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Pythalogical Myopia

Hi,

My age is 24yrs.I have started wearing spectacles at the age of 9, started with number .75
and now my number is 10.0 for left eye and 09.25 for right also have cylinderical and axises number
It always happens that after every 1 and a half or 2 yrs my number increases not like .25 or half but 1.0 or 2.0
I came to know that its not a normal myopia its a pythalogical myopia which can not be cured

please help me out .Am I going to loose my vision if my number increases like this
Is there any way that we can cure it or can make my number stable
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Dr. Brian Ward of the Retinal Diagnostic Center near San Jose, California has mastered a surgery called posterior pole buckling which has been demonstrated to halt progressive axial growth of the eye.  You might arrange a consult with him.  Just google Retinal Diagnostic Center.
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