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Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
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Re: Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
#112Slightly related: does anyone do eye “exercises”? As in, for 5 minutes, move the eyes all around in a 360 degrees fashion, alternating with left to right (and right to left) movements. I use the computer many hours per day and that means my eyes are usually fixed at a 27 inch monitor for hours. I think the exercises are “strengthening” my eyes muscles… not sure if true though.
This might be vestibular or neurological in nature. I had a vestibular condition that affected my eyesight and did rehab and they gave me eye exercises that helped somewhat. Fast forward a few years of struggling and I found that it was caused by migraines (not the painful kind, just brain disruption). And those migraines are caused by temporal lobe epilepsy. But that part isn’t important, it’s that all sorts of migraines caused by all sorts of issues can disrupt eyesight. And I think it is more common than people realize because there is no pain. It can cause eyesight issues, brain fog, and potentially dizziness. You need that brain to see so if it is disrupted often your sight will be as well. I am surprised people are talking about neurological angles.
Re: Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> now have to juggle two pairs of glasses instead of one This can be mitigated with custom magnetic clip lenses, e.g. Chemistrie. Tiny magnets are implanted into your current frame. Clip lens changes the focal length of your existing glasses by a fixed offset. Computer or reading clip can be changed in seconds. They also have polarized clips for instant sunglasses on your existing frame, which are better than Transit…
oh these are super interesting - i've never seen magnets in the len's before. thanks for sharing.
They are mostly sold via opticians who do the changes locally, but there's also an online option, 150 for clip + lens mod + 2-way shipment, additional clips for 75, https://www.buychemistrie.com/product-page/chemistrie-comput...
Re: Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
#114Yes, I'm very nearsighted. I've worn progressive lenses for years but they continue to drive me crazy. I can see fine with them, but my eyes easily get fatigued and I have to take long breaks to get them to calm down. Over the summer I added a pair of progressive occupational lenses (not reading glasses). They are focused arms length in front of me. This has been a complete game changer. I can now see my monitor cris…
Unsure if this will work for your case, but I am _very_ happy with my implanted contact lenses. They sit behind my iris and optically function as normal contact lenses. No hassle, just a straight up body upgrade. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraocular_lens I was very surprised that this is not a more common thing to hear about amongst people with bad eyesight. Laser correction sucks in comparison, with more ri…
In my case, I've had multiple ophthalmologists recommend against getting IOLs until I'm much, much older, as the risk of side affects (specifically retinal detachment) outweighs the benefit I would get from having them.
I still dream of being able to see first thing when I wake up.
Re: Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, I'm absolutely terrified of doing anything that might damage my eyesight. I know the common procedures (i.e. Lasik) have come a long way in the last two decades and are very low risk, but they are not zero risk. I won't even wear contact lenses, I long ago fully committed to glasses. That type of procedure doesn't fit my risk tolerance.
I understand the hesitation, but that's the thing about this: It's even simpler than cataract surgery (where they actually _replace_ your own lenses instead of just flopping one in front of it), which is very very common, and very very safe. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cataract_surgery IIRC the chance of complications for Lasik is about 10x that of the one for intraocular lens implantation. The natu…
I would still never bifocals or at least reading glasses. Once you reach around 45 everyone day. Lasix probably makes you need them sooner (but we are talking at most a couple years, not very significant)
I get my glasses in ANSI rated safety glasses so wearing glasses all the time doubles as protection from all the things that could get in my eyes. This is useful if you have hobbies where that is a worry, though for most people you are fine without.
Re: Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
#116Anecdotally related, but, during Covid and remote work I went to an optometrist around age 35 after I noticed my distance vision was blurry, especially at night after working inside all day. They told me "you have 20/20 vision, your vision is completely fine, you don't need glasses!" But, I responded, my vision is definitely blurry. They politely told me to stop wasting their time. Dissatisfied, I went to another opt…
How the hell did you convince your optometrist to correct your vision to 20/7? The past two docs I've been two have ignored me when I've said "I can make out the letters, but they're blurry and fuzzy. Can we go stronger?" with "Well, that's corrected to 20/20 vision.". I'm very, very strongly considering finding a used eye-testing-headgear thingie like they have in their offices, learning how to use it, and doing the…
Search "trial lens set" and "trial lens frame", the portable versions which were used for decades in the past.
Re: Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
#117The longer i stay up the blurrier my vision gets, and no pair of glasses completely corrects my vision. i was 25/20 or better in each eye until a couple of years ago, i scratched my left lens somehow and i got wicked poked in the eye by my kid in the right eye, into the socket. I can drive without glasses, but i can't read the sideroad signs on the 8' poles very well. I originally got my prescription with an Eye-Q de…
> my biggest issue with the way prescriptions are decided is the "this one, or this one" and they both look equally crappy, and they say "which looks less crappy" and i just pick randomly, because they're both awful. and then it continues, where it's just blurry from there on out. I had an eye opening (ha) experience once I got pretty deep into 200/300/600 yard high power rifle. I was trying to debug an issue with my…
the damage to both my eyes was such that my left eye i had a giant ryuken swish around any point source of light (leds on devices, car headlamps, etc). The right eye was like 3 dim blurry copies around a point light source.
Eventually, i was able to count 8 distinct "copies" in my left eye. It made trying to determine what was in front of me at night nearly impossible, and i stopped driving until after the medication they gave me worked.
The Eye-Q device has a red and a green "bar" and those rotate with each "test", you push buttons on the device until you see a yellow bar appear distinct from the red and green bars, then you hit "ok", it rotates, spreads the bars apart, and you start again.
What's interesting is i never failed to get that yellow bar with the eye-q - i'd have expected that to be synonymous with getting a clear image from the optometrist tool - which copilot tells me is called a phoropter. To be silly, i will pronounce that "fuh-rope-ter" and see if anyone notices.
edit; i just checked, right eye i can see 4 lights on my NAS blinking, left eye i see at least 8 without glasses, only 4 with. These aren't very bright, so i'll have to remember to test outside at night with a planet or a distant street light. a single copy of a light source isn't as bad as 4 or 8 or a giant swish!
2: I know the doubling you're talking about when looking through sights. There's something about the way parallax works that i don't think it's "tricked" me in the past. I wonder now if i could group, at all?!
Re: Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
#118My ophthalmologist said that the two things to do to prevent glasses headaches are to back off from the "correct" prescription slightly and to use computer glasses designed for focusing 2-3 feet away when at the computer rather than the distant target typical for corrective lenses.
Your optometry office can also test your glasses to make sure that they're actually the right prescription. Lensemakers sometimes (often?) do the fabrication slightly wrong.
Re: Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly, I'm absolutely terrified of doing anything that might damage my eyesight. I know the common procedures (i.e. Lasik) have come a long way in the last two decades and are very low risk, but they are not zero risk. I won't even wear contact lenses, I long ago fully committed to glasses. That type of procedure doesn't fit my risk tolerance.
I understand the hesitation, but that's the thing about this: It's even simpler than cataract surgery (where they actually _replace_ your own lenses instead of just flopping one in front of it), which is very very common, and very very safe. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cataract_surgery IIRC the chance of complications for Lasik is about 10x that of the one for intraocular lens implantation. The natu…
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Re: Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?
#120Add incandescent light to your setup.
The lack of near infrared is destroying our health and it's most evident with eyes.
Go outside, have incandescent lights.