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STRONGER GLASSES EVERY TIME I SEE THE OPTOMETRIST | Finding out every glasses correction I have had
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2022
- I have recently found an app that allows me to find out the corrections of all my glasses. And of course, I discovered that I got stronger glasses every time I was prescribed a new pair from the optometrist.
Finally I can see journey into -3 dioptre myopia and how my vision kept getting worse and how my glasses strength kept going up.
In this video, I will tell you just how quickly I developed -3 myopia, at which point I had to wear glasses all the time in order to function.
(And I include some photos from the archives too).
Remember to like and subscribe if you enjoyed the video. Thanks! 🥰
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional, and nothing I say in my videos should be taken as medical advice.
I am not affiliated with EndMyopia. All my videos are based on my own experience using Jake Steiner's EndMyopia method.
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🤓 A little about my eyesight: 🤓
I have had glasses for astigmatism since I was 7 years old, but I only needed them for specific circumstances, like reading blackboards or night driving (not when I was 7, obviously).
At the age of 22 I landed an office job, and with my lovely new money I bought a smart phone. 6 months later, I had myopia (also known as short sightedness or near sightedness) and had to wear glasses full-time.
My prescription has been going up since then, and I have been freaking out as I sit back and watch my eyesight deteriorate, feeling helpless and scared.
I was up to -3 in my left eye, and -2.5 in my right eye when I discovered Jake Steiner and the EndMyopia method.
I am still only a few months in, but already I am seeing at almost -2.00 in my left eye -1.75 in my right eye. Small changes, but any improvement is amazing when my eyes have only been deteriorating for the last 10 years.
I am loving knowing more about eyesight and how eyes function. It's fascinating, and learning so much feels empowering. I love that I no longer feel helpless about my vision. I have also quit my smartphone so I could get over my screen addiction. I even bought a Nokia to get me out of temptation's way! Since doing this, I have been making progress with my vision, but also have regained so much of my life and time and perspective, so this vision journey is definitely having positive knock-on effects in my life as a whole.
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I used to do endmyopia years ago. I went from -3 give or take to -2, which I still have my prescriptions off. Now I am back on board. I always wore less D's, but my eyes were getting worse and worse, of course, I am sitting on my phone all day. Now I got a new measurement, -3.50, which is crazy. I can read 2 lines below the 20/20 with those, so I ordered -3.00 and I can still read 20/20 and 20/25 ish. I'm going to do active focus with those for some months and go for -2.75 once I am ready for that. For now, my glasses are 20/25 and 20/30 give or take. I used to have my normalised on 20/40, but those were too much for my daily doings. I also checked if my snellen distance is right, and it was: Meassure the distance of the top E line (20/200) and divide that value by 88 and times 6= meters that you need to stand from your snellen. The marker that I had was still on the ground, so I am glad that was ok. Weird how the shops overscribe people like me. -3.50, man I was seeing like a laser.
You ars right.
People quit, and never succeed.
Not only like a laser, but like in drugs hallucination effect.
I was reading when eyes see 20/20 instantly it starts to perform saccades movement, in other words it starts tracking tiny details, shifting. When an eye is too undercorrected it gave up to scan details and tend to stare to make things clear and this pattern creates a vicious cycle that may leads to more myopia.
In your case, maybe at -2D it would be a good choice to begin with the plus lenses like Todd Becker. I saw a tons of Endmyopia students facing stagnations/plateau.
The only few who did not face any long period of lack improvement was that one who was wearing contact lenses and on the top of that a plus lenses glasses. I still believe plus glasses over minus lenses is different than just the same diopter number in an undercorrected glasses.
Hi Gem,
After all these years, both you and Jake have enough expertise, to qualify as a skilled Optometrist!
Why not?
Real expertise is defined by doing it yourself.
Hi Gem,
Background OD policy.
Prescribe for "best vision sphere".
Ask them about this policy.
This means when you have 20/40, you will be Prescribed a -2 to -3 Diopter lens.
This is a "fools errand", if you trust this policy.
This is why I pass the DMV, and make my own accurate refractive measurements.
They are "playing you".
That is why I ask a person to use his own Snellen.
You are "sucker punched", if you do not check.
Hi Gem,
What you document is true, for 95% of us.
Once you put a kid into a minus lens, the kids refraction goes in only one direction, DOWN!
Thus is why I support Jake.
Get out of it as rapidly as possible, when at 20/50.
Halllooo, I'm back.
Please don't stop making these kind of videos, and you someone that used to make these cannot be used to, her name was Angie Hepp. For the Community Day she was a big Inspiration. A lots of people that made these kind of videos with amazing progress stopped making videos.
I like your videos and it is motivating, your edits are very nice to look at and your energy is just a vibe 🙏
Hi Steve,
I agree !
I think Angie quit her program.
Thanks, juststeve! Yeah, last time I check Angie's videos she had other health issues that came up (not eye related). I will do my best to stick around. :D Glad you find these videos helpful. Thank you for watching.
Hi Gem,
Jake is right.
As long as you wear a minus lens, your vision just gets worse.
If you can pass 20/60, you can quit wearing a minus lens.
I do love the .75 cyl frame on you! (I tend toward frames like that for myself) too bad they were such a solid step in the wrong direction 😣
I think the most promising thing here is that you didn’t always have the cylinder like you had thought.
Agree! Finding that our was a game changer!
It makes sense Otis Brown's observation and Dr. Young's papers.
2010 - 2017, as expected 0.5D per year (wearing them most of the time) something around -3.0 ~ -3.5.
This is what got through to me.
Natural eye goes down that way - not defective.
But it does say, we must START THE PLUS, before we get down to 20/50.
It is great that you compiled that information. It is key to know what happened to your eyes, what will happen and what would had happened if you did not wear any of those glasses. Here is the real App that you need: "The equations of ametropia"
Thanks.
Avoiding the minus lens, would have helped a lot.
Where is the APP?
A minus lens causes stair case myopia, every time!
1:30
A Mild +0.5 diopters at age 8 years.
Those were myopia PREVENTION plus lenses.
Had you been taught to wear a +2 for all close work, you would have kept your (20/40), Snellen and better, for life.
A study proving this "dynamic eye concept ", has been published, and totally ignored!!
Why?
Because people hate prevention if offered by a dedicated Optometrist, when you were at 20/40.
In my opinion, we should tske this science, very seriously.
Both of us "lost our vision", to that first minus lens, and the fact that our scientific intelligence was not respected.
Maybe, one day, we will be offered a choice, when we are still at 20/40.
You are a retired EE, right?
You should look into buying a neurofeedback device and see if you can create software that trains ciliary control through visual feedback of brainwaves.
Have been thinking about this today, if such a thing is achievable.
Take care.
I pretty much know she knows all this by now
@@alanx4121 Accommotrac Vision Trainer by Dr Joseph Tratchman, NASA spin-off project to relax accomodation and convergence, improving eyesight.
There is a new japanese device called Kubota Glasses, it claims reverse -1D per year using them 2 hours each morning. But it costs US$5.600,00
@@regishaiba Thanks for sharing, looks interesting, I guess it's possible.
I wonder if neurofeedback works too, by measuring brainwave activity and identify accommodation in the signals, that would be the cheapest option.
That's a FIRST for me!
I didn't know that wearing + (plus) will stop the advancing of myopia.
I KNOW FOR A FACT that wearing - (minus) lenses will prevent the advancing of hyperopia.
Farsightedness is overexertion of the ciliary muscles causing eyestrain in seeing up close, because the eyeball is too short. Although nearsighted glasses will TEMPORARILY increase suffering for farsighted people, there is a sudden ~BOING~ great RELIEF once the minus glasses are removed!
Its just another EXERCISE, like situps or pushups!
I am -9.00 myopic in my right eye and -8.25 myopic in my left eye.
I wish I could do the same lmao. I lost all my old pairs of glasses. The only ones I have left are the ones I bought from zenni.
BUT!
I do have one final pair. I call them the dinosaurs. It was a pair of -4.25 that gave me 20/10 supervision that a 60 yo optometrist wanted me to wear since I was due for a correction. It was the final pair I wore for like a day before starting endmyopia about 5 years ago.
Now I wear -1.5 to see outside and only getting better!!
That's brilliant! Well done you!
It's me again. The retired optician. Very interesting that your very first glasses had a very weak reading prescription in them and not an astigmatism correction you thought you were given. Apparently for you to think that someone where you had your eyes examined must have told you that you had astigmatisms. But what's interesting is, as you well know, when you have astigmatisms you have a cylinder number as well as an axis number. Now here is something you may not be aware of. If you had your eyes examined by an ophthalmologist and not an optometrist that would explain the plus if it was in the cylinder spaces. But you did indicate that the +.50 was in the SPH spaces and not the CYL spaces. You said you got your first glasses in year two which was in 1995 and and you must have been around the age of 8 or 9 when you got your glasses. I'm surprised that any doctor would have prescribed you with glasses that weak because at that age your eyes would have been strong enough on their own without any need for glasses. But if in fact you really were supposed to get glasses for astigmatisms, that would be completely different and a bit more necessary for several reasons. It only takes a small amount of astigmatisms to cause frequent headaches. And astigmatisms effects eyesight at all distances. So astigmatisms glasses would have been somewhat helpful to you in seeing the board much the way being myopic helps the eyes. Even though your glasses really weren't necessary at all I'm sure you thought you looked really "cool" wearing them. And they really didn't have much effect on your eyes at all did they. I doubt you even noticed any difference wearing them from not wearing them. Do you even remember ever actually wearing them to see something you couldn't otherwise see without them? Now fast forward 3 years to 1998 and you were now 11 years old. This time it seems they got it right No way of ever figuring out how yo ever ended up with those plus glasses. But like i said they were really too weak to do any harm to your eyes and you probably enjoyed wearing them from time to time just for fun and be "cool". Now you finally have glasses that you actually were able to see better wearing when you needed to see something at a distance. Those glasses looked really cute on you and you seemed to like them. So between the age of 11 and 18, I assume you had your eyes checked several times and apparently your glasses were still all you needed for a prescription. Now in 2006 you got you were only getting your third pair of glasses. So your eyesight really stayed very good since getting your first glasses. Surprisingly, that from the age of 11 your eyesight didn't change enough for you to even need new glasses. But you had a frame you were in love with and you pretty much talked the doctor into writing you a new prescription Now for the first time your glasses will have the very slightest prescription for distance in your left eye. Your cylinders increased by a -.25 on each eye as well. But your glasses were still extremely weak. But your astigmatism was now at a point where you should have been starting to wear glasses more and more often or even fulltime. Do you remember how much you wore those glasses you just had to have? Moving along, and it's now 2010 and your 22 years old and getting your fourth pair of glasses. Sometime between 2006 and 2010 you became a fulltime working girl and your job had you staring at a computer screen for 8 hours a day. Then you went home and spent even more time on your laptop and I-Phone so your eyes were really being over worked and over strained and your eyesight was was being ruined as result. When you got your driver's license even though you wore glasses your eyesight was probably still good enough for you pass without being required to wear glasses to drive. But now you weren't able to see to drive at night safely. So you had to get your eyes examined and new glasses. Now your new prescription was considerably stringer than your previous glasses. Now you were nearsighted in both eyes. Your prescription increased in your right eye from -0.00 to -0.50 and in your left eye from 0.25 to 1.00.. but your cylinder had decreased slightly from -0.75 to -0.50 in both eyes. But when putting your SPH and CYL together you were really at -0.75 and -1.25 So no wonder you didn't feel safe driving at night anymore. You got your glasses with transition lenses which I assume you were planning on wearing glasses fulltime once you got them. Prior to when you started wearing glasses fulltime you probably never had the under eye darkness and "bags" as you call them under your eyes did you? That tends to happen as a result of the the UV in your lenses blocking your eyes. The good news is that as long as you had your glasses on that darkness and undereye bags weren't really noticeable. And of course concealer. works really well. So your next glasses came just a year later in 2011 and you were then 23. Apparently, your excessive amount of screen time was really effecting your eyes. At 23 most young women that age are seeing their eyesight become more and more stable and even stop changing completely. But your eyesight seemed to be increasing rather than becoming stable. Because you weren't able to find that pair of glasses you were only able to estimate about what the prescription may have been in them. You were probably very close in doing that by taking the previous prescription and then the one after the missing pair and splitting the difference. So an increase of about -0.75 in your right eye and -0.50 in your left eye. That's quite an increase in just a years time. I'm sure your job had be the main reason for such an increase. Your next increase came in 2013 at the age of 25. This increase added another -0.50 SPH to both eyes. By now you're quite nearsighted and without a doubt wearing glasses constantly.
Thanks, Jim.
My glasses in a matter of three years went from minus -2.50 to -3.50 and I'm going on 22 years of age
Exactly, Jim.
At some point from age 11 to 18, I asked the optometrist at one of my check ups what was up with my eyes and she told me I had astigmatism. I had never asked before, so I assumed that had always been the issue. I had no idea that my first glasses were not for astigmatism, and I have no other reason to have believed they were except for this one conversation.
But the first time I got glasses was because I put on mum's reading glasses and looked at something close up and said "that's better!" and so much got worried I needed glasses. Probably was just relaxing for my ciliary to look close up and not have to do much XD And I guess my mum may very well have taken me to the optometrist and told them this story, and her glasses were probably a low plus so.... As you say - wouldn't have done any harm. And yeah, I only wore them for the cool effect. I didn't need them.
I did need my glasses in high school to see the black board if I sat near the back of class.
The frames I just HAD to have, that introduced the -0.25 sph I still only wore on and off. But probably more often than the previous ones because, again, the cool factor. I loved those things.
It was indeed when I got the ones with transition lenses that I was wearing them most of the time.
Yeah, my computer job would not have helped, although I had been on a computer plenty in high school, writing essays and wasting time on MSN chat. XD But the 8 hours, when I COULDN"T just stop using the computer because I was paid to be there on it, and the phone use on my commute to and from work.... Not good. :(
Thanks so much for taking such an interest, and writing such a long comment. It is really lovely to have you unpack it like that.
Oh, and the purple bags.... not sure I can attribute them to glasses. I had them as a little kid too. Something to do with dairy, I was told by a doctor. *shrugs*
Do you use mirrors to extend and simulate distance?
I think mirrors help us to trick the brain and relax convergence and accomodation.
I don't, but I haven't really felt the need to. Clever idea.
perhaps the -0.25 SPH lens induced myopia to develop.
Really interesting account - thanks Gemily. Is there a point at which you started using an autorefractor in the tests?
Hi Black,
She did not use an Auto refractor.
It was used on Gem.
Always not accurate.
@@otiebrown9999 Yes, I agree with you there. Or I would rather say it was "inflicted" on her.
@@Blacksquareable Hi Black,
I do my own REFRACTIONS.
I absolutely do no trust, any "office refraction ".
I am now back to 20/20, and plan to keep my eyes there!
Which glasses should I wear during my school time as I have to write notes in copy from blackboard? When I see to my copy that is close up work & when I look at blackboard that distance work. I am unable to see board with differential glasses.
Hi Gemily I am taking your advice to keep cylinder same and reduce myopia as I have low myopia
I have one question I don't sit too close to computer so for differentials if I have - 1 to - 1.25 less from my full is it okay?
And what's your current prescription of glasses?
Hi Gemily,
can make a video without glasses. And then squint to see signs for an example in wallmart ?
Hi what is your current myopia? I been following your channel for a couple of years and curious to know
You havnt even looked at the videos lately if you dont know, she may be .25 better at best
Hit a plateau. Still working out what I need to tweak to over come it. Slow going at present, but still chipping away, trying new little changes until I can get over this -1.75 hump. Another EndMyopia student also got stuck here for a couple of years and has just started making good progress again, so I am listening to what has helped him very closely....
Thanks for following along.
I 💙 BLUE
Hi gem! I Want to reduce my cylinder correction in both eyes! How do I go on doing that exactly? I have -2 in cylinder in the right eye and -1.5 in the left with an axis of 180 in my right and 5 on the left. I have no myopia at all! I was an idiot and mostly spend alot of time on my computer in my 30s at the moment Thanks Gem!
You save glasses? From years ago 🧐mine break after some months
Also i wanted to ask something
My myopia worsened two times in a row on same month( 7tg month) in past two years but this time my vision doesn't seem to have worsened even though i do nothing and use phone all day . I think because of before i used to go to school and study all day but the difference is i used to study with my glasses on . Might be might not be the reason. Thoughts ?
And one more thing i will try to do ciliary spasm release this week . If i am correct all you do is distance vision , no prolonged closup, and 20/20/20 rule and nothing special. Right? Guide me please
Yep, ciliary release challenge is just about taking good care of not getting too much close up, and paying attention to breaks and good distance vision.
Yeah, wearing glasses for close up makes myopia worse, so even though phones are very bad for vision, if you are not wearing glasses when looking at it, that may be stopping you from getting worse!
Hi Gem,
I started asking this question, at age 14 years.
If you want scientific truth, you will NEVER GET A STRAIGHT, HONEST ANSWER FROM AN OD.
They do not exactly lie, but they never tell you the truth!
Let us continue with our personal quest of life time prevention, when we get down to 20/50.
Otie
What's the name of the app?
i started the journey 8 days ago, and i have a qst:
In my first 6 weeks, is it preferable not to wear glasses at all.
Please answer because someone said it is good to do that but i am afraid of blur adaptation
Depends on your diopters
@@someone-jl4sj i am -3l -2.75R
According to the endmyopia method, there is no need to go without glasses for extended periods of time like that. That was about where I started at. If I couldn't have worn glasses for 6 weeks at that level, my life would have been very affected. In EndMyopia, a zero diopter reset (wearing no glasses) would last maximum 1 day. Usually only a few hours before you change to a new pair of lower correction glasses. 20 minutes without glasses in the morning can be helpful too. But quitting glasses for 6 weeks from -3 would not be very helpful, according to this method.
I have -7 sph and -3cyl can I make my close-up glass -5sph and -2cyl ???
Actually the question is can I reduce sph and cyl both on close up Glass?
You can reduce both sph and cyl in close-up glasses if you want, but you don't have to.
What you are suggesting would be a very big drop - 2D of sph and 1D of cyl - that is the equivalent of 2.5D of sph!
Dropping 1D of cyl is like dropping 0.5D of sph. And you only want 1-2 diopters less for close up. So if you are dropping 1D of cyl, you wouldn't want to drop any more than 1.5 of sph. That would be equivalent to 2D of sph when added together. But that is an aggressive drop. I find 1.5D drop works better for differentials for me. So that could be dropping 1D of sph and 1D of cyl. Or dropping 1.25D of sph and 0.5D of cyl. Or even just dropping 1.5D of sph and leaving you cyl as is. A lot of ways to do it, and I can't tell you which one will work best for your eyes - you will have to give it a go for yourself and see.
This, of course, is not personal diopter specific advice - just explaining the general EndMyopia approach. What you do with your eyes is, of course, your own choice. I am just a random person on the internet, and have no optometry or medical credentials at all.
@@GemilyMez 🥰🥰 thanks , what is the difference between endmyopia double vision and astigmatism double vision, i think I should wait about 3-4 month if it's not resolving have full diaper of sph maybe increasing 0.25 is good idea, struggling to find age of blur after wakeup in the morning astigmatism because worse not like double vision but astigmatism blur i am sure about it,
What's the instrument in the background?
I don't know much about these bad boys but by it's looks i can judge that its a musical instrument
@@readmydescription5533 ROFL!!!
@@Blacksquareable seriously!?
I think Kevin hart is overrated
7:02 Just ask the optometrist
Eyes stinging and watering, it's the peripheral; you might've been dodging sunlight.
eyes stinging and watering is dry eyes, active focus dries the eyes out in the beginning, how do I know, I active focused with NO spasm, still stung and watered. Right after my LASIK you wanna talk about stinging without watering, my eyes would not water much at all. Now they are fine. Peripheral could be involved somehow because when I notice my peripheral while looking at engages active focus.
promosm 💪
Hi Gem,
The sad scientific truth, when you start wearing a minus lens
I don't think it is working for u
Don't like e tell the truth to the viewers
Prevention works 💪 for me.
I admire Gem, to document, what she is doing.
If not reducing at least it’s not increasing.
She has told all the viewers that she is/was in a LONG plateau, guess you missed it, I believe the woman is super honest