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10-24-2015, 06:36 AM

Thread: no success with bates method for my kids
Post: RE: no success with bates method for my kids

I don't think recommending that a -.75,-1.5 kid should take up outdoor soccer and then use plus lenses(consistent with what I've said in the past about using natural methods first to see what you can ...

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10-26-2015, 07:21 AM

Thread: PD distance
Post: RE: PD distance

(05-27-2015, 09:30 AM)JDL Wrote: Hi, my prescription is L: -4, R: -3.5 with a little bit of astigmatism in each eye. I want to order glasses online, like -2.75 each. (Without astigmatism) I got my...

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05-28-2015, 09:14 AM

Thread: Please help me out.
Post: RE: Please help me out.

(03-28-2015, 03:08 AM)gekonus Wrote: I tried everything, eye rolls, long swings, snellen reading one eye at a time or with both eyes, palming , sunning, reading at the edge of blur, EVERYTHING for m...

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04-04-2015, 07:25 AM

Thread: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Helps Others...
Post: RE: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Help...

Stalling out at -.75 when you sarted out at -2.25 is very normal. You got rid of your ciliary myopia, and now you gotta change the shape of your eye, ie reverse axial myopia, which is much more diffi...

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04-03-2015, 08:08 AM

Thread: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Helps Others...
Post: RE: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Help...

What strength plus lens do you use?

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04-03-2015, 09:01 AM

Thread: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Helps Others...
Post: RE: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Help...

I will admit the way plus lenses usage is taught makes me cringe. But I still think plus lenses have value for defensive purposes, if used the right way. Glasses with how they have a fiexd sweetspot...

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04-04-2015, 10:35 AM

Thread: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Helps Others...
Post: RE: Plus Lens: Theory On Why It Hurts Some & Help...

I don't know what vision she started with, but what I remember about how difficult a sample drivers vision test was for her, she seems to have one eye around -1 and another eye in the mid -1s, which i...

31,261

04-05-2015, 05:26 AM

Thread: Recovering from -3.5 diopter
Post: RE: Recovering from -3.5 diopter

Good news on your drivers license vision restriction removal. If you don't pass it, do you have to wait a minimum amount of time before taking the test again? I'm fixing to take my driving vision te...

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08-13-2014, 08:03 AM

Thread: Recovering from -3.5 diopter
Post: RE: Recovering from -3.5 diopter

Do you use plus lenses at all or do you mainly do the bates stuff? If you're able to drive without your glasses during the day but not at night, and from some other stuff you described, I'd guess y...

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08-13-2014, 11:08 AM

Thread: Recovering from -3.5 diopter
Post: RE: Recovering from -3.5 diopter

(10-28-2014, 03:59 PM)adawe Wrote: hey op what were your best exercises? did ypu do print pushing on the pc? Anyone try pushing print you type as opposed to pushing print you read? You can "push" a...

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01-19-2015, 06:48 PM

Thread: Recovering from -3.5 diopter
Post: RE: Recovering from -3.5 diopter

I use a +1.0 lens to push with since I cant make my arms any longer than thtey are and my keyboard is attached to my monitor. I have the monitor on the least brightest setting when I do this, and n...

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01-20-2015, 09:55 AM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

Whatever you do, don't give up after it gets harder after your first diopter gain. Everyone goes through that. I dropped from the -4s to -3 and my optometrist who is himself a natural vision practit...

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07-30-2015, 11:49 AM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

what are your diopters presently? The reason I ask if most of us vision improvement practicioners here, me included, have gotten to be pretty good blur interpreters. I have no doubt your vision impr...

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08-13-2014, 07:17 AM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

After my first 30 days of doing this stuff, I dropped -1.875 diopters in my weaker eye and 1.25 diopters in my stronger eye, though I think those results were inflated by .25 diopters due to me findin...

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08-13-2014, 03:00 PM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

Yeah I've learned the price for overtraining my eyes. I don't like how I'm slowing down in the low -2s so I started palming much more frequently this week, 20 timess a day for the last several days...

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08-14-2014, 06:59 AM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

I do long swings on bridges during periods of traffic, at intersection medians, large parks with multiple outdoor soccer games going on, shopping parking lots where pigeons are flying around, etc. I ...

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08-14-2014, 10:51 AM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

Quote:He said he could feel his eyes "doing something different". I'm glad you brought that up since that feeling is very important. The more one has that feeling, the faster their eyes will improve...

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08-14-2014, 02:58 PM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

Anyone know anything more about this skippy the deet guy from australia? http://www.amazon.com/Relearning-See-Imp...1556433417 Quote:I started 14 months ago to get rid of my glasses with -4.00 diopt...

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08-15-2014, 06:10 AM

Thread: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some questions
Post: RE: Recovery from 6D: my experience and some quest...

If any of you live near large outdoor amusement parks, those probably have the best combination of detail, distance, and movement, for long-swinging, especially this time of year. The only drawback i...