In case you’re new to all of this endmyopia stuff, a quick note:
That optometrist shop is just a retail store.
Most of them are in shopping malls, all of them exist to sell a product – glasses. They’re not in business to diagnose your eye health, they’re not in business to keep your eyes healthy, they’re not in business to know or teach you about biology.
The business is what it says on your shopping receipt.
What does it say on your receipt?
Thaaaat’s right. They are in business to sell glasses.
An optician is not a medical doctor. An optician is a lens seller.
An optometrist is not a medical doctor, either.
“Licensed to prescribe corrective lenses”.
Or as we simple folk would say, selling glasses.
Yes they can diagnose some basic vision health issues. Guess what though – if they find real medical issues, they will refer you to an actual medical doctor. They’re doctors the way a tow truck operator is an auto mechanic, in that they can confirm that your car is broken town and tow you to a shop to fix it.
These statement don’t make your favorite Jakey very popular with the establishment. They can’t exactly deny the principal validity of my statements. But still, they don’t like somebody pointing it all out.
What’s the point of this rant?
This post in our Facebook group.
Yes, we do have opticians and optometrists in our group. For all the obvious reasons, they tend to be low key. One does not want to bite the hands that feeds them.
Selling you more glasses, or just making more money is certainly the main interest of the retail optometry business. The site that Jia is referring to, just a fine piece of marketing. They basically claim that they can take your (optometry) business and teach you how to gauge customers for way more money, yay:
A thing of beauty.
We already know that retail optometry is a giant ripoff. Executives of the largest US optometry chain have admitted so themselves. And if you keep looking, as in above example, you’ll find that this is just true no matter what.
You may already know that the wholesale cost of lenses can be as little as $0.83. Which is why you can pop online and buy full pairs of glasses, frames and all, for as little as $10 to $20 on lots of sites.
I’m also not saying that the entire industry is evil charlatans. Not at all – some are just misinformed or simply don’t care. And also there are plenty that are pretty good. Because of course any amount of reading peer reviewed clinical science will explain the cause of nearsightedness to anyone curious.
There are even plenty of optometrists that will confirm your eyesight improvements.
It’s a swamp out there. If there’s money to be made vs. your well-being considered, you know which way that tide will turn. You have the fancy titles and pretty shops on one hand, and the deep end of the Internet on the other, ready to claim all sorts of conspiracy and outlandish alternatives.
Hopefully you find endmyopia somewhere in the middle. Outlandish only in rants and sarcasm, otherwise ideally grounded in functional approaches and scientific curiosity.
Go forth and make some 20/20 gains.
Cheers,
– Jake
P.S.: Your eyes aren’t “broken”.
It’s your lens use and habits that keep making your eyes worse. And the massive hundred billion dollar optics industry loves it. They keep selling you stronger and stronger glasses, and tell you stories of some mysterious genetic “myopia illness”.
It’s nonsense. Your eyes are perfectly healthy.
Check out Annette’s post in our Facebook group. From -5.25 down to the last diopter already:
Exactly.
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