Welcome back! I know too well the anxiety of the optometrist, it is nice to have that "objective" data point though so worth it, plus it is seriously cool to make sense of the smoke and mirrors there. And the end with the dance made my day, thank you for that!
I like your approach with your optometrist. They may not believe that natural reduced lens therapy eyesight improvement is something that can actually work in most cases. However, if that is the true, they may see that in your case it works. I look forward to finding one that might even be supportive of natural eyesight improvement. As a side note, I have a friend who's -1.75 and his optometrist said he's -1.50 now. I think he's been listening to me! Since he's so low, he basically just wears contacts/glasses when he absolutely needs them. That's so nice to not need them for close up. I'm so jealous. I think people who are low enough like my friend could improve their eyesight almost by accident because there's less involved.
Heck yes, girl!! Sorry it's been a while since I've commented. This made me really happy to watch! Your progress and knowledge is inspiring, and I definitely shouted out loud and laughed when you described the "recommendations" from the optometrist. ;) It's amazing how much I feel I've learned as well, just from one year with Endmyopia. I am so grateful to you and other students who help me on my journey. I can't wait until I can do the same-go into an optometrist to check my progress. I love your videos, and I'll keep watching. I'll also check out your sister's music video! So cool.
So good to hear from you, Natalie. ❤️ Even if nothing else, I love not having to leave caring for my own body to "experts", I love feeling like I can be proactive in my own health. Looking forward to the day you get the exciting opto news of confirmed improvement too. :D
@@GemilyMez Thank you. Yes, yes yes. I completely agree! It's a powerful feeling, yeah? Thank you! :D I am too. One of these days, it would be fun to meet in person with our newly gained 20/20 vision and to share our journeys. If I ever find myself on the other side of the world, I'll let you know!
Hi Gemily, just now seeing this one. I've had much of the same thought processes as you described. What an optometrist would find. How much about my EM vision habits would I let on? Was my starting point actually 1/4 D worse than prior full-correction? Forward progress vs. equalizing. Should I go "backwards" and bump a lens up a quarter. Sphere vs. cylinder. Losing ground by equalizing. Totally get it. Just 3 weeks ago I came off a 4-month plateau because I tried reducing cylinder too fast). Bumped the cylinder up a quarter, reduced sphere, and that suddenly kicked my visual system into gear--it's been amazing. So given all of the above trials and challenges, I think it is fantastic that you have optometrist confirmed 0.5 D improvement (which, in reality is probably 3/4)! And he sounds like a good find! April? I obviously need to catch up on EM vids and podcasts. Nice as always to see your face :)
Hello sister I am a 16 year old boy plsss I need your help in 2021 July I started endmyopia active focusing to bring my eyesight to 20/20...I did rigorously for 10 days but then I started seeing 2 moons and difficulty while driving at night ...when I blink at night all the lights from the headlights are being projected into my eyes ...I have left endmyopia since then because it's impacting my studies...pls sister I trusted you because you were kind and upto the topic ...but now I realise that if I would have listened to opticians I would have not faced such difficulties...pls my condition is very bad I am taking rest and not applying pressure to my eyes and wearing 4.5 minus glasses on my eyes ...MY QUESTION IS ... WILL MY DOUBLE VISION AND DIFFICULTY WHILE DRIVING GET CURED....PLSS ANSWER ANSWER ANSWER MY LIFE IS GETTING RUIN....😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢
mam I am seeing slight two moons after wearing spectacles...but I have difficulty while driving at night...pls I have consulted top eye doctor but everything is okay according to them...I just want to know will my eye get better if I rest my eyes...I have not practiced active focus since 3 months ....but I feel slight pain in my eye ...do you feel difficulty while driving at night as you are practicing active focus ...how long does it take to resolve...pls share your experience with me my life is ruining I am becoming abnormal....I am in 10th grade and very depressed
Hi Gem, thanks for sharing. It's always nerve wrecking to go the optometrist and they say that u need a stronger prescription. Can u comment on time of day you went and were yours eyes relaxed right before the visit? Thanks.
Hi Gem, It is always better to say, "Snellen verified"! If I tell you I read 20/20, do you believe me? If not, why not? Reading 20/50 is far more impressive than any OD measurement.
Would you recommend wearing full strength contact lenses for sports due to performance requirements? Or is it better to go with normalized and eventually have them become stronger?
I'd say normalised would be best in that situation! Because you need your eyes to see well for sport so if you were slightly undercorrected you would be giving your eyes great stimulus and they would naturally be putting in effort to see clearly. Normalised glasses shouldn't be so undercorrected that it would effect your performance. You only want a slight undercorrection, just so things aren't crisp any more, not lots of blur.
I expect that at my next appointment the optometrist will say I need 0.75 more than what I wear. 0.75 stronger also seems to be what I need at night for perfect vision. Maybe that gap shrinks a little as eyesight gets better??? I don't know. Still waiting to go from 0.75 weaker to 1.25 weaker so I absolutely know that I successfully improved by a full 0.25 diopters. I'm learning to be patient to experience the entire process of reducing . I'm close to -1.00 as I have tried it twice already.
When I tried a new optometrist ready with the "dog ate my glasses" schtick it didn't work for me because they just looked up a database and got my previous prescription that way. Drat.
Whoa! A database? I hope it was a new optometrist at a chain you had been to or something. A globally accessible database for all optometrists to access is a terrifying thought - and not for this reason specifically. I'm surprised they even bothered looking up a data base since they have autorefractors now.
That's a Good update Gem. Just wondering in your case, the night driving glasses should have been pretty accurate as your latest results from the optometrist. It's encouraging though the full prescription are not too far off, since you drop 1/4 of a diopter if it's a hit and miss for 20/20 on some days, if I understand it..
Congratulations on your improved vision when before you started you were ready to get even stronger glasses. I know this video is old but from the videos I've seen your results might be as good as it gets. I'll keep watching to see if you continue to make gains. If by doing this I get a modest reduction in my mypopia but it doesn't continue getting worse like it used to then I think it's still worth doing. If anyone had offered me weaker glasses for up close work way back even though I wasn't old enough to "need" them I'd have taken them but nobody did. I'm at -3.00 in my left eye and -4.00 in my right eye. I'm hoping I'll be able to get my left eye vision down to where I can actually do some things without glasses but I don't know. It'll be close I think. I guess Jake's website (I've only glanced at it) claims most people should be able to get down to 20/20 but I haven't seen any UA-camrs backing this up so far.
" If by doing this I get a modest reduction in my myopia but it doesn't continue getting worse like it used to then I think it's still worth doing. " - I 100% agree! Even if I don't manage, simply stopping negative progress is amazing, and improving at all is like a miracle! Matt Ely got down to not needing glasses anymore and passing him DMV. Have you seen his videos? And another thing would be for me - there is no point at which I will be able to say I "failed" - I only fail if I stop taking care of my eyes, so, even if it takes a long time, all I have learnt from Jake is stuff that will stay with me forever. The difference in my vision from when I started to now may only be about a diopter, but I started because I felt the blur closing in, and could no longer function without glasses - I couldn't even find my glasses to put them on without wearing them - I had to ask my husband for help if they weren't where I expected them to be, and that terrified me. Now, I can function without them again - yeah, it's blurry, not 20/20, but the blur isn't that bad that I can't manage (Except for driving, of course). For me, that has made my eye sight so much less stressful. Thanks for your comment! And here's hoping one day I can tell you I have made it to 20/20.
@@GemilyMez I just checked out his videos today. He worked really hard at it and really achieved a lot. I’m giving it a try too but I’m not going to stop doing close up work so I don’t think I’ll get glasses free but I’m curious to see if I can get a diopter improvement maybe.
Hey! I have a question that i have myopia since 3 years bur i don't wear my prescriptions so my myopia increases by time and yesterday i go to the optometrist they check my eyes (i only able to read top word A with very blurred) they use - 2.25 or - 2.75 lens on me than i see 20/20... After that they say to my parents that i check my eyes on right time other wise my mind make an hobby to see blurred vision and i am not able to see 20/20 with any strongest prescriptions... I ask you if i wear my glasses for 2 months so my mind get an hobby to see 20/20 thanyi able to do endmyopia?
Sounds like your optometrist was concerned about you losing blur sensitivity. Strange though, as blur sensitivity is restored by wearing stronger glasses again. Lowered blur sensitivity should not be a permanent condition. If you brain can learn one way, it can learn another. But yes, lowered blur sensitivity is not what we want, which is why only a small amount of blur is desired for the EndMyopia method.
@@GemilyMez got it... I currently have - 2 and - 2.5 so if i wear my - 2 and - 2.5 prescription so my minds restores blur sensitivity... But i have a problem that because of COVID all the glasses shops are has been closed and i am not able is to buy my prescription.. Is am buy online?
I'm the retired optician that has been following your "vision improvement" process very closely. I'm really glad that you went for an eye exam and even happier about your result. You did the right thing by wearing your -1.75 / -1.75 glasses to your appointment. That was even better than if you had gone in without any glasses claiming they got lost in a river. What you did by wearing -1.75 glasses was to show him that your eyes were working rather well with that prescription. So he would be hesitant to go too strong with over correcting your eyes. One thing you need to not worry much about at all is your astigmatisms which is as you know only a -.25 CYL in each eye. just to show you how little it really is, if you were being fitted with contacts your doctor would totally ignore it, and your contacts would only be for SPH only. Now if your CYL was at -.50 then he would take half of that and add an extra -.25 to your SPH numbers. You said that you first got glasses at the age of 7 and it was only for your astigmatisms and your eyesight was otherwise perfect or nearly perfect until you were 22 and you got an office job that required lots of reading of small print which resulted in you becoming nearsighted and wearing glasses full time in less than 6 months time. When you were 22 and got your first glasses for myopia were you surprised at how fast your eyesight went from being quite good to not being able to see hardly anything clearly without glasses anymore? One of the things that you probably did that only made your eyesight increase even faster was that you probably were wearing your glasses when you were at work doing close work. Even though the close work was what ruined your eyesight for seeing distances you should have still been able to see small print fine without glasses. You really should have only been wearing your glasses for distances and not all the time. That's why the program you're doing has you wearing much weaker glasses when you're doing close work. Which basically ruined your eyesight as your prescription only continued to increase from year to year. Now your on the road back from full time dependency to being able to go without glasses more and more often now. Once you reach the point where you're wearing -1.25 glasses for both eyes and seeing well with that prescription you will be at the point where you only need glasses part time and mostly just for driving. Then the next step will be getting to -.75 and once you reach that point you should be at or very close to being able to drive without glasses anymore. Remember you only need to be able to see the 20/40 line of the eyechart to pass the driver's vision test. By the way I think you were having an issue with your left eye not wanting to adjust to the -1.75 prescription of your glasses. Your right eye was seeing the 20/20 line perfectly through the -1.75 lens in front of it. I assume that your left eye finally has accepted the -1.75 lens for that eye? So you should be about ready to order your next pair of glasses in a weaker prescription. Will those new glasses be in a -1.50 or -1.25 prescription? I'm thinking you should go straight to -1.25 and if that doesn't work you can always order a pair in -1.50. and safe the -1.25 for a few months down the road. When looking for your next glasses maybe just for fun look at theses sites. Zeelool, Voogueme, Payne Glasses and Zenni Optical. I'm not sure if it's Zeelool or Voogueme that has jewelry that matches the glasses that comes along with the glasses. They even have some that the earrings attach to the earpieces of the glasses instead of your ears. The prices are all very in expensive as well in many cases under $5.00 for a complete pair of glasses in whatever prescription you want.
Hi Jim Boice, Glad you are helping these people get back to 20/20, from mild myopia. I met an OD like you, who, "wised up", and forced his three children to wear a +2 Diopter for all close work , during the school years. RESULT: They all got back to 20/20, and kept their distant vision clear - for life. That is what I am doing now. Confirming 20/20, using my Test Lenses, and Snellen. Yes, confirming 20/20 is great, when you do it yourself.
@@YOYO-zy6yj First of all I'm not an optometrist, I'm an optician. There' about 4 years of schooling difference. The common believe is that once you become myopic it's impossible for it to ever be reversed. Myopia is the result of lengthening of the eyeballs and once they are lengthened they can't return to their original length. But as you may know when a woman becomes pregnant there is about a 50% chance that her eyesight will be effected as a result of her eyes being lengthened resulting in myopia. In most cases the myopia is permanent, but in some cases this lengthening has reversed itself and gone away shortly after she had given birth. I have n o reason not to believe people like "Gemily Mez" that has been working at it and seen actual results. One would think if it wasn't working for her and she didn't have any noticeable change in her eyesight she would would have simply given up long ago and continued wearing her glasses full time. For her and others the only way to prove to the world that myopia can be reversed is by getting their eyes examined by an optometrist early on and then getting them checked after a year of practicing "Endmyopia" to see what the results are. Getting copies of their prescriptions each time. Just by wearing weaker glasses isn't the actual proof they need to have to show it really does work or doesn't work. In Gemily Mez's video she has done exactly that and in my opinion seeing is believing and she has her prescription slip to prove her eyesight has improved since her earlier eye exam. That makes it very hard to dispute what she has managed to do.
@@soundmanpt hey, thank you for clearing my doubts. also, i guess when a woman becomes pregnant her eyesight just becomes blur (due to hormonal changes, according to the internet) and returns back to normal when the child is born, maybe the eyes never really grow in axial length? and if it is possible to reverse myopia, the ophthalmologists and the scientists would clearly mention it? as much as i want to believe endmyopia is legit (and it must be as so many ppl have got great results), i still have a lot of skepticism regarding it. hope you will answer:)
@@YOYO-zy6yj What's interesting, is why will some regain their normal eyesight shortly after giving birth and others remain myopic? I've commented to a number of young ladies that have posted videos about getting glasses for the first time and a number of them had recently had a baby. In their replies to me they said that their optometrist told that was the likely reason they were now wearing glasses. Some indicated that they had additional changes in their eyesight with each pregnancy. What I'm not sure I have any answer for is why wearing weaker glasses then you actually were prescribed can cause shrinkage in the lengthening process that caused the myopia in the first place. I do suggest that anyone interested in trying the "endmyopia program" to be very careful in how they go about doing it. Before starting the first thing they need to do is go for an eye exam and be sure to get a printed copy of your prescription slip. This is a must have to prove to anyone that endmyopia works or doesn't work. Next go on line and order a full size Snellen eyechart which is under $10.00. The next thing they need to do is find a good inexpensive on-line glasses site to order their glasses from. I think places like Zenni Optical and Payne glasses are good sites to use. Now the next thing is deciding on how much to reduce your glasses by. You never want to be too aggressive with this which too often people tend to want to rush things by reducing way too much. I would recommend only reducing your SPH by -.50 in both eyes. The main thing is that you need to be able to see to drive safely and only reducing by -.50 you should still be safe to drive wearing the weaker glasses. Remember you're eyesight only needs to be at 20/40 in order to pass the DMV testing. Post the eyechart in a good well lit area and stand 20 feet away to test your eyes. Test at around the same time of day about once a week wearing your weaker glasses to see if there has been any improvement in your eyesight. Your goal of course is to be able to read the 20/20 line wearing the weaker glasses. Over the course of a year continue reducing your glasses once you have met your goal. After the year is up, go for an eye exam hopefully with the same doctor as you saw the year before. I would suggest that you wear the most recent pair that you were seeing 20/20 with for your appointment. You can tell the doctor that you broke your own glasses and you borrowed a pair of your friends glasses. Once again be sure to get a copy of your prescription. Juts like "Gemily Mez" did. That's the only way you can prove or disprove it works.
8:00 Hi Gemily, I always wanted to find, "the Good OD", who caused his own -3.5 DIopters, from 10 years of doing close work, and did not want to, "talk about it". He discovered the necessity early prevention, for his own children, and was successful. When he attempted to help, "All the other children", he found out that, "the parents will not, 'stand for it". So all the other children became myopic, at -0.5 Diopters per year, while his own children, "never entered into myopia". The moral of the story? We object violently to the OD, who might wish to help us recover from 20/50 on our Snellens. The wise ODs know it is better to not talk to you about this issue, of legal control of your distant vision - for life.
I wish I could tell you. I am like you - my floaters are in my more myopic eye. And reducing our glasses correction can mean we notice them a bit more than before. If I find a way to get rid of them, I'll let you know, but at least they 1. aren't usually any serious medical issue, 2. Aren't dangerous, 3. Don't cause pain, and 4. Can change over time. They can be pretty annoying, but when mine are annoying me, I try to consciously focus on the world around me, looking right through my floaters rather than at them. That helps me.
@@GemilyMez Gem I am also on Journey back to 20/20 following Jake Steiner. Its been 3 months and I can see the improvement and I regularly watch your videos and follow your updates.
I think that you are doing great going to see the optometrist but also trusting yourself on what correction you need to wear now. I never got proof of my last optometrist-measurment (about one year and a half ago) because I felt too anxious about asking them to provide a written prescription. In my country they usually tell you how many diopters you're at, but they don't give you a proper prescription so that you don't buy glasses elsewhere... Anyway, I was told that I was 2.50 and got very discouraged for a while, 'cos I felt that I was already below 2.00. It felt like an awful veredict. I will come back in some months but I don't want to get discouraged again, because I know that my eyes are seeing better, and that's the whole point :)
I totally hear you. The discouragement that can result, the demotivation, in many ways is not worth it. Remember that dim light makes a huge difference.
I think that's why when the doctor checks your vision, he checks one eye at a time. when you wear your undercorrected glasses, your dominant eye compensates for the lazy eye and binocular vision is always better than monocular
binocular vision induces accommodation because of the horizontal angle of the eyes. Put something close to the eyes and use both eyes to bring it in focus, close one eye and notice the strain, now release it, vision blurs. The muscles causing the strain (nose sided extra-ocular) are more tensed and inflexible than the ear sided extra-ocular muscles. I have made it an exercise to release this strain as much as possible in different ways.
The optcian I go to do not test in a dark room. I am -13.50r and -13.25l. Have been for 3 years. I have no sph, no cyl. My eyes are healthy. I guess in some ways I am lucky. I believe some of the habits I learned from endmyopia have helped.
Yeah, it can. But double vision is usually an improvement on blur, so if you have blur and do AF and get a rather clear but double image, that is indeed an improvement. Active focus is just an improvement in vision - it does not always have to become crisp and sharp to count as active focus.
@@GemilyMez mam I am seeing slight two moons after wearing spectacles...but I have difficulty while driving at night...pls I have consulted top eye doctor but everything is okay according to them...I just want to know will my eye get better if I rest my eyes...I have not practiced active focus since 3 months ....but I feel slight pain in my eye ...do you feel difficulty while driving at night as you are practicing active focus ...how long does it take to resolve...pls share your experience with me my life is ruining I am becoming abnormal....I am in 10th grade and very depressed....when you started endmyopia do you have double vision ...plssss answer did you have difficulty while driving at night
It might. I obviously have no experience with it, but if your hyperopia is just a refractive state, not caused by any medical condition, then it is certainly worth a try, but you would need to reverse certain aspects of the process - instead of a weaker correction for close up, you would want your weaker correction for distance - so your distance correction would work like your 'differenrials' and your close up like your 'nornalised'. Another person recording her progress in reversing hyperopia is BlackSquareable ( ua-cam.com/users/Blacksquareable ). I haven't watched a lot of her videos, but her experience may be helpful to you.
@@GemilyMez - Hi Gemily, Truly an interesting question. You should know that all normal eyes have "positive STATES", and are never, "medically defective". For me to read 20/20, on my Snellen, I must measure my refractive STATE at +0.5 Diopters. It is this gross misconceptions of the eye's normal behavior, to call something that I must have for 20/20, a "medical defect or problem". This distortion of science, completely destroys an intelligent discussion, about recovery from mild nearsightedness. Your goal, is to get your normal eyes to change from a "negative state", 20/50, or -1 Diopter, to a positive state, or to +0.25 Diopters, and 20/20. The word "hyperopia", should not be used here. Or, perhaps for refractive STATES, that are more positive than +3 Diopters. I hope this is, "food for thought".
Read it. From about -3 D, to about -1.75 D. Final proof, is of course, objectively passing the DMV check on your Home Snellen. No one can argue with that success.
I showed you these optometrist results. I know what glasses correction I was wearing when I started. What proof could I possibly give you that would convince anyone who didn't believe me? I can show you optometrist papers, but if people don't want to believe me, they could say I made them myself. There really is no way for me to PROVE to you I have improved, especially not over the internet. You have to decide whether you find me trustworthy or not. I showed you my latest opto correction. I don't know what more I can do. You can stick around and see if I get a lower correction from the opto later, if that would be proof enough. But again, they are just pieces of paper, and I can't prove to you I didn't make them up myself. So *shrug*. I guess, no, unless you are my optometrist, I can't prove anything. But I am also here to improve my vision, and I am documenting that process. It's okay with me if not everyone who finds my videos is convinced - makes no difference to me.
@@GemilyMez Hi Gemily, The Optometrist who convinced me he was both right and successful, was Raphaelson. He was never allowed to even publish his own success. That is the person who convinces me. If fact, Jake insisting his kid keep his head up - can prevent his child from entering into myopia. I. E., never ever start wearing a minus lens!!
Thanks for the feedback. I find sometimes it is helpful when channels I watch ask for people to like - it costs me nothing and otherwise I may not think of it. But I was experimenting with how asking at various points along the video affected my analytics, so I did put more than normal in this "episode". Because it really does make a difference to content creators. You don't have to pay for their work, so this is one way you can show appreciation - but you won't do it at all if you don't think of it, or if you don't know it means a lot to creators. But your feelings are noted.
Welcome back! I know too well the anxiety of the optometrist, it is nice to have that "objective" data point though so worth it, plus it is seriously cool to make sense of the smoke and mirrors there. And the end with the dance made my day, thank you for that!
Gemily,
A truly great and truthful video. I thank both you and the optometrist for it!
Courageous Gem, It didn't surprise me that optician gave 2.5 on an eye you measured 2.0. The amount of light (Lux) makes a world of difference!
This isn’t an easy progress! Thank you for updating your journey and the motivation to help others by sharing all the hardwork that has gone in!!
Congrats on the decision to go to an optometrist and on the improvements! I'm sure he will be very surprised the next time :)
Thank you! I do hope so! ^_^
Glad to hear about a somewhat fun opto visit. Always enjoy your updates Gem.
That ending was hilarious. Thank you.
Great video update. Always scarry to go to the optometrist 😎.
I like your approach with your optometrist. They may not believe that natural reduced lens therapy eyesight improvement is something that can actually work in most cases. However, if that is the true, they may see that in your case it works. I look forward to finding one that might even be supportive of natural eyesight improvement. As a side note, I have a friend who's -1.75 and his optometrist said he's -1.50 now. I think he's been listening to me! Since he's so low, he basically just wears contacts/glasses when he absolutely needs them. That's so nice to not need them for close up. I'm so jealous. I think people who are low enough like my friend could improve their eyesight almost by accident because there's less involved.
Heck yes, girl!! Sorry it's been a while since I've commented. This made me really happy to watch! Your progress and knowledge is inspiring, and I definitely shouted out loud and laughed when you described the "recommendations" from the optometrist. ;) It's amazing how much I feel I've learned as well, just from one year with Endmyopia. I am so grateful to you and other students who help me on my journey. I can't wait until I can do the same-go into an optometrist to check my progress. I love your videos, and I'll keep watching. I'll also check out your sister's music video! So cool.
So good to hear from you, Natalie. ❤️ Even if nothing else, I love not having to leave caring for my own body to "experts", I love feeling like I can be proactive in my own health. Looking forward to the day you get the exciting opto news of confirmed improvement too. :D
@@GemilyMez Thank you. Yes, yes yes. I completely agree! It's a powerful feeling, yeah? Thank you! :D I am too. One of these days, it would be fun to meet in person with our newly gained 20/20 vision and to share our journeys. If I ever find myself on the other side of the world, I'll let you know!
Very interesting as usual. Great update 👍
Hi Gemily, just now seeing this one. I've had much of the same thought processes as you described. What an optometrist would find. How much about my EM vision habits would I let on? Was my starting point actually 1/4 D worse than prior full-correction? Forward progress vs. equalizing. Should I go "backwards" and bump a lens up a quarter. Sphere vs. cylinder. Losing ground by equalizing. Totally get it. Just 3 weeks ago I came off a 4-month plateau because I tried reducing cylinder too fast). Bumped the cylinder up a quarter, reduced sphere, and that suddenly kicked my visual system into gear--it's been amazing. So given all of the above trials and challenges, I think it is fantastic that you have optometrist confirmed 0.5 D improvement (which, in reality is probably 3/4)! And he sounds like a good find! April? I obviously need to catch up on EM vids and podcasts. Nice as always to see your face :)
Hello sister I am a 16 year old boy plsss I need your help in 2021 July I started endmyopia active focusing to bring my eyesight to 20/20...I did rigorously for 10 days but then I started seeing 2 moons and difficulty while driving at night ...when I blink at night all the lights from the headlights are being projected into my eyes ...I have left endmyopia since then because it's impacting my studies...pls sister I trusted you because you were kind and upto the topic ...but now I realise that if I would have listened to opticians I would have not faced such difficulties...pls my condition is very bad I am taking rest and not applying pressure to my eyes and wearing 4.5 minus glasses on my eyes ...MY QUESTION IS ...
WILL MY DOUBLE VISION AND DIFFICULTY WHILE DRIVING GET CURED....PLSS ANSWER ANSWER ANSWER MY LIFE IS GETTING RUIN....😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢
mam I am seeing slight two moons after wearing spectacles...but I have difficulty while driving at night...pls I have consulted top eye doctor but everything is okay according to them...I just want to know will my eye get better if I rest my eyes...I have not practiced active focus since 3 months ....but I feel slight pain in my eye ...do you feel difficulty while driving at night as you are practicing active focus ...how long does it take to resolve...pls share your experience with me my life is ruining I am becoming abnormal....I am in 10th grade and very depressed
late response but if you stare at the double image for a while it should become clear at some point keep practicing merging images
Hi Gem, thanks for sharing. It's always nerve wrecking to go the optometrist and they say that u need a stronger prescription. Can u comment on time of day you went and were yours eyes relaxed right before the visit? Thanks.
Hi Gem,
It is always better to say, "Snellen verified"!
If I tell you I read 20/20, do you believe me?
If not, why not?
Reading 20/50 is far more impressive than any OD measurement.
I'm curious what a second optometrist would prescribe you. Will you go to another?
I hadn't even considered going to another immediately.... interesting idea....
Would you recommend wearing full strength contact lenses for sports due to performance requirements?
Or is it better to go with normalized and eventually have them become stronger?
I'd say normalised would be best in that situation! Because you need your eyes to see well for sport so if you were slightly undercorrected you would be giving your eyes great stimulus and they would naturally be putting in effort to see clearly. Normalised glasses shouldn't be so undercorrected that it would effect your performance. You only want a slight undercorrection, just so things aren't crisp any more, not lots of blur.
I expect that at my next appointment the optometrist will say I need 0.75 more than what I wear. 0.75 stronger also seems to be what I need at night for perfect vision. Maybe that gap shrinks a little as eyesight gets better??? I don't know. Still waiting to go from 0.75 weaker to 1.25 weaker so I absolutely know that I successfully improved by a full 0.25 diopters. I'm learning to be patient to experience the entire process of reducing . I'm close to -1.00 as I have tried it twice already.
When I tried a new optometrist ready with the "dog ate my glasses" schtick it didn't work for me because they just looked up a database and got my previous prescription that way. Drat.
Whoa! A database? I hope it was a new optometrist at a chain you had been to or something. A globally accessible database for all optometrists to access is a terrifying thought - and not for this reason specifically. I'm surprised they even bothered looking up a data base since they have autorefractors now.
That's a Good update Gem. Just wondering in your case, the night driving glasses should have been pretty accurate as your latest results from the optometrist. It's encouraging though the full prescription are not too far off, since you drop 1/4 of a diopter if it's a hit and miss for 20/20 on some days, if I understand it..
Hi Gemily.
Can you describe more about how to use normalized glasses in day to day life?
I started with Optometrist and Opthalmolgist checked eyes.
Congratulations on your improved vision when before you started you were ready to get even stronger glasses. I know this video is old but from the videos I've seen your results might be as good as it gets. I'll keep watching to see if you continue to make gains. If by doing this I get a modest reduction in my mypopia but it doesn't continue getting worse like it used to then I think it's still worth doing. If anyone had offered me weaker glasses for up close work way back even though I wasn't old enough to "need" them I'd have taken them but nobody did. I'm at -3.00 in my left eye and -4.00 in my right eye. I'm hoping I'll be able to get my left eye vision down to where I can actually do some things without glasses but I don't know. It'll be close I think. I guess Jake's website (I've only glanced at it) claims most people should be able to get down to 20/20 but I haven't seen any UA-camrs backing this up so far.
" If by doing this I get a modest reduction in my myopia but it doesn't continue getting worse like it used to then I think it's still worth doing. " - I 100% agree! Even if I don't manage, simply stopping negative progress is amazing, and improving at all is like a miracle! Matt Ely got down to not needing glasses anymore and passing him DMV. Have you seen his videos? And another thing would be for me - there is no point at which I will be able to say I "failed" - I only fail if I stop taking care of my eyes, so, even if it takes a long time, all I have learnt from Jake is stuff that will stay with me forever. The difference in my vision from when I started to now may only be about a diopter, but I started because I felt the blur closing in, and could no longer function without glasses - I couldn't even find my glasses to put them on without wearing them - I had to ask my husband for help if they weren't where I expected them to be, and that terrified me. Now, I can function without them again - yeah, it's blurry, not 20/20, but the blur isn't that bad that I can't manage (Except for driving, of course). For me, that has made my eye sight so much less stressful. Thanks for your comment! And here's hoping one day I can tell you I have made it to 20/20.
@@GemilyMez I just checked out his videos today. He worked really hard at it and really achieved a lot. I’m giving it a try too but I’m not going to stop doing close up work so I don’t think I’ll get glasses free but I’m curious to see if I can get a diopter improvement maybe.
Hey! I have a question that i have myopia since 3 years bur i don't wear my prescriptions so my myopia increases by time and yesterday i go to the optometrist they check my eyes (i only able to read top word A with very blurred) they use - 2.25 or - 2.75 lens on me than i see 20/20... After that they say to my parents that i check my eyes on right time other wise my mind make an hobby to see blurred vision and i am not able to see 20/20 with any strongest prescriptions... I ask you if i wear my glasses for 2 months so my mind get an hobby to see 20/20 thanyi able to do endmyopia?
Sounds like your optometrist was concerned about you losing blur sensitivity. Strange though, as blur sensitivity is restored by wearing stronger glasses again. Lowered blur sensitivity should not be a permanent condition. If you brain can learn one way, it can learn another. But yes, lowered blur sensitivity is not what we want, which is why only a small amount of blur is desired for the EndMyopia method.
@@GemilyMez got it... I currently have - 2 and - 2.5 so if i wear my - 2 and - 2.5 prescription so my minds restores blur sensitivity... But i have a problem that because of COVID all the glasses shops are has been closed and i am not able is to buy my prescription.. Is am buy online?
I'm the retired optician that has been following your "vision improvement" process very closely. I'm really glad that you went for an eye exam and even happier about your result. You did the right thing by wearing your -1.75 / -1.75 glasses to your appointment. That was even better than if you had gone in without any glasses claiming they got lost in a river. What you did by wearing -1.75 glasses was to show him that your eyes were working rather well with that prescription. So he would be hesitant to go too strong with over correcting your eyes. One thing you need to not worry much about at all is your astigmatisms which is as you know only a -.25 CYL in each eye. just to show you how little it really is, if you were being fitted with contacts your doctor would totally ignore it, and your contacts would only be for SPH only. Now if your CYL was at -.50 then he would take half of that and add an extra -.25 to your SPH numbers. You said that you first got glasses at the age of 7 and it was only for your astigmatisms and your eyesight was otherwise perfect or nearly perfect until you were 22 and you got an office job that required lots of reading of small print which resulted in you becoming nearsighted and wearing glasses full time in less than 6 months time. When you were 22 and got your first glasses for myopia were you surprised at how fast your eyesight went from being quite good to not being able to see hardly anything clearly without glasses anymore? One of the things that you probably did that only made your eyesight increase even faster was that you probably were wearing your glasses when you were at work doing close work. Even though the close work was what ruined your eyesight for seeing distances you should have still been able to see small print fine without glasses. You really should have only been wearing your glasses for distances and not all the time. That's why the program you're doing has you wearing much weaker glasses when you're doing close work. Which basically ruined your eyesight as your prescription only continued to increase from year to year. Now your on the road back from full time dependency to being able to go without glasses more and more often now. Once you reach the point where you're wearing -1.25 glasses for both eyes and seeing well with that prescription you will be at the point where you only need glasses part time and mostly just for driving. Then the next step will be getting to -.75 and once you reach that point you should be at or very close to being able to drive without glasses anymore. Remember you only need to be able to see the 20/40 line of the eyechart to pass the driver's vision test. By the way I think you were having an issue with your left eye not wanting to adjust to the -1.75 prescription of your glasses. Your right eye was seeing the 20/20 line perfectly through the -1.75 lens in front of it. I assume that your left eye finally has accepted the -1.75 lens for that eye? So you should be about ready to order your next pair of glasses in a weaker prescription. Will those new glasses be in a -1.50 or -1.25 prescription? I'm thinking you should go straight to -1.25 and if that doesn't work you can always order a pair in -1.50. and safe the -1.25 for a few months down the road. When looking for your next glasses maybe just for fun look at theses sites. Zeelool, Voogueme, Payne Glasses and Zenni Optical. I'm not sure if it's Zeelool or Voogueme that has jewelry that matches the glasses that comes along with the glasses. They even have some that the earrings attach to the earpieces of the glasses instead of your ears. The prices are all very in expensive as well in many cases under $5.00 for a complete pair of glasses in whatever prescription you want.
Hi Jim Boice,
Glad you are helping these people get back to 20/20, from mild myopia.
I met an OD like you, who, "wised up", and forced his three children to wear a +2 Diopter for all close work , during the school years.
RESULT:
They all got back to 20/20, and kept their distant vision clear - for life.
That is what I am doing now.
Confirming 20/20, using my Test Lenses, and Snellen.
Yes, confirming 20/20 is great, when you do it yourself.
Hey jim, you being an optometrist, whats your opinion on endmyopia and active focus. is it possible to reverse myopia?
@@YOYO-zy6yj First of all I'm not an optometrist, I'm an optician. There' about 4 years of schooling difference. The common believe is that once you become myopic it's impossible for it to ever be reversed. Myopia is the result of lengthening of the eyeballs and once they are lengthened they can't return to their original length. But as you may know when a woman becomes pregnant there is about a 50% chance that her eyesight will be effected as a result of her eyes being lengthened resulting in myopia. In most cases the myopia is permanent, but in some cases this lengthening has reversed itself and gone away shortly after she had given birth. I have n o reason not to believe people like "Gemily Mez" that has been working at it and seen actual results. One would think if it wasn't working for her and she didn't have any noticeable change in her eyesight she would would have simply given up long ago and continued wearing her glasses full time. For her and others the only way to prove to the world that myopia can be reversed is by getting their eyes examined by an optometrist early on and then getting them checked after a year of practicing "Endmyopia" to see what the results are. Getting copies of their prescriptions each time. Just by wearing weaker glasses isn't the actual proof they need to have to show it really does work or doesn't work. In Gemily Mez's video she has done exactly that and in my opinion seeing is believing and she has her prescription slip to prove her eyesight has improved since her earlier eye exam. That makes it very hard to dispute what she has managed to do.
@@soundmanpt hey, thank you for clearing my doubts. also, i guess when a woman becomes pregnant her eyesight just becomes blur (due to hormonal changes, according to the internet) and returns back to normal when the child is born, maybe the eyes never really grow in axial length? and if it is possible to reverse myopia, the ophthalmologists and the scientists would clearly mention it?
as much as i want to believe endmyopia is legit (and it must be as so many ppl have got great results), i still have a lot of skepticism regarding it.
hope you will answer:)
@@YOYO-zy6yj What's interesting, is why will some regain their normal eyesight shortly after giving birth and others remain myopic? I've commented to a number of young ladies that have posted videos about getting glasses for the first time and a number of them had recently had a baby. In their replies to me they said that their optometrist told that was the likely reason they were now wearing glasses. Some indicated that they had additional changes in their eyesight with each pregnancy. What I'm not sure I have any answer for is why wearing weaker glasses then you actually were prescribed can cause shrinkage in the lengthening process that caused the myopia in the first place.
I do suggest that anyone interested in trying the "endmyopia program" to be very careful in how they go about doing it. Before starting the first thing they need to do is go for an eye exam and be sure to get a printed copy of your prescription slip. This is a must have to prove to anyone that endmyopia works or doesn't work. Next go on line and order a full size Snellen eyechart which is under $10.00. The next thing they need to do is find a good inexpensive on-line glasses site to order their glasses from. I think places like Zenni Optical and Payne glasses are good sites to use. Now the next thing is deciding on how much to reduce your glasses by. You never want to be too aggressive with this which too often people tend to want to rush things by reducing way too much. I would recommend only reducing your SPH by -.50 in both eyes. The main thing is that you need to be able to see to drive safely and only reducing by -.50 you should still be safe to drive wearing the weaker glasses. Remember you're eyesight only needs to be at 20/40 in order to pass the DMV testing. Post the eyechart in a good well lit area and stand 20 feet away to test your eyes. Test at around the same time of day about once a week wearing your weaker glasses to see if there has been any improvement in your eyesight. Your goal of course is to be able to read the 20/20 line wearing the weaker glasses. Over the course of a year continue reducing your glasses once you have met your goal. After the year is up, go for an eye exam hopefully with the same doctor as you saw the year before. I would suggest that you wear the most recent pair that you were seeing 20/20 with for your appointment. You can tell the doctor that you broke your own glasses and you borrowed a pair of your friends glasses. Once again be sure to get a copy of your prescription. Juts like "Gemily Mez" did. That's the only way you can prove or disprove it works.
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Hi Gemily,
I always wanted to find, "the Good OD", who caused his own -3.5 DIopters, from 10 years of doing close work, and did not want to, "talk about it".
He discovered the necessity early prevention, for his own children, and was successful.
When he attempted to help, "All the other children", he found out that, "the parents will not, 'stand for it".
So all the other children became myopic, at -0.5 Diopters per year, while his own children, "never entered into myopia".
The moral of the story?
We object violently to the OD, who might wish to help us recover from 20/50 on our Snellens.
The wise ODs know it is better to not talk to you about this issue, of legal control of your distant vision - for life.
Will Floaters ever go away?? How to be patient, I have -2.75 in left and -2.25 in right eye with floaters in left eye.
I wish I could tell you. I am like you - my floaters are in my more myopic eye. And reducing our glasses correction can mean we notice them a bit more than before. If I find a way to get rid of them, I'll let you know, but at least they 1. aren't usually any serious medical issue, 2. Aren't dangerous, 3. Don't cause pain, and 4. Can change over time. They can be pretty annoying, but when mine are annoying me, I try to consciously focus on the world around me, looking right through my floaters rather than at them. That helps me.
@@GemilyMez Gem I am also on Journey back to 20/20 following Jake Steiner. Its been 3 months and I can see the improvement and I regularly watch your videos and follow your updates.
One shouldn't blink and do active focus during the eye exam right??
One doesn't have time between the changing of lenses anyway
What about your floaters?
I think that you are doing great going to see the optometrist but also trusting yourself on what correction you need to wear now. I never got proof of my last optometrist-measurment (about one year and a half ago) because I felt too anxious about asking them to provide a written prescription. In my country they usually tell you how many diopters you're at, but they don't give you a proper prescription so that you don't buy glasses elsewhere... Anyway, I was told that I was 2.50 and got very discouraged for a while, 'cos I felt that I was already below 2.00. It felt like an awful veredict. I will come back in some months but I don't want to get discouraged again, because I know that my eyes are seeing better, and that's the whole point :)
I totally hear you. The discouragement that can result, the demotivation, in many ways is not worth it. Remember that dim light makes a huge difference.
I think that's why when the doctor checks your vision, he checks one eye at a time. when you wear your undercorrected glasses, your dominant eye compensates for the lazy eye and binocular vision is always better than monocular
binocular vision induces accommodation because of the horizontal angle of the eyes.
Put something close to the eyes and use both eyes to bring it in focus, close one eye and notice the strain, now release it, vision blurs. The muscles causing the strain (nose sided extra-ocular) are more tensed and inflexible than the ear sided extra-ocular muscles.
I have made it an exercise to release this strain as much as possible in different ways.
great results
The optcian I go to do not test in a dark room. I am -13.50r and -13.25l. Have been for 3 years. I have no sph, no cyl. My eyes are healthy. I guess in some ways I am lucky. I believe some of the habits I learned from endmyopia have helped.
You are -13.50 but have no sph and no cyl? I don't understand.... What is the -13.5 then?
Hey Gemily, I had a question.
Can active focus be accompanied by double vision?
Yeah, it can. But double vision is usually an improvement on blur, so if you have blur and do AF and get a rather clear but double image, that is indeed an improvement. Active focus is just an improvement in vision - it does not always have to become crisp and sharp to count as active focus.
@@GemilyMez Thank you so much! I was really worried.
@@GemilyMez mam I am seeing slight two moons after wearing spectacles...but I have difficulty while driving at night...pls I have consulted top eye doctor but everything is okay according to them...I just want to know will my eye get better if I rest my eyes...I have not practiced active focus since 3 months ....but I feel slight pain in my eye ...do you feel difficulty while driving at night as you are practicing active focus ...how long does it take to resolve...pls share your experience with me my life is ruining I am becoming abnormal....I am in 10th grade and very depressed....when you started endmyopia do you have double vision ...plssss answer did you have difficulty while driving at night
Not all doctors even attempt to correct 0.50 D of cylinder correction.
It is very honest to not prescribe for it.
Glad I am not wearing it now then.
does what you say work for hyperopia?
It might. I obviously have no experience with it, but if your hyperopia is just a refractive state, not caused by any medical condition, then it is certainly worth a try, but you would need to reverse certain aspects of the process - instead of a weaker correction for close up, you would want your weaker correction for distance - so your distance correction would work like your 'differenrials' and your close up like your 'nornalised'. Another person recording her progress in reversing hyperopia is BlackSquareable ( ua-cam.com/users/Blacksquareable ). I haven't watched a lot of her videos, but her experience may be helpful to you.
@@GemilyMez - Hi Gemily,
Truly an interesting question.
You should know that all normal eyes have "positive STATES", and are never, "medically defective".
For me to read 20/20, on my Snellen, I must measure my refractive STATE at +0.5 Diopters.
It is this gross misconceptions of the eye's normal behavior, to call something that I must have for 20/20, a "medical defect or problem".
This distortion of science, completely destroys an intelligent discussion, about recovery from mild nearsightedness.
Your goal, is to get your normal eyes to change from a "negative state", 20/50, or -1 Diopter, to a positive state, or to +0.25 Diopters, and 20/20.
The word "hyperopia", should not be used here.
Or, perhaps for refractive STATES, that are more positive than +3 Diopters.
I hope this is, "food for thought".
do you have any proof that your vision improved?
Read it.
From about -3 D, to about -1.75 D.
Final proof, is of course, objectively passing the DMV check on your Home Snellen.
No one can argue with that success.
I showed you these optometrist results. I know what glasses correction I was wearing when I started. What proof could I possibly give you that would convince anyone who didn't believe me? I can show you optometrist papers, but if people don't want to believe me, they could say I made them myself. There really is no way for me to PROVE to you I have improved, especially not over the internet. You have to decide whether you find me trustworthy or not. I showed you my latest opto correction. I don't know what more I can do. You can stick around and see if I get a lower correction from the opto later, if that would be proof enough. But again, they are just pieces of paper, and I can't prove to you I didn't make them up myself. So *shrug*. I guess, no, unless you are my optometrist, I can't prove anything. But I am also here to improve my vision, and I am documenting that process. It's okay with me if not everyone who finds my videos is convinced - makes no difference to me.
@@GemilyMez Hi Gemily,
The Optometrist who convinced me he was both right and successful, was Raphaelson.
He was never allowed to even publish his own success.
That is the person who convinces me.
If fact, Jake insisting his kid keep his head up - can prevent his child from entering into myopia.
I. E., never ever start wearing a minus lens!!
Is it 3 years journey ?
It is approximately one year per diopter. Mine looks like it will be a little longer because I plateaued for a while.
I didn't understand music video?,,
My sister is a musician and she released a song. She made a music video to go with it. I think it's really good.
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Intresting vid.
No need to tell people to like comment subscribe. It's irritating and people do those things if they want to and don't if they don't.
Thanks for the feedback. I find sometimes it is helpful when channels I watch ask for people to like - it costs me nothing and otherwise I may not think of it. But I was experimenting with how asking at various points along the video affected my analytics, so I did put more than normal in this "episode". Because it really does make a difference to content creators. You don't have to pay for their work, so this is one way you can show appreciation - but you won't do it at all if you don't think of it, or if you don't know it means a lot to creators. But your feelings are noted.
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well done! also, don't take this personally but jesus christ get to the point!
Good thing you told me not to take it personally.
@@GemilyMez hehe sorry. best of luck, look forward to ur next vids.