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"Eyestrain isn't known to lead to permanent damage of the visual system, but it can keep you from doing your work. The causes of eyestrain vary for each individual, and may change for an individual over time. The three main types of causes are: inadequate workspace set-up, inefficient lighting, and lack of proper eye care. Let's look at how to address all three to avoid eyestrain.
How to Avoid Computer Eye Strain and Keep Your Eyes Healthy
Seeded on Thu Sep 2, 2010 8:55 PM EDT
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Wear sunglasses:
Hrm, good idea. I wear sunglasses at work sometimes but I always take them off after my head ache goes away. Maybe I should leave them on.
- 3 votes
#2 - Thu Sep 2, 2010 9:04 PM EDTSome of these sound like a night of excessive imbibing:
- Pain and tension around the eyes and/or temples (which can spread to the head, neck and back)
- Eye dryness and/or redness
- Fatigue
- Sensitivity to light
- Headache
- Difficulty performing visual tasks
- Blurred vision
- Double vision
- 3 votes
#3 - Thu Sep 2, 2010 9:23 PM EDTI spend most of the day staring at the computer and suffer for it. I am a smoker however so about every hour or so I step out so I kill 2 birds with 1 stone. I'm definitely going to look into the color and contrast.
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#4 - Thu Sep 2, 2010 9:32 PM EDTkrish:
Last time I got my eyeglasses prescription I got trifocals just for staring at computer monitors.
Sad, in a way, but at least I knew myself well enough to know I needed 'em.
- 5 votes
#5 - Thu Sep 2, 2010 9:33 PM EDTLast time I got my eyeglasses prescription I got trifocals just for staring at computer monitors.
I've heard that that is very effective. (Or perhaps-- if you spend time only staring at a monitor and not going back and forth between the monitor and papers or a book-- another pair of glasses for use only with the computer).
I've been meaning to get some sort of glasses for the computer-- just haven't gotten around to it yet.
- 6 votes
I bought some of those inexpensive magnifying glasses that you can get most anywhere and they fell apart almost immediately. So I got another pair and superglued all the little screws and I've had them for about 6 years now and they work great. (not one screw has come loose in all that time) I like them so much I have a pair at work and one at home by my computer. All computer and reading eye strain problems solved. Hope that helps.
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krishna!
Hello, and a word of advice if I may. Be SURE you actually need trifocals before you get 'em. Get a second, even a third opinion, if necessary. Getting them and not really needing them to correct vision issues won't make anyone go blind, imho of course, but they can make ones eyeballs do things they may not have to do under normal circumstances. Focus differently, different muscle groups, that kind of thing. Depending on a lot of factors, they can change ones peepers before they need to, in some cases.
I'm not sure I'd get them just for computer work, but that's just me. I'd have to have a couple of major league experts do a major convincing job that they would also benefit my vision along with just sitting in front of a monitor.
I've you've surmised a possible bad experience in this area, you'd be right, so my opinion of getting tri's isn't a very positive one. A prejudiced opinion, I do admit!
Anyway, one thing I did a number of years ago was simply move my monitor to about the middle of my desk, and the keyboard too accordingly, instead if them right up against to edge of the front of the desk. It took a while to get used to having my arms and hands "out there" so to speak, but, they're supported very nicely by the desk. I've also been able to forego the old wrist pad with no ill effects. And I had the carpal surgery in the past as well. I even have a nice little writing area in front of the keyboard now too. And it has been easier on my eyes.
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I've you've surmised a possible bad experience in this area, you'd be right, so my opinion of getting tri's isn't a very positive one. A prejudiced opinion, I do admit!
I have spoken tio some experts ion th efield. One of the things they told me was that some of the really cheap "discount' places for glasses are occasionally a bit sloppy about the way they grind lenses. (Apparently this is more important for stronger prescriptions-- particularly if you have bad astigmatism).
That was a fewe years ago-- things may have changed...?
- 2 votes
I've you've surmised a possible bad experience in this area, you'd be right, so my opinion of getting tri's isn't a very positive one. A prejudiced opinion, I do admit!
I have spoken tio some experts ion th efield. One of the things they told me was that some of the really cheap "discount' places for glasses are occasionally a bit sloppy about the way they grind lenses. (Apparently this is more important for stronger prescriptions-- particularly if you have bad astigmatism).
That was a fewe years ago-- things may have changed...?
Hey-- didya hear the one about the guy who fell into a lens-grinding machine?
- 2 votes
Hey-- didya hear the one about the guy who fell into a lens-grinding machine?
He really made a spectacle of himself!
- 2 votes
Dah dum dum!
rofl!
I had a big time, very well referred "expert" some time ago recommend the tris', and it's been nothing but a merry go round since! The trick is, and you're right on, krishna, is the lens grinding. And particularly for the heftier prescriptions.
Folks would be mildly surprised just how few labs there are, and who is actually performing the grinding. A really good doc and a really bad one can both utilize the same lab for their orders.
Thank god for lazik surgery tho! I've had one eye done already, and I'm scheduled for the other in November. Can't wait!
(*pinkgrins*!)
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I had a big time, very well referred "expert"
Well-- some so-called "experts" are actually considerably less expert than others...
(And I've seen this in many other fields as well).
- 2 votes
I have all kinds of eye problems, astigmatism, glaucoma and other ones that I don't know the name of so when I recently developed blurry vison I blamed it on my new little Alienware 11 inch gaming laptop but when I went to see my eye doctor he said it could be any number of things. His solution was to give me some eye drops by the name of Kelotifen Fumarate (available OTC by another name) and presto my vision returned to normal!
- 3 votes
#6 - Thu Sep 2, 2010 10:05 PM EDTfind a life get off Newsvine.
- 2 votes
#7 - Thu Sep 2, 2010 10:21 PM EDTfind a life get off Newsvine.
What?
Is there anything else out there in the universe?
Actually sometime I do take a break from NV-- for example, I read my email :-)
Or-- if I'm really bored-- I'll do a complete system virus scan!
- 7 votes
I spend 1 million times more of my time on Second Life than I do on Newsvine and you are telling me to get a life? Pfft
- 3 votes
Or-- if I'm really bored-- I'll do a complete system virus scan!
Perhaps you can give us some tips sometime, K. My son added Skype to our PC, and now when I try to open Firefox, I get something called 'Babylon' instead. I can't seem to get rid of it.
- 3 votes
Seems we all have our addictions... We need a net based 12 step program... My name is steve, I am a net junky.:)
- 3 votes
Actually sometime I do take a break from NV-- for example, I read my email :-)
Or-- if I'm really bored-- I'll do a complete system virus scan!
Yup. I actually looked out the window the other day - the lawn needs mowing - badly. Back to NV...
- 3 votes
I just had a long fight with Security Suite Scam (Not deadly-- but a real pain in the ass). My McAfee didn't pick it up-- but I knew I had a virus. I called them and they offered to remove it-- for a fee. I got pissed as I was paying for their stupid program-- they finally did it for free.
- 3 votes
Yup. I actually looked out the window the other day
I did the same thing! (But it took a few minutes to actually locate the window-- it had been so long since I looked away from my monitor! :-0
- 3 votes
Very helpful artical so Thank You very much. Yoga eye rolls are most benefitial also. They can usually improve your eye sight. Read: Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation by Jess Stearn.
- 1 vote
#8 - Thu Sep 2, 2010 11:33 PM EDTVery helpful artical so Thank You very much. Yoga eye rolls are most benefitial also. They can usually improve your eye sight. Read: Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation by Jess Stearn.
I take a yoga class once a week-- we do Netra Vyayamam (the eye movements) at the beginning of each class. I also do my own daily yoga practice but currently don't do the eye movements-- thanks for the suggestion-- will have to add it!
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Actually one of the most helpful things I've found is to do what most of the "experts" say-- take a short break from the computer every hour.
If at home, just go into another room-- even just going to the bathroom or going into the kitchen for a snack-- at work walk down the hall to the bathroom, the water cooler, a colleague's desk etc. And-- spend just a few minutes looking out the window.
This does two things:
1-It gets your larger body muscles out of the position they've been in for a long time
2-It gets your eyes muscles away from close distance focus and into longer distances-- looking at something relatively far away (out the window) is even better.
In addition to shorter hourly breaks, they recommend a longer break every 2 or 3 hours if you're doing a really long stretch of time at the computer.
- 2 votes
I don't think I suffer form eye strain from computer/laptop use but I do find it very difficult some night to to get to sleep if I have just turned off the computer. I have found that melatonin does help.
- 1 vote
#9 - Fri Sep 3, 2010 1:14 AM EDTI don't think I suffer form eye strain from computer/laptop use but I do find it very difficult some night to to get to sleep if I have just turned off the computer.
My accupuncturist (who is also a martial arts master and has quite a mastery of various subtle forms of energy) told me that the energy from electronic devices such as computers excites the nervous system-- he suggested not using the computer for several hours before bedtime!
- 2 votes
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