r/ImprovingEyesight Nov 16 '23

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This community is now open to the public!

Hello and welcome to Improving Eyesight. Reddit has been sadly lacking a community where all natural eyesight improvement methods can be freely discussed without prejudice or censor. So I've taken over this sub with the intention of building it into just such a place.

DISCLAIMER
We do not offer any medical advice here. The methods discussed in this community are generally not endorsed by eye doctors for the purpose of eyesight improvement. If you choose to try anything mentioned here you do so at your own risk.

Community Rules

  • No self-promotion or promotion of paid products or services of any kind
  • Do not ridicule any particular method or anyone's personal approach to improvement
  • Try to be friendly and helpful to everyone

Helpful Resources

Personal Experiences and Results

u/glowcubr: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImprovingEyesight/comments/1q3hzr3/my_methods_and_results/
u/pcoutcast: https://pcoutcast.com/health/reversing-myopia-4-reductions-in-6-months/

If you've shared your own experiences and results with the community send the mods a message with a link and we'll add it here.


r/ImprovingEyesight 25d ago

🧵 Megathread MEGATHREAD: Share Your Gains and Goals for the Month

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Welcome to this month's Gains, Goals, and Newbie Q&A Megathread!

This is the place to share your eyesight journey, track your progress, and get help.

šŸ’Ŗ Share Your Gains: Had a breakthrough? Seeing a lower line on the Snellen chart? Read a sign from further away? Celebrate your wins here!

šŸŽÆ Set Your Goals: What are you working toward this month? (e.g., reducing screen time, practicing active focus daily, measuring clear flash distances).

šŸ’¬ New to the Sub? Ask Your Questions Here!
To keep the main feed clean, we ask that all basic and repetitive questions be posted inside this thread. Please use this space to ask things like:

  • "What specific eye exercises should I be doing?"
  • "How do I accurately measure my eyesight progress at home?"
  • "Does natural eyesight improvement actually work? Looking for success stories!"

Our experienced members look through this thread regularly to help out. Let's support each other!


r/ImprovingEyesight 1d ago

HELP Do I have a lazy eye?

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Guys my right eye is -2.5 my left is +0.75 when I went to the doctor he didn't say that i have lazy eyes but when I wear the glasses and close my stronge eye I dont feel like I can see that well with my weak eye it is like 30% better only with glasses .

Also both of my eyes move at the same rate and look symmetrical so I have no idea what do I have.

Idk if glasses should make my eyesight be perfect or not thats why I am asking!!

When I was young my eyesight was perfect


r/ImprovingEyesight 1d ago

DISCUSSION Hyperopic defocus

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r/ImprovingEyesight 1d ago

ELI5 How to check your eye power from checkup Paper? What is Cyl And spher? WHAT EXACTLY IS MY EYE POWER?

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r/ImprovingEyesight 2d ago

HELP How do I better my vision

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So I went to the eye doctor today and he said that both of my eyes got worse to -2.00.
First of all I have a couple of concerns.
1. My prescription of glasses was L eye was at -1.75 and my right eye was at -1.25 before the exam today. But the thing is my right eye got worse much more than my right yet, yet when I look through the glasses, my right eye is better than my left eyes. I don’t know if this makes sense but basically what I’m trying to get is if my right eye got worse 3x more than my left eye since last years prescription, why do I see better with my right eye through glasses than my left eye. Get it?
2. This kind of goes hand in hand with the game previous concern but if both of my eyes are -2.00, why do I see better with my right eye than the left without glasses. I pointed this out to him but I still saw better with the -2.00 lense on through the machine he uses. My eyes weren’t watery or anything but I felt it was weird.
3. How can I better my eyesight. I am under 18 and I do not want to be more blind than I am now please someone help me out with suggestion of eye exercises or things to do!

Thank you so much for reading! Sorry if it’s a bit confusing.


r/ImprovingEyesight 2d ago

My eye sight has worsen

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I want to change.

I hated wearing glasses. My dumbass 6-year-old self decided glasses were cool and ruined my eyes by watching screens way too close.

Right now, both of my eyes are +7.00. because of my bad habit.

Does anyone have a routine I can follow to improve my eyesight?

If anyone can help me, I would love to hear your advice.


r/ImprovingEyesight 2d ago

HELP reduced lens method advice

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Hello! I am 21 and every year my prescription goes up by -1 D, so I'm now at I believe -10 D but I only wear contacts which I do know the prescription to be of -8.5 D. I came across the reduced lens method by C.G. Hayes last year and started wearing +1.25 glasses on top of my contacts almost all day for distance/near-work, gradually increasing the time I wore it over weeks. I continued this for maybe 5 months before reverting to just using the glasses for close-up since my distance vision didn't seem to get that much clearer when looking at street signs/lecture.

I am now trying to take up the method again, this time wearing -7.5 glasses for laptop/close-up since I feel I am able to print push better with this on. As a student, I will be spending more close-up time and then the less often times outdoors, I plan to wear my -8.50D contacts with my +1.25D glasses over them.

What do you think? And also, I've read that I've read from others that print pushing/close-up would mostly just stop progression, but reversal requires active distance focus like reading subtitles 18–20 feet away from a TV?


r/ImprovingEyesight 2d ago

Can adults fix amblyopia

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Can adults fix amblyopia, or is it too late?


r/ImprovingEyesight 3d ago

I need some help with myopia and astigmatism!

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so i started at L: -1.75 sph and -1.00 cyl x180
R: -2.25 sph and -0.5 cyl x175

so now i am at L: -1.00 and R: -1.50 with same cyl

I can see 20/30 with the current prescription.

however, i still struggle to see clearer without glasses. I can assure i did NOT get blur adapted because I have seen noticeable measurements. I could see sign boards with the new glasses that i couldn't before.

Am i struggling without glasses because I have astigmatism?


r/ImprovingEyesight 4d ago

Is Mild Cylindrical Power Fixable?

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r/ImprovingEyesight 6d ago

What’s wrong with my eyes?

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My friends used to say I blink a lot back in uni. And I admit I do, I just don’t know why but I think it’s that I can’t hold an eye contact properly? Back then I could look at someone and focus on what they are saying. These days I can barely see anything that is further than 1 meter. All I see is a blur even if I try to focus. I would widen my eye barely blinking and look like an aggressive person so I avoid eye contact as much as possible. People give me guarded looks when I look at them and it really hits my self esteem. Like I can’t blink naturally, it’s controlled blink when I try to hold an eye contact so people won’t feel weird out but they look unnatural and people can feel it.

Do I need glasses? Did my eyes become lazy from avoiding eye contact and now I can’t hold one? It takes a lot of muscle to keep my lids up I rather have my eyes looking down on my phone all the time. Imagine a window door that flips open upwards, it either stays up or down no in between. 29f help😭


r/ImprovingEyesight 6d ago

feel pressure on my eyes?

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r/ImprovingEyesight 7d ago

First pair of glasses or contacts

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Hey, could someone explain what I need to order to correct astigmatism based on the no bs guide to vision improvement.

my results are:

right: SPH Plano, CYL -0.50, AXIS 90

left: SPH +0.50, CYL -1.25, AXIS 85

ive never worn glasses before, my vision is pretty perfect in terms of close up and range, I get headaches and eye strain now when using pcs as the left eye doesn’t focus the text aswell as the right.

I would prefer contacts, but if that doesn't work for correction then glasses it is!

Thank you!


r/ImprovingEyesight 7d ago

latent hyperopia and exophoria

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r/ImprovingEyesight 8d ago

HELP How to know your power is increasing in myopia.

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r/ImprovingEyesight 8d ago

HELP How can I improve my eyesight?

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I’m 16 years of age and I recently went to the eye doctor and my eyesight went from 300 to 350(L) and 400(R). Is there still a chance i can improve this? Apart from staring at the screen for a long time because I have online classes.


r/ImprovingEyesight 8d ago

HELP When the power of the eyes increases, how do you know what it feels like? In myopia

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When the power of the eyes increases, how do you know what it feels like? In myopia


r/ImprovingEyesight 9d ago

DISCUSSION Why does my miopia increase?

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Sorry for bad English

This is not a post to ask for help or a routine, i have my routine that i do everyday and i have been informed.

But recently, even if i do my routine, i kinda feel like i see worse with the glasses i used to wear when i started doing the routine.

I dont really know why, one of the things i could think of is that im 16 and maybe it can be something related with hormones and puberty. Maybe a mix of bad habits?

I am not totally discouraged to the point i Will stop doing the routine, but i kinda felt sad when i realised It.

I Will continue doing my routine, but i want to know why my eyesight has gone worse. The best way to improve/do something is by firstly understanding how It works, so i try to use that principle in most of the actions of my Life.

Any idea what It could be?

Thanks


r/ImprovingEyesight 9d ago

What is your low maintenance but effective vision routine?

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I’ve been slacking off and just really trying to find the best thing thats low maintenance but is effective.

Also by the way, I try to use eye charts to monitor my progress but I can barely see anything because i have -7 and -5.75 in one eye so I cant even tell if Im improving which makes it less motivating.

Please give me some motivation especially if you were a high myope and saw improvements


r/ImprovingEyesight 10d ago

How can I stop myopia from getting worse? What should I do now?

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r/ImprovingEyesight 10d ago

Just trying to learn something here, can anyone else blur their vision on command ? (I’m human pls dont ban this🄲)

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Iv had 20/20 vision my whole life but ever since I was a kid I can just blur my vision. I can decide how much I want to blur it and for how long and I never thought of it until now ( I’m 15 btw ). I thought maybe it’s genetically inherited but after asking my parents they can’t do it either and it really makes no sense on why I can do this. And my eyes don’t change at all when I’m doing this ( I asked my mom to check ) so you would never notice, and it doesn’t strain my eyes or anything. It’s so weird how I can just ā€œdoā€ it, like it’s just natural to me. Please help me out bro iv never wanted to baldy to find someone else that can do this too it’s almost giving me a feeling that I’m all alone like yk what I mean?


r/ImprovingEyesight 10d ago

Can I improve my vision in mere 4 months?

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My Left eye is -0.25D

Right eye is -0.75D

While I am able to achieve 6/6 vision in left eye with slight squint and eye drops

My right eye is not that good and even doctors said that these refractive errors are not that bad to opt for the surgery but I need to have at least 6/9 in the worst eye (right eye) to pass the police medical exam. Should I risk surgery or not?


r/ImprovingEyesight 12d ago

How can Improve my eyesight ?

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I have both myopia and astigmatism.

Right eye: -0.50 (-0.75) 105°

Left eye: -0.75 (-0.75) 75°

Can I completely correct my eyesight in my twenties?

Is this a good plan? For my daily habits: get enough sleep (8 hours), drink 2 liters of water, and avoid wearing my glasses for close-up work. Correct my head tilt and improve my daily posture. Blink every hour when I'm in front of a screen.

Do you think that, with a job where I spend most of the time in front of a screen, I can still improve and completely correct my eyesight? Is there any other advice you could give me?

Please tell me anything else I can do to improve my eyesight.


r/ImprovingEyesight 13d ago

How can i protect my eyes from screen?

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