Podcast 247: Lecture

Over the next few episodes, I am going to discuss the 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism and how you can avoid making the same mistake. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS prescription, eye, doctor, wear, vision, lens, relax, reduce, balance, lenses, myopia, astigmatism, feel, distance, drive, glasses, wrote, strong, contacts, lived Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting-edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to [email protected]. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. What I want to do right now is I want to go through 10 things 10 mistakes that people make in the process of reducing their myopia and astigmatism. And you'll get a copy of this, this is like my top 10 things that people do, where it takes them further away from the goal that they're trying to achieve. Number 10, believing your eye doctor that you cannot improve your vision. Now, I know some of you are going to be in a conundrum about understanding how prescriptions affect you. And you're not going to want to buy into the doctor's, you know, attempt to give you the strongest prescription possible. And I actually did a post on tick tock yesterday, guy wrote me and said that he had been in a minus three lens for about eight years. And every time he would go to his doctor, he would say to the doctor, these lenses are making my eyes and body too tight. And the eye doctor would say, just get used to it, you know, it's okay, it's no big deal. This is what you need. So we finally found a doctor who was willing to reduce his prescription by point two 5.25. So that would make it a 2.75. And he was having the same issues, where there was a lot of tension, there was a lot of stress. And so what he wrote me was, how can he get out of this maze? Well, what the great thing about myopia is, is that your eye doctor likes to sell you glasses, that's how he makes his money. And in fact, what happens is, he's going to give you the strongest prescriptions, so that in six months or a year, you're off eyes are not going to be able to see as clearly out of the prescription because it's making your eyes worse. So you go back, and he increases the prescription. So he gets to sell you another pair of glasses, it's kind of a great business model, if you want to make money selling glasses. But what I told this gentleman is what I would tell you is that the prescription that you need for 20 feet, is too strong for you for the computer, and or reading. And in fact, if you use that distance prescription for the computer, it is going to accelerate your eyes getting worse. So what you tell the doctor is I want a prescription that I can use for the computer, that's less than what my distance prescription is. So it's kind of clever on your part, because what you're really asking for is a reduced prescription. And the, you know, we use the distance eye chart as a measurement, you know, for the term 2020. And it's a standard measurement where you see a 1/3 inch letter at 20 feet, when you get the computer prescription, that's going to correct you for a little larger letter about 2040. So instead of a 1/3 inch letter, it's a one inch letter. 04:02 But there's some real great possibilities with that prescription because when you get it first of all, it is going to relax your eyes for all your screentime. And by the way, you might ask him for the blue blocker as well since you're there.