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Rehabilitation / Re: Astigmatism from print pushing!!!
« Last post by connrrr on March 02, 2021, 01:13:09 PM »Since doing pulling focus in shopping malls my left eye has improved to -0.5 (last time I posted it was between -0.75 and -1).
My right eye has improved as much as my left eye but that eye until recently had to contend with (severe) astigmatism, in other words my right eye can see all the way to -0.5 (even -0.25 at times) but the letters are seen in duplicate or triplicate or let's just say whatever crap astigmatism can come up with to spoil the image my right is able to produce. Not satisfactory at all to say the least. So in a desperate effort to improve my right eye I tried print-pushing on only my right eye again but once more proving that this method worsens the astigmatism... This is not because of using plus lenses - I use plus lenses for near work - but the effort of trying to see beyond the blur horizon with plus lenses. Again I think print-pushing is a tool to combat moderate/high myopia but once your eyes enter the zero to -1 realm it's not that great a tool anymore.
I'm never going to get a reply because this forum is dead, but I'm going through this right now myself.
I discovered endmyopia.org and Todd Becker in December 2018 and very soon after adopted the plus lens method. I used it maybe too much, and without giving my eyes proper rest, because sometime in the summer that followed I developed red-eye and I don't know if my astigmatism got worse but it definitely became more obvious to me.
I'm so conflicted because even Todd mentions double images and fusing them in his Ancestry Foundation talk. When I found all this talk of active focussing and reduced lenses and plus lenses I had just been prescribed -0.75/-1.25 sph and -0.25/-0.5 cyl (od/os) and have my latest eye exam scheduled for the end of the month.