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Link to a great article about this lady who improved from -3.5 and is now -.5



"While I never read in glasses, I took notes in them. I sat through high school and college and graduate school in them. No one ever suggested a bifocal in class or plus spectacles over the contacts to read. I told two contact lens specialists in two cities that I couldn't read through my contact lenses. They both frowned and said "You should be able to read through them," and that was that when I was a child."


I also almost never read in glasses. Its bad for your eyes and makes things worse. Nearsighted people see fine from near without glasses, why wear glasses for near for nothing or worse? As for her not seeing clearly in contacts, sounds like insufficent accomodation. I have the same issue.


"I reduced my need for minus prescriptions by gradually adapting to weaker and weaker lenses in the reverse of the process of adaptation that led me into serious myopia in the first place."


Look what she did! No wonder why my vision has improved! I remember bumping my glasses pescription to -4.5 down from -5.75 and I was seeing 20/80 at first then 3 weeks later 20/70. Now I see very near my BCVA in them! Its amazing how clear those old -4.5 glasses are! I used to see 20/70 with -4.25s now I see 20/40 sometimes in those! Thats just ONE line shy of my 20/30 BCVA!

" You train a patient whenever you put a lens on him," Francke told me. That means you change programs in the brain. Why not train patients into weaker instead of stronger lenses? Even if it takes seven years, that person can be changed for life"


It took me a year of training to reduce my myopia by a diopter. Good things come to those who are patient. I expect to improve another half to full diopter by the beginning of 2007.


"In some cases, as Dr. John Thomas has suggested,33 strong lenses may even cause tissues changes. We know from research with chickens and monkeys34 that a blurry image on the fovea causes increased axial length and stretching in the posterior pole like that in some hereditary myopes. It also may be true of humans, as observed in identical twins.35 Thomas speculates that it may be the blurry image created by the high minus lens distortion at the periphery that causes myopic degeneration and eyeball stretching. Indeed, in chickens "only peripheral field occlusion is necessary to induce a myopia shift, while the central retina is receiving sharp images," Crewther, Crewther, Nathan and Kiely reported.36 Elio Raviola and Torsten Wiesel speculated years ago that "the retina exerts a control on eye growth by releasing regulatory molecules whose production is influenced by the pattern of light stimulation."37"

Otis was right!


"Luckily, I never did develop major retinal changes that we see in high myopes."

This is why very high myopes(-10 and up) sometimes(fairly commonly) cant correct to 20/20 with contacts and even worse with spectacles(due to minification) One optometrist who posts on google groups said he sees patients around -15 diopters(myopia in the teens) with only 20/40 to 20/50 BSCVA. Looking at my notes, this guy whos -18 diopters can only correct to 20/60 with glasses. I know several more around -10 with 20/30 in glasses. One guy was -14 and 20/30 BSCVA, 20/25 with contacts which dont minify.


Here is the link Otis posted:

http://www.optometrists.org/Boston/articles.html

Thanks Otis, great read! I have learned so much and I look forward to greatly reducing my dependancy on glasses over time, little by little. I want my good vision back and I am going to work to get it!
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