[lucb1e]

Warning to anyone taking the above as medical advice: perhaps it might work for you, but do discuss with your doctor and check that you are not driving vehicles with worsening sight while believing it's fine. By all means try it, but get it checked so at least you have the data to know whether it works for you.

[war1025]

> but do discuss with your doctor

This requires having a doctor you trust.

My experience with most doctors is that I can trust them about as far as a used car salesman.

[RHSeeger]

Start by finding an eye doctor that doesn't have a glasses shop attached, imo. Or one that isn't "attached" to such a shop in a way they would profit from it, I guess. Without insulting any doctor in specific, my thought is that making a profit from glasses being sold is likely to impact how likely the doctor is to prescribe new glasses.

[crooked-v]

> Or one that isn't "attached" to such a shop in a way they would profit from it, I guess.

Costco is set up this way: their optometrists are contractors who get a flat fee per eye exam, and they don't know or care about what else you buy while you're there.

[astura]

At my ophthalmologist office the glasses store is a different company than the ophthalmologist's office.

They might have a revenue sharing agreement, maybe, but they don't even encourage you to use it.

[lucb1e]

> making a profit from glasses being sold is likely to impact how likely the doctor is to prescribe new glasses.

And beyond that, following the logic from the recent surgery thread: they see their patients see better. They see all the good cases, where someone walks out more confident and with better sight. Their product helps people. But then so do homeopathic placebos (to a certain (measurable) extent), and that's the hard part to figure out.

Of course, in this case everyone truly does see better when they walk out and what GP is wondering about are the long-term effects. This stuff is complicated, though I frankly have a hard time believing this claim of "just stop wearing glasses and you'll see better". Surely someone would have noticed that? But without doing a deep dive into the research here, it's all just speculation on both their part and mine.

[moneywoes]

Have a link to the surgery thread?

[ethhics]

I believe they’re referring to this thread from December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25472970

[lucb1e]

I meant that you can discuss it with your doctor to get their factual knowledge or pointers, and then draw your own conclusions. I didn't say, and didn't mean to say (sorry if it came across like that), that you should follow their advice to any degree. I trust the overwhelming majority of people (doctor or patient) to use their own reasonable judgement, and the rest won't be helped by this advice anyway.

And for what it's worth, you may have had a string of bad doctors. I never had that feeling with any of mine (though I've only ever seen doctors in the Netherlands and Germany).