Cool, what do you think most enabled you to acquire that ability?
Excellent; please share the link(s). What extras do you get? I now think that getting UV protection in my lenses was a mistake, given what I've learned about sunlight improving vision.

http://www.zennioptical.com/

Cool, what do you think most enabled you to acquire that ability?
Excellent; please share the link(s). What extras do you get? I now think that getting UV protection in my lenses was a mistake, given what I've learned about sunlight improving vision.

I'm not sure.  Life is so super busy, mostly I just signed up, they e-mail exercises, I follow them.  Haven't taken the time to try to figure things out beyond just reading the instructions and adding them to what I do.  They said "you'll be able to manually focus in a few weeks" and sure enough, that's what happened. 

I have a blog so they gave me a free 60 days to try it, no requirements to review them or anything.  That's all it took for me to get a whole diopter down in prescription.  Maybe tell them that you are super active on some forums, they seemed pretty easy going about it.

So it sounds like you have a -2.75 Px in one lense and -2.50 in the other and you're trying to get them more equal, plus a different Px for computer work. Is the Px for computer work stronger? Do you have to buy each pair of eyeglasses as your vision improves, or do you rent them, or what?

I accidentally noticed when I looked at the blinds on a window with the sun shining through that my eyes visibly attempted to focus, like a zoom camera. I noticed it again when looking at filtered sun through tree branches/leaves, with the sun framed by branches and then quickly at nearby plants on the ground. The contrast between the dark blinds or branches and the filtered sunlight (full sun is too strong to produce the effect--it's instead just somewhat blinding) appears to produce this effect. I wonder if focusing/unfocusing the eyes repeatedly in this way would be a good exercise. Anyone know? If no one here knows, I'll ask at the other forum.

I know what you mean.  I can do it at will now, change focus.  Took a few months but now I can look at something and play with the focus like manual mode on a camera.

Using that in exercises to improve distance focusing.  Super fun, actually.

I buy my glasses online, they list some resources.  $20-$40 with all the extras, no big deal.  Computer prescription is a tiny minus for me now, soon going for plus lenses.

Thanks for confirming that. I noticed that too, even with raw Paleo carbs (I know, the holy grail that it's a crime to report any negative effects from  ), but wasn't sure if I was imagining it.  The problem for me is, if I forego carby foods completely, then I start to get other negative effects, so it's a difficult balancing act.
Interesting. Can you direct me to info about this type of eyeglasses?

I was going to attach the forum link that explains it better than I could, but apparently it's not a public forum. 

Basically, I took two months of exercises to get rid of ciliary muscle spasm 'fake myopia'.  Between that, and the fact that I was way over-prescribed by my previous optometrist, lead to a new prescription quite a bit lower than the original one:

After the first two months my vision was already improving.  They had me do some tests at home with a Snellen chart under different conditions (before and after working on computer, before and after peripheral vision focus, and different lighting conditions).  With the results from all that, and adjustment from my previous astigmatism, they gave me a new prescription.

Originally I was at -4.00, the first round took me down to -3.00 (that was a lot of work but went by very fast).  I could see 20/20 with the -3.00.  The current one is -2.75 and -2.50, with which I'm exactly at a borderline.  I can see 20/20 with good lighting, if I don't spend all day on the computer, and if I don't drink or eat carbs. 

Otherwise, things get blurry.  Alex refers to it as taking away the no-guilt eye prosthetic, the strong glasses with which you see sharp no matter how much you abuse your eyes.

It's pretty genius how they do the whole thing.

If I'm 100% paleo for a while (takes me a month almost), I can read almost a whole extra Snellen line.  Pretty big difference. Just one or two nights of pizza and beers (happens, circle of friends) sets me back quite a bit.

And a lot of things that are quasi common sense but really helpful:  http://www.myopiachallenge.com/day-17-close-up-a-limited-resource/

Main addition to Todd is awareness and more different exercise.  Faster progress, I think.

Any thoughts on paleo and myopia? 

My myopia rehab therapist keeps telling me to get off all sugar and carbs, though I've been making very good progress even without (down almost two diopters in six months).  Experiences?