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Ho, too bad :(

Fixing my myopia would be one of my life’s dream. I’m unfortunately non eligible to laser surgery due to my amblyopia. I’m stuck there forever waiting for a non invasive treatment that nobody is searching for because, well, we have the LASIK.

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> too bad

I suggest and encourage you to try the exercises that others in this page have mentioned; some people have written their guide or guidelines and one well known is

"The No Bulls#*t Guide to Vision Improvement", by C. G. Hayes

(search for > Guide to Vision Improvement.pdf < or similar).

First of all, the best wager is to place bets on ways that some witness have worked, and it is not ruled out they could work for you also.

If anything, you will have gained points exercising discipline.

> The No Bulls#*t Guide to Vision Improvement

All of this sounds so quacky. The name, the "secret knowledge industry doesn't want you to know about", the marketing...

Sounds. Have you read it?

> the "secret knowledge industry doesn't want you to know about", the marketing

Have you dreamt those features, or are they somewhere in the document?

Just wait until you're older.. my dream is for presbyopia to be fixed. Presbyopia is essentially when your eyes can no longer auto-focus, it's incredibly annoying. I think some Israeli company was supposedly working on auto-focus glasses for this... good idea, since the market is basically everyone. But it looks like they stopped.

https://eye-see-mag.com/en/high-tech/autofocus-lenses-for-pr...

I've been following the development of eye drops which promise to reach the lens and make it flexible again:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04806503

That would be really something.

Wow it really would be!

Should we invest in the company that makes them. What an amazing development

Novartis acquihired them very early on and now is performing clinical trials.

Results from the most recent completed study are encouraging:

https://www.healio.com/news/optometry/20201012/further-study...

Silly Question: It it a good experiment to put the medicine in one eye and the placebo in the other eye? What could be other consequences of such a thing?

Vision therapy for both presbyopia and myopia relies partly on neuroplasticity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194580

There is a sizable incumbent revenue stream from expensive progressive lenses for those with presbyopia, which may or may not influence investment in alternative solutions.

Man fixing it would be my dream too, especially with masks these days.

I'm eligible for LASIK but I'm still waiting for a non invasive treatment as well. I know it is "safe" but it can go wrong and after reading some of the horror stories in forums I would _hate_ it if it goes wrong. Even smaller side effects like having dry eyes all the time and eyes hurting when there is wind sounds annoying.

Oh you can try hard contact lenses. Sadly I’ve not been able to tolerate them for some reason that my ophthalmologist cannot explain but while I was wearing them, the correction was extraordinary, because it also fixes all forms of astigmatisms.

Maybe what didn’t work for me will work for you.

Are hard contact lenses better than soft for astigmatism? Have you tried soft ones? I've only tried the latter and could never get used to them seeming to go out of focus or drift around whenever I blinked.

They are well better because they are 100% effective. I have tried soft ones (torics) and never been satisfied with them (still better than glasses). With the hard ones, the astigmatism basically disappears because a drop of tear forms between your eye and the lens so the optical system is composed with your eye, the tear drop, and the lens. This way, the surface of your eye have not any impact on the optical result.

(please excuse my writing, it's difficult for a non native to talk about technical topics with a lot of vocabulary I'm unfamiliar of)

Ortho-k lenses won't fix it, but they do have some effect on it (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21037497/).

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