Comments on: Do Glasses Make Your Vision Worse? http://tod.fm/do-glasses-make-your-vision-worse/ Passion Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Otis http://tod.fm/do-glasses-make-your-vision-worse/#comment-4784 Otis Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:49:51 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=345#comment-4784 What do second-opinion medical people think about the need for the plus -- for prevention. There is profound hostility towards any effort at prevention. Most ODs and MDs think it is a joke, or impossible. A few have stated that the general attitude (against prevention) is totally destructive. Here is a ophthalmologist to spells this problem out. http://www.doyletics.com/arj/nomyopia.htm It is too bad that we never hear about this preventive method. What do second-opinion medical people think about the need for the plus — for prevention.
There is profound hostility towards any effort at prevention. Most ODs and MDs think it is a joke, or impossible. A few have stated that the general attitude (against prevention) is totally destructive. Here is a ophthalmologist to spells this problem out.

http://www.doyletics.com/arj/nomyopia.htm
It is too bad that we never hear about this preventive method.

]]> By: Tod http://tod.fm/do-glasses-make-your-vision-worse/#comment-4754 Tod Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:01:24 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=345#comment-4754 Otis, My first thoughts on the subject were as tentative as possible, so I didn't show a bias toward one side or another. Today I don't doubt the harmful effect of negative lenses. Whether it can be reversed and how is another question! Tod Otis,

My first thoughts on the subject were as tentative as possible, so I didn’t show a bias toward one side or another. Today I don’t doubt the harmful effect of negative lenses. Whether it can be reversed and how is another question!

Tod

]]> By: Otis http://tod.fm/do-glasses-make-your-vision-worse/#comment-4753 Otis Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:09:03 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=345#comment-4753 I will not argue if recovery is possible. But I do show proof that a minus is a very destructive "solution" -- and should not be prescribed until you are aware of this "secondary effect". This is an idealization of science -- and FACTS. Here is what the minus does to the natural eye. http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wildsoet/images/neg_lens_induce_myopia.swf This is indeed science. We are victims of an ODs self-serving ignorance. Perhaps you can't get out of it -- but you could have avoided it if you started at 20/40 and -3/4 diopters. I will not argue if recovery is possible. But I do show proof that a minus is a very destructive “solution” — and should not be prescribed until you are aware of this “secondary effect”. This is an idealization of science — and FACTS. Here is what the minus does to the natural eye.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wildsoet/images/neg_lens_induce_myopia.swf

This is indeed science. We are victims of an ODs self-serving ignorance. Perhaps you can’t get out of it — but you could have avoided it if you started at 20/40 and -3/4 diopters.

]]> By: Otis http://tod.fm/do-glasses-make-your-vision-worse/#comment-4685 Otis Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:11:13 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=345#comment-4685 Tod> I have yet to hear a good explanation exonerating eyeglasses and near work as a cause of nearsightedness. Otis> BOTH produce negative status for all natural eyes. (See primate studies -- as pure science.) I don’t even know if any long-term studies have been done. Otis> Yes they have. They show prevention (at 20/40) can be effective -- if the person has the motivation to do it THEN under his control. Tod> The glasses-approving ideas accepted by the modern ophthalmological establishment may be merely an entrenched orthodoxy with little actual proof behind it... Otis> There is no scientific proof to justify it -- except that AFTER we induce negative status, the minus is very impressive. Otis> But just try to get a parent or child to understand the need for agressive use of a plus when the kid is at -1/2 diopter. Tod> I have yet to hear a good explanation exonerating eyeglasses and near work as a cause of nearsightedness.
Otis> BOTH produce negative status for all natural eyes. (See primate studies — as pure science.)
I don’t even know if any long-term studies have been done.
Otis> Yes they have. They show prevention (at 20/40) can be effective — if the person has the motivation to do it THEN under his control.
Tod> The glasses-approving ideas accepted by the modern ophthalmological establishment may be merely an entrenched orthodoxy with little actual proof behind it…
Otis> There is no scientific proof to justify it — except that AFTER we induce negative status, the minus is very impressive.
Otis> But just try to get a parent or child to understand the need for agressive use of a plus when the kid is at -1/2 diopter.

]]> By: asdf http://tod.fm/do-glasses-make-your-vision-worse/#comment-4496 asdf Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:38:54 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=345#comment-4496 You can't reverse myopia, only slow it down or stop. Rule number one: be born with good eyes two: don't read = perfect vision. You can’t reverse myopia, only slow it down or stop. Rule number one: be born with good eyes two: don’t read = perfect vision.

]]> By: phone verification http://tod.fm/do-glasses-make-your-vision-worse/#comment-4278 phone verification Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:33:02 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=345#comment-4278 i agree, i think they purposefully prescribe higher then normal strength eyeglasses to generate business, if its giving you a headache your body is telling you to stop it i agree, i think they purposefully prescribe higher then normal strength eyeglasses to generate business, if its giving you a headache your body is telling you to stop it

]]> By: Mansoor Ahmed http://tod.fm/do-glasses-make-your-vision-worse/#comment-3556 Mansoor Ahmed Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:21:57 +0000 http://Blog.ByTod.com/?p=345#comment-3556 i am having eyesight with -1 but as i started to wear glasses previous year, i noticed that nowadays its again falling down. Well i intend to do a checkup again and i am not quite uncomfortable without glasses. So, what are ur suggestions? i only have difficulty in reading in high school thats all. i am having eyesight with -1 but as i started to wear glasses previous year, i noticed that nowadays its again falling down. Well i intend to do a checkup again and i am not quite uncomfortable without glasses. So, what are ur suggestions?
i only have difficulty in reading in high school thats all.

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