April 11, 2023 - EyeClarity Podcast
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SUMMARY KEYWORDS
prescription, glasses, vision, 350s, blurrier, peripheral, distorts, put, relate, cylinder, therapy, little bit, intuitive insights, feel, space, wear, relaxing, lenses, nearsighted, optometry
Hello, everyone, it’s Dr. Sam, I’d like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions, you can send them to hello@drsamberne.com.
All right, Justine, you’re the last one. So, tell me a little bit about your vision and how you became nearsighted. And now what was your what’s your history?
00:16
Yeah, so I started wearing glasses when I was in fifth grade. And my optometrist prescribed me very strong minus lenses, and didn’t tell me anything about visual habits. So I used to color and write really close to the page. And I used to watch TV, you know, from the distance of this computer screen.
And so my prescription just continued to climb and climb and climb throughout school. And it wasn’t until optometry school that I learned about good visual habits, about you know, relaxing your vision going outside, you know, not being so glued to the screens. But you know, with COVID and technology nowadays, we’re always on our screens.
And so I do vision therapy with patients. And so I’m actively doing the exercises with them, especially the diverging activities. And what I’m finding is I’m approaching 36 now, and I’m feeling like I’m getting early presbyopic kind of symptoms, where long term your work, it’s starting to give me strain and headaches, and I even put a little bit of bass in prison and my glasses just to help with that. But I’m still finding that my eyes get really tired by the end of the day.
01:41
Okay, well, one thing I can say right off the bat, that can really help you is have you ever thought about wanting to reduce prescription?
01:50
Yes, that is what I would love to strive to do.
01:54
Okay. So the way we should do this is, if you’ve got some filters, and you can get them then what will happen is I’m gonna have you wear them over this, and I’m gonna have no,
02:08
okay, I’ve got it. I’ve got.
02:10
So this is a plus 50. And I just want you to wear it over Are you minus six? Like, are you
02:16
are you so I’m actually I’m not minus six. So this one here minus 375 minus 175. Sell. So spherical equivalent is about a five ish, and then left is a minus five. So a lot of so here, zero so
02:33
so we’re going to try a couple of things. So put the plus with these over the glasses. Okay, so what do you feel? Comfortable? Some people what’s the difference?
02:48
Yes. So definitely more clarity, but I also feel more center not as peripheral. And then when I put these on blurrier, but I feel more open and peripheral things are a little bit bigger.
03:04
Now with your right hand, right, that one I think the pluses of the one okay
03:08
over well this might be minus blurrier How does it feel mentally emotionally? I feel almost like a tingling right here. My nose bridge. Okay. Maybe a little bit of nausea.
03:31
So the nausea is now we’re actually much more peripheral. Okay. So now compare the, the right the left hand and also you can look at your print through
03:57
the plus 50 is a lot easier to adjust to
04:01
Okay. You think you could work in this thing? And what about the point of it is just be clear without with a
04:13
much more relaxing and vigor with the sun.
04:16
So I think number one, I would cut back on half that’s too much. Okay. So I would I would have a prescription made up and just reduce it to happen a child can use it indoors but only use
04:35
it for use it for weeding is if the only time you need those would be for long distance driving. And I think that could be a game changer. That will definitely move you out of this. Unnecessary. Unnecessary presbyopia like as a as a mio item I think you can always under correct yourself. And you can always have a second prescription if the three way driving. But I think you’re over a minus two.
05:18
And so that would be the number one thing now. That’s first. Alright, so now this makes it a mind or the bottom makes it a minus three
05:34
just for the hell of it. Take the glasses off so now we’re balancing you with Miss cylinder in the right way the issue was this that’s going to be blurry on the right. And it’s going to be blurry on the left for different reasons. What’s it like to have symmetrical lenses with most soldiers?
06:01
Almost feels like you know, when you go to a fair and you go to that room where all the mirrors are, and you know, distorts the way that your body looks. It might Okay, looks distorted,
06:14
I want you to get up carefully get up and I want you to just walk a space that Be careful walking. And so what how is this reader?
06:32
It feels shaky, almost like my ground is shaking.
06:39
And so shaky say more.
06:42
I also feel a little bit you know, hesitant, insecure with my vision. Okay,
06:49
no problem. So how can you bring more proprioception in the walk way more maybe feel more grounded and Kirk receptively that cannot help you or is it
07:07
helps breathing and paying more attention to my feet on the ground?
07:14
Or now just stand there and take those and put your glasses on? Tell me who you become Who do you become who you become identified with a part of yourself and put those on?
07:34
Appeal like I identify more with my type a side.
07:40
Definitely detail and control. So just think about the love in your life, your relationship relating to that person through that lens and then taking it off and putting on the minds to 50s.
08:05
The softer, softer, you will be more receptive.
08:12
Definitely more understanding
08:16
will be important. Last two are
08:27
just says more of my relaxed side of
08:31
the table. So what how would it serve you to be more openness?
08:38
I would definitely feel less anxious
08:42
and get in less arguments with my husband. When I put on the glasses again. Why are your wife there’s no arguing with you. You have the right answer.
09:05
This is a very cool exercise.
09:10
Okay. No, it’d be really interesting for you to get a pair of minus 250s. Okay, no cylinder and start how often I would wear it, maybe just at home when you’re when you want to chill out and when relate to your husband because what’s going to happen is your energy is very different than most minus 350s His energy is going to change and you guys are gonna have a much more loving connection.
Yeah, exactly. You know, this prescription is it really puts you into a space of okay, I’m going to get things done, like you say type A. And so if you go plus 50 on these, and then the minus 350s I don’t care if it’s distorting or your, what it’s doing is it’s showing you what what is what the world is like without the war. And the work is just in your right side that a stigmatism. So it’s going to move you in a direction of more integration, it doesn’t matter that you don’t see things as clear that that’s irrelevant, because you’re gonna use them in spaces where you don’t need that requirement.
And I don’t want to if you start feeling nervous or frustrated, I can’t see then just put on your other losses. That’s going to be your signal. But who knows, like in six months, you could be in like a minus 350 in each eye. I mean, it could be, but just look at how different you are, energetically and relationally.
Need to have these. It could change how you relate to patients, you might get more intuitive insights. Because it’s hard to get the intuitive insights through those. I’m not saying you can’t, but I know I was in that world. You’re very structured and organized. And that’s that’s Optometry.
I mean, you know, that education, it’s very detail on through it. But I think in vision therapy, there’s an intuitive side to things right that you kind of feel okay, this is what this person, especially since you guys are doing the therapy. I love that you’re going that’s the way I was trained too.
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