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That's very common, you use weaker glasses for near work then, so around -6 or -6.5 depending on your distance from your screen. You can find more information on that on the endmyopia page or wiki by looking for "differential glasses"
Thanks. I'll give this a try. I don't like the feeling that if I lose my glasses or contacts I'm helpless.
I have a blue light filter, it's advised when spending a lot of time at a screen. I used to have headaches sometimes, but that disappeared with it.
there’s not a lot of evidence that blue light filters do anything in terms of eye health (but i’m glad it’s working for you anyway!)
There's an app called f.lux and when I work on my computer in the evening and turn it off, the screen becomes really bright/annoying.
Perhaps it doesn't make a difference on eye health in particular, but it's easy to try that and i do notice a difference immediately concerning eyestrain.
Note: I'm aware of the difference during the day and my situation during the night. It's mentioned as an easy to reproduce example from personal experience, not as a fact supporting any research.
When I told my optometrist that I was a software developer he took me into this office and showed me his computer setup. Basically, he was a huge proponent of using massive TV screens in place of smaller computer monitors as it was so much easier on the eye. I'm typing this on my machine connected to a 55" 4k TV that's about 33" away from my face. Given how inexpensive 4k TVs are compared to monitors and how well the…
I do this for another reason: severe convergence insufficiency. People in their 40s basically get convergence insufficiency and require prism lenses. But, mine is due to a rare neurological disease affecting my peripheral nervous system, which I have lived with since I was too young to read.
A question to the other comments and advice put here: Is the surge in blinding LED car headlamps going to accelerate any existing issues, or result in issues further down the road? I have no problem seeing at night, or around well-lit areas of town, but these new headlights? They are too bright and I have difficulty seeing in some cases. I've asked other people (younger, older) and they have all noticed it as well. I…
A question to the other comments and advice put here: Is the surge in blinding LED car headlamps going to accelerate any existing issues, or result in issues further down the road? I have no problem seeing at night, or around well-lit areas of town, but these new headlights? They are too bright and I have difficulty seeing in some cases. I've asked other people (younger, older) and they have all noticed it as well. I…
When I told my optometrist that I was a software developer he took me into this office and showed me his computer setup. Basically, he was a huge proponent of using massive TV screens in place of smaller computer monitors as it was so much easier on the eye. I'm typing this on my machine connected to a 55" 4k TV that's about 33" away from my face. Given how inexpensive 4k TVs are compared to monitors and how well the…
This is so obvious now that I think about it. Name the number animals in our evolutionary lineage whose survival depended on staring at a tiny object closer than an arms length away. Besides us, I can't think of a single one. Even most humans were able to get by with mostly distance vision until very recently.
I'm glad that large screens are becoming so much more economical, because this just makes a whole lot of sense.
I've been eating pineapple in the last few weeks to see if it gets rid of my eye floaters: https://www.benjamineye.com/blog/eye-floaters/ > Three months later, out of 120 subjects in the first group (1 slice), only 35 still experienced eye floaters, an improvement of 70.8%. In the second group, only 19 participants still saw floaters, an improvement of 72.8% > How does it work? Scientists believe that enzymes in the…