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Thread: Introduce yourself here!
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Dear Friend, You can obtain some low-cost minus glasses from zennioptical.com for about $10 -- if you have little money. Just take your current prescription and subtract 2 diopters -- and use fo...

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12-21-2006, 03:01 PM

Thread: Introduce yourself here!
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Dear Friend, Since one eye is at -7.75 diopters you are very close to the limt of -8 diopters. Whether your vision goes "down" further depends on how you are using your eyes. If doing a large amoun...

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12-24-2006, 07:07 PM

Thread: Introduce yourself here!
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Hi Adie, If you have worn a minus for the last 6 years, your prescription is probably a -2 to -3 diopters. Your Snell en is probably about 20/100 to 20/200. If you use Bates you should be able to c...

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01-27-2007, 03:05 PM

Thread: Introduce yourself here!
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Dear Friend, Even the "experts" tend to use the work "amblopia" poorly. I believe the following definition is correct. If you can not clear the 20/20 line with a lens (for instance the best you can...

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02-01-2007, 09:54 AM

Thread: Introduce yourself here!
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Dear Jim, There has been profound OBJECTION to that minus lens -- and the leader has been Bates. I take all objection to the minus lens to be the second-opinion. But the main goal "empowerment" so ...

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09-07-2006, 10:34 AM

Thread: Introduce yourself here!
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Dear Noah, I am an engineer also. I learned of the Bates methods when I was 14. I got INCREDIBLE opposition from my ophthalmologist on the subject of second opinion methods. It was so bad I stopp...

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01-10-2007, 06:53 AM

Thread: Introduce yourself here!
Post: Re: Introduce yourself here!

Dear Noah, Subject: Starting point -- for either Bates or plus. These second-opinion methods are about EMPOWERMENT of you to take, of get control of your distant vision. I am very pleased you ch...

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01-10-2007, 12:37 PM

Thread: Introduce yourself here!
Post: Re: Introduce yourself here!

Dear Noah, I have to slow you down here. I give "suggestions" on these issues. The fact that you are at 20/100 will prevent your use of a strong plus. (Save it for later.) More commentary: I wen...

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01-10-2007, 10:18 PM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Friend, Wow, from farsightedness to serious myopia and astigmatism. I know how "powerful" and attractive 20/15 vision is. But, as Bates said, if your Snellen is 20/70 -- and you begin wearing ...

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Complementary Methods

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08-01-2006, 09:53 AM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Bifocal, Subject: Dammed if you do -- Dammed if you don't. You tell an interesting story indeed. But yes, you can induce a negative refractive STATE in your eyes (even at your age) a previous ...

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Complementary Methods

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08-04-2006, 06:53 PM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Bifocal, Subject: Vision -- over 45. It is an ill wind that does not blow some good. Thank you again for sharing your info. Do you have any web sites that you could direct me to that woul...

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08-05-2006, 06:07 AM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Bifocal, There is a "school of thought" that says that that "near" environment, compounded by a minus induces BOTH more myopia AND astigmatism. I personally support Bates statement about the mi...

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08-06-2006, 06:11 AM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Bifocal, It is easier to get the eye's refractive state to move "negative" as per your friend's efforts -- that it is to get it to move "positive". But your suggestions and support are the righ...

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10-28-2006, 07:24 AM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Bifocal, While your title thread was "Farsightedness", it looks like you were nearsighed. I have been wearing glasses for 30 years. At first for reading because I would have distance blur afte...

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08-19-2006, 01:29 PM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear "J" and Bifocal, Subject: Basic Science for the effect of a lens on the eye's refractive STATE. As I stated before, the theory-of-the-eye maintains that your refractive STATE is either negativ...

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08-20-2006, 05:56 AM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear BiFocal, I am a "technical" person -- so I tend to "see" problems from a SLIGHTLY different perspective. I believe that Bates had many excellent points -- starting with the refractive STATE F...

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08-19-2006, 06:18 AM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear J, You recognize that Bates recommended avoiding the minus. I agree with him on that point. I do not know if this will help, but the primate eye IN THE WILD has refractive states running from ...

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08-19-2006, 03:41 PM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear aavram, With all due respect to you, but a 2 year-old should not be put into a plus lens at that tender age. Do you know why you were put into a plus lens? One thing I would suggest would be t...

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12-27-2006, 08:25 PM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Bifocal, I believe you have the best of both worlds! VERY SLIGHT nearsightedness, (which at your age is ideal), and the ability to read "close" as you wish. And you are a success as I wish we ...

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06-09-2007, 09:14 AM

Thread: Farsightedness
Post: Re: Farsightedness

Dear Bifocal, I guess some of these issues becomes a matter of a personal "goal" -- and the means to achieve that goal. I can only speak for myself. But if I were at 20/80, and set a "goal" it wou...

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12-24-2006, 01:06 PM

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