Stellest for myopia control

[Anonymous]

OP, did your doctor mention atropine drops as an option? Much cheaper, I think just as effective.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, Dr. Vike Vicente is one of the best pediatric opthamologists in our are. He is also an incredibly nice person.

DP. He's our doctor. We were presented with those lenses as an option, but the results are the same as the drops and my DC likes wearing glasses so we're sticking with the drops for now. My DC is 9 so YMMV.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend's daughter sleeps in gas perm contacts to slow the progression of myopia. She says it's working shockingly well.

I used gas permeables for years as a teen and they really did seem to slow down the progress of my myopia! However, I switched to soft lenses for comfort and now I’m something like -10.

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Anonymous wrote:Where is offering stellest lenses? I thought they weren't available in the US yet.

OP: interesting. We are visiting my family in Canada. Now I am back to thinking this is a money grab. Will get a second opinion back in the US. Thank you.

Nah, the FDA is slower than nearly everywhere else about approvals. Expectation is that Stellest and similar (Zeiss MyoCare et al) will get the imprimatur eventually, after the kind of process that brings such wealth to DCUM's population.

I will say you should shop around instead of ordering immediately, but Stellest & co. look quite promising. Your other options are daily atropine drops (.01% is common, but .05% is recently being pushed as more effective), shaped contact lenses, or just let it play out. If degradation of vision is slow, then you might not need to do anything.

[Anonymous]

Bumping this. My 7 year old just got glasses for one strong eye one weaker re distance. No one mentioned any drops or other options to help their eyes improve. Just basic glasses.

Should I be getting a second opinion and asking about drops or night contacts? I’d hate to miss out on better options.

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping this. My 7 year old just got glasses for one strong eye one weaker re distance. No one mentioned any drops or other options to help their eyes improve. Just basic glasses.

Should I be getting a second opinion and asking about drops or night contacts? I’d hate to miss out on better options.

My son wears the day contacts. They are recommended for 9-12. I am not an eye doctor but it could be that younger eyes are not big enough for the lenses yet. My assumption is that the lenses are not used on people over 12 because the eye has stopped growing and so the lenses are no longer effective but I could be totally wrong.

DS started with the lenses at 10 but that was after a major prescription change. He went from -1 in one eye to -1.75 and -1.50. I also have awful eyesight, I am -7 something. The Eye doctor recommended the day lenses and he has enjoyed wearing them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bumping this. My 7 year old just got glasses for one strong eye one weaker re distance. No one mentioned any drops or other options to help their eyes improve. Just basic glasses.

Should I be getting a second opinion and asking about drops or night contacts? I’d hate to miss out on better options.

These glasses/contacts/drops are usually for myopia control when kids' eyesight suddenly deteriorates quickly. If your kid's eyesight is stable and the glasses are just balancing strength, then they are probably not a candidate. If the weaker eye suddenly drops 1-2 diopters, then maybe it is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Our ophthalmologist at a major hospital just recommended that we look into getting Stellest glasses for our 6 year old. They still are not available in the U.S. so I am trying to order them from Canada. Has anyone had experience ordering from the Canadian Spectacle Clinic e-Store? It seems to be a slightly more cost effective option compared to Ardent Vision, which also ships Stellest to the U.S.

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Anonymous wrote:hi. My eye doctor said my 8 year old now needs glasses and because the change over the past year is dramatic, suggested Stellest lenses.

They are incredibly expensive and the pressure from the doctor to get them immediately from Lenscrafters gave me a wierd vibe....(the doctors office is next to lenscrafters).

Please let me know if your child has worn these and what your experience was.

Any other options for myopia control?

Thanks.

Is this a pediatric ophthalmologist/MD? If not I would definitely see one first.

We use atropine eye drops very successfully (prescribed by a pediatric ophthalmologist at a major children's hospital).

+1 to the pediatric opthamologist and atropine drops. My SIL's myopia was literally cured by a strong dose in a clinical trial decades ago. For reasons that I don't completely understand they no longer give such a strong dose. DD was given a very weak dose for 2 years that stopped her myopia progression. Stopped for a year and her vision got worse. Got a slightly stronger dose for a year and her vision returned to almost where it had been before she stopped! We're big believers in the drops. Also in opthamologists not being slightly scammy salesmen/women.

[Anonymous]

Ball sport esp outdoor sport where the eye has to focus near and far (baseball, football, soccer, etc)
Outdoors 1-2hrs a day. The light does something hormonally to prevent myopia.
DCUM will tell you you cannot prevent/slow myopia with lifestyle. They are wrong. South Korea has 80% rate of myopia whereas 100 years ago it was virtually zero

Get a second opinion

[Anonymous]

Misight contacts worked for us. I would never have believed it ,because it sounds so random and scammy. But her prescription was deteriorating rapidly in elementary and has been almost perfectly stable on misight for several years.

[Anonymous]

I have an 8 yo who’s been using the drops for over a year and prescription is stable so far.

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Anonymous wrote:Misight contacts worked for us. I would never have believed it ,because it sounds so random and scammy. But her prescription was deteriorating rapidly in elementary and has been almost perfectly stable on misight for several years.

Same with my daughter who was barely 9 when she started. She's 12 now and her vision has stabilized. I have terrible terrible eyesight, so I know it would be terrible if we had not done Misight. We go to a children's ophthalmologist on Shady Grove Road in Rockville. Maryland eye center or something.