Looking for a LASIK alternative?

My ordeal with my Acuvue Oasys contacts has been a kind of blessing in disguise as it has put me on a quest to solve my eye problems. Well, last week, i came across this interesting site that talks about the use of prescription lenses and its negative effects on the eye. It also has a collection of exercises to do to actually IMPROVE your vision. No money is made off the information provided. No sales gimmicks. Just straight information to help you improve your vision from someone who has apparently done it himself.

From Spectacle Hobby by Jacob Raphaelson, OD, 1961: The bad effects of minus lenses on vision and health have been recognized by many optical men in earlier years, in this and other countries. There have been many voices raised against the promiscuous use of minus glasses at the beginning of th century, and a few feeble voices were heard up to the decade of 1950. In the decade of 1950, the fitting and wearing of minus glasses became the rule rather than the exception.

In the last century, in the land of the Tzars (Russia), minus glasses were sometimes used to evade military conscription. A few months before the appearance for army examination, the conscript went to an optical doctor and got a pair of strong minus glasses which he wore steadily until prior to the examination. He was then sure that he would be rejected on account of his vision. The minus glasses had weakened his eyes and made his distant vision very poor.