NO GLASSES FOR 10 DAYS! | Eyesight Improvement Results | Should I stop wearing my glasses?

[@trira1171]

😀 In a way, its a simple process: 1) Start wearing differentials 2) Start wearing normalized 3) reduce 0.25-0.50 in some time. 4) Stop wearing glasses for close up 5) Print pushing (60 cm) without glasses 6) Stop wearing glasses for distance 7) Distance vision outdoor 8) Dont stress (Take breaks if you feel stressed...😊) 9) Measure (Dont measure too much, that can cause unnecessary anxiety. I measured once or twice a week). 10) Additional (to speed up the process): Eye exercises & Thrataka.

[@julianoshorts9301]

Hi what do you think? I dont wear glasses at all. I am at 2,00 or 1,75. Can i reduce my myopia without glasses?

[@MukeshKumar-mv3yf]

You are wrong " stop wearing glasses distance""

[@trira1171]

@@julianoshorts9301 I fotgot to add a point: 11) relax your eyes a) yogic eye wash (with water) OR b) palming OR c) hot compress OR d) screen breaks & close eyes.

[@vidyavikasperam4592]

A Big thank you for letting us know about your journey and making us aware of things which we didn't have any idea about previously. keep marching forward and good luck for rest of your journey.

[@GemilyMez]

Thank you so much, Vikas!

[@alanx4121]

theoretically myopia could be fixed in a month. the myopic ciliary is like an unused muscle. I came to realize this from my own situation: I can't tense my calf muscles and sit in a wheelchair without shoes, when I do it too long, the calves 'shorten' from no use in an untaxed position, it's not a spasm because the nerves don't work,. Then when I stand up after many days, the muscles get loaded and stretched and it hurts extremely lol Our ciliary is 'shortened' (or in tensed form) and weakened from under use - that's why accommodation stings when relearned, like my unloadeed calf muscle when standing again -, it's not from tension/spasm, else atrpine worked. if there only was a way to instantly load and stretch the ciliary for distance vision. (there is: long active blinks, using face muscles instead of blink reflex muscles, it prevents contracting some muscles, don't know why but it works) imho =)

[@fernandolener1106]

Well, unfortunately I think you are wrong about fixing it in a month. I've learned how to release ciliary muscle quickly (and therefore have clear vision in entire field of view for up to 2 minutes), but I've learned that to permanently fix myopia you need to let your eyeballs spherical (no alongation). That is what takes the most time because your eye cavity have no space to let your eyes stay in the correct shape. Whenever I release my ciliary muscle my entire eye tries to become spherical and I fell eye pressure up down left and right of my eyes, but not in front or back of it.

[@alanx4121]

@@fernandolener1106 how do you release it quickly?

[@fernandolener1106]

​@@alanx4121 Can I send you private message somewhere? I think people may hurt themselves trying to follow the method.

[@GemilyMez]

This may be true for pseudomyopia - that you can fix it within a month. Once lens -induced axial elongation comes into play, it is a longer journey. Great analogy though!

[@alanx4121]

@@GemilyMez I believe Jake said axial elongation starts at -5.

[@otiebrown9999]

6:00 Ultimately, your Snellen counts for a great deal. Yes, 20/30, does count. I know how frustrating it is to read it, consistently. I am pleased you could get down to 20/30, on your Snellen, in Sun Light. Also your 50 cm and Snellen relationship, is now established.

[@asikbanget123456]

You are very diligent with the daily measurements. Keep it up. I’m sure you’re making progress. I’m also in a myopia reversal journey like you.

[@Kevin.L_]

That's a bunch of measurements Gem. Good work! I think I get better results wearing .25 diopter less than norms doing things like yard work. Zero diopter resets seem to help occasionally, but I'm not ready for that daily. It's all about finding what works for us at any given time.

[@GemilyMez]

Yeah, judging from this I should wear my norms for yard work!

[@Reannon5]

@@GemilyMez or diffs? Are you still using diffs (I lost track) my diffs are stronger than typical but that is what I tend to wear for yard work, extra challenge without being too much.

[@GemilyMez]

@@Reannon5 I have 0.25 diffs, but rarely use them. Probably should for better posture.... I have so many pair of glasses now, but not a lot of equalised/no cyl yet. I do have my future norms though, which are 0.25 weaker than my current norms, at -1.5. also have my former diffs and -0.5. Hmm... Don't want to have too many focal planes though... I am already experimenting probably a little too much anyway just now. 😉 Next time I will wear the norms and measure - see if the result is any different.

[@dharinibalakrishna3638]

Sometimes you should be using glasses more often to see progress.....even though you wish you could stop using them but you end up being blur adapted instead. Looking forward to the day when glasses won’t be necessary any more.

[@GemilyMez]

You are exactly right. That is why I was measuring so closely during this experiment - to make sure I wasn't doing more harm than good - and why I always wore my glasses at least a tiny bit each day. Will wear them a bit more now, but also include some non-glasses time.

[@otiebrown9999]

Absolutely the right thing to do! A major step forward!

[@GemilyMez]

Thank you for all your support, Otie!

[@otiebrown9999]

Hi Gem, You are doing well! Extend your no glasses for 30 days. I Hope you are close to reading close to 20/70 consistently. A very hard task.

[@otiebrown9999]

Gemily, To answer your, " title question. " Stop wearing a minus lens, unless absolutely necessary! Yes, use a weak minus, when necessary. But for phone and reading, no minus. Then, monitor your very bright Snellen, for 20/60, as an AVERAGE reading. Your success, will be only with your Snellen, in my opinion. Recovery, will be reading 20/60, on your sunny Snellen. Be reasonable.

[@rida5823]

I like the idea of keeping a eye review journal🤔 and I love your contents 😃🥰

[@GemilyMez]

Thanks so much 😊

[@fizeekpoaster]

Awesome video! I feel as if lately I am having a really hard time finding active focus. I need to figure it out again mostly for PC work. I take frequent breaks and sit in the sun and have markers to look at across the street that help, and most days I can get it. But lately when on the pc or with a book up close I'm having a really hard time, so frustrating! I've been stuck at my same prescription for almost a year now too. :\ I switched to my -2.5s for driving at night and ended up wearing them like 100% of the time outdoors. Since the others are -2 and -2.25. maybe I need to just drop to -2.25 in both and reduce slower for the outdoors.. And for PC I am not really sure, I was at -1.25 and I had to bump it back to -1.5 because I sit farther away now, but still no luck with AF while I'm working what I suspect is the correct distance.

[@Reannon5]

Still feeling that frustration with the left eye here too. Most of the time it just won't stay in the game, but oddly there are times it jumps in the driver's seat and leaves the right eye in the dust. Which feels so weird lol

[@GemilyMez]

If only it would be consistent, ey?

[@Reannon5]

@@GemilyMez even would be good lol

[@thomascollins4693]

You cannot correct myopia. Active focus doesn't make any sense

[@Reannon5]

@@thomascollins4693 everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[@thomascollins4693]

@@Reannon5 I agree. I'm just speaking factually. Myopia is due to an eye being too long or strong or both. You can't reverse that unfortunately

[@michelezucchi964]

Very very interesting. Your consistency in measurement is amazing. I personally switched to snellen test only and I don't measure cm from many months. You give me motivation to check it again! Concerning no glasses time I'm experimenting a pretty long period with no glasse at all. Naked eyes since 1st March. Sometimes we seem having sort of similar ideas 😃

[@otiebrown9999]

Hi Michelle, I also support Snellen verification, 100%. At 20/50, close to passing the DMV, no minus lens. It becomes much easier. Then, gradually, clearing the 20/30 line, and 20/25. Even more important, no arguments about my refraction any more. I just do it myself. Gemily is incredibly persistent, and I admire her.

[@michelezucchi964]

@@otiebrown9999 yes I know very well that you Otie advocate Snellen use and I totally agree with you. Gem is great in consistency and spread her great info in a very good way. My 6m snellen reading is 20/70 - 20/50 in very good light condition and that's way since 1st March I don't wear minus ;-)

[@otiebrown9999]

@@michelezucchi964 As we know so well, everyone hates wearing a plus, to go from 20/50, to at least 20/30. There is a lot of excellent scientific that proves it is absolutely necessary. But that is the science that impresses me the most.

[@thespiritualtraveller74]

Did you try not looking at any screen (phone, computer or TV) for days while not wearing your glasses? One of the reasons why you are not improving might be that your eyes are still subjected to flickering led lights from screens.

[@the365pics8]

Thanks for the update 💓 It helps me alot.

[@booklover6479]

can't find any info online, hope you can help? my glasses prescription has a number for 'distance' which is -7 but also for 'near' which is -5.50. The near value matches with my own cm measurements, but I can only see 20/20 on my snellen with the full -7 prescription. I thought our cm measurements indicated our true diopter calculation so I am confused.

[@GemilyMez]

That is confusing! Good thing you are using a Snellen to cross check your cms. A couple of things to check. It sounds like you have bifocals. When you look through the -5.5 part, do you lift your head and look down through them? That could maybe be affecting how you see through them. Try lifting the glasses so you are looking through the -5.5 part more directly (but be mindful that the outer edges of glasses tend to be thicker, so stronger, so try not to get the very edge). Also, check your cms measurements again - at higher myopia, the difference between 1 diopter and the next can be less than a cm. A helpful way to be more accurate at higher diopters is to measure while wearing your differential, and then add your differential value to what you get. So see whether you can measure your cms to blur while looking through the -5.5s. If you end up with 1 diopter, for example, add 1 to 5.5. Hope this helps.

[@booklover6479]

thanks for replying! no I don't have bi-focals, although they wanted to give me them as I said my head hurt using the computer! no one ever told me not to use full strength for close up, until I found EM 🙂

[@GemilyMez]

@@booklover6479 no indeed... they don't tell you. If only we had discovered this sooner.... But! We know it now! ^_^

[@GemilyMez]

@@booklover6479 Also, I checked my diopter ruler, and it looks like mere millimeters may be the difference between -5.5 and -7, so definitely use your diffs for measuring - then you will only be measuring an extra couple of diopters, and the first couple of diopters are many cms in value. Much easier to get accuracy.

[@Ava-zt8ju]

I would do this but I’m -3.50 in my left and -5.75 in my right 😭

[@akiff-tv2947]

Hello miss gemily .Im 3.0 in right eye and 3.5 in left eye .I didnt wear glasses for three months and i also done active focus eveyday but i can clear only a bit of blur. Do you think my eyesight will improve or worse than before?

[@AnastasiaT]

I have -5 but i don't wear glasses for active focus and can't get differential cuz I'm a kid. So i Don't wear glasses will it make my eyes worse?

[@Shaforos]

What happened to u

[@ifrahali2402]

hello! I'm -2.00 and -2.50 do I need differenctials? Please help me out 💞thank you

[@sam-h5r6j]

Nearly 4 years on, what is your prescription like now?

[@catvergueiro8905]

I havent read the blog in a while, but I understood we shouldnt go without glasses or any big reduction 🤔 0.25 by 0.25, or 0.5 at most. Did you see people saying It helped them? Going without glasses?

[@GemilyMez]

You are right. Jake has mentioned in one of his podcast episodes that at about -2 you can start going around the house without glasses (not 'can' as in giving permission, but 'can' as in that it becomes much easier and more possible). I went without glasses for 2 and a half days at first a few weeks back just because I was doing the Diopter Reset before changing normalised, and Jake says to go as long as you can without the glasses before you need to put them on. It took me that long to feel the urge to reach for them. I definitely wouldn't go without glasses entirely - even if only wearing them an hour or 2 a day to keep my mind remembering the clarity it needs to aim for. But I have concluded, to make this more sustainable, I will use glasses half of every day - so like a diopter Reset every morning that lasts until early afternoon (unless my eyes want it sooner). When we first went into lockdown, I stopped wearing my glasses at home and wondered why I was getting headaches, until I realised it was the blur. I thought since I was just at home it would be fine. But now I am not getting those headaches and my eyes aren't feeling strained as quickly - and as soon as I feel strain or fatigue, I put them on again. It just takes so long now, and the fatigue may not come until evening! Ultimately, I will listen to my eyes and take my measurements and see how it goes. If it doesn't help, I will revert back to wearing them all the time.

[@michelezucchi964]

Gem is right in my opinion. No glasses and risk of strain/blur adaptation/poor result... is something to be aware and research about. I am a person which can be the one you asked about. Down to -1.50 and I drastically increased time without glasses, but I apply methods and 'exercises' to get pretty consistent clear flashes and close up AF. It's working for me. After 20 months on this journey I have a roughly idea about what to do but I constantly experiment and research. I hope you the best improvements.

[@catvergueiro8905]

@@GemilyMez That is so nice to read. Thanks for all those details :D I started at -3.00 so all your experience is so relatable hahahaah Wish to see you ditching the glasses completely in a couple years!

[@GemilyMez]

@@catvergueiro8905 Very much my plan. Am working hard with my habits - If I do this year well, I could be one of those magical -1 people in 12 months' time, and that sounds like a dream come true just now XD Have to keep that motivation high so I stay off my phone and keep going for walks though!

[@blackjesus2916]

@@michelezucchi964 hey would you mind sharing those exercises ? I’m just starting out with all this and I want to be as effective as possible.

[@nirmishasanariya531]

Hey there Can you plz tell me what is your average mobile or computer screen time...your reply will surely motivate me..

[@GemilyMez]

Average is a hard one. A good day is 1 hr phone time max, and 3 hours computer. A bad day is 5 hr phone time and 8 hour computer. But I go through phases - sometimes I am motivated and have lots of excellent days. Other times I am low on energy and have rubbish habits. I know that the worst thing I can do is look at my phone screen though - I don't improve when my phone use is bad. But some people have to use screens a lot and still manage fine - it is less about how much screen time you get and more about how much distance vision you get. I mean, they go together, but if you can fit in a nice long walk with distance vision, and limit your phone use, and stay on the edge of blur, and take breaks, you can still manage even if you have a job that requires a lot of computer use. Seriously though, the phone is the killer. Obviously reduce screen time as much as you can, but in order of importance - focus 1: get off the smart phone! This has been the most important for me. Focus 2: get outside as much as you can! Focus 3: address overall screen time where possible.

[@grandmaster1294]

Where are you came on

[@brendanbenedict31]

when you take your cm measurements, do you take a few and average them?

[@GemilyMez]

Often, yes.

[@brendanbenedict31]

@@GemilyMez yeah I only measure once a month and do 5 for each eye and average them. I notice there's like a 3 cm range in those measurements

[@GemilyMez]

Yeah. I actually thought about it, and I realised I don't take the average - I take the mean measurement, the one that appears most often.

[@apkhackwithpc2]

When you wear glasses than your eyes become small in shape... Is there any way to prevent this?

[@GemilyMez]

Do you mean the glasses make your eyes look small? That can happen with myopia due to the magnification. Quick but unhealthy fix: wear contacts. Long-term but healthy fix: decrease your myopia.

[@apkhackwithpc2]

@@GemilyMez means if your myopia decreases than your eyes reshapes looks like before

[@GemilyMez]

@@apkhackwithpc2 your axial length will decrease. You won't be able to see any difference though.

[@emperorsn]

M noticing some floaters recently in one eye like 2 but one is a little dark visible thn others ... Searched it on youtube and everywhere retinal detachment i saw .. i am soo worried i am about -5 i dont know if i had some floater before but now one floater i see in my peripheral vision when i want to notice i appears 😭 i am so afarid

[@GemilyMez]

It's okay. Retinal detachment is very uncommon. And it is more likely in older people, or in people with EXTREME myopia (which -5 is not). At -5 your eye ball wouldn't have elongated very much at all - axial elongation happens, but the adjustments that affect our vision are actually so minuscule in actual size. For retinal detachment, you are more likely to see a lot of new floaters, and get flashes of light in your eye. Go get it checked out by an ophthalmologist if you are concerned, but there is no need to panic or be afraid. Floaters are normal. It is normal to get more as we get older. Floaters can be spots or strings or webs or clumps. dark or pale, in the central vision or in the periphery, moving about or more or less static.

[@emperorsn]

Thank you soo much for the reply ❤️ i was so scared of these floaters which i probably started to notice or they developed now but i want to ask one thing i still see some floaters in indoor light maximum 2 .. is this normal

[@MukeshKumar-mv3yf]

@@emperorsn have you started to see floater after active focus?

[@emperorsn]

@@MukeshKumar-mv3yf YES

[@MukeshKumar-mv3yf]

@@emperorsn kitna time ho gya

[@Ben-dz1ix]

What's tagging? Is that what you said?

[@GemilyMez]

It is something Reannon talks about. I love it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHTEl4R4abRonJY

[@DaveYoungBass]

Do you test your own eye measurements?

[@GemilyMez]

What do you mean by test? I measure with the EndMyopia cm diopter calculator, as well as checking that result on my Snellen for confirmation (or if my cms say I should be X diopters for 20/20, I wear those diopter glasses and check that I can read the 20/20 line on my Snellen). Is there some other form of test you are meaning?

[@thestuff4321]

Hey I'm ok with magic too though 😆

[@otiebrown9999]

I am OK with scientific truth, and getting to 20/20.

[@thestuff4321]

@@otiebrown9999 Ok. Why did you like your own comment?

[@npc5100]

just imagine creating your life into constant stress for the brain enabling to adapt to some glasses, even those you call normalised should be adaptation and synchronisation. If you remove your glasses and switch all day long, you should have real bad days.

[@julianoshorts9301]

Hello Gemily. I dont wear any glasses at all. I am on 2,00 or 1,75. Can i reduce my myopia with just beeing not as much on screens (good habits)???

[@thomascollins4693]

No you can't unfortunately. If you are truly myopic. Active focus makes no physical sense

[@kamarilia]

It is so boring to listen to someone's everyday measurements - what they are for for me? What is the conclusion? I made myself to watch only to 13 minute (((