2 and -1.25 and norms -3.25 and -2.5. Then one or two more binocular reductions, and then another monocular reduction. So, hopefully, by the time you were ready to go without glasses a bit, at around -1 or -1.25, your eyes would be much more even, and your more myopic eye would not get left behind.
@@GemilyMez Mam, my left eye is at -4 and right -2. There is total 2 power gap between both of my eyes. Should wear my normalised glasses all the time? (except during close up work)
Haha. Good question. 2 reasons. 1: I wanted to check the quality of my cheap glasses against the opto shop ones and make sure it was comparable (conclusion: yes, both are the same quality) and 2: I thought it would help me get on the opto's good side.
My cyl was probably only -0.25 when I started. It has been up to -0.75 in the past, but as my sph correction went up, my cyl correction (from the optometrist) went down. I might see the slightest double vision if I am really looking on high contrast objects if my eyes are tired, but no, not really.
Hey gemily I have a question. In starting you first get your differential. So suppose your distance glasses are 20/20 won't that hinder my improvement? Should I reduce my distance glasses by 0.25 for the staring?
No, start with differentials. Keep your distance full correction. Full correction for distance will not make your vision worse. Over correction for close up will though. By starting with differentials, that gives your ciliary muscle the opportunity to release its spasm - and that can take a few weeks. After that, you can measure your vision and find out what your new normalised will be - because if your ciliary muscle releases, a 0.25 reduction may not be enough, but changing correction too frequently can confuse the visual cortex and make it give up trying to adapt. Just start with the differentials. Jake knows what he is talking about. :)
@@GemilyMez ok thanks for telling. I just got my new prescription glasses and then found endmyopia do I think I should wait atleast a week before I get my first differential. No I didn't get my normalized they were a change in my no.
Hi Gemily I have a query if you can help then I can start my journey I have been given L - 2 sph - 1.75 cyl R - 1.5sph - 2 cyl AS you see my myopia is low compared to astigmatism. I want to correct my myopia as it seems an achievable goal. For this in my close up Do I need to keep same cylinder and just reduce spherical as all others reduce spherical? My query is like will it not create strain? Thanks in advance for your time and help
For cyl in differentials, there are two different approaches you can take: You can either leave the CYL alone and just reduce one variable (SPH) to begin with - keep it simple. Or you can reduce up to 1 diopter of CYL for differentials, as long as the drop is equal between the eyes. If you do drop cyl from your Diffs, you might want to go easy on the SPH drop (eg only drop 1 diopter of SPH rather than 1.5). This dropping of cyl might be good, but you do run the risk of getting differentials and discovering they are not quite right, and if you have dropped both SPH and CYL it may be a little harder to narrow down which part is not working. So for the first pair of diffs, my inclination would be to stick to just dropping SPH to start with. This may make trouble shooting any differential discomfort easier. Then the CYL drop can be worked into a later Diffs reduction, before attempting to reduce CYL from Norms. There are some good articles from Jake on this topic: endmyopia.org/qa-high-astigmatism-low-myopia-sph-to-cyl-ratio-control/ endmyopia.org/pro-topic-how-to-reduce-prescription-complexity/ endmyopia.org/how-to-choose-a-differential-prescription-if-you-have-high-astigmatism/
XD I have been trying to make an equalising step for about 2 years. I definitely made progress early on, but only about by about 0.125 diopters, and lenses tend to only come in 0.25 diopter increments. I am not sure whether I will ever get to 100% even due to natural dominance of one eye, but... yeah... it took a long time. But then again, all my progress was very slow for a while there, so probably should have been much quicker to make that equalising step.
Yes, in MY naked eyes 👁👁, kids of today (& adults) have far worse eyesight than they should❕❗ I'll add that people of today don't eat as many carrots as they used to. I still eat lots of carrots & I keep my screen time to a minimum. As a result, I'm in my 50s & I still have PERFECT EYESIGHT🤩 & NO GLASSES😳👀😊❕❗ But my best friend🤓 has had glasses since he was 8❕❗ These are his eyes👓, and these are mine 👁👁.
Hi, I haven't managed to find anything that works to clear my floaters yet. Some people say fasting (and the resulting autophagy) works. I cope with mine by practising gratitude - floaters may be annoying, but of themselves they are neither physically painful, nor dangerous. So, all in all, I am probably lucky to have them and not something else. Also, when they are annoying me, I make myself look past them, literally, and focus on objects in the world - shift my mental focus off them.
