My personal issue is that it's getting worse over time - seemingly from wearing glasses for about 20 years now. My optician confirmed that and suggested special contract lenses that deform the lenses to temp improve focus.
There are people claiming Myopia is treatable by training. Has anyone tried it? Is this bullshit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Efg42-Qn0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.improveeyesighthq.com/how-to-cure-nearsightedness.html
They're just night contacts for people who don't want to wear contacts during the day for whatever reason. It's probably awesome for swimmers, but will do nothing for age-related sight problems.
The eye training mentioned in another thread is reputedly a little bogus, but one thing it can do is slow down that degradation if it is only age-related (versus something more serious). Basically you are exercising the muscles that are weak because of age, or staring at a single distance for far too many hours.
Lasik causes a mild night-blindness, where lit objects have halos. Not all that different than glasses on a wintery night, but without the actual fogging. As well (and this point could be wrong) the cut never heals, so you could always cause irreparable damage if your eye got rubbed or scratched the wrong way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method "is an ineffective and potentially dangerous alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight. [...] No type of training has been shown to change the refractive power of the eye [link to source]"
Just not sure if it's worth it if I'd need to wear glasses after a few years again.
For me the goal would be to at least stop if from getting worse.
Also, you don’t see people going from -1 to 0 correction whereas you do see people saying they went from -5 to -4 and stop there.
I haven't looked into this deeply because I don't have severe myopia, but seems plausible to me that this really works for a lot of people.