Frequently Asked Questions/FFAQ
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| About Myopia | LASIK |
Glasses & diopters |
Mindset | Troubleshooting |
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| Active Focus | Habits | Measurement | Normalized | Differentials | Astigmatism | Other |
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About EM | Paid course | Other eyesight conditions |
Ineffective Myopia Treatments |
This page is Top of the Pops when it comes to Frequently Asked Questions.
How do I start EndMyopia?
Every good EndMyopia journey starts with a really, really good understanding of what you're doing. This isn't optional, if you do not understand what you are doing you will fail in the vast majority of cases - it happens too many times to count. If a method says 'do this to improve your eyes', you fail to do what the method says, you can't turn around and blame the method for being wrong. You're doing it wrong 
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Remember that fixing your eyes through EndMyopia can be a really, really long process and you should be aware that you're in it for the long-haul. If you're after a quick fix, you can look into mutilating your eyes with LASIK instead! Please remember we have a constantly growing base of people with results.
You don't need to buy a paid course to fix your eyes. EndMyopia is free, and plenty of people have improved their eyesight without paying Jake a penny. If you want hands-on, case specific help from Jake Steiner and want to support the project and what we do here, you should look into BackTo20/20. It'll guarantee the highest rate of success, or your money back.
Read the blog, and the EndMyopia YouTube channel thoroughly. You can also particiate in the Facebook Group, EndMyopia Forum and Discord server and ask people involved in the process questions. Please don't ask millions of annoying basic questions, they should all be answered in this FAQ (especially this page)
Finally, of course you're at EndMyopia Wiki, so we have to recommend that as a good resource too. There are really no excuses for 'being confused about where to start' 
When do I wear normalized, when do I wear differentials?
Normalized are worn for all distance vision activities (except night driving, see below). Differentials are worn, exclusively, for close-up work with a fixed focal distance. Most of the time this is a screen.
When driving at night, it is strongly recommended that you wear full correction glasses, that are more powerful than your normalized. Leave no room for error.
You only need two pairs of glasses. Don't wear loads of different pairs of normalised and differentials for different focal distances, you only need two.
Should I use plus lenses to improve my eyesight?
Plus lenses are a very bad idea for improving your eyesight in the majority of cases. Understanding how diopters work will tell you that plus lenses make you more shortsighted, and they do not correct for myopia, they correct for hyperopia.
The entire point of normalized is to correct your short-sightedness nearly completely, except with a bit of blur challenge that your eyes clear up. By wearing plus lenses, you're not correcting your short-sightedness, you're actually making your vision worse while you continue to wear the plus lenses, so the literal stimulus involved in improving your eyesight fails to work. This is not to say plus lenses worsen your myopia permanently, it's just to say they do not correct your vision while wearing them in the right way that would lead to vision improvement
A mild plus lense of +0.25 may be useful in low myopia as normalized, but if you have any more than -1.50 diopters of myopia, don't even think about it. If you don't understand how plus lenses work, don't think about using plus lenses because you're wasting your time