I have less than 1 dioptre in SPH but more than 2.50 dioptre in CYL(in both eyes)...Will I use full strength glasses for distance and no glass for close up???
Because YOU didn't, Jake. You claim to encourage your community to figure out things for themselves and spend a good deal of time condescending to them about how they shouldn't want step-by-step guides because that makes them "sheep" and they need to treat this as a college course, when the reality is that your EndMyopia material is virtually incomprehensible without guidance. Of course, there's a difference between taking a class with a professor vs. getting a textbook and piecing everything together yourself. But your free material is not analogous to a textbook, it's rather like if you cut up the textbook, stapled random pages together, rearranged the order, and added superfluous fluff. Your UA-cam clips and articles have so little information that my time is wasted for a good 70% of the time I'm on EndMyopia stuff. There is no starting point, there's about 30 seconds of useful content per video, you send people on endless redirects, etc. You want people to pay you, I get it. But stop gaslighting your community, telling them that they're sheep, they're lazy, and they have attitude problems, when in reality, you're just producing incomprehensible garbage.
Damnnnn, you made an entire documentary for newbies, this a like a condensed version of endmyopia , when people used to ask me about endmyopia or vision improvement i had to forward the sites link most of them used to get bogged down by the details and were unable to put all the puzzle pieces together but now, I ll just send them this video ....... , you are doing god's work keep it up!!!
I have been saying this since forever though and my point proves your point as well. When I was young I use to play allot of video games and watch TV, I needed glasses, then when I was a teen i stopped watching tv and playing games opting to listen to music and go out with friends, come my 3 year eye exam I no longer needed glasses and my vision was perfect to which my optician claimed it was down to wearing my glasses, upon me telling her I never wore them she then went on to tell me that my eyesight wasn't prefect and I should continue wearing my glasses when watching tv or reading(ironic 360 she did, still makes me laugh).. Now as an adult I spend more time inside my house and I play/type on a 60 inch tv that is an arm length away, yep I need glasses again, but ironically enough getting a new job and being away from the screen for the majority of the day i'm noticing an improvement in my vision again.. So I totally believe this videos and the information given because I have first hand experience.
Also my mum would where glasses everywhere. I proved it to her by telling her to stop wearing glasses when she goes out, she found her eyes adjusting and getting better, even needed a down grade in the prescription as her lenses were too strong.. she went back to wearing her glasses all day every day and needed an increase again. lol People
@@saisarmayelemanchili2276 The end-myopia method does work but you have to be very patient. I use to practice this method but have stopped recently due to stress and work.
Literally none of the countless eye doctors I saw told me that I don't need to wear my myopia glasses for close up work. I ended up having lots of eye strains and floaters after using myopia glasses for close up work (and computer works). Unbelievable! And all eye doctors I saw are very impatient and not willing to work with you. They just want to write prescription and get you out of their office. If you ask to adjust, they look at you like a crazy person for not just being happy with their first prescription. Thank you for this video.
@@jayzee2634 since I stopped using myopia glasses for close up work, my vision has improved so much that I've been going without prescription (even for long distance) for a few months. Floaters are still there (they didn't get worse though). I'm still trying to figure out how to get rid of my eye strain. Far vision is still blurry but not bad enough to require glasses.
So basically you get weaker glasses and your eyes adapt and the stuff you do helps them adapt and real myopia is actaully very rare to get well i think I get it also you made the most sense out of it all thx u very much u deserve more subs and I sub u cuz ur epic.
Dude this is amazing .LIke im already 1 year in on my own but your video is basically everything ive learned that i couldve watched instead of reading posts on the community . Thank You NottNott .
I actually used to do active focus naturally when i was a kid and before i wore glasses, i used to stare a bit at the whiteboard at school to make the font clearer and but now i find it a bit hard to do active focus on a distance but its quite easy to do close up like reading a book
It's been 4 months since I have started this, and I have improved by the expected rate of 0.25 diopters. (I can see my screen about 2 cm further, but can't see a difference with distance, yet) I was at -3.75 last year at night at this yearly night festival, and was astonished when I was seeing more clear (with the -3.5 current full correction) than I was with the -3.75 last year. I only use the -3.5 at night because It's so sharp in the day, that I can't active focus. Look forward to seeing perfectly sharp vision at night with -3.25 three or four months from now
@@suyziljackson8202 unfortunately I haven't improved much since. I think I have ciliary spasm and it is hard to tell if my vision is clear despite what correction I am wearing. My habits aren't the best and it takes dedication to improve.
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unfortunately I haven't improved much since. I think I have ciliary spasm and it is hard to tell if my vision is clear despite what correction I am wearing. My habits aren't the best and it takes dedication to improve. I can see a total of 3 cm further (26 to 29)
I can active focus (and I didn’t knew that even had a name for awhile) and my myopia is low -1/-1.25 (tested at optometrist some months ago) - I will do getting sunlight, being outside more doing active focus and distant vision, not wear my glasses. For a whole year, then I’ll report here if I dropped any diopters. I promise !UPDATE ON THE REPLY!
UPDATE: I found my old (first) glasses from around 4 years ago. I put them on and I SAW WELL. Like really well… so I went to a store to check the diopeteres and it was -0.5/-0.75 SPH with only -0.25 CYL. I wouldn’t say I would need more. Also I did notice when trying the newer glasses (-1/1.25) I thought everything looked to sharp like artificial… I think I’m making progressive eye improvement already 🎉
@@rituparna7059 nope. If anything I was eating really badly because of side effects of one of the medications I (was) taking. It really was just the things I said in these comments. I’m hoping I can drop -.5 diopters this year but let’s see what happens.
@@rituparna7059 I just now tried the old 4-5y glasses and tried only the -0.75 lens (the left one) and I saw well in both eyes! Trying one at a time. That probably means I already dropped -0.25 in a month/ 2months . Also I’ve done the test website in the description and I was getting sometimes -0.75 (for both eyes) or -1. I was very skeptical of this but I thought why not try it… well seems like it might be working
Basically which things you are doing on daily for your vision improvement, could you please describe your whole routine My eyesight is -2.75 and -2.50 I want to improve because I don't want to wear specs any single minute 🥹
That is a good point about evolutionary adaptation. Any genetic trait that appears to be negative has something called balanced polymorphism. For example, sickle cell looks bad, but it actually provides an advantage to people living in areas with malaria. Therefore, it was not selected against.
Subscribed within the first few minutes. Thank you so much. Also, your prescription progression is almost identical to my daughter's. I'm trying to help her.
Here is an average of my CM measurements to diopters. Start: August 2023: Left: -3.84 (26 cm) Right: -3.57 (28 cm) January 2024: Left: -3.33 (30 cm) Right: -3.22 (31 cm) February 2024: Left: -3.22 (31 cm) Right: -3.08 (32.5 cm) March 2024: Left: -3.07 (32.5 cm) Right: -2.94 (34 cm)
thank you for this comment, im 15 and trying to improve my vision, but I never knew if these methods actually work because the scientific proof for it was just lacking. Probably cause the industry wants to make money in this field though.
@@RXKDon yeah, millions of people go to the optometrist without knowing anything about their eyes. I would recommend to go to the vision improvement wiki in his description if you want to learn more. And you have to do a lot of research
thnx bro keep maeking videos to help us i really appreciate that (you helped me a lot to undrestand what to do ) because i can't buy the course of jake of endmyopia and i really want to improve my eyesight plz continue making videos like that
I may have told you before for sure, since i was one of the first subscribers...THANK . YOU! thank you for your motivating, but also very detailed video. This was very very useful.
Hi Nott Nott, A truly great video, with wise humour. I started as you did. You learn by beating you brains against the IGNORANCE STONE WALL. That is where you are now. Then you ask questions! Keep on going, if you can. I finally found an Ophthalmologist who helps her kids with life-time prevention. That is probably the only answer. Best, Otie
Love the video!! It's probably the best introduction video to Endmyopia I've seen so far! But I would like to add that you failed to mention the importance of dominant eye vs non-dominant eye. If you think about it, there's really no need for the glasses to have different diopters for different eyes. Like I just got my new pair of glasses today, they are normalized, but they have the same diopters on both lenses even though I have different diopters in each eye because one eye will always be more dominant than the other. So it's more comfortable and better for both lenses to be the same so the eye can easily adapt to the negative stimulus. If one lense has one diopter and another lense has another diopter, everything gets all messed up and the brain starts becoming stressed from not knowing which eye should be the dominant one. You get what I mean?
Glad you liked it. I don't think it's particularly important - these four main things are things I need to do every day to be successful. Whether an eye is dominant hasn't made a big difference in my approach to vision improvement admittedly, it might explain how things got a certain way with myopia though, so more of a progression topic than for improvement.
13:00 Low Myopia, is when you can read most of the letters on the 20/50 line, both eyes open, over several days. It is always critical that you verify this, objectively. Check this, to find the minum minus power to, "just clear", the 20/30 Line. It will probably be about -1.0 diopters. (I gave up on OD measurements, a long time ago.)
Hi Nott, I always admire your efforts, some will say, against impossible odds! I always suggest reading 1 inch letters at 20 feer, or getting close. That is 20/60, close to the DMV check. If you get there, quit wearing minus glasses, most of the time.
Thanks brother... Finally you made a simple video on basics of myopia . On endmyopia jake creats good content but the content he provide is very confusing .... Thanks you nott nott for creating a simple ( step by step ) video . 👍👍👍👍 Plzzz also create this kinda videos in future 👍👍👍
While I was watching your video when you said I'll have to lean further back because the vision improved... I just realized I've been holding my phone a lot farther than usual I've been doing this using lower prescription thing for about a year (without the other fundementals) and its my first time having progress
Hi! I would like to thank you so much for this video since you made every concept much clearer to me. I came across endmyopia in 2019 after I was sent to the optometrist in August 2018 because my right eye was itchy. I was told I was 2.0 on my right eye and 1.00 on my left eye. Later I started having migraines and I felt I had been sent glasses with overprescription. Fast forward to February 2019 and I discovered that my vision was very blurry when trying to check the whiteboard of a college classroom, even with the lense on. Later on, I got a new eye exam which said that I was 1.25 on both eyes even though I have better vision on my right eye. My question is, how do I find an optometrist that will provide me with differentials and glasses with less diopters? here in Colombia they seem to always make you buy the glasses they formulate and only those.
Great video. A question that comes to mind though is why people think they're having ciliary spasms. From what I understand, a ciliary spasm prevents the eye from performing accommodation. This would mean that if you put your finger out in front of your face and focused on it, and then looked at the wall beyond your finger, your finger would NOT go out of focus, and the wall would NOT come into focus (to the degree that your myopia allows). I'm sure this happens to some people, but it's definitely not normal. No matter how many tens of hours I sit in front of my computer screen, my eyes don't lose the ability to accommodate.
Thank you so much!! I was quite confused when reading Endmyopia blog, I don't think the info on which steps to take is very clear... except to go and buy a course which I'd love to if only I could afford it.
Hi! I’m 11, in my right eye, I’m -5 and in my left, I’m 4.75. I find it very hard to find motivation to do this but I’m gonna start today! I usually wear glasses -0.50 than my normal glasses (including to school) because I find that I can still see pretty good. I always hate going to the optometrist because I feel like I’ve lost hope and I’m gonna be “blind” I guess in the future. I first got glasses when I was 6. My dad also wears glasses but his are -2.25 and -2.50 and his is moving a lot slower than mine. But I’ve heard it’s because mine are still growing and aren’t fully developed. Thank you so much for this.
@@Acorniscute Of course not lol He should wear hard contacts if he really wants to slow down the progression, and then get LASIK when he’s old enough You’re not ‘getting rid’ of a minus five Rx, ever, unless you do that
@@ifbfmto9338 WTF LASIK IS HORRIBLE NEVER GET LASIK. IT’S LITERALLY A LASER THAT MUTILATES YOUR CORNEA INTO A PERMANENT MINUS LENS STUCK IN YOUR EYE, IT NEVER HEALS, YOU GET WAY MORE DRY EYE AND OTHER MUCH WORSE SIDE EFFECTS, YOUR EYES ARE WAY TOO LONG, AND IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO DO ENDMYOPIA Also, Jake Steiner went from -5.00 to 20/20, and there are people who went from -10 to -5 or whatever, so anything is possible.
Hey, thank you so much for this guide, it was super clear! I know the rule for buying normalized is 0.25 diopters below your "actual" prescription, but how do really know your actual prescription? I went to the optometrist a week ago and the diopters she gave me were a different eye ratio than the centimeter measurements I have been doing. And even the centimeters, as you know, vary so much throughout the day and throughout the week. It seems like the only real solution to finding the right pair of normalized is opening your wallet and doing trial and error with different prescriptions until one pair feels right.
Sometimes that is the only real solution, it took me trial and error before I found the 'groove' of how I should be doing reductions. It's a problem you solve early, and then long term you don't have to think about it too much.
@@NottNott I have less than 1 dioptre in SPH but more than 2.50 dioptre in CYL(in both eyes)...Will I use full strength glasses for distance and no glass for close up???
A better idea would be ordering trial lens from lens kit, like optometrists do, together with a trial empty frame from aliexpress. This will cost around 30€ and you can check both differentials and normalised.
Thank you this is a great video! I signed up for Back to 2020, and am exploring other content to help me understand the process. This is extremely helpful!
Around 3rd grade my eyesight started to drop, but I kept it a secret from my family and didn't go see an optometrist. later in 5th grade they found out and I got a prescription of -3.5. why did my eyesight drop so drastically if I never used glasses and only relied on my eyes? I've been wearing glasses since, I'm now in 11th grade and my prescription is -5.25
Probably a lot of close up activities growing up. You may also have a genetic predisposition for close-up induced myopia. Myopia is not a genetic illness, but some people's genes make it so they develop myopia faster if they do close-up stuff. If person A and person B both performed the same amount of close-up work, person A might develop myopia faster from genetic factors, while person B might not develop myopia as fast because of genetic factors. However, if neither of them did any close-up work, neither would develop any myopia. You might have a genetic predisposition like person A. Also, you might have engaged in more close-up activities than the average child growing up. EndMyopia will still work for you.
A very well explained video👍 ... As good as Jake's 'start here - improve your eyesight' one (my favourite). Wish you a fun filled journey back to 20/20 🙏
My eyesight power is -1.00R and -0.50L , I literally feel like crying cuz I hate wearing glasses and I look so bad with my glasses on I am doing eye exercises and ngl it does relax my eyes I want to get rid of glasses as soon as possible ahhh
@@otiebrown9999 why 20/60? I also have a very low myopia, the optometrists wanted to give me -1.50 glasses but my prescription is definitely not so high, I would say -0.50. Do you have a good website where to check my eyesight?
@@otiebrown9999 I tested my eyesight at 3m using a 3m chart and I could see 20/40 and 20/30 with both eyes. 🤔 but during conferences presentations I cannot see everything, only with my -1 glasses. I will try to order -0.5 glasses to see if they are enough for these very far away presentations. I don't wear glasses otherwise and sometimes +0.50 for reading
Great video, but I'm not sure I got things right. To correct high myopia, I should - stop bad habits like smartphone staring with fully corrected glasses and move media consumption to big screens more far away - wear "differentials" for closeup work like reading or computer work which are glasses under corrected by 1-2 diopters - wear "normalized" for every other aspect of daily life as well as life outside which are glasses under corrected only by 0.25-0.5 diopters - try to actively focus on distant objects while using normalized glasses - go outside with normalized glasses for 2-3h per day Is that correct? Did I miss anything important?
Hi NottNott, I deeply appreciate your sincerest scientific mind. Have you ever thought about inviting an Optometrist or ophthalmologist into a general scientific discussion on these issues with you? With emphasis on early prevention or recovery from mild myopia?
I was going nuts with the difficulty of finding this information. Thank you. Now, what do I do when Im starting and I probably have a lot of ciliary spasm? Be without glasses for 3-4 weeks and then go to optometry to measure the diopters?
@@NottNott thanks. Also wanted to ask. Do you use differentials most of the day when you’re a newbie as you only have differentials and not normalised?
Love your videos man. Question though: my very first glasses prescription was -3.50. I wasn't wearing glasses until I went to the optometrist and got my vision measured. Does that just mean I had a wicked ciliary spasm or did my eye elongate somehow without wearing glasses?
Press X to doubt. Optometrists can sometimes overprescribe like crazy. Solution: measure distance to blur and calculate your own myopia to see if it matches what the optometrist is saying. I'd be somewhat surprised, tbh. Check out Varakari's Vision Log Tool for this, see it on the EM wiki.
Dang you think they could over prescribe by like 2+ diopters? Wouldn't I have had some really weird vision if it was over prescribed that much? Yeah I've been measuring myself lately with a snellen. I will check out that tool though thank you. I was 8 years old at the time when I was given the -3.5. Now unfortunately after following optometrists orders for 15 years I'm at -10...Admittedly I'm hoping I just started with a very bad ciliary spasm so I could get a chunk of that vision back a little faster. Though I have no idea if a ciliary spasm could account for -3.5 diopters. Is that possible you think then or no?
@@BeeVee-zz9ip Apparently ciliary spasm has accounted for crazy amounts of myopia, according to Jake. I'm not entirely sure, our sample size is so stupidly low on everything. BUT, you will feel awesome if your vision improves dramatically quickly if you get started with EM stuff :)
Hi, I have -1.25 on both eyes. Should I get -1 glasses to practice active focus or should I just go no glasses? I never wear glasses unless I have to (driving at night), but there are some activities where I would like to see clearer (eg going outside, meeting people and going into virtual reality). Thanks for the great video!
I think you’ll have to experiment a bit to see what works for you. You might actually want to try some mild plus prescription glasses for close up reading. (I’m just thinking ahead for myself if I get down to about your prescription). If it were as simple as just not wearing glasses I (and you too probably) never would have gotten near sighted in the first place after all.
Yeah, same happened with me. When I went for a visual acuity test to my optometrist. He tested my eyesight in a dark room. And he gave me glasses of -5.5 in both eyes. But I still doubt because I can even see 20/15 line clearly from those glasses in Normal day light. Jake said, they do this to give us maximum correction. Mostly they give Overscribed glasses.
My myopia is at -1.5 since 14 and I’ve only been using my glasses in classes when I need them for the past 10 years, but my eyesight is still -1.5 now. You said I don’t need differential glasses if my myopia is mild, so just active focus and long distance would be enough ‘exercises’ for me to regain 20/20 vision? Thanks a lot.
I read the Bates method book in the 1960's. I have done the exercises on and off ever since. I do the exercises faithfully for a while and then slack off because of lack of improvement. I always read and do very close work without glasses. For mid range, like looking at a magazine, my vision is blurry with or without glasses 🕶️. I have a very strong prescription with astigmatism. I have noticed over the last 20 or 30 years that when i get new glasses, the prescription seems wrong. A lack of clarity and sometimes distortions. I think the clarity issue is due to plastic lenses, as opposed to glass. An eye doctor told me the distortions were do to the correction for my astigmatism and I just wasn't used to the right way of seeing. I haven't been to an optometrist in about 10+ years still wearing my 10+ year old pair.
Hey man, congrats on all your gains! Quick question, I've had horrendous double vision for 6 months to the point where the ground is rising upwards with and without glasses. It is not due to CYL and it only began after starting endmyopia. I'm 99.9 percent sure it's due to a reduction in axial length and as a result my visual cortex doesn't know what's what. Other than staring at contrasty text/distant objects and recognising the ghost image and going up in correction, what would you recommend? I went from a -1.75 normalised to -2 to fix the issue but it hasn't helped all that much.
TBH, I've had horrendous double vision since starting EM too. I just suck it up and try to ignore it really. Not quite sure what to do in this case, all I know is a long time from now I'll be 20/20 and the DV will stop :)
@@NottNott It didn't work for me but you should try and increase correction by a quarter diopter just for a week and see what happens. Also, do you know how to stagger normalised and differential corrections? Jake says not to do both at the same time
@@carminefalcone3069 You can do that, give it a try. I feel like it'd always come back, IDK, never bothered me enough. Also, eyesight improvement is different for everyone. Like I said, I'm just moving my head further back instead of reducing differentials currently. I will probably end up just reducing differentials when I feel like it and not overthinking it with a staggered reduction, personally. Differentials are no big deal IMO, getting the normalized reduction right is what's actually important.
@@NottNott Thanks for the reply. I was a bit confused about cylinder. How do you go about reducing that? If you have -2 with no cylinder, you'll need to get 8 pairs of glasses but with cylinder would you need 16 pairs, i.e. -2 with 0.5 CYL and -2 with no CYL for example?
@@carminefalcone3069 Reduce CYL alongside SPH, a bit of CYL one reduction, a bit of SPH next. It's not my speciality as I lucked out with below -1 CYL in both of my eyes when starting and basically don't have astigmatism, read more :D
@@harleennnnn hey, I have started eye exercises etc and things like in the first part of this month, I will follow all the tips and diet instructions, and get my eyes checked in the end of October, and then next check up would be in January next year. Hopefully I might drop half a dioptre 🥲 what about you
@@abdoo3301 i recently started so I will update if I see any difference and I know how bad -6 cause you basically can't see shit😂😂even if someone is sitting right infront of you so did you felt any difference, like now can you somewhat see a little better without glasses?
@@harleennnnn LOL, you know the pain too. No, I haven't done enough yet to see a noticeable difference, but if I follow the 20-20-20 rule, and eat well, do my exercises (which help my eyes relax, not gonna lie) I do feel better that day. For now the tip I'm following closely is to use my old glasses to do close up work, like using my laptop and reading a book. Did you try this? I felt better if I do this, as my eyes are not super tensed this way.
Great video! You mentioned sometimes genetics can play a role though rare, will this method still help? I've been staying indoors a lot over the past couple of years due to depression, and have noticed a gradual deterioration in my eyesight, all types of weird things have been happening with them, but until recently I had an opticians appointment and found out I have an astigmatism, he said that they are genetic.
EM is counter to the mainstream, your optometrists opinions are in the rubbish bin as far as it's concerned. First they tell you it's genetic, then you improve your eyesight and have a test on their terms, and that test tells you that your eyes have improved. Going outside will help a lot. Good luck!
@@NottNott So it means we can follow EM steps for genetic high myopia? I have been following EM videos and blogs for a long time. Just wanted to make sure before starting!
I just discovered this video a few days ago and I must have rewatched this video about 10 times already. It is a great comprehensive summary of Jake's approach to vision improvement. I think I am going to do more reading on the endmyopia website and finish reading the daily e-mails. I think I will order some normalized and differential glasses in the next week or so. Luckily, I only have mild myopia --1.75 (L) and -2.00 (R) .... but I have -1.00 Astigmatism in the left eye. I am eventually going to buy normalized for daily life, going outside and differentials for PC work only and perhaps add blue light filters. Also, no glasses for using my phone and reading books Then,, I will start to reduce the lens correction incrementally over the months/years. I am going to measure my blur horizon from how I normally sit in front of my PC, so I can accurately dial in those differential lenses and measure my progress. Great content, brother.
Thank you! I just calculated my blur horizon to 60cm, which, using the calculator is -1.75 diopters, which is about the same as my lens correction. My eyes usually sit around 70cms from my PC screen. Honestly, while there is a little blur, I could probably get by with either no glasses at all or just a very small correction (-0.25 sph or just a lens with my astigmatism correction only) and blue light filters for my differentials. Going to go outside with my normalized and work on blinking into focus and exercising my active focus muscle! Hopefully, my cilliary muscles can finally start to relax! This is great stuff!
@@shanecleI have a question, should I wear differential glasses after 90 days or should I stop wearing differential glasses and get a pair of normalized glasses?
@@mxnna4895 hello, It’s really hard to say. I am not an expert in this field. I tried to use the method of wearing weaker glasses, but other life obligations have come up and I haven’t given it all much thought. I had my eyes checked the other month and my eyesight hasn’t changed much at all. TBH, I don’t mind wearing glasses.
It is normal to quit, when you judge that you can not make it. Or you realize that you have been lied to. Prevention is possibly at 20/50, but not much beyond that point. It is an intelligent choice, that I was never offered.
Wow, that was one of the best videos surrounding myopia i've ever seen. just gonna watch the video and ask questions as I go. feel free to answer any that you know something about, would appreciate some clarification/assistance. 1. will this improve astigmatism as well? 2. When I went to the eye doctor after a 3 year gap they told me that my prescription was much worse than before, yet I can still see 20/20 clearly with my glasses I got in 2019. does this mean I was overprescribed? 3. how much does dry eye and eye strain affect your vision? Before I started getting these regularly, I did not remember my vision being this bad until these became issues for me 4. Do eye drops help at all? I've noticed my vision is better when I use these regularly, And have even had "clear flashes" shortly after using them. Once again thanks for the information, very well put together video.
Amazing video. There is something I want to confirm. If baby was born farsighted, why doesn't it see the object clearly from far to close when the eyeball axis elongated?
Hi Knott, All beginnings are difficult. I personally think that a cylinder measurements is totally NOT NECESSARY. I convert to SPHERICAL, and check them with my home Snellen. Will almost always measure 20/20 by doing that change. It makes recovery much easier.
Why is this the first guy to ever make some sense out of this topic, with a proper video? 🤔 😬👍🏻
Because of your leadership, Jake.
Fam atleast he doesn’t talk 9 minutes for a 40 secone subject , you’re milking honestly
Hey jake why do people start noticing eye floaters after active focus
I have less than 1 dioptre in SPH but more than 2.50 dioptre in CYL(in both eyes)...Will I use full strength glasses for distance and no glass for close up???
Because YOU didn't, Jake. You claim to encourage your community to figure out things for themselves and spend a good deal of time condescending to them about how they shouldn't want step-by-step guides because that makes them "sheep" and they need to treat this as a college course, when the reality is that your EndMyopia material is virtually incomprehensible without guidance. Of course, there's a difference between taking a class with a professor vs. getting a textbook and piecing everything together yourself. But your free material is not analogous to a textbook, it's rather like if you cut up the textbook, stapled random pages together, rearranged the order, and added superfluous fluff. Your UA-cam clips and articles have so little information that my time is wasted for a good 70% of the time I'm on EndMyopia stuff. There is no starting point, there's about 30 seconds of useful content per video, you send people on endless redirects, etc. You want people to pay you, I get it. But stop gaslighting your community, telling them that they're sheep, they're lazy, and they have attitude problems, when in reality, you're just producing incomprehensible garbage.
You just summarised my hours of reading about Endmyopia in 25 minutes. Wow.
Very good.
And saved a lot of beating around the bush
Damnnnn, you made an entire documentary for newbies, this a like a condensed version of endmyopia , when people used to ask me about endmyopia or vision improvement i had to forward the sites link most of them used to get bogged down by the details and were unable to put all the puzzle pieces together but now, I ll just send them this video ....... , you are doing god's work keep it up!!!
Absolutely EXCELLENT!!
This was very well done. Bravo! You saved me hours and hours of reading Jake’s posts :))
Hmm.. crush course
I am halfway through the video and damn this is a goldmine.Someone giving out all this for free is phenomenal. Continue the good work brother ❤
Jake is greatly appreciated for that reason.
I have been saying this since forever though and my point proves your point as well. When I was young I use to play allot of video games and watch TV, I needed glasses, then when I was a teen i stopped watching tv and playing games opting to listen to music and go out with friends, come my 3 year eye exam I no longer needed glasses and my vision was perfect to which my optician claimed it was down to wearing my glasses, upon me telling her I never wore them she then went on to tell me that my eyesight wasn't prefect and I should continue wearing my glasses when watching tv or reading(ironic 360 she did, still makes me laugh).. Now as an adult I spend more time inside my house and I play/type on a 60 inch tv that is an arm length away, yep I need glasses again, but ironically enough getting a new job and being away from the screen for the majority of the day i'm noticing an improvement in my vision again.. So I totally believe this videos and the information given because I have first hand experience.
Also my mum would where glasses everywhere. I proved it to her by telling her to stop wearing glasses when she goes out, she found her eyes adjusting and getting better, even needed a down grade in the prescription as her lenses were too strong.. she went back to wearing her glasses all day every day and needed an increase again. lol People
Wow, you explained all the info in one video that took me 9 months to understand and explain to myself. Awesome work. Wish I found this video sooner.
Hey will this method work. Who much time does it take
@@saisarmayelemanchili2276 The end-myopia method does work but you have to be very patient. I use to practice this method but have stopped recently due to stress and work.
Just want to say, THANK YOU! you might be saving my life after all.
So how's it going pal ?
Those well placed high qualities memes improved my understanding of the topic, i tip my hat to you, a man of culture to another.
ah, a fellow man of culture in the comments.
Literally none of the countless eye doctors I saw told me that I don't need to wear my myopia glasses for close up work. I ended up having lots of eye strains and floaters after using myopia glasses for close up work (and computer works). Unbelievable! And all eye doctors I saw are very impatient and not willing to work with you. They just want to write prescription and get you out of their office. If you ask to adjust, they look at you like a crazy person for not just being happy with their first prescription.
Thank you for this video.
How are your eyes now?
@@jayzee2634 since I stopped using myopia glasses for close up work, my vision has improved so much that I've been going without prescription (even for long distance) for a few months.
Floaters are still there (they didn't get worse though). I'm still trying to figure out how to get rid of my eye strain.
Far vision is still blurry but not bad enough to require glasses.
@@bettygirma172 Right thing to do!
@@bettygirma172 how is your vision doing now?
So basically you get weaker glasses and your eyes adapt and the stuff you do helps them adapt and real myopia is actaully very rare to get well i think I get it also you made the most sense out of it all thx u very much u deserve more subs and I sub u cuz ur epic.
Always a great effort.
Still working on 20/20.
Dude this is amazing .LIke im already 1 year in on my own but your video is basically everything ive learned that i couldve watched instead of reading posts on the community . Thank You NottNott .
What a sign if our times that some people think going outside for an hout is just too much. It drives me absolutely crazy to be stuck inside all day
I actually used to do active focus naturally when i was a kid and before i wore glasses, i used to stare a bit at the whiteboard at school to make the font clearer and but now i find it a bit hard to do active focus on a distance but its quite easy to do close up like reading a book
It's been 4 months since I have started this, and I have improved by the expected rate of 0.25 diopters. (I can see my screen about 2 cm further, but can't see a difference with distance, yet)
I was at -3.75 last year at night at this yearly night festival, and was astonished when I was seeing more clear (with the -3.5 current full correction) than I was with the -3.75 last year. I only use the -3.5 at night because It's so sharp in the day, that I can't active focus. Look forward to seeing perfectly sharp vision at night with -3.25 three or four months from now
that's amazing. any update?
@@suyziljackson8202 unfortunately I haven't improved much since. I think I have ciliary spasm and it is hard to tell if my vision is clear despite what correction I am wearing. My habits aren't the best and it takes dedication to improve.
@@suyziljackson8202 I write a reply and I refresh the page, it’s gone.
YT keeps deleting my replies. I have been trying to respond for a while now
Seems like this is the first one hasn’t disappeared so I responded in the reply below
unfortunately I haven't improved much since. I think I have ciliary spasm and it is hard to tell if my vision is clear despite what correction I am wearing. My habits aren't the best and it takes dedication to improve. I can see a total of 3 cm further (26 to 29)
Great Job Nott.
Now continue to passing the 20/60 line.
Post your success!
This deserves millions of views
I can active focus (and I didn’t knew that even had a name for awhile) and my myopia is low -1/-1.25 (tested at optometrist some months ago) - I will do getting sunlight, being outside more doing active focus and distant vision, not wear my glasses. For a whole year, then I’ll report here if I dropped any diopters. I promise !UPDATE ON THE REPLY!
UPDATE: I found my old (first) glasses from around 4 years ago. I put them on and I SAW WELL. Like really well… so I went to a store to check the diopeteres and it was -0.5/-0.75 SPH with only -0.25 CYL. I wouldn’t say I would need more. Also I did notice when trying the newer glasses (-1/1.25) I thought everything looked to sharp like artificial… I think I’m making progressive eye improvement already 🎉
Did you change your Diet or anything like that?
@@rituparna7059 nope. If anything I was eating really badly because of side effects of one of the medications I (was) taking. It really was just the things I said in these comments. I’m hoping I can drop -.5 diopters this year but let’s see what happens.
@@rituparna7059 I just now tried the old 4-5y glasses and tried only the -0.75 lens (the left one) and I saw well in both eyes! Trying one at a time. That probably means I already dropped -0.25 in a month/ 2months . Also I’ve done the test website in the description and I was getting sometimes -0.75 (for both eyes) or -1. I was very skeptical of this but I thought why not try it… well seems like it might be working
Basically which things you are doing on daily for your vision improvement, could you please describe your whole routine
My eyesight is -2.75 and -2.50 I want to improve because I don't want to wear specs any single minute 🥹
Hi Nott,
I hope you reached the success of reading the 20/60 line!!
That is your real success!!
That is a good point about evolutionary adaptation. Any genetic trait that appears to be negative has something called balanced polymorphism. For example, sickle cell looks bad, but it actually provides an advantage to people living in areas with malaria. Therefore, it was not selected against.
WHO selected it?
Fantastic video - thank you, and God bless! You are helping people!
Subscribed within the first few minutes. Thank you so much. Also, your prescription progression is almost identical to my daughter's. I'm trying to help her.
Nott did a great job here.
Now this was what i was searching for you definitely saved me days, and hours on screen ,you don’t know how thankful i am really thank you
Can you tell me this in simple language
Here is an average of my CM measurements to diopters.
Start:
August 2023:
Left: -3.84 (26 cm)
Right: -3.57 (28 cm)
January 2024:
Left: -3.33 (30 cm)
Right: -3.22 (31 cm)
February 2024:
Left: -3.22 (31 cm)
Right: -3.08 (32.5 cm)
March 2024:
Left: -3.07 (32.5 cm)
Right: -2.94 (34 cm)
thank you for this comment, im 15 and trying to improve my vision, but I never knew if these methods actually work because the scientific proof for it was just lacking. Probably cause the industry wants to make money in this field though.
@@RXKDon yeah, millions of people go to the optometrist without knowing anything about their eyes.
I would recommend to go to the vision improvement wiki in his description if you want to learn more. And you have to do a lot of research
hey man. any updates?
Hi Knott,
You are always a brave soul to continue with your effort.
Thanks.
thnx bro keep maeking videos to help us i really appreciate that (you helped me a lot to undrestand what to do ) because i can't buy the course of jake of endmyopia and i really want to improve my eyesight plz continue making videos like that
Will do :D
I may have told you before for sure, since i was one of the first subscribers...THANK . YOU! thank you for your motivating, but also very detailed video. This was very very useful.
amazing I am speechless how you put everything together. Perfect
Best video I watched so far on how to improve vision, very well explained and clear, thank you.
You are doing a great job here!
Hi Nott Nott,
A truly great video, with wise humour.
I started as you did.
You learn by beating you brains against the IGNORANCE STONE WALL.
That is where you are now.
Then you ask questions!
Keep on going, if you can.
I finally found an Ophthalmologist who helps her kids with life-time prevention.
That is probably the only answer.
Best,
Otie
Love the video!! It's probably the best introduction video to Endmyopia I've seen so far! But I would like to add that you failed to mention the importance of dominant eye vs non-dominant eye. If you think about it, there's really no need for the glasses to have different diopters for different eyes. Like I just got my new pair of glasses today, they are normalized, but they have the same diopters on both lenses even though I have different diopters in each eye because one eye will always be more dominant than the other. So it's more comfortable and better for both lenses to be the same so the eye can easily adapt to the negative stimulus. If one lense has one diopter and another lense has another diopter, everything gets all messed up and the brain starts becoming stressed from not knowing which eye should be the dominant one. You get what I mean?
Glad you liked it. I don't think it's particularly important - these four main things are things I need to do every day to be successful. Whether an eye is dominant hasn't made a big difference in my approach to vision improvement admittedly, it might explain how things got a certain way with myopia though, so more of a progression topic than for improvement.
@@NottNott do you still experience eye floaters?
It’s probably simpler to just reduce your prescription as he instructed but I’m also going to experiment a little regarding my dominant eye.
@@paulwalther5237 I just like to keep a level playing field for the eyes. So far it's helped me out in keeping my eyes less stressed.
Hi NottNott. Your Video is great! Many thanks for this introduction to Endmyopia!
This is so so helpful thank you so much for laying it out like this. Great job!
Really straightforward, found other videos complicated. thank you!
13:00
Low Myopia, is when you can read most of the letters on the 20/50 line, both eyes open, over several days. It is always critical that you verify this, objectively.
Check this, to find the minum minus power to, "just clear", the 20/30 Line. It will probably be about -1.0 diopters.
(I gave up on OD measurements, a long time ago.)
Hi Nott,
I always admire your efforts, some will say, against impossible odds!
I always suggest reading 1 inch letters at 20 feer, or getting close.
That is 20/60, close to the DMV check.
If you get there, quit wearing minus glasses, most of the time.
Thanks brother... Finally you made a simple video on basics of myopia .
On endmyopia jake creats good content but the content he provide is very confusing .... Thanks you nott nott for creating a simple ( step by step ) video .
👍👍👍👍 Plzzz also create this kinda videos in future 👍👍👍
While I was watching your video when you said I'll have to lean further back because the vision improved... I just realized I've been holding my phone a lot farther than usual
I've been doing this using lower prescription thing for about a year (without the other fundementals) and its my first time having progress
Hi! I would like to thank you so much for this video since you made every concept much clearer to me. I came across endmyopia in 2019 after I was sent to the optometrist in August 2018 because my right eye was itchy. I was told I was 2.0 on my right eye and 1.00 on my left eye. Later I started having migraines and I felt I had been sent glasses with overprescription. Fast forward to February 2019 and I discovered that my vision was very blurry when trying to check the whiteboard of a college classroom, even with the lense on. Later on, I got a new eye exam which said that I was 1.25 on both eyes even though I have better vision on my right eye. My question is, how do I find an optometrist that will provide me with differentials and glasses with less diopters? here in Colombia they seem to always make you buy the glasses they formulate and only those.
I always bought my glasses online, although I imagine in Columbia the optometrists will care less about following 'the rules' as much
Always a delightful review!
NottNott,
Well Done!
Professional and accurate.
Thank you!
Great video. A question that comes to mind though is why people think they're having ciliary spasms. From what I understand, a ciliary spasm prevents the eye from performing accommodation. This would mean that if you put your finger out in front of your face and focused on it, and then looked at the wall beyond your finger, your finger would NOT go out of focus, and the wall would NOT come into focus (to the degree that your myopia allows).
I'm sure this happens to some people, but it's definitely not normal. No matter how many tens of hours I sit in front of my computer screen, my eyes don't lose the ability to accommodate.
Thank you so much!! I was quite confused when reading Endmyopia blog, I don't think the info on which steps to take is very clear... except to go and buy a course which I'd love to if only I could afford it.
Every battle begins ....
With friends working...
Together!!
Hi! I’m 11, in my right eye, I’m -5 and in my left, I’m 4.75. I find it very hard to find motivation to do this but I’m gonna start today! I usually wear glasses -0.50 than my normal glasses (including to school) because I find that I can still see pretty good. I always hate going to the optometrist because I feel like I’ve lost hope and I’m gonna be “blind” I guess in the future. I first got glasses when I was 6. My dad also wears glasses but his are -2.25 and -2.50 and his is moving a lot slower than mine. But I’ve heard it’s because mine are still growing and aren’t fully developed. Thank you so much for this.
Any improvement?
is it better?
@@Acorniscute Of course not lol
He should wear hard contacts if he really wants to slow down the progression, and then get LASIK when he’s old enough
You’re not ‘getting rid’ of a minus five Rx, ever, unless you do that
@@ifbfmto9338 WTF LASIK IS HORRIBLE NEVER GET LASIK. IT’S LITERALLY A LASER THAT MUTILATES YOUR CORNEA INTO A PERMANENT MINUS LENS STUCK IN YOUR EYE, IT NEVER HEALS, YOU GET WAY MORE DRY EYE AND OTHER MUCH WORSE SIDE EFFECTS, YOUR EYES ARE WAY TOO LONG, AND IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO DO ENDMYOPIA
Also, Jake Steiner went from -5.00 to 20/20, and there are people who went from -10 to -5 or whatever, so anything is possible.
hi, did you see any improvement
Such an informational, concise video; thank you! 🙏
Saw this on Reddit! Will try it !
I appreciate your work 🎉
Hey, thank you so much for this guide, it was super clear! I know the rule for buying normalized is 0.25 diopters below your "actual" prescription, but how do really know your actual prescription? I went to the optometrist a week ago and the diopters she gave me were a different eye ratio than the centimeter measurements I have been doing. And even the centimeters, as you know, vary so much throughout the day and throughout the week. It seems like the only real solution to finding the right pair of normalized is opening your wallet and doing trial and error with different prescriptions until one pair feels right.
Sometimes that is the only real solution, it took me trial and error before I found the 'groove' of how I should be doing reductions. It's a problem you solve early, and then long term you don't have to think about it too much.
@@NottNott I have less than 1 dioptre in SPH but more than 2.50 dioptre in CYL(in both eyes)...Will I use full strength glasses for distance and no glass for close up???
A better idea would be ordering trial lens from lens kit, like optometrists do, together with a trial empty frame from aliexpress. This will cost around 30€ and you can check both differentials and normalised.
Thank you this is a great video! I signed up for Back to 2020, and am exploring other content to help me understand the process. This is extremely helpful!
Around 3rd grade my eyesight started to drop, but I kept it a secret from my family and didn't go see an optometrist. later in 5th grade they found out and I got a prescription of -3.5. why did my eyesight drop so drastically if I never used glasses and only relied on my eyes? I've been wearing glasses since, I'm now in 11th grade and my prescription is -5.25
Could be optometrist overprescription, or a lot of ciliary spaam. Maybe a real medical reason.
Did you try it?? And what is your prescription now?? Have u made any progress in improving eyesight???
My prescription is -3.0.😭🥺
Exactly the same my eyes also started to drop when I was in grade 3 and they found out when I was in grade 5
Same story as mine! 😅
Probably a lot of close up activities growing up. You may also have a genetic predisposition for close-up induced myopia.
Myopia is not a genetic illness, but some people's genes make it so they develop myopia faster if they do close-up stuff.
If person A and person B both performed the same amount of close-up work, person A might develop myopia faster from genetic factors, while person B might not develop myopia as fast because of genetic factors. However, if neither of them did any close-up work, neither would develop any myopia.
You might have a genetic predisposition like person A. Also, you might have engaged in more close-up activities than the average child growing up.
EndMyopia will still work for you.
A very well explained video👍 ... As good as Jake's 'start here - improve your eyesight' one (my favourite). Wish you a fun filled journey back to 20/20 🙏
My dream is to get rid of my high myopia
Good.
Have you floaters problem
Thank you. I am lucky I found your video soon enough before I started my journey. Very helpfull. You are a star!
My eyesight power is -1.00R and -0.50L , I literally feel like crying cuz I hate wearing glasses and I look so bad with my glasses on I am doing eye exercises and ngl it does relax my eyes I want to get rid of glasses as soon as possible ahhh
Check your Snellen for 20/60.
@@otiebrown9999 why 20/60? I also have a very low myopia, the optometrists wanted to give me -1.50 glasses but my prescription is definitely not so high, I would say -0.50. Do you have a good website where to check my eyesight?
@@Micha-bp5om OK
20/20 is 0.9 cm at 6 meters.
20/40 is 1.8 cm at 6 meters
@@otiebrown9999 I tested my eyesight at 3m using a 3m chart and I could see 20/40 and 20/30 with both eyes. 🤔 but during conferences presentations I cannot see everything, only with my -1 glasses. I will try to order -0.5 glasses to see if they are enough for these very far away presentations. I don't wear glasses otherwise and sometimes +0.50 for reading
@@Micha-bp5omhow are you now
Why does Nott look like a biblical character, this is a compliment.
Anyways good video and very clear and precise explanations
I have been not using my glasses while doing near work and within a month I am down -0.25 from -2.75 now -2.50. Although I have astigmatism.
Now it's -2.00 after 3 months. Down -0.75 Although astigmatism still there.
@@Jewelsonn how is it automatically or are u doing active focus plzzzz reply .....
How someone can fit all subject in one video. Thank you so much brother. May god give u all success
Great video, but I'm not sure I got things right. To correct high myopia, I should
- stop bad habits like smartphone staring with fully corrected glasses and move media consumption to big screens more far away
- wear "differentials" for closeup work like reading or computer work which are glasses under corrected by 1-2 diopters
- wear "normalized" for every other aspect of daily life as well as life outside which are glasses under corrected only by 0.25-0.5 diopters
- try to actively focus on distant objects while using normalized glasses
- go outside with normalized glasses for 2-3h per day
Is that correct? Did I miss anything important?
That's literally it, great summary and no important points missed. Looks like you have a good understanding :)
What did that mean when he said that , " It is advised not to wear normalised glasses within first week " at 14:00 .
Question !! we have to reduce 1 0r 2 diopters from our differentials from both the eyes ?
Please can you explain what is mean by differential glasses and normalized glass....
Hi NottNott,
I deeply appreciate your sincerest scientific mind.
Have you ever thought about inviting an Optometrist or ophthalmologist into a general scientific discussion on these issues with you?
With emphasis on early prevention or recovery from mild myopia?
I was going nuts with the difficulty of finding this information. Thank you. Now, what do I do when Im starting and I probably have a lot of ciliary spasm? Be without glasses for 3-4 weeks and then go to optometry to measure the diopters?
Stop wearing glasses for close up or get normalised. It will go away. Good luck!
@@NottNott I have -1.75 in one eye and 3.50 in other... How to start please guide
Lots of love, brother
That is Nott!!
Great video. Just a question. Do you get rid of cylinder on normalised if it’s -1 or below if you’re a newbie. Thanks
Yes
@@NottNott thanks. Also wanted to ask. Do you use differentials most of the day when you’re a newbie as you only have differentials and not normalised?
thank you!!! couldn't bear the other guys CONTINUOUS WAFFLE on and on and on!!!!
Love your videos man. Question though: my very first glasses prescription was -3.50. I wasn't wearing glasses until I went to the optometrist and got my vision measured. Does that just mean I had a wicked ciliary spasm or did my eye elongate somehow without wearing glasses?
Press X to doubt. Optometrists can sometimes overprescribe like crazy. Solution: measure distance to blur and calculate your own myopia to see if it matches what the optometrist is saying. I'd be somewhat surprised, tbh. Check out Varakari's Vision Log Tool for this, see it on the EM wiki.
Dang you think they could over prescribe by like 2+ diopters? Wouldn't I have had some really weird vision if it was over prescribed that much? Yeah I've been measuring myself lately with a snellen. I will check out that tool though thank you.
I was 8 years old at the time when I was given the -3.5. Now unfortunately after following optometrists orders for 15 years I'm at -10...Admittedly I'm hoping I just started with a very bad ciliary spasm so I could get a chunk of that vision back a little faster. Though I have no idea if a ciliary spasm could account for -3.5 diopters. Is that possible you think then or no?
@@BeeVee-zz9ip Apparently ciliary spasm has accounted for crazy amounts of myopia, according to Jake. I'm not entirely sure, our sample size is so stupidly low on everything. BUT, you will feel awesome if your vision improves dramatically quickly if you get started with EM stuff :)
@@NottNott Well I'm certainly down to find out haha
@@BeeVee-zz9ip Let me know how that goes on! Join the EM Discord server too discord.gg/23V99T9
Good to see your success!
Hi, I have -1.25 on both eyes. Should I get -1 glasses to practice active focus or should I just go no glasses? I never wear glasses unless I have to (driving at night), but there are some activities where I would like to see clearer (eg going outside, meeting people and going into virtual reality).
Thanks for the great video!
Sounds good
@@NottNott so should I get -1 normalized or just go no glasses?
@@edlye7694 You have to answer that yourself, do some reading etc
I think you’ll have to experiment a bit to see what works for you. You might actually want to try some mild plus prescription glasses for close up reading. (I’m just thinking ahead for myself if I get down to about your prescription). If it were as simple as just not wearing glasses I (and you too probably) never would have gotten near sighted in the first place after all.
An amazing summary, well-done man!
So wait do I just have a ciliary spasm cause I had never had glasses but I got -4.25 (optometrist says 4.5) hmmm
?
Nott,
An excellent review.
I recommend watching this video, from my SITE.
Thank you!
its funny how they test vision in the dark instead of using light.
Yeah, same happened with me. When I went for a visual acuity test to my optometrist. He tested my eyesight in a dark room. And he gave me glasses of -5.5 in both eyes. But I still doubt because I can even see 20/15 line clearly from those glasses in Normal day light.
Jake said, they do this to give us maximum correction. Mostly they give Overscribed glasses.
Great summary, thanks for your effort!
My myopia is at -1.5 since 14 and I’ve only been using my glasses in classes when I need them for the past 10 years, but my eyesight is still -1.5 now. You said I don’t need differential glasses if my myopia is mild, so just active focus and long distance would be enough ‘exercises’ for me to regain 20/20 vision? Thanks a lot.
Sounds like a plan to me. Sure
Did it work?
I read the Bates method book in the 1960's. I have done the exercises on and off ever since. I do the exercises faithfully for a while and then slack off because of lack of improvement. I always read and do very close work without glasses. For mid range, like looking at a magazine, my vision is blurry with or without glasses 🕶️. I have a very strong prescription with astigmatism. I have noticed over the last 20 or 30 years that when i get new glasses, the prescription seems wrong. A lack of clarity and sometimes distortions. I think the clarity issue is due to plastic lenses, as opposed to glass. An eye doctor told me the distortions were do to the correction for my astigmatism and I just wasn't used to the right way of seeing. I haven't been to an optometrist in about 10+ years still wearing my 10+ year old pair.
Hey man, congrats on all your gains! Quick question, I've had horrendous double vision for 6 months to the point where the ground is rising upwards with and without glasses. It is not due to CYL and it only began after starting endmyopia. I'm 99.9 percent sure it's due to a reduction in axial length and as a result my visual cortex doesn't know what's what. Other than staring at contrasty text/distant objects and recognising the ghost image and going up in correction, what would you recommend? I went from a -1.75 normalised to -2 to fix the issue but it hasn't helped all that much.
TBH, I've had horrendous double vision since starting EM too. I just suck it up and try to ignore it really. Not quite sure what to do in this case, all I know is a long time from now I'll be 20/20 and the DV will stop :)
@@NottNott It didn't work for me but you should try and increase correction by a quarter diopter just for a week and see what happens. Also, do you know how to stagger normalised and differential corrections? Jake says not to do both at the same time
@@carminefalcone3069 You can do that, give it a try. I feel like it'd always come back, IDK, never bothered me enough. Also, eyesight improvement is different for everyone. Like I said, I'm just moving my head further back instead of reducing differentials currently. I will probably end up just reducing differentials when I feel like it and not overthinking it with a staggered reduction, personally. Differentials are no big deal IMO, getting the normalized reduction right is what's actually important.
@@NottNott Thanks for the reply. I was a bit confused about cylinder. How do you go about reducing that? If you have -2 with no cylinder, you'll need to get 8 pairs of glasses but with cylinder would you need 16 pairs, i.e. -2 with 0.5 CYL and -2 with no CYL for example?
@@carminefalcone3069 Reduce CYL alongside SPH, a bit of CYL one reduction, a bit of SPH next. It's not my speciality as I lucked out with below -1 CYL in both of my eyes when starting and basically don't have astigmatism, read more :D
I have no words for this great video.
God may give you all what you want.
You're the freaking man! I'm super pumped to start this journey. I'm currently at -6.00 and if I could reduce it to just -3 or -4, I would be happy.
A fellow -6 guy 🥲
@@abdoo3301 hey I've similar prescription to yours, so did you try any method or felt any slight improvement?
@@harleennnnn hey, I have started eye exercises etc and things like in the first part of this month, I will follow all the tips and diet instructions, and get my eyes checked in the end of October, and then next check up would be in January next year. Hopefully I might drop half a dioptre 🥲 what about you
@@abdoo3301 i recently started so I will update if I see any difference and I know how bad -6 cause you basically can't see shit😂😂even if someone is sitting right infront of you so did you felt any difference, like now can you somewhat see a little better without glasses?
@@harleennnnn LOL, you know the pain too. No, I haven't done enough yet to see a noticeable difference, but if I follow the 20-20-20 rule, and eat well, do my exercises (which help my eyes relax, not gonna lie) I do feel better that day. For now the tip I'm following closely is to use my old glasses to do close up work, like using my laptop and reading a book. Did you try this? I felt better if I do this, as my eyes are not super tensed this way.
Thank you so much !! Trying to get back into EndMyopia
Sir I have -3 power and I have no progression since 2years ,can I use reduced lens method
👍
What an excellent video! Well done!
Myopia is created by a kid with his nose on the page, and a minus lens used to fix it.
OK?
So many video I watched... this one really best one. 👍👍
Great video! You mentioned sometimes genetics can play a role though rare, will this method still help? I've been staying indoors a lot over the past couple of years due to depression, and have noticed a gradual deterioration in my eyesight, all types of weird things have been happening with them, but until recently I had an opticians appointment and found out I have an astigmatism, he said that they are genetic.
EM is counter to the mainstream, your optometrists opinions are in the rubbish bin as far as it's concerned. First they tell you it's genetic, then you improve your eyesight and have a test on their terms, and that test tells you that your eyes have improved. Going outside will help a lot. Good luck!
@@NottNott Thank you very much for the reply. I will give it a go.
@@NottNott So it means we can follow EM steps for genetic high myopia? I have been following EM videos and blogs for a long time. Just wanted to make sure before starting!
Unless he gave you a genetics test, his claim is total bs.
Thank you for the information
I just discovered this video a few days ago and I must have rewatched this video about 10 times already. It is a great comprehensive summary of Jake's approach to vision improvement.
I think I am going to do more reading on the endmyopia website and finish reading the daily e-mails. I think I will order some normalized and differential glasses in the next week or so. Luckily, I only have mild myopia --1.75 (L) and -2.00 (R) .... but I have -1.00 Astigmatism in the left eye.
I am eventually going to buy normalized for daily life, going outside and differentials for PC work only and perhaps add blue light filters. Also, no glasses for using my phone and reading books Then,, I will start to reduce the lens correction incrementally over the months/years. I am going to measure my blur horizon from how I normally sit in front of my PC, so I can accurately dial in those differential lenses and measure my progress.
Great content, brother.
Glad to hear it! Good luck, the journey's worth it :)
Thank you!
I just calculated my blur horizon to 60cm, which, using the calculator is -1.75 diopters, which is about the same as my lens correction.
My eyes usually sit around 70cms from my PC screen. Honestly, while there is a little blur, I could probably get by with either no glasses at all or just a very small correction (-0.25 sph or just a lens with my astigmatism correction only) and blue light filters for my differentials.
Going to go outside with my normalized and work on blinking into focus and exercising my active focus muscle!
Hopefully, my cilliary muscles can finally start to relax! This is great stuff!
@@shanecleI have a question, should I wear differential glasses after 90 days or should I stop wearing differential glasses and get a pair of normalized glasses?
@@mxnna4895 hello,
It’s really hard to say. I am not an expert in this field. I tried to use the method of wearing weaker glasses, but other life obligations have come up and I haven’t given it all much thought.
I had my eyes checked the other month and my eyesight hasn’t changed much at all. TBH, I don’t mind wearing glasses.
It is normal to quit, when you judge that you can not make it. Or you realize that you have been lied to.
Prevention is possibly at 20/50, but not much beyond that point.
It is an intelligent choice, that I was never offered.
Thank you 💐
Great video! I didn't like all the ad's but this was useful information . Thank you 😊
the colors of your eyes are fascinating bro
Nott,
A great effort.
I only wish I started at 20/60.
Then it would have been wonderful.
Very well explained. Thank you so much.
Wow, that was one of the best videos surrounding myopia i've ever seen. just gonna watch the video and ask questions as I go. feel free to answer any that you know something about, would appreciate some clarification/assistance.
1. will this improve astigmatism as well?
2. When I went to the eye doctor after a 3 year gap they told me that my prescription was much worse than before, yet I can still see 20/20 clearly with my glasses I got in 2019. does this mean I was overprescribed?
3. how much does dry eye and eye strain affect your vision? Before I started getting these regularly, I did not remember my vision being this bad until these became issues for me
4. Do eye drops help at all? I've noticed my vision is better when I use these regularly, And have even had "clear flashes" shortly after using them.
Once again thanks for the information, very well put together video.
I was o looking forward for a guide like this! Thank you so much 😉😊
Este vídeo es genial, durante años navegué en bits de información que me resultaban muy confusos pero aquí están todos resumidos
Hey man, good job on this!
Your podcast with Jake was awesome sir!!
Amazing video. There is something I want to confirm. If baby was born farsighted, why doesn't it see the object clearly from far to close when the eyeball axis elongated?
Mistaken assumption.
Hi Knott,
All beginnings are difficult.
I personally think that a cylinder measurements is totally NOT NECESSARY.
I convert to SPHERICAL, and check them with my home Snellen.
Will almost always measure 20/20 by doing that change. It makes recovery much easier.
Excellent explanation!!! Love it!!