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Subject: Does your monitor irritate your eyes?

Navim opened this issue on Sep 02, 2012 · 24 posts


3-DArena posted Sun, 09 September 2012 at 8:32 PM

Just going to jump in here to say that I stopped wearing my glasses at the computer.  It's hard enough for me to even get glasses (last time I gave the optometrist a headache LOL).  I was told that I have a muscular degeneration in one eye that is usually caught as a child & I would need to see a child's specialist. But that's frankly not going to happen.  Then again I was also told my eye would get worse & begin wandering within a year & it's been 3. (i've always been a bit cross-eyed when reading, but over the last several years they cross when I'm tired, usually not noticeably but on occasion hubby will notice).

I've also had a few tell me I'm most likely better off without them as my right eye is so bad, close, distance, it doesn't matter I can't see clearly out of it & haven't for over 12 years.  They've told me the other eye does all the work I trying to retrain them will increase my headache severity & frequency.  However, I'm generally good after just a couple days.

Anyhoo, I stopped wearing them because they gave me bi-focals.  I don't mind that but I found that I got severe headaches wearing them at the computer.  I'm a "shifter"  I sit up, I peer in, I slouch back, I lean forward LOL.  I never knew where in my glasses I was supposed to look.

So I've decided to go back for a new exam (considering Gabriel also rand the office chair over my galsses...), ask which lense I should use for an arms length (I am generally an arms length away, except the occasional forward lean). Then I want that as a solid lens.  I've decide to see if I can get them in cats eye shape & have special spiffy computer nerd glasses LMAO.

That said, I didn't know that I could get a coating for the computer.  I have had anti-glare & I've had the ones that darken (though never dark enough for me, I'm very light sensitive).  So I'm assuming that the coating for a computer is different than anti-glare or the UV coating?


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