Acuvue Oasys For Astigmatism: $35 vs. $100 For The SAME Contact Lenses?!

The World Is Their Oyster

Ahhh, contact lenses.  The magic of popping a thin bit of floppy rubber-plastic on your eyeball, and the word is suddenly clear.  Modern science and production truly are amazing.

Johnson & Johnson is amazing.

And Johnson & Johnson loves you.  Or rather, they love your wallet.  How much they love your wallet depends on where you live.  Since you got lured here to read about astigmatism correcting contact lens prices, let’s talk about those.  Lucky for you J&J make Acuvue Oasys contact lenses available for sale world-wide.  But how much they’re worth, depends on where you live.  

The astigmatism part is interesting, though anytime you use contact lenses, the cylinder correction for astigmatism is less accurate than the equivalent for contact lenses.  

First, let’s briefly look at how astigmatism (cylinder diopter) is managed in a contact lens.

Cylinder correction in any lens is applied at a specific axis, to correct astigmatism.

Before we go into just doing this though, realize that you may be able to fix your own astigmatism (so you don’t need Acuvue Oasys for astigmatism in the first place).

I’ve written a guide on all things astigmatism

Perhaps worth reading since I’ve spent the past 20 years in myopia control, and have helped many tens of thousands of people reverse their astigmatism (and stop needing glasses altogether).  I’ve written hundreds of articles about astigmatism.

I’ve also explained how to build an astigmatism DYI measuring tool as well as many optometrist confirmed results of astigmatism removed (there are quite a few).

In my guide (link above) I explain why the optometrist astigmatism measuring system is deeply flawed, why astigmatism is the “high fructose corn syrup of the vision industry“, whether you should even use astigmatism correction at all, and of course, how to measure it.

Whew.  Well if you made it this far, then let’s look at how astigmatism correction works in contact lenses.

In principle, there’s a little weight at the bottom of the lens, to keep the cylinder correction aligned:

As you can tell from above image probably, that’s a pretty relative sort of solution.

If you have high astigmatism or are sensitive to fluctuations in focal plane, I don’t recommend it.

I also strongly suggest not wearing these contact lenses during screen / close-up use, especially not for longer duration.  They contribute in many ways to why your eyes suck in the first place.

But if you really want Acuvue Oasys, or any contact lens with astigmatism correction, the price is worth exploring.  Because J&J is very much trying to get the most money out of you, and that depends where and how you buy these contact lenses.

Let’s explore just how much (or little) you pay for Oasys depending on where you live.

Congrats, You’re Paying $35 For Acuvue Oasys For Astigmatism (India, Thailand, Mexico)

It does make sense, on a certain level.  Income varies, and if you live in Mexico you’re not going to be able to pay the same amount of money for Acuvue contact lenses as if you lived in Norway.

That’s the interesting thing though – the cost of making the contact lenses has absolutely squat to do with what you’re paying for them.  They charge you as much as they can, that’s the name of the game.  You could say that infrastructure costs are higher, rents, salary, insurance, etc.  

You could say that.

Or you could say that they’ll just get you for whatever they can.

acuvue oasys in mexico

Acuvue Oasys in Mexico will set you back 699 pesos.  That’s 40 USD for Acuvue Oasys on lentesmexico.

Also interestingly, lots of sites will try to stop you from seeing local prices, depending on where you’re browsing rom.   But if you find sites (not all that difficult), you’ll find the same story for various countries in a generally similar income bracket:

Country Average Price (USD)
India $35
Thailand $40
Mexico $45

The contact lens market in the US alone is 3 billion dollars a year.  A drop in the bucket compared to the entire myopia industry lens industry which is 100 billion dollars a year. 

Huge profits in contact lenses.  Also a number of side effect risks, but nobody really will tell you about those.

I actually posted a picture of my find of $6 (!) daily contact lens boxes for sale at 7/11.  Nuts!

Oops, You’re paying $100 For Acuvue Oasys For Astigmatism (Norway, Denmark, Island)

If you live in rich-ass countries, you’re used to paying lots more for things.  

Country Average Price (USD)
Norway $100
Denmark $95
Iceland $90

Actually, here’s a deal, for just 700kr (or 70 USD as of this writing):

acuvue oasys in norway

They really get you with taxes too, depending on where you live.  You’re paying a boatload more for everything from Apple products to basic commodities, because why not.

Your favorite old eye guru has lived all over the world, from Myanmar to France.  And the interesting thing I found is that ‘rich’ countries don’t necessarily mean ‘rich’ lives.  People are just as broke, and often less happy in these supposedly wealthy countries.

You would be wealthy, if the system wasn’t rigged against you.  Contact lens prices and my article, just to jab that one in a little bit.

What To DO: Shop Around (Everywhere)

As you look at it globally, prices more than double depending on where you buy your contact lenses:

Country Average Price (USD)
India $35
Thailand $40
Mexico $45
Norway $100
Denmark $95
Iceland $90

Sure you make way more money in Norway over Mexico.  At the end of the day though they will keep you as broke as possible, no matter what your paycheck looks like.

Since you can’t change where you live (probably), buying online is really often the way to go.  You’ll find discounts, sometimes it might even be worth shopping from other countries – depending on how big of a supply of lenses you want.  

Also and because this is endmyopia, I’d e remiss to leave out the part where you can unsubscribe from all of these contact lens subscriptions (not ‘prescriptions’).  Your eyes are fundamentally healthy, and they really just sold your eyes into focal plane slavery by misdiagnosing a simple focusing muscle spasm, and getting you to buy their lenses.  You can (and should) get your way back out of all this.

Check out my other articles on contact lenses and the many ways you can use them to actually improve your eyesight.  It does take a bit more effort and knowledge, but whether you buy Acuvue Oasys or any other brand, you can use focal planes to actually make your eyes better.

Or there are contact lenses actually made to stop your eyes from getting worse.  Those are mad pricey but they offer tech that should be pretty interesting.  Check out my article on these defocus ring contact lenses.

And if you want to just get rid of all contact lenses, see more below.

Cheers,

-Jake

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Andrew Huberman Eye Exercises (Why You Shouldn’t Bother)

Did you come here looking for Andrew Huberman eye exercises?

Well.  There is good news, and bad news.  

The good news is, I made a (very very bad news) reaction video to the Huberman Lab Podcast episode with Dr. Goldberg on “improving eye health”.  

Andrew Huberman Eye Exercises?

Well … I tell you the best place to start to find out what ole Hubes knows about myopia, eyesight, and how to improve your eyesight.  It’s his recent podcast talking about eye health, which turned out to be very telling.

I made a reaction video.  Which explains everything you need to know about eyes, eye exercises, Dr. Huberman, and things to not waste your time on.

Yes yes.  I just hit play on their episode, and record on the ole Webcam.  Perhaps that wasn’t the right idea.  It’s a genuine reaction, I didn’t see any part of the episode prior to this ‘live’ take:

If you’ve watched it …. yea.  There is some very needless impolite opining on my part happening.

I tried to edit some of it out actually, when re-watching it I totally see why people gave me a hard time in the comments.  

It’s harsh.  

Again though, it was my real reaction.  I could not believe that two Stanford ophthalmology PhD’s know this little about eye biology and myopia.  It’s been my pet topic for 20 years now and it’s one of the things that pushes my buttons.  I know, you know.  That and there would be no endmyopia anyway if I didn’t have this particular personality or affliction with the myopia topic.

Dr. Andrew Huberman appears to NOT understand myopia causes.  Or perhaps he does, but it’s not in his handler’s commercial interests for you to know.  Or hey, here’s an ophthalmology journal article literally stating that glasses cause myopia.  Not something you’ll get from Huberman Lab’s podcast, eh?

If you want to know why your eyes are messed up exactly, check out my short animated eye health series.

Without knowing for sure, it looks like Huberman and Chief Inspector Dr. Goldenberger are just clowns.  Yes, if your favorite ole Jakey toned it down, the odds of ever getting on a podcast with with these guys might be non-zero (as it is now probably).  I want to, believe me.  But how do you stay cool when you first hear the nonsense they talk about?  The “light spectrum, maybe”?

This is how we will never get cozier with the mainstream, or appeal to a larger audience.  You’ve got a (magnificently bearded) guy at the helm with little to gain, no sense of propriety, no finesse, no aspirations of fame or fortune.  It’s not a great recipe for success.

Or is it.  I think it’s more fun to get a smaller crowd, but one you don’t have to walk on egg shells on, for.  Be all lowest-common-denominator friendly and hypoallergenic for the masses.

Huberman Lab: Eye Health Is A Mystery

The Huberman Lab episode on eye health is as bogus as it gets.   

Also though consider that they’re part of a 100 BILLION dollar a year industry, that exists primarily by pretending their treatment doesn’t cause more myopia.  Cause more myopia, cause more profits.  Ignore the actual root cause, just get people on a lifetime symptom treatment program.  Stanford University, kids.  Helping big business make big money.  If you’re looking for Andrew Huberman to tell you about eye exercises, you’re heading for a dead end.

Huberman wouldn’t have a few million followers either, if he were to bite the very hand that feeds him and his ilk.   If you want to know what actual professionals say, check out this article explaining how “failing to discuss myopia prevention verges on negligence“.

It’s all scam.  Check out this LA Times Article, titled “How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear“.  That one’s a doozy.  6,000% average markup on lenses, darling.  That’s what they do to you.  All while the figureheads like dearest deer-in-headlight Huberman shrug and go, “well we don’t know what causes it”.

Check out my very genuine reaction in the video above, where we actually take the time to dissect their points, shine a spotlight on ignorance (purposeful or not), and do some ‘splaining on what actually goes on with your eyeballs.

Impolitely.  

Hey, maybe one day Jakey will be poor and you’ll get something more palatable than rants and digressions.  Meanwhile if you want to see what happens if you listen to a guy who actually understand eye health and myopia, these are some of the results.

Cheers,

-Jake

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Retail Optometry: Profiting From “Ignorance”

We haven’t done a quick little comparison between reality and retail optometry, in a while.

Shall we have one?

Pretty good, yes?

First Heidi got pulled across the table by the retail optometrist with a massive ripoff price on glasses.  Glasses that were wrong no less, and all she got from those clowns was “oh well just wear them till your brain gives up complaining that they’re wrong”.

There we go, first class retail optometry care for you.

Heidi figured it out.  The reality part.  That she didn’t need crappy advice, that diopters are pretty simple to self administer, that none of this is rocket science.  That’s reality.

Let’s go from simple reality to the take of retail optometry, from the horses mouth so to speak.

So I tweeted that you can improve your eyesight.

No big deal.  You can, so what.  There’s plenty of science on the how and why and nobody in their right mind (and not reaching in your pocket) would pretend that all that doesn’t exist.  

But alas, seems nobody is in their right mind.  Or rather maybe blinded by the 100 billion dollars a year they’re making pretending to be ignorant.  Notice the “doctor”, not at all talking science or facts, just the standard 5th grader logic of “oh it’s not real because I said”.  

I invited him to debate science, but none of them ever take us up on actual meaningful debate.   At least when it comes to myopia, he’d find himself up against more study quoting and biology facts than he’s likely prepared for – much like the Huberman podcast:

And like I’ve said half a billion times, your options are simple:

Accept retail reality, lifetime symptom treatment subscriptions.  Or wade into the swamp of the Internet, figure out things on your own.  Ideally you’ll avoid the crazy talk, the unicorn farms, the fairy dust miracle pills.  It’s a way more challenging route, though perhaps you’ll find better answer eventually than the ole retail-treatment-doctors, and their “your eyesight is a mysterious genetic condition”.

There we go.  Old timey rant, over.

Cheers,

-Jake

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Data Scientist: This DRAMATICALLY Improved My Eyesight

All contents on this site should be considered research material only.  We are not offering medical advice or treatment or cures for any illnesses. The reduced lens method is strictly experimental.Before considering taking steps to control your own myopia, you should definitely visit a qualified ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eyesight checkup.  Specific diagnoses illnesses aside,  most) myopia may be considered to not be an illness at all.  Most myopia is likely just a matter of environmental strain, and excessive prescription use.  You yourself may be able to control and reduce your own myopia by 1) managing eye strain, 2) conservative prescription lens use, and 3) targeted positive stimulus.We recommend finding a prevention minded optometrist to supplement your journey with professional advice and prescription management help.  While not a requisite, a supportive optometrist may make your journey that much more enjoyable!Potential Side Effects: (1) You may experience astigmatism-like symptoms, especially if you reduce too fast or without paying attention to this (transient) symptom. Search our Youtube channel or Website for ‘transient astigmatism’. This can easily be prevented or managed. (2) Some people report an increase in eye floaters when practicing active focus. In general floaters are considered harmless but a sudden increase in floaters should be evaluated by a medical trained professional, as they could be a sign of retinal detachment or other serious medical condition. Generally taking it easy, not over straining, practicing gently and with patience should help. (3) Headaches. You’re taking on a very much unsanctioned self-experiment changing diopters. Anytime you overdo things or change too much or aren’t educating yourself first, you may expose yourself to strain symptoms. You should be experiencing no pain, headaches, or discomfort if you do things correctly!

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Optometrist Exams: Take With Grain Of Salt

A long time ago ole Jakey made a ramble-faced video that pissed off a lot of optometrists:

You can’t see dislikes anymore, but that number was … pretty big.  

Mostly I tried to explain why that single measurement isn’t really all that representative of the entire picture of your eyesight, diopter needs, myopia.

I explained the concept again recently in our Le Meow forum:

And most importantly:

As with all personal improvement projects, there is a bit of a rabbit hole.

Check out more of the optometrist confirmed gains and gains overall, as well as 20/20 fully recovered gains.  Of course this is just the tip of the ice berg, as I’m neither that great at posting all of the e-mails I get every day, and certainly not everybody takes the time to share their updates.

Moral of the story, eyes are healthy.  And they adapt to stimulus.  And the optometrist is trained for that stimulus to work out for a lifetime lens subscription.  Participation is optional.  

Go make some 20/20 gains!

Cheers,

-Jake 

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How To Fix Your Double Vision (Transient Astigmatism)

Quick one here, before I forget.

Learning about diopters, initial excitement,  temptation to monkey with diopters.  It happens to all of us.  After all it’s pretty freaking awesome when you figure out that myopia isn’t some unfixable genetic disaster.  But with that, a lot of newbie fellow darling kittehz imagine themselves smarter than 20 years of Beardly insights and the collected wisdoms of many thousands of people working on their eyesight.  

It’s at once understandable and also pretty annoying day to day.

Annoying since year in, year out I get e-mails from peoples complaining about things like, double vision they have now that they didn’t have before.   “Jake, I went to the optometrist and I have astigmatism now.  Because of you and your giant beard and all your Internet talk about reducing diopters.  I hate you!”

Reducing too many diopters or too fast, on the list of 10 most common mistakes.

I’d be fine with it all, if in the end it didn’t usually come back around to be assigned as my fault.  I give all the best case advice and ideas, people take half of them, do whatever they feel like will do best … and when that doesn’t work out, it’s because Jake screwed up.

Heh.  

Ok fine, rant over.  You got double vision because you ignored my advice.  And now you’re freaking out that you screwed up your eyes.

You didn’t.  Deep breath, you’re fine.

Don’t go out and get cylinder correction.  Here is an example of the correct way to actually deal with the transient astigmatism symptom:

There you go.  

Also note that there are a ton more resources in the paid member section.  As much as it’s nice to imagine that people out there love working for free and paying all the bills to run this stuff, I actually do like to at least break even on the bills.  You heathens.  

And sometimes also not pay for my own coffee every day while answering questions and keeping this show up to date.

If you’re past the is-this-real stage and experimenting with all the free resources, stop over the courses page and pick yourself out a nice shiny membership option.  No need to be throwing around the big money, even Le Rough Guide gets you access to our member-only forum (90,000 monthly visits!) and 200+ Pro Topic Videos, and exclusive podcast episodes and lots more. 

Totally worth it.  And just like above screenshot is from our Le Meow forum, that’s usually where you’ll find answers to your questions, and fellow endmyopia enthusiasts getting some eagle-eyed vision.

Cheers,

-Jake 

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David Gibson, Optometrist: “You’re Idiots And Liars”

In almost 20 years I’ve yet to ever have one single optometrist who disagrees with endmyopia, come properly debate vision science.

All they got is personal attacks. Example here, an innocent Quora question about astigmatism:

Quora Astigmatism Question

Various people answer the guys question.  That’s the point of Quora.

I throw in the endmyopia take on astigmatism: 

Quora Astigmatism Jake Steiner Answer

And then this optometrist, “David Gibson“, very randomly and for no apparent reason jumps into my answer with insults:

Quora Optometrist David Gibson Attacks

Why.  How.  What is he thinking?

What is wrong with these people?  Is he debating my answer, or making any constructive points?  No.  It’s childish personal attacks without any meaningful substance.  

My basically standard response to these optometrist attacks:

These people is what got me into making endmyopia in the first place. They still piss me off, being rude, ignorant, arrogant, and most importantly, wrong.

But they still somehow manage the gall to act this way, in public.

Here is the original post asking about astigmatism on Quora, and David Gibson’s comments.  (update – appears Quora or David deleted his comment since)

David Gibson‘ certainly is far from the worst.  Or the only one.  There was Bill Otto the optometrist a while back, and my least favorite of them all, Por Yong Ming.  That one insists glasses don’t cause myopia, and that even -8 diopters is “fine and normal”. 

Check out my Quora profile and answers.   I’m not on there much, just the occasional popping in.  Since 2016!

We’re the 0.0000001% out there, talking about actual myopia science.  The rest is all ignorance and symptom treatment and zero inquisitiveness of actually fixing myopia without selling lifetime subscriptions.

– Jake

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Reducing Too Quickly: Why It’s Your Biggest Mistake

Thought of the words of wisdom for gym / lifting weights:

You don’t get stronger while you work out, you get stronger while you rest.

Something like this is also true for improving vision. You note the improvement in centimeter / eye chart / distant landmark as your eye is adapting to the increased challenge, when the reduction is still new.

But the actual sustained improvement happens after, when that improvement appears consistent.

Leave 3-4 months between diopter reductions, even (and especially if) things seem improved and consistent even after a much shorter time span.

Also see the 10 Most Common Mistakes.

Cheers,

-Jake

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Q&A: Help With First Differential Glasses









































































































Q&A: Help With First Differential Glasses

I do answer all questions!

Did you know that I answer member questions every single day?

Here is one (and my detailed answer) from today:

Lots going on here.

Digging in:

Indeed, I do this every day.

How much longer that option will be available for new course buyers, I can’t say.  But you might as well get in today so that you’re definitely on the list of members that get my attention directly.

Cheers,

-Jake

WRITTEN BY

Formerly genetically defective. 🤓 Weaned off retail optometry lens subscriptions, now 20/20 eyesight. Also into BJJ, kitesurfing, paragliding, being stupid.

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Roger: -3.75 Diopters To NO GLASSES (Full Episode)

Here we go, the Roger Shortsighted Podcast episode link, just for you!

Check out the 2 minute version if you’re not sure if the whole thing is worth taking your time:

I enjoyed the chat.

Note that this and future episodes are only available to members of endmyopia, in its various forms.  We’re not doing free podcast on Youtube anymore.

Some of the new episodes will be in our monthly e-mail update.

They will also be posted in Le Meow, our private community forum.  And all future shows will also available as part of the Pro Topic Video list, which you get if you buy Le Rough Guide with the optional Pro Topic Videos upgrade, or with the full BackTo20/20 program.

I do keep adding to the 200+ videos in the Pro Topic Video list:

If you have the Pro Topic Videos, new episodes are at the top.

Three more episodes of the podcast are already recorded, and I have four new videos planned.  With titles including:

  • Why 60cm Is The Ideal Close-Up Distance (and when it isn’t)
  • My Eyesight Is Worse At The Beach:  Little Details, Big Vision Differences
  • Why Start The Day Without Diopters (20 Minutes No Glasses Habit)
  • Don’t Ask Me About Your Optometrist Exam Results

These will all be in the Pro Topic Video list.

Just like BackTo20/20, I continue to update resources that you may already have paid for.  I don’t do sneaky “pay me again” tricks, we don’t mess around with endless upsells and all that.  I try to give you the most possible value for being a member, which includes ongoing updates to content to help you on your eyeball journey.

Yes it’s all in the usual Jake-style of being unscripted and not on set schedules, and who knows what I’m doing next.  But with best intentions and focus on you, who supports this resource.

Here’s the full Roger episode:

Hope you like.

If you haven’t yet but would like to support endmyopia, and want video content, Le Rough Guide, access to our private forum, or even BackTo20/20 – check available courses here.

I very much recommend the full BackTo20/20 course, if you’ve been languishing.  It’s really miles beyond any of the free stuff, properly focused, just what you need, with direct support from me.  I usually don’t sell it that hard, it is a great system that definitely deserves the top spot when it comes to vision improvement tools.

Our private forum has been quite lively also.  Way better than the Facebook group, also uncensored and no ads.

Topics I haven’t checked yet.

Forum invites are available with all courses, starting at just $39 with Le Rough Guide.

I’ve been a bit less motivated the last number of months, feeling a bit burned out in general with doing free stuff for the ungrateful riff-raff of the Internet.  It’s been much better once I changed my focus and attitude, deciding to make things for fellow contributors and members.

And various little odds and ends will benefit the existing free resources as well.  Like the two minute Roger clip, motivate everyone to work on bette eyesight.

Keep making those 20/20 gains!

Also … if you didn’t catch the affiliate program sign-up link, that’s here.  It’s new, I’m not really promoting it yet, never done an affiliate program before.  Get up to $250 for referring new BackTo20/20 members, I’ll be spending consistent time to help affiliates get the most out of promoting endmyopia.  ❤️

Cheers,

-Jake

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