Hi Steven,
Subject: Now that you have verified 20/40 visual acuity on your Snellen...
Let me say the following:
1) When a person tells me he has -4.0 diopters of myopia - I simply do not know what to say.
2) But when he finds he can read the 20/60 line, then I will "talk".
3) I avoid making "claims" for the most part, but if a person has strong (long-term) resolve, and "gets the idea", then I think he can get out of 20/60 vision - objectively.
4) I love objective science, but I have a hard time "talking" to most people about this subject. I do avoid "selling" anything - and make all this analysis available for free.
5) I wish to save the "next engineer" all the trouble I went through to learn the importance of "educated self-control", and self-measurement.
6) It is incredible to me that you got to 20/40 from -4.0 diopters, since Dec 2012.
7) You learned how to read your Snellen (brightly lit) and judge the "improvement" by hand-holding a minus lens. That to me that is "empowering", in the sense that you can estimate your refractive state - yourself. (Avoid involvement of an OD - who had NO INTEREST in any of this work.)
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THE FUTURE?
I think that, since you "came back" from -4.0 diopters, the LAST one or two diopters will be the most difficult. This is now, "all personal objective judgment" on your part.
Leadership is *me* wearing a plus lens for all *my* close work, and self-measurement of my refractive status. Leadership for *you* is doing the same thing. If you can continue to wear the +2.0 for "just close work", for the next six to nine months, I think you will improve that "last diopter" - objectively.
I never judge my vision by "thinking" it has improved by "just looking". No - I read my Snellen. That is the only way. The term, 20/20, does not mean all that much. What you actually read will be from 20/25 to 20/15 - thus it is impossible for ANY OD TO SAY THIS OR DO THIS. You must just check yourself.
As always, this is a very slow process. You are the ONLY PERSON WHO "WINS". So my request is that you continue to post your ideas, concepts, and your dogged persistence in wearing that plus for all computer and reading work that we are all forced to do in our "modern society".
Thanks for making yourself successful!
Otis
Thank you Otis.
I would say my success in such a short time is because :
a) I never used a minus lens after committing to improve my eyesight. ( only a half prescription, very rarely in urgent cases.)
b) I tried to use a +2 whenever i could.
Now, if i could have avoided all computer work and if i used 24/7 a plus lens i am sure i would have reached the targets even faster or i would have improved my vision even more.