So what if your prescription goes from -5.00 to -4.00? Does that
"lessen" your dependency on corrective lenses? How so? If you are
hoping for more improvement than that, I have some land to sell you in
the Mojave dessert.

DrG

<acemanvx[at]yahoo.com> wrote

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That's interesting. When Chung tried that on a group of 36 kids, they got
worse faster.

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And it will happen the same no matter how much energy you exert.

-MT

Do they happen to be middle age or older? sometimes you become less
myopic durning that age. I want to become less myopic and im in my 20s.
I have been wearing lower minus glasses than my pescription around the
house(perfectly clear for near and intermediate) and a pair of glasses
very near my pescription when I go out(one line less than my 20/30
BCVA) I believe I have indeed achieved some improvement. My brother as
well but he never wears glasses, something I cant yet do, dont know if
ill ever get to this point but any improvement will reduce my glasses
dependancy.

acemanvx[at]yahoo.com wrote:
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Otherwise, you and your brother are exactly the same, right down to the
hairs on your head.

On the other hand, I have many patients who wear their minus lenses
constantly, and who become less myopic. Therefore, I must conclude
that minus lenses makes myopia better.

DrG

I do believe minus lenses make myopia progress faster. I used to be a
-1 and now am a -5. My bro started out as -.75 and is only -1.25 since
he almost never wears glasses so his eyes just didnt get worse.

<otisbrown[at]pa.net> wrote

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There are some other differences.

You blame your doctors for causing your myopia.

You believe "neutralized" means "over-prescribed."

You believe putting -5D on an emmetropic baby chick has the same effect as
putting -1D on a myopic 10-year-old.

You've spent 20 years imagining the mechanism of myopia, and never measured
it once.

-MT

staircase myopia in humans is a figment of your imagination.
and you worry too much about baby monkeys and chickens.

Dear Mike,

I am pleased that you think that developing
stair-case myopia in children with an
over-prescribed minus lens such a joke.

I do not. But that is the difference between
us.

Best,

Otis

"Dr. Leukoma" <drg[at]leukoma.com> wrote

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Yeah, sometimes it's tough to decide what to do for baby monkeys.

-MT

Mike Tyner wrote:

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Ah, but in the "dynamic natural eye" (cough, cough, giggle),
astigmatism can indeed be induced:
http://www.optvissci.com/pt/re/ovs/a...856145!9001!-1

DrG