In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion
Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?
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#152In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I al…
My knee-jerk reaction is “Wow, that’s a lot of work. Where does this person find the time??” But then I realize that I now work from home without the hour-long morning routine (plus commute) and could easily make the time if I’d just limit my pre-standup content-binge.
Going to give a similar self-care routine a try! Thanks for sharing this.
Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?
#153In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I al…
My knee-jerk reaction is “Wow, that’s a lot of work. Where does this person find the time??” But then I realize that I now work from home without the hour-long morning routine (plus commute) and could easily make the time if I’d just limit my pre-standup content-binge. Going to give a similar self-care routine a try! Thanks for sharing this.
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Re: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?
#154In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I al…
Is that from American Psycho?
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#155Women 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.
I do those in daily stand-ups and other meetings. Does wonders!
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Is it common for people around 50 to get Lasik or a similar procedure to counteract this?
Lasik will not correct presbyopia unless you intentionally make yourself near-sighted. In that case you would need glasses for distance
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
What they are describing is presbyopia. It's caused by the hardening of your lens as you age that makes it less able to change shape to focus on close-up things. No fix that I'm aware of but there are work-arounds: 1) For people that already wear glasses, use bifocal/trifocal/progressive lenses 2) For people that don't wear corrective lenses, use "reading glasses" and constantly put them on and take them off as you s…
Presbyopia sneaks up on you. A few years ago I was teasing my older brother (in his early 50s) about the reading glasses he was wearing. He told me to try them out and when I did I felt like a gained a super-power - I hadn't realized my closeup vision had become "fuzzy" until then (I've had perfect vision all my life). Fast forward to today, my wife and I, both 50, have many sets of dollar store 1.25x reading glasses…
You already figured out the solution. The optometrist isn't going to do much else for you unless you need a distance prescription.
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#158Counter 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.
I'm about a decade older than you, was on a computer 12+ hours per day since I was 10. I started wearing glasses at 16 for 20/40 vision and then switched to contacts at about 25 years old. My vision has remained stable since then except for presbyopia. That is really the only effect of age that I've experienced yet and it is a pain to deal with. If I don't have glasses on/contacts in I can read something right up aga…
There's no solution. The options you outlined above: Multifocal vs progressives vs readers vs mono vision are all we've got right now. There's some work on true accommodating prosthetics though.
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#159I have been diagnosed with Keratoconus this year. I’ve been seeing double with each eye independently for 6 years or so and every other doctor that saw me before my current one dismissed it. Gets worse at night so when I drive I see 2 sets of street lights, one is kind of a ghost. The red overlaps with the yellow, yellow with green, and then I see a floating green circle in the air. Overall my brain can process this…
how old are you? How fast is it progressing? Keratoconus progresses most through the 20's. Bad keratoconus will destroy your cornea eventually requiring a transplant. I would seriously think about the cross linking.
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#160As a teenager, nothing, and I ended up short sighted as a consequence of squinting at flickering CRT displays for hours.. oops. As an adult, a lot! I go each year for a test that includes a extended 3D scan of my retinas. I always have glasses that match my prescription. I have "night shift"/reduced-blue mode turned on my computer and phone almost permanently to reduce eye strain and reduce the chemical effects later…
I am skeptical that staying in front of the PC will cause you to be myopic. I am also skeptical that there is anything that needs doing so as to not break your eyesight besides not staring into the sun or laser beams. I mean, i may be right but it seems wrong to me that just using your eyes would somehow break them.
It will before your eyes stop growing at age 25 or so.