Subject:
Why you must make your own objective measurements, and avoid the OD's measurement "system". For background, most of these concepts come from an optometrist. He made these statements that I made an exhaustive effort to verify.
a)
The minus lens is "poison". (Verified as pure science. People who wish to argue against, plus-prevention, should look at this science.)
b)
The public will never wear a plus lens - for prevention. His statement, about the "public" -- he attempted to serve -- was that, if he attempted to get the child to even begin to wear the
plus, then, "...the parents will not stand for it". In other words, the real "limit" is the public's universal rejection of the
concept of wearing a plus for near, while the child can still read the 20/40 line.
I have had a number of pleasant discussions with members on Todd's site, (and my own family) about the true difficulties of, "just prevention".
I will compile the problems, most people will encounter. Here is my list.
1) That myopia is a disease, and therefore, only a "medical person" can solve the problem.
2) That the optometrist has an interest in prevention (when you can still read the 20/40 line, and have a refractive state of -1 diopter.)
3) That the optometrist, can help you in any way with prevention. (The sad truth, is that he will not even help his own children to
AVOID ENTRY. That is most damning, if you have an interest in prevention at all. I would read, "My Children are nearsighted -- Too.)
http://forum.gettingstronger.org/index.php/topic,1105.0.html4) That recovery is going to be easy. That recovery is going to be fast. That anyone can do it from any degree of nearsightedness.
5) That you must go to an optometrist to have your "eyes measured". In fact, almost always their measurements are not
accurate at all. You almost always are over-prescribed by from -1/2 to -1.0 diopters.
6) That you can't measure your visual acuity and refractive state - yourself.
7) That no one has ever changed his refractive state by +1 diopter, and has gone from 20/40 to 20/20.
8 ) If you are going to work on "plus prevention", and have a mild prescription, of say -1.0 to -2.0 diopters, I strongly suggest you
down-load this Snellen chart, and determine which line you can read 1/2 the letters on. It is completely common, that
a person with a -1.0 "prescription", can read the 20/60 line on a "bright Snellen" at home. (Many people can
do far better than that.)
If you can, that is a good starting point for prevention - completely on your own. This is a simplified video, to show the basic idea.
You can not become successful, if you never look at your own Snellen. (The Visual Acuity chart, is in the first paragraph of this video.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgUkoSSgVOs9) I do not ask a person to work on prevention unless I believe that he has a chance to make himself successful. (That limits my statement to
people who have at least 20/40 to 20/70 vision. I personally wear a plus, to avoid getting back, "into" neassightedness.) I do not ask
a person to do something that I am not doing.
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I will add more ideas to this list, as I believe that only an, "independent mind", with long-term motivation and commitment can or will
be successful with plus prevention. From the above, it is clear that no one in an office, can ever "prescribe" this type of
insights and efforts. That is the real problem that most people will have with plus-prevention. They think that an
OD must be involved, when they can't be involved.
The other problem, is that most people simply do not value their distant vision enough - to face all the above difficulties.