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For no reason, my forum account was banned right after it was created. If it had not, I would have posted the following introduction:

= 0.5 D/week = 0.06 D/day! Fixed blur adaptation in a few days =

= 0.42 D/week = 0.06 D/day! Fixed blur adaptation in a few days =

The title is not clickbait! I actually improve at that rate when I pushed myself to my limit, for a big part of the day, doing AF until I couldn't. I really did improve fast, excluding the period with 6 years of blur adaptation, which had no or minimal improvement. In my time-series plot, I see my diopters go up and diopter gap shrink, and then it plateaus for 6 years, and then the left eye equalizes, and the slope is about 0.5 D/week.

The title is not clickbait! I actually improve at that rate when I pushed myself to my limit, for a big part of the day, doing AF until I couldn't. I really did improve fast, excluding the period with 6 years of blur adaptation, which had no or minimal improvement. In my time-series plot, I see my diopters go up and diopter gap shrink, and then it plateaus for 6 years, and then the left eye equalizes, and the slope is about 0.4-0.5 D/week.

After 6 years of slow progress because I partially read the site and didn't understand the small details well enough, I finally reviewed the concepts in depth and fixed my mistakes. As Jake says, if you reduce too quickly or improperly, "you accumulate debt with your visual cortex, that you’ll have to pay eventually", which I seem to have repaid in the last few days. The blur I cleared during that time seems to have become axial myopia reduction, allowing me to "accumulate credit" and speed up later reductions though, as I have no blur to clear, just polyopia. I would recommend not reducing too quickly, because the extra strain of accommodation kind of hurt, but it was just for a few days.

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I decided to switch to -1 normalized anyway. Some people use a Peak Prescription without issue, and it should be close enough to -1.25 to avoid issues.

I'll focus push/pull this morning because it's bright, but later today, I'll probably focus push/pull much less aggressively than I did over the last 5 days. While 0.07 D/day was possible for me, the cost of the side effect (too much stimulation and insomnia) is too high. My left eye did go from -2 to -1.75 in just 5 days, but at the cost of not being able to sleep this week.

I'll focus push/pull this morning because it's bright, but later today, I'll probably focus push/pull much less aggressively than I did over the last 5 days. While 0.06-0.07 D/day was possible for me, the cost of the side effect (too much stimulation and insomnia) is too high. My left eye did go from -2 to -1.75 in just 5 days, but at the cost of not being able to sleep this week.

My vision is actually much better than average: high acuity (20/15 seems to be average, but I expect 20/10 or 20/8), fast visual cortex recalibration (0.5D/week) and tolerance (I was able to tolerate more focal plane changes than EM advises: I could tolerate and adapt to a 0.75 D change in left eye and 0.5 D change in right eye, but failed to accept a 1.5 D left eye and 1 D right eye change), and high accommodation ability (seeing my ability drop from about +25 D = 4 cm to +17 D = 6 cm does make me worry about future presbyopia, although 25 D for a 19-year-old and 17 D for a 25-year-old are above the average "10 D for a young child"). I'm not considered to be colorblind, but I find some blue/black colors are hard for me to distinguish though.

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 For no reason, my forum account was banned right after it was created. If it had not, I would have posted the following introduction:
-= 0.5 D/week = 0.06 D/day! Fixed blur adaptation in a few days =
+= 0.42 D/week = 0.06 D/day! Fixed blur adaptation in a few days =
-The title is not clickbait! I actually improve at that rate when I pushed myself to my limit, for a big part of the day, doing AF until I couldn't. I really did improve fast, excluding the period with 6 years of blur adaptation, which had no or minimal improvement. In my time-series plot, I see my diopters go up and diopter gap shrink, and then it plateaus for 6 years, and then the left eye equalizes, and the slope is about 0.5 D/week.
+The title is not clickbait! I actually improve at that rate when I pushed myself to my limit, for a big part of the day, doing AF until I couldn't. I really did improve fast, excluding the period with 6 years of blur adaptation, which had no or minimal improvement. In my time-series plot, I see my diopters go up and diopter gap shrink, and then it plateaus for 6 years, and then the left eye equalizes, and the slope is about 0.4-0.5 D/week.
 After 6 years of slow progress because I partially read the site and didn't understand the small details well enough, I finally reviewed the concepts in depth and fixed my mistakes. As Jake says, if you reduce too quickly or improperly, "you accumulate debt with your visual cortex, that you’ll have to pay eventually", which I seem to have repaid in the last few days. The blur I cleared during that time seems to have become axial myopia reduction, allowing me to "accumulate credit" and speed up later reductions though, as I have no blur to clear, just polyopia. I would recommend not reducing too quickly, because the extra strain of accommodation kind of hurt, but it was just for a few days.
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 I decided to switch to -1 normalized anyway. Some people use a Peak Prescription without issue, and it should be close enough to -1.25 to avoid issues.
-I'll focus push/pull this morning because it's bright, but later today, I'll probably focus push/pull much less aggressively than I did over the last 5 days. While 0.07 D/day was possible for me, the cost of the side effect (too much stimulation and insomnia) is too high. My left eye did go from -2 to -1.75 in just 5 days,  but at the cost of not being able to sleep this week.
+I'll focus push/pull this morning because it's bright, but later today, I'll probably focus push/pull much less aggressively than I did over the last 5 days. While 0.06-0.07 D/day was possible for me, the cost of the side effect (too much stimulation and insomnia) is too high. My left eye did go from -2 to -1.75 in just 5 days,  but at the cost of not being able to sleep this week.
 My vision is actually much better than average: high acuity (20/15 seems to be average, but I expect 20/10 or 20/8), fast visual cortex recalibration (0.5D/week) and tolerance (I was able to tolerate more focal plane changes than EM advises: I could tolerate and adapt to a 0.75 D change in left eye and 0.5 D change in right eye, but failed to accept a 1.5 D left eye and 1 D right eye change), and high accommodation ability (seeing my ability drop from about +25 D = 4 cm to +17 D = 6 cm does make me worry about future presbyopia, although 25 D for a 19-year-old and 17 D for a 25-year-old are above the average "10 D for a young child"). I'm not considered to be colorblind, but I find some blue/black colors are hard for me to distinguish though.