Re: vision improvement

Just to clarify, I am currently trying out these eye exercises.  Based on things I’ve seen people say about it (see blogger sassisailor for instance or people talking about their eyes getting better at snopes), I have a feeling this stuff works, so I’m giving it a reasonable effort. The mainstream view seems to be unanamiously against the idea that you can do anything to improve your vision, which just doesn’t make sense to me.  I know for a fact that my vision is better at some points in time and worse at others, and I have always worried that optometrists would catch me on a bad day and overprescribe me accordingly.  So I’ve been giving this stuff a shot, and I know that my full strength glasses are definitely not comfortable for my eyes anymore.  To what extent is my vision better?  I don’t have the tools to measure, but my wide array of glasses tell me I’m about -3.75 in both eyes now vs. -4.25 and -4.75 before I started doing anything…

As for that array of glasses — I’ve been buying lower prescription glasses from zennioptical, and they work out quite well.  Great bang for the buck.

As for contacts, I haven’t worn them in about two months now, and that redness that my Oasys contacts gave me is still around.  Thanks again, Acuvue and the optometry community which apparently doesn’t bother to read between the lines when looking at research studies! You guys have been great in making me realize that I can’t trust optometrists since the more expensive the product they suggest/prescribe, the more they make and thus have much less short-term incentive to ensure that “new products” are actually GOOD for the patient (hello, conflict of interest and poor quality of care!)!