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1.1 How does it Feel being Myopic?
Most of the readers of this book don't have to read this, because they know how it feels being myopic.
They are hoping to gain some improvement, or even to cure the condition.
Other people, however, are reading this book to get help for their child or a friend. They don't have
personal experience with myopia.
Being myopic means you cannot focus on distant objects without an optical device like glasses or
contact lenses. Without these devices distant objects are blur – the higher the myopia the more
blurry they are. Simulations of the effects of various eye problems on the vision are shown in the
Internet5.
Some people might consider glasses or contact lenses to be at the most a minor inconvenience.
Children, however, often feel really handicapped, and people doing sports can feel the same. In
any case, if there is a higher grade of myopia the loss of the optical device leaves the person feeling
helpless.
As long as there is complete vision achieved with optical devices there might be a substantial psychological
problem, but not a real medical problem. People with higher grades of myopia, however,
are threatened by a permanent degradation of their vision or even blindness (see section
1.7).
At the least, then, myopia is inconvenient, and can be risky. This should be enough reason to find
out about ways to minimize it. Like for every problem in life prevention is the best remedy – in
spite of the fact that most often people will take action only when the damage is already happening.
There is a German proverb saying "damage makes you wise" – but better get wise without too
much damage. Therefore, please read the complete book.
1.2 Basic Terminology of the Anatomy of the Eye
For clarification of the terminology, a cross section of the eye is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 The anatomy of the eye
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