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Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

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Post by Aulig »

frontman1988 wrote: post #75
Aulig wrote: post #43

Since march of this year I stopped following my eye doctor's advice ("wear your glasses as much as possible otherwise your brain gets lazy", which is proven BS) and looked into endmyopia (i think i even read about it on HN), as I was getting into the risk zone for retinal detachment (6 diopters), which can lead to blindness. To sum it up: reduce the amount of near-work you do (looking at your monitor, smartphone, boo…

i earlier dismissed endmyopia as a pseudoscience given doctors are against it. But it does make sense that eyeballs that have elongated beyond their size and hence caused myopia can also come back to their nature size improving vision as well. Gotta try it for myself though.

Best of luck! I first heard about it 3 years or so ago, but also dismissed it until I found out I could just try it out at almost no cost with glasses from Aliexpress. One of my best decisions of the past few years :)

Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

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Post by Aulig »

comeonseriously wrote: post #80
Aulig wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh interesting, thanks for letting me know. I'll have to look into that topic a bit more :) My PD is around 64mm and I'll be receiving glasses with that PD soon. It will be interesting to see if I notice any difference to my other glasses.

You're welcome. And just to clarify, I don't have anything against your process (I've used Zenni myself), I just wanted to make the point about being careful with the PD.

Oh no worries, I didn't understand it in a negative way. I'm always happy to learn new things - especially in this case as it does sound important and I haven't really been paying attention to PD.

Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

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Post by biggieshellz »

jordanmorgan10 wrote: post #44

Does anyone have any first hand experience with the blue light filtering glasses? Is it snake oil or does it actually work? My eyes aren’t great anyways, and I fear for the beating they are taking due to my proclivity to stare at a monitor hours on end.

It's not helpful. The filter doesn't allow your eyes to relax; the prescription that lets your eyes be relaxed while focusing at computer distance does. You can get computer glasses made without the blue light filtering and they will be just as effective.

Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

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Post by Aulig »

was_a_dev wrote: post #71
Aulig wrote: post #43

Since march of this year I stopped following my eye doctor's advice ("wear your glasses as much as possible otherwise your brain gets lazy", which is proven BS) and looked into endmyopia (i think i even read about it on HN), as I was getting into the risk zone for retinal detachment (6 diopters), which can lead to blindness. To sum it up: reduce the amount of near-work you do (looking at your monitor, smartphone, boo…

Can you give a summary of what the "endmyopia" process is? The website claims the idea is based on peer reviewed research, but all the links and guides lead to what appears to be clickbait styled videos and testemonials. Overall it isn't clear and doesn't really sell the idea to me

Yea, that's sort of the founder's style. He has a very ironic and not very serious way of writing that drives a lot of people away. He does it intentionally though, as he wants people to really look into the topic and understand it, instead of just listening to "5 easy steps to fix your eyes in 1 week!" and then encountering problems.

You can find the research linked in these posts: https://endmyopia.org/category/science/

The summary is basically this: You increased your eyeball length from too much near work and lens usage. This further increases your myopia. To reverse it, use lenses appropriate to your task (reduced lenses for near work) and reduce near work in general. I can recommend the free 7 day email guide, it's probably the closest to a coherent overview about the whole topic.

Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

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Post by rvieira »

rootusrootus wrote: post #21
k_sze wrote: post #8

Counter anecdata. I'm 39, right eye slightly myopic since I was a kid. Never needed glasses. Always prefered using the computer in the dark since when I was a teen and had an NEC MultiSync CRT monitor. My eyes are still OK as far as I can tell.

40s are pretty rough when it comes to vision. At 39 my vision was perfect. At 47 I still have 20/20 father away than arms reach but closer than that it’s crap. When it started to change it was quick.

Anecdote: My eyesight is still pretty good for small print (I'm nearsighted, that apparently helps), but my partner (who recently passed the 40s milestone) started having trouble reading small font sizes in a matter of months.

Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

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Post by Buttons840 »

Aulig wrote: post #43

Since march of this year I stopped following my eye doctor's advice ("wear your glasses as much as possible otherwise your brain gets lazy", which is proven BS) and looked into endmyopia (i think i even read about it on HN), as I was getting into the risk zone for retinal detachment (6 diopters), which can lead to blindness. To sum it up: reduce the amount of near-work you do (looking at your monitor, smartphone, boo…

> With these rules I've managed to go from -5.5/-6 to -3.5/-3.75 in just these 9 months. And that's with me still spending 12h a day on my computer.

Do you mean you've gotten used to a weaker pair of glasses? Can you actually see just as well, and how have you tested that? Are you around 40 (far vision improves around that age)?

Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

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Post by doubled112 »

edmcnulty101 wrote: post #9

Women say they love mens eyes. So you have to work those out at the gym as well. I do eyelid lifts and eye rolls. 3 sets of 20 6 days a week with a rest day on Sunday. You can do these while on the treadmill and doing other excercise to increase efficiency. You can also mix in some beta carotene into your protein shake to really maximize the eye pump.

By the time I'm a couple hours into my day, I'm sure I've hit a couple sets of wide eyes and eye rolls.

Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

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Post by moneywoes »

Flankk wrote: post #2

I don't. I just upgrade my prescription as my eyes worsen. You're supposed to take eyesight breaks to rest and refocus your eyes. You're also supposed to sleep 8 hours a day, eat three balanced meals, and pee standing up. I don't give a shit what the man says. I make my own rules.

Seems the opposite no?

https://www.menshealth.com.au/peeing-sitting-down-is-good-fo...

Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

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Post by kaba0 »

dathinab wrote: post #54

One of the main points would be to reduce eye strain during the time you use the monitor: - most important make sure the light conditions in your room are good, no light source directly shining on the monitor, no light source directly shining from behind the monitor. That can be hard or even outright impossible to setup in some rooms, most smaller companies I had been in get this wrong. Worst the perfect desk positio…

What do you mean by wayland + non-scalar scaling? Fractional scaling will indeed not map to each pixel properly, but that has nothing to do with wayland.

As far as I know, only Windows try to align font rendering to the pixel grid, Macs decided on skipping the 1-2x range and providing higher density displays and only doing integer scaling — which you can easily do with Wayland as well.

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