ImprovingEyesight

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Hello and welcome to Improving Eyesight. Reddit has been sadly lacking a community where all natural eyesight improvement methods can be freely discussed without prejudice or censor. So I've taken over this sub with the intention of building it into just such a place.

DISCLAIMER
We do not offer any medical advice here. The methods discussed in this community are generally not endorsed by eye doctors for the purpose of eyesight improvement. If you choose to try anything mentioned here you do so at your own risk.

Community Rules

• No promotion of paid products or services for eyesight improvement
• Do not ridicule any particular method or anyone's personal approach to improvement
• Try to be friendly and helpful to everyone

Helpful Resources

• How to measure myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism
• Snellen to Diopter Conversion Chart
• Printable Snell Chart (downloadable PDF)
• Eye exercises for extra-ocular muscles and accommodation
• Eye scan therapy for astigmatism (downloadable PDF)
• Presbyopia exercises (instructions and downloadable PDF)
• The No Bullsh#*t Guide to Vision Improvement (reduced lens method PDF)

I’m js curious but does active focus actually work? Also are there other tips cuz I’m only nearsighted in one eye and my other eye is healthy

PLS HELP ME !

Hi Im 13 and my right eye is 7.5 and left is 6.5 Im scared of going blind I think i have astigmatism, since without glasses thats how the world looks for me and are there any surgerys i could get later on in life to help me see and, fix them right now pls i hope to reduce

I recently had an eye checkup and these are the results: VD=12 <R> SPH +0.25 CYL -0.50 AX 49 <L> SPH +0.25 CYL -0.50 AX 50 PD=67

All my life, I had a 20/20 so I haven’t worn glasses ever in my life; thus, idk how to read the numbers and letters above. The doctor told me I’m not 20/20 anymore and I have astigmatism. Can someone explain this to me in layman’s term?

Thank you so much!

Re-posting this because I've changed my strategy/approach in my eyesight improvement. This post will also serve as a reminder to my future self of how I started with this journey.

In the first week of April, 2024, an optometrist verified a prescription of -3.75 R, -4.50 L (Both CYL are less than 0.75) and therefore I need to change my current glasses which are -3.25, -3.50.

Somewhere in the back of my mind knows wearing glasses just doesn't felt right, but I have been told I'll get used to it and I have to wear it all the time. By doing so, my prescription just only got worse (lens induced myopia).

My 10-year myopia progression: (R, L)

• 2014: -0.50, -0.75
• 2017: -1.50, -1.75
• 2019: -2.25, -2.50
• 2021: -3.25, -3.50
• 2024: -3.75, -4.50

Fast forward today, I have learned that there are natural ways to improve eyesight (Myopia in my case), and there are people who successfully reversed their condition, as long as I am a committed healthy individual and I have no underlying eye diseases. (e.g. glaucoma, cataracts ,etc.)

The approach...

After some research, I decided to follow Mark's idea of not wearing glasses at all, unless required by law (e.g driving) or any situation that warrants me to see the details or else I put myself or others at harms way.

So this will be my "personalized" strategy:

1. Complete Removal of eyeglasses when I am indoors/outdoors.

• To see my computer screen, I will just move it closer and gradually distance it as my eyesight improves.

Note: I choose this so I won't have to spend on frequent changing of differentials & normalized glasses. And I also believe this will be less strenuous for my eyes and brain than trying to adapt with different prescriptions.

2. Incorporate Techniques that Mark teaches.

• Being aware of the peripheral vision (objects, shapes, color, distance)
• Notice everything as 3D
• Rocking side-to-side to notice depth an perceptions of objects in-front and background

3. Do outdoor activities as much as possible.

• Watching the Sunset
• Jogging/Walking for at-least an hour a day
• Or just be outside/balcony noticing distance scenery

4. Limit my usage of smartphones

5. Read or do close up work only in a well lit environment.

6. Allow natural sunlight as my source of light during the day by opening doors/windows at home.

7. Good Diet (Removal of processed foods, sugar, alcohol)

Hi I need an advice with my contact lenses. I recently started wearing them my eye sight is -4 in left eye -3.75 in right. My doctor prescribed me -3.5 and -3.75 but told me if needed i can up the lenses by 0.25. My vision is a bit blurry and i can feel my lenses, my eyes are a bit itchy. I bought monthly contacts so i cant really throw them away and buy new ones so can i wear these for a month? Will my eyes get used to them?

i’ve been wearing glasses for as long as i can remember, probably since i was 5 or 6 (i believe i inherited it from my dads side however none of my parents had bad eyesight). Im in my twenties now (alhumdullilah) and uptil now i’ve never thought too much about it or anything, just knew i had to wear glasses so i did. i never felt or saw it as a weakness or insecurity, but now it’s starting to upset me a little. like i no longer want to keep wearing glasses and it kinda makes me sad sometimes that i constantly have to. that my eyes need glasses to be able to see as clearly as someone normally does without them.

i know laser is an option but i can’t get it done for now and i still need to do my research on it.

i don’t want to wear powered lens either because they don’t work that well and you can only wear them occasionally obviously.

is there someone (a doctor or anyone) here who can advise me on this. do you possibly know of someone who was able to improve their eyesight by eating certain foods or avoiding anything because this is the only thing i can control right now so please let me know

thankyou!

My eyesight is about 275 in one eye and 250 in thr other. When I am using my phone casually, should I position my phone as far as I can just before it gets to a distance where I have to strain my eyes (a little over 30cm), or a closer and equally comfortable distance (around 25cm)?

Hello everyone and u/pcoutcast. I have a personal question. Is it better staying without glasses rather than wearing lower diopter glasses? For example, I have myopia at nearly -4.50 diopter. And I can do most of the things without glasses except reading. Can it be helpful or cause another thing as they mention blur adaptation (I don't have an idea by the way). But I think if you leave the modern life and live like primitives (nothing to read and always outside) your eyes should heal like how it caused myopia earlier.

Why cant i read a license plate at 20m but i can read it on a chart in a eyetest and why can i read things further away but is elevated up but not when its further to the ground?

Hey, I have a question. I have a great-grandmother and I want to please her with new glasses. And I have a question, what kind of glasses are needed if she does not understand who is who, not at close range, not at a distance.

I have posted this on r/myopia so im just copying it here for more advice cause only 2 people responded to it.

So Basically I have mostly 6 hr screen time every day, a better guess would be somewhere around 3-7 hrs. Mainly 40 hours a week or lower. I can minimize my time on Saturday's and Sunday's but the thing is on Weekdays where I have school I spend already 2-4 hours screen time there. Then I study at my house for about like 2 hours maybe and so my final screen time is 6- 8 hours. So I have stress now because I have a big like big test coming up and having 6 hours of screen time every weekday is bad already so I am just asking will this hurt my eyesight really bad? or not.
(I use these devices : A PC(No glare), a Apple Ipad(with glare, doesnt hurt my eyes) and a phone( i use it sometimes, glare).

Also i do eye excercises and i am getting into the habit of active focus(staring into snellen or whatever chart)

I was laying down on my bed and i was watching my phone on the side for 4 hours and i looked at something and it was blurrier than normal. Is there a way to fix it?

Just added a conversion chart to the resources section of the START HERE post.

Direct link: https://pcoutcast.com/health/snellen-to-diopter-conversion-for-myopia/

Anyone have a way to get contacts ordered from a UK site to the US?

I used to use vision direct but they won’t ship to the US anymore.

"I'm an 18-year-old male, and I recently had my eyesight checked. The results showed a spherical power of 1.25 in both eyes, with a cylinder power of 1.50 in the left eye and 0.50 in the right eye, both with an axis of 6. Before this, I hadn't had my eyes tested in two years, and I was previously wearing glasses with a spherical power of 0.00 and a cylinder power of 2.50 in both eyes, with an axis of 180 degrees. I'm confused about why my prescription has changed. I expected it to increase, but it seems to have decreased. What is that

so i havent had my eyes tested in about a year so i go in to get my eyes tested keep in mind my right is -1.50 and left is -2.25 but i feel like i havent been seeing clearly in them so i go in to get tested and he says that my right is -1.75 and my left is -2.00 and the cyl was -0.25 which was new to me and felt wrong so i went in again at the same doctor and the second time he said my right was -2.00 and left was -2.50 and the cyl was -0.25 and honestly the right was clear but i had a migraine from the left eye and it was still a little blurry and felt weird so i went in again for the last time but with a different doctor and he said that my right is -1.50 with a -0.25 cyl and my left is -2.25 which is the same as my original prescription aka the one i am using rn the only difference is i originally didn’t have any astigmatism so i’m very confused and still can’t see properly but he somehow says that the test says i should now have 6/6 vision and i’m so tired because i went back to change it like 3 times and dk what to do.

please help 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Im 20F,studying in cs in my second year,and my eyesight is already at -2.75,-4.00.And everytime I remove my glasses everything I see is literally EXTREMELY blur.I'm deeply terrified and concerned about this.I'm not sure but I feel like the power is increasing to -4.25.I can't stay off my screen for too long my major requires me to stay on screen for a long while.What can I do to prevent my eyesight from further decreasing and maybe even actually improving it?Please help

I’m looking for natural ways to make my eyesight better, does anyone know anything I could do to improve my eyesight? Thanks

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So, since 2006 or so my right eye, my dominate eye, would see better far away on some days better than others. On some days seeing far away was just a complete blur.

So recently after waiting so long I got a pair of glasses and they helped tremendously. Now when I take my glasses off, even for days, my eye sight seems much better naturally. I can see far away pretty clearly, like 89% clearly without my glasses on now which is a HUGE improvement, though wearing glasses still makes that 100%. I only started wearing glasses last week as well.

Was I wrong in thinking I was nearsighted? Could it have been just eye strain from being on the computer so much and I use it everyday? Are eye strain and near sightedness different or one in the same?

I'm just confused, not complaining though, on my eye sight improving naturally after wearing glasses for a a day or so, taking them off and seeing much better without them then I did prior to ever wearing glasses at all.

What could this be? Thank you.