Hi John, Tom and Todd,
Subject: Gross, improper over-prescription can indeed "cause problems".
Reference: With respect to the plus - I suggest that IF IT IS PROPERLY USED, you will NEVER develop vision beyond normal-emmetropia.
If you over-prescribe a plus, when a child is five, this is what happens. NOTE: Like any drug, improper use WILL cause this problem. The idea is INTELLIGENT AND CORRECT USE.
I am curious as to Tom Lu's analysis of this specific case. (I NEVER would have had this 5 year old wearing an over-prescribed lens - EITHER PLUS OR MINUS.)
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Thank you for this wonderful group. I enjoy learning from all of you.
My situation is this: I have worn glasses almost 40 years, beginning as
a 5-year-old little girl. My current prescription is 6.25+ with
astigmatism. All my life, 20/30 was the clearest they could get me. But
with the natural vision improvement I have done, this prescription
actually brings me to 20/20 - strong though it is.
I just purchased the Read Without Glasses method to see if that might
help me. My issue is that I seem to be converging in a lop-sided way
with their chart:
http://www.i-see.org/gottlieb/presbyopia_chart.pdf<http://www.i-see.org/gottlieb/presbyopia_chart.pdf>
I will see the three dots, but not five columns of text, at first
anyway. The row of text with the two dots and the words "Cross your
eyes" should become one block of text with no dot, then three blocks of
text with a dot, and one block of text with no dot - five columns.
But what I see at first is three blocks of text with a dot then one
without a dot - four columns, with the one at the far left missing. If I
relax, the phantom left column will eventually show up, and I try to
hold that for practice.
So I have two questions:
1. What is causing this - astigmatism, lazy eye, or something else?
2. What is the best way to clear this?
Thank you so much for any advice you can give.
Lora