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I should probably do this quickly because I can feel it in the air that people are going to start acting crazy again.

I should probably do this quickly because I can feel it in the air that people are going to start acting crazy again.

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My mother got lasic, she was basically blind for a week or two until it healed. It worked for the first couple of years, she didn't have to wear glasses. Nowadays, she has to wear an even stronger lens prescription than she did before the lasic... and now wears them all of the time instead of just for reading.

It didn't last very long for her, and it made her eyes worse over time.

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Lasik corrects your current vision. That is why they don't recommend it if your prescription changes often. It sounds like she was a bad candidate with changing needs. Some people need new prescriptions every 2 years. Others can use one pair of glasses for 10 years with no problems.

My math teacher got it and he had perfect vision for 40 years. He said he only wished he got it sooner.

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Depends on your location. Like, Texas or Florida, no problem. But I suspect the West Coast would be a different story.

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Lasic is not part of big medicine. You shouldn't have any more issues than any other non medical service.

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It's not permanent. Just be a goofy glasses wearing nerd or touch your eyeball with a lense.

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They'll intentionally blind you.

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I wanted lasic till I realized how often doctors mess it up. Medical malpractice in general is so common. It's one of the leading causes of death.

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They may make you get a Covid test 3 days before the procedure. That's all I needed for a dermatological procedure. No one asked about my vax status or seemed to care and this was in a very blue area.

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There is a natural way to cure myopia and astigmatisms but it takes 3 - 5 years. Lasic is faster, but the most important thing is to change your vision habits so that you won't need Lasic again in the future.

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Got more info on this? I heard about it but the time investment it required was prohibitive, like an hour a day or something like that.

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Sure, there's with his YouTube video. And Jake Steiner with his .

The basic idea is that the eye will adapt to any stimulus you give it. Myopia is a consequence of wearing glasses or contacts all the time when they're not needed, and the eyeball will adapt by growing or shrinking in order to line up the focal point of the image with your retina. Nearsightedness happens when the focal point of your vision is projected in front of the retina, so your eyeball shrinks and you'll start needing glasses soon. Farsightedness is the other way, the focal point is projected behind the retina so over time the eyeball grows/elongates.

So, to reverse either condition, you use the adaptability of the eyes to your advantage. If you have nearsightedness, you adopt vision habits that projects the image behind the retina. This includes using glasses/contacts only when it's needed. Also, having different glasses for working at different distances (i.e while driving, classroom settings, computer work, reading, and work around the house, etc.) really helps as well. The closer the distance you're working at, the weaker the prescription you need.

There a lot more to it, but if you understand how the eye works, you can understand what's needed to hack it and fix your vision. I started in 2018 and I've reduced my prescription from -2.50 to -1.75 and I'm getting to the point where I can switch to using -1.50 during the day and -1.75 at night. I've only adjusted my vision habits though, I haven't done any eye exercises.

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I see. So just like eating right, it's a matter of changing your lifestyle, not just something you 'cure' and keep doing what you were doing.

Edit: With a little bit of practice I found an exercise that's effective. Here's the idea. If you're seeing something clearly up close, you're not training your eye on distant objects. And if you're looking at distant object that are too far away, it's not helping either because they're too far away. The exercise is to look at a piece of paper with printed text and move it away from you (or move your head away) until it starts to be come blurry. Then you move closer until you can read the text clearly again. Each time you do this you're "pulling" your vision a little bit out, like stretching a rubber band more and more.

You have to identify which of your eyes is the weaker one and work on that one first until the two eyes are about equal.

Just after half an hour of this exercise I already feel like my vision improved drastically.

I'm thinking if I can incorporate some physical exercises into the routine so that it doesn't feel like I'm wasting too much time.

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Your bad vision is caused by your eye muscles conditioned to focus your eyesight at a specific distance. Book readers for instance need glasses from putting a book so close to their eyes for so long. Now it's the phone, but same shit.

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Basically go do shit outside

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