i don't but i'm staring at the monitor too much nowadays and i know my sight isnt as good as it was 5 years ago.

(i'm only 20 too)

I wear contacts...:D

Contacts here too...

Nope. Definately not 20/20, but pretty close.

Tip of the Day: Conciously BLINK!

I realize the <BLINK> tag died a horrible death but the need to blink your eyes is still alive and strong.

Many people tend to blink less than they should while starring at a monitor. It's important to conciously blink often while working to help protect your eyes for the long term. Blinking helps to keep them moist and this is important. I also keep Visine Tears close by. If your eyes feel like they are drying out give them some artificial help...

It's also a good idea to close your eyes and keep them closed for a few seconds every so often.

Smokers, those who hang in the sun a lot, those over 65, and those who have blue/hazel/green eyes need to work a lil harder than others since they are at a higher risk of eye strain/problems.

As for me and my blue eyes.... still 20/20 :cool:

i wear contacts most time but glasses in morning and late night so i put yes :)

No I dont, but my vision is not 20/20.

Thanks for reminding me, Deb; I've always known this.. just never bothered to blink much lately :D

I wish I could read the big E on the eye chart without my glasses. I'm looking into getting that laser surgery, but I'm kinda afraid they'll mess up and ruin my eyes somehow... *paranoid*

Originally posted by Deb
It's important to conciously blink often while working to help protect your eyes for the long term. Another eyestrain-avoidance tip: look away from the monitor from time to time, and focus on a few different objects at varying distances from where you're sitting.

I'm supposed to wear glasses - but I don't particularly like them.

The stupid optometrist gave me bifocals which are a complete pain.

I need to go back one day and get retested for some new ones. I'm long sighted which is great for reading things a great distance away - but doesn't really help when reading papers, etc. close up.

--Shaun

Originally posted by zdwebhosting
i wear contacts most time but glasses in morning and late night so i put yes :)

me too :)

I wear contacts. :)

Thankfully my vision is still near perfect. The only glasses I wear are sun glasses.

I’m supposed to wear them but I seldom do. Its only for reading small print. I believe if you wear them more than you should your eyes will grow dependent on them, and there for weaken faster than they should.

MY GOD WHERE DID MY KEYBOARD GOOOO Ooops lol sorry it's right in front of me lol

Like I said I only wear them when I need them

Cheers:D :D :D :D

Yep. Unfortunately, after I spent a week staring at a laptop screen (many years ago) I had to go get glasses...have ever since

Originally posted by dandanfirema
Yep. Unfortunately, after I spent a week staring at a laptop screen (many years ago) I had to go get glasses...have ever since

I'm the opposite. If I look at a CRT screen for more than about 30 minutes I get a massive headache and sore eyes (although some of the newer flat CRTs are fine).

I will absolutely refuse to have any other monitor than an LCD (in environments where I have control of course) which is why for the time being I'm sticking with laptops. When I get a standard desktop I'll be getting an LCD with that as well.

Another reason why I have to get new glasses - I won't be able to control what display I have forever :stickout.

--Shaun

focusin daily contacts

Originally posted by Deb
......, and those who have blue/hazel/green eyes need to work a lil harder than others since they are at a higher risk of eye strain/problems......

What other eye colours are there?

Blind in my right eye, very poor vision in my left, although correctable in my left to 20/40

Having quality optics is awesome.
Mester - brown

20/20 :D

Bi-focals :bawling:

Can't blame it on puters though. :D

I wear contacts. :)

20/20 vision :cool:

Originally posted by Samuel
Mester - brown

Isnt brown the same as hazel??

My vision is 20/90 and I lack depth perception.

i starting wearing glasses in pre school.....then in highschool i got contacts, i tend to wear both... but contacts kick ass, as for my vision, i'll just say this: my 76 year old grandmother has better vision then me...

Originally posted by dreamrae.com
i starting wearing glasses in pre school.....then in highschool i got contacts, i tend to wear both... but contacts kick ass, as for my vision, i'll just say this: my 76 year old grandmother has better vision then me...

ditto been wearing glasses for ages and contacts since like 6th grade and i'm only 17 almost 18 and my eyes are so much worse then my grand parents its not even funny we lay our glasses down and compare glass width and all laugh hahaha.

anyhow hopefully i will get the eye surgery like my mom did in a few years.

Originally posted by Mester


Isnt brown the same as hazel??

Hazel is in between green and blue, almost colorless, I have hazellike eyes.

It's caused from residual astygmatism, the shape of my eyes change based on the temperature of my body so my eyes go from bright blue in the summer (Or heat), and almost green in the winter, or when I am cold.

No, brown, is brown, hazel is like aqua

Been wearing glasses since high school -- only for distance.

Now I wear contacts for that.

However I notice that during migraines my close-up vision gets royally horked, so I just bought a pair of weak reading glasses. They are pretty darn nifty.

I am only 31 though :bawling: a little early for readers.


:D Bailey

still got good vision here - probably not quite as perfect as when I was a teen, but still fairly close.

I'm big on the eye exercises too. Taking breaks to look elsewhere and focusing at objects at different distances away heps a great deal.

Greg Moore

Originally posted by Tony P
I wish I could read the big E on the eye chart without my glasses. I'm looking into getting that laser surgery, but I'm kinda afraid they'll mess up and ruin my eyes somehow... *paranoid*

Hi Tony.

I had worn Glasses for nearly 13 years and made the big leap and had Laser Surgery on both eyes about 2 months ago. Was the best thing I have done for myself. I now have no problems at all reading the bottom line of any eye chart.

Marita

Forgot to mention, I am seeing a doctor that might be able to restore vision in my right eye, now wouldn't that be the bomb?

Originally posted by Samuel
Forgot to mention, I am seeing a doctor that might be able to restore vision in my right eye, now wouldn't that be the bomb?

Sure :D

I don't know who to beleive anymore. I have been working with computers seriously for around 4 years now. And ever since my vision has gotten worse and worse. However, when I ask my eye doctor if there is a problem. He says the same thing "If monitors or tvs caused problems with your eyes, we would all be blind" So I think its time to switch eye doctors.

To give you an idea of my vision.

Last year I had a glasses prescription of 1.50. This year my glasses are 3.00

Thanks

glasses here (23)

I have glasses but don't like to wear them
also afraid of wearing lenses

Any solution?

but I'm kinda afraid they'll mess up and ruin my eyes somehow... *paranoid*


My grandmother is going back for her 3rd correction. Meaning they did the initial laser surgery and are now doing their 3rd one since to touch it up or something. I don't know all the details, only that it hasn't worked so well for her.

Being nearsighted is dangerous, especially if you have over a 6.0 diopter myopia (nearsightedness).

You are much more prone to having a Retinal Tear occur in your eye later in life (because your eyeball has elongated) so that means your vitrious is tugging and pulling on your retina much harder which can cause it to tear and blind you.

Go read www.sightwise.org if you are nearsighted...that $#@! is scary!

LOL. I don't know I hear good and the bad about it all. Anyway, I find it funny that my friends mother considered laser surgery. Until she realized that they used lazers. LOL :D

Thanks

Yeah, but if you have lasik/laser done more than once your putting your cornea at risk. Each time you fry and burn the cornea with laser you weaken it. Eventually it can thin out so much it can bulge...then you need a cornea transplant.

This happended to my mother`s friend who had lasik done on her eyes for nearsightedness and astigmatism.

Neo3Net, you should go to a different eye MD that guy is an idiot. Doing un-natural close work such as reading and computer work e.t.c (does cause myopia "nearsightedness", i`ve read a huuuge amount of books on the subject). It`s just like lung cancer, two people smoke...one dies from lung cancer while the other lives forever. It`s the same way with nearsightedness...some people are just more prone to developing it while others do not. Errr...nevermind...go research it and you`ll see.

Nearsightedenss is very rarely hereditary...usually it`s something acquired in your environment.

I should but I won't. Do sunglasses count :)

Hey Samuel,

What happened to your eye...how come you went blind in one eye?

That must really suck.

Originally posted by zdwebhosting
i wear contacts most time but glasses in morning and late night so i put yes :)

same here :D But really glasses and contacts suck. But thats what I get for watching too much TV:bawling:

Originally posted by Frosty
Hey Samuel,

What happened to your eye...how come you went blind in one eye?

That must really suck.

Congenital damage due to an overabundance of oxygen.

My lungs were damaged, and the damage to my right eye was:

The feeder viens that extend from your retina (back of your eyes) did not disipate in my right eye, this fed the protective covering that all babies are born with for an extended time and a scarring resulted blocking the development of the retina until it was discovered at 7 years old. The maturation stops at 6 years old for the retina, so if an obstruction occurs and is not removed by the time the eye reaches 6 years old the damage is set in stone.

The assumption in my case is that more light entered into the retinal area and actually did mature the retina, the obstruction remaining is what is causing the main problem, not the lack of maturation.

The analogy that was used when I was younger, was that of a 2 year child, having his/her arm tied behind their back until the age of 11.

You may have released that child's arm at 11 but the damage is done, neccesary maturation time has been missed, and the arm will never reach it's previous full potential due to missing cells in the nerves that never had a chance to mature.

They have assumed since I was 7 that the optic nerve would be missing cells and removing the obstruction would make no difference as far as the brain is concerned.

The "brain" would only see what it saw before the obstruction was removed, even after it was removed.

Since I am self employed, and pay for my health insurance through the nose for Blue Cross HMO I am taking the advantage of this to have the cataract removed.

It has only sucked trying to be a pitcher in baseball, and when the state of california found out I was monocular and revoked my Class A liscense causing me to lose my job, and make my government clearances worthless and put me out of a job 2 years ago.

Geez, that sucks.

Hopefully they`ll be able to restore your vision and it`ll improve :)

My hope is that the retina actually matured at least more than they "Assume", and removing the obstruction will give me back sight I have never missed (Never had it to miss it), so if I get 20 percent incresed vision, it's better than what I have which is 20/800

only when i have to see

I wear only sunglasses.

(sometimes working on my computer)