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I was wondering if anyone knew of the Up-to-date method the guy above talked about that helped him with his eyesight. One of my eyes are 2.75 and the other 2.5, from too much computing. The optometrist gave me 0.75 and 0.5 lenses(glasses, not contacts) so I could get used to em before she gives me the full prescription, but I’d wanna improve my eyesight.

The Optometrist said that short sightedness rarely improves, and my mum is really blowing her top about my eyes.

Before taking the advice of a Star Trekkie named Sarek over that of your Optometrist, I think you should read what other scientist think of the William Bates Method. The bates method is still sold today and it was proved as quackery many years ago, why stop selling a scam that still makes good money.

I think you should follow your doctors advice. Also look into the Gas Permeable lenses as a cure there are quite a few studies going on now about this phenomena.

Did you look at the links I gave you before? Secrets are hard to keep in the age of the Internet and there are some great sights that give the ‘Method secrets’, with updates, away for free.

Your question came through in the genealogy forum and there is an Optical forum here on Y!A where physicians hang out and Sarek of Vulcan is not one of them, I hope anyways.

are they any other methods?
where can i find these methods?
can you wear prescripted contact lens whilst doing them?

or is it a lie?

I have -7.00 myopia, 17 years old, and i would really like an improvement to my eyesight.

As you already know your myopia is a bit high, so it’s almost impossible to completely eliminate it. However you can improve it a lot by doing the proper exercises for a very long time. I dont’ recommend the Bates method because it’s too old. Bates was born in 1860 and during his life there were almost no relevant scientific studies as we intend them today. His work was admirable for his time,but his method is hardly effective, especially on high myopia. For instance Bates did not consider eye-strain induced by near work as a cause of myopia. Nowadays we know that it is the main cause. Since -7 at 17 is a bit unusual, it is possible that some genetic factors are involved, but you must not consider this as the only reason of your problem.
I’m strongy convinced that if you start using undercorrections (especially for near work) and doing the proper exercises you can improve dramatically.

In my opinion the best method is the one by De Angelis which I’ve been practicing for over a year and so far I’ve reduced my prescription by more than half (it was -5 when I started).
Before starting any method by any author you must consult your ophthalmologist (a medical eye-doctor, not just an optometrist) because you have to know if your eyes are healthy. High myopia is sometimes associated with risk of retinal damage and in such a situation even coughing may be dangerous, let alone doing exercises. Of course every doctor will tell you that exercises are useless, a waste of time, but that’s not the point,they just have to tell you if you can do the exercises without risks.

This is the book by De Angelis

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Perfect-Vision-Prevent-Nearsightedness/dp/1556436777/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274202459&sr=1-1

I’m a bit confused and hesitating to do processes like sunning( as given in bates method). Does it really help?
Also, won’t puting honey in eyes hurt? Can i remove my glasses when not neccessary, and wear them only during school? It doesn’t cause any stress or headache.
Age 17 yrs.
Left eye -2.25 D
right eye -2.75 D
thanx.

Save your eyes while you still can. Don’t wear the powerful minus glasses your optician/optometrist prescribed to you. They will make it worse. Only wear them when you absolutely need to like reading the board at school.

The bates method is a bit outdated. Don’t put honey in your eyes. If you want to get your sharp vision back you need to do eye exercises and train your eyes by wearing plus lenses. The book by David De Angelis is currently the best one out there for these exercises. It tells you every last detail you need to know to improve your vision. Unlike the opticians, he has actually researched and found out the reason why myopia occurs and how to reverse it. The optical industry will never accept anything that improves people’s vision naturally, because they’ll lose out on customers.

I was told about this interesting approach to fixing bad eyesight last night. I might get the book today in addition to my interest on the subject.

Yes!!!!!! It works. Also, wet hair causes colds. And, the sky is pink. And, there is ocean front property in Arizona. HHHMMMMM. The Bates Method is the biggest pile of horse cr@p ever. It’s like back in the 1800’s when snake oil salesmen were traveling across the country telling people if you rub this on your head it will cure baldness. The salesman knew it didn’t work but people wanted so badly for it to work they were willing to give their hard earned money to the guy. By the time they realized it didn’t work, the snake oil salesman was in the next town ripping off the next gullible group of people.

it is used to help lessen myopia… but i have no clue if it works at all… also any success rate from the Dr. Bates method? thanks!

That’s ortho K , not C

Ortho K is rigid contacts that are custom made to reshape your cornea while you sleep in them, then during the day your vision is clear without them, then you wear them to sleep again.

It doesn’t reverse the myopia and the effect is only temporary. If you stop wearing them , your eyes return to needing the full correction you needed before. It usually runs between $1200.00 and $1800.00 for them. There are possible side effects with them and not all Dr’s agree with their use.

As for Bates…that’s all just hogwash. It hasn’t worked in over 90 years since it came out and isn’t about to start working now. But smart booksellers keep the dream alive and the bucks keep rolling in even tho there are no actual results that can be proven anywhere.

It would be great if you guys would explain why you don’t think it works because I tried this a few years ago and had a clear flash for a couple seconds. But then I lost the book and stopped doing those exercises. I’m going to start up again.

Yes. There must be some way to improve your eye vision without surgery

I read this method that will improve eyesight. Please tell me these method works or please give me advice on how to improve eyesight without glasses, contact lense, or surgery.

Here’s a link that explains some of the exercises: http://www.i-see.org/bates_nutshell.html

From my experience though it doesn’t work.

http://www.central-fixation.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method

Do you think it works? I only came across it recently and so far have no opinion of it.

I think it is wonderful

I searched high and low to find a doctor in my state using it when my now 36 year old son was 12.

He was found to have presbiopia and myopia and his vision was 20-200. the school was pressuring for eyeglasses pp–the eye doctor said it would never reverse.

Buy calling the state college in my state school dealing with the eyes, I was able to find a doctor practicing vision therapy though not bates.

The book called of how eye glasses trap one’s eyes in a certain error of refraction and this is not the natural way the eye accompidates and it leads to stronger and stronger glasses. this spurred me to not follow the standard route.

the school was awful telling my son talk your mom out of it..she doesn’t mean to be mean and other stuff.

I drove my son once a week 45 miles round trip for 20 weeks anbd he did the eye exercises the doctor gave him at hoime and also did the thingsd in bates book and reqad the eye chart daily.

the end resaults was the doctor sending the school a satisfying letter that my son’s vision (which the other eye doctor said never could be reversed only corrected via glasses had in fact reversed and was now 20-40 in one eye and 20-60 in the other.

My son was able to stay out of glasses for 20 years.

I have polled many people and in my own case using reading glasses found that all the people go to stronger and stronger lenses once they start wearing glasses as bates discovered with his research,

He turned the whole school system around and all the kid’s threw out their glasses for years..when the program stopped they all started needing glasses again.

I have heard though that it works best on people who are young like around 13 or so. It is free to do except for the book. If buying the book on amazon or somewhere be sure it contains the eye chart.

I heard george malkus who runs hacres.com and promotes a 85% raw food, whole food vegan diet speak,..he wa sin his mid 70-s and practically bounching on stage with energy. He said after many years on the hallelujah deit, he was gone from strong glasses to 20-20 vision and recently passed his eye exam for driving with no glasses for the first time in decades.

I saw a video on youtube about improving astigmatism with the bates method. Are they suggesting its the palming of the eyes that helps to correct it? i already tried that and wondered if there was another thing which they claim effected it

Unfortunately the Bates method is just silly science.

Nothing in the 90 year old Bates methods have ever shown to be able to fix or cure anything.

Palming for instance is simply blocking any light from getting to your eyes for a few moments . How is that any different than having your eyes closed all night to sleep in the dark ?

His own findings were full of contradictions , mainly because he didn’t know how to correctly use the optical instruments that were available at the time, way back in the 1920’s

His methods have been proven hundreds of times by many medical studies as being completely useless. Don’t waste your time on it.