OT: Eye strain, headaches, glare & glasses

OT: Eye strain, headaches, glare & glasses



At 01/13/2005, you wrote:
>LCD's are great but if you do a lot of image editing, CRT's still seem to be
>a better choice for color accuracy. I bought a used 21 inch Flat tube
>Trinitron for like $230 shipped and my eyes feel better. The key for me has
>been a high refresh rate of 120Hz at 1280x1024. I tried 1600x1200 at 100Hz
>but my hurt my eyes, so I bumped down. Most people seem to not notice
>anything about 100Hz, but I did.

Agreed. All 3 of my monitors are flat screen trinitron CRT's. The picture
just seems better to me than any 19" LCD's that a normal person could
afford. I also have a high refresh rate and it has made me very sensitive
to lesser monitors. I recently visited my sister in NYC at her office and
her monitor was a bulging screen low refresh rate piece of dung that
flickered so bad to my eye that I couldn't imagine looking at it for longer
than 9 seconds before heaving it out the window. She barely even noticed
what I was bothered by.

I also work in a fairly dim room, no sunlight is allowed in - ambient
lighting is indirect, etc.

I also think that having an eyesight imbalance like you describe is a huge
contributor. In fact, I would go so far as to say that even normal vision
correction with glasses is a poor choice compared to contacts or correction
surgery. That being because glasses do not provide true correction at all
angles, only if you look through them dead ahead.

I wore very heavily corrected glasses (-6) and looking sideways at
something through the periphery of the lenses always annoyed my eyes. A
couple of years ago I had lasik which took my vision to 20/15 and I can
work a lot longer before my eyes / brain get tired. Plus I look much more
handsome now. My Mom told me so, so it must be true.

A.

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OT: Eye strain, headaches, glare & glasses



I used to have these odd looking blue tinted glasses that were specially
made for folks looking at a monitor for extended periods -- don't know if
something like that might help??

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Subject: [mru] OT: Eye strain, headaches, glare & glasses


For those of you who spend too many hours in front of a monitor what do
you do about eye strain and glare? I have a (anti)glare screen, have
eliminated florescent lights and try to block any sunlight over my
shoulder. I'm in the process of trying to rule out the source of my
perpetual headache (since October). The doctor is 95% sure it's a migraine
gone mad. I'm scheduled for an MRI today and had my eyes examined
yesterday. Most interesting - the eye that is hurting me (right) also
needs to have the vision corrected. The left is fine and needs no
correction. Which makes me wonder - are the headaches being caused by the
bad vision in the one eye or are the headaches causing the bad vision in
that eye. I assuming my best bet is to get glasses but I also seem to be
very sunlight sensitive. I was wondering how well something like a
Sunsensors/Transitions type lens would work with computer monitors? Anyone
have any suggestions?

Thanks so much!
Leslie

OT: Eye strain, headaches, glare & glasses



> 3) If you work with an LCD monitor (flat-panel or laptop)
> avoid Polarized lenses

Ah yes. It is especially important if you have one monitor in regular
position and another in vertical/pivot mode. One of the screens will then
become completely invisible ;-)

(not that I wear eyeglasses, just noticed it one day while wearing polarized
sugnlasses and at first thought one of my monitors was turned off... ha
ha...)

Remik