In keeping with the recent promise of spending more time on good news, let’s look at Johnny’s latest update from the forum today.
As a bit of background, Johnny started two years ago, before yours truly took over stewardship of this project. The first update is here, and others are here, here, and here. If you have forum membership you can find a whole lot of this kind of timeline of updates. I recommend browsing a bit, to help set your expectations and add to your motivation.
Here’s Johnny’s latest update:
Hi all, Its been 2 years almost to the day since I started working on my vision improvement so I’m just posting a quick update.
I am now wearing a -0.75 contact lens during the day. I have been wearing it for about a month or so. In the past week I’ve noticed some good progress which is very exciting. More in the double vision area of things, things becoming clearer. Also night vision is a bit better (although still not great). It still is a bit unbelievable to me that I’m getting this kind of vision with a 0-75 lens. They are pretty weak and very thin – I am almost tempted to start doing without them more (I do go days uncorrected now and watch tv without them at night) but I don’t want to mess up my double vision progress. I really want to get clear 20/20 with this lens before moving down – I think this is important as my myopia is now pretty low.
Interestingly I haven’t had any problems getting hold of contact lenses in powers of -0.75, -0.50 or -0.25 ….depressingly it turns out these are quite popular due to myopic regression after LASIK.
Anyway it’s all very exciting…I daresay that I hope to stop wearing contact lenses during the day completely at some point this year….what an achievement that would be. Watch this space.
While by no means easy, you can absolutely replicate Johnny’s experience. In fact, his is somewhat similar to my own, as I too started out around -5.00 diopters (though I only ever wore -4.00 or thereabouts). Two years is faster than you should set for your own expectations, although BackTo20/20, with the hundreds of iterations to tweak and maximize progress potential, will give you all possible opportunity for strong results.
I’m working on finalizing a system to help keep data like Johnny’s in a database that we will use in the first ever (relatively) large scale study based on mechanistic data, on the topic of natural myopia control. Of course it’ll be ignored by mainstream optometry, but at least we’ll have contributed to clinical science, and the insights will be there for those who chose to look past dogmatic beliefs and short term profit motive.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
-Jake
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