May 19, 2022 - EyeClarity Podcast
As I began to learn more about the holistic approach to eye care and worked with teachers in developmental optometry. They taught me how to prescribe lenses in a way that would help people improve their vision. One of the principles that they taught me, which works very well, is to actually wear the same power of the lens in each eye, even if one is slightly blurrier. So today, I am walking you through that process so you can work with your eyes instead of just fixing the symptoms. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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And then there’s kind of more radical philosophy. In addition to the contacts, which would be and I learned this from my teachers, they were I had, I had about five holistic, they were called developmental optometrists. When I was, in my first years of practice, I grew up on the East Coast. And so I began my first practice in Philadelphia, and I used to go up to Connecticut, and there were like five eye doctors, and they were in their 70s. And they taught me how to prescribe lenses in a way that would help people improve their vision. And one of the principles that they taught me, which works very well, is to actually wear the same power of the lens in each eye, even if one is slightly blurrier. Because when you wear the same lenses, it tells your brain and eyes to start integrating more like, it’s like, it’s like a Natural Vision exercise, it says, Okay, I’m meeting a quarter in my right, I’m seven and quarter in the left. So that means my right eye is focusing a little closer than my left eye needs more of my prescription, what if I gave both eyes minus seven and a quarter? Now my right eye is got to kind of match the left eye.
And time and time again, when I started to do that, people would come back and say, Wow, this feels so much more relaxing, I’m not getting the eye strain. And the other thing about that is because you’re at eight and a quarter, and seven and a quarter, or 950, and 850, you’re in a natural double vision setup because the right eye is focusing at a closer focal distance than the left eye, you could, you could figure that out by holding a target. And with each eye separately, you probably have to hold the object closer to your right eye to get it clear, whereas the left eye is slightly farther away. So that’s already creating an inherent double doubling. So and then, you know, you’re overriding that, but then you get hit as you did. And that kind of creates this, this, you know, a trauma in the muscles in the eyes.
So it’s harder for you to kind of muscle it and keep it together and whatever. So my, my proposal, my proposal would be in the realm of saying, Well, what if, what if we got you a prescription in contact lenses, that would be the same in each eye soft lens. And also the number, you know, like, when it’s eight and a quarter and glasses, it’s going to be less of a number because it’s closer to the eye. But on top of that, one of the techniques that worked really, really well for me, and I again, use it quite frequently with people that are nearsighted is I actually have them wear a prescription that corrects them more for computer or reading. So it’s a, it’s a reduced prescription, that still gives them some clarity, but it’s not as tight or as strong as the distance prescription. And so, you know, I might think about saying, well, let’s do 675 Get you a pair of those you can get in the soft lens world, you can get these disposable contacts, and they don’t cost very much. And then maybe get you a second prescription that’s like in the minus six, realm six in each eye. Now, I would say to start off the 675, you’re probably not going to have any problems using those for driving or whatever.
But even so, I would just start, say, you know, in your house, you know, in a nondemanding situation just to get used to, it’s going to be greater vision, you’re going to have a lot more periphery. And this, this balancing between your right eye and left eye, it may take a little bit of adjustment, although my prediction is that you’re probably gonna go wow, this is pretty cool. I can wear the same lens in each eye. And then you could get the minus six, I’ll give you the prescription for both. And then with a minus six, you could play with those say on the weekend and just wear them
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and just experiment just say what am I noticing here? What’s What am I seeing what am I feeling what’s the double like? And those options would do a couple of things for you. First of all, it would get you out of the distortion of what the glasses inherently bring to you. Number two, it would start balancing your two eyes and number three would give you a technique where you could gently and slowly start reducing your myopia. And that’s great for your nervous system and the tension that we carry in the eye muscles. And you might find over time that the minus six actually becomes your distance prescription.
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