Computer vision

For me, I am fortunately average with my eyesight and have no need to wear glasses. When I was schooling, I picked up an advise from my teacher in primary school to spend half an hour in the fields every morning looking at the greenery around. She mentioned that it will help with our eyesight being that it is a soothing color for the eye. So, I would look at green grass or plants every morning and have potted small cactus on my office table to let my eyes relax when I am going to work on my computer for a long period of time. I think it helps as my children are also not having eyesight problems too with this advise.

I have had problems with my eyes and slow recovery from bright lights, etc for a long time. I mentioned it quite some time ago to my eye doctor and at that time he said supplementation of Vit. A and Vit D would help. I tended to take cod liver oil and he said that would be good. This is before the big band wagon thing about D3. I do find if I take my vitamins I do not have that trouble as much.

It is a good idea to look away once in a while and rest the eyes a bit. I have no glasses at the moment. Might need them when I watch TV for reading the text though.. My right eye works on the computer screen and my left eye when I read small text very close.. Kind of practical..

It's always good practice to look away from the screen every now and then to change the range of your focus. It's also a good idea to get up and walk around a bit, keep the blood from pooling down around your feet...

My eyes are awful. I need really strong prescription glasses.. but I wear contacts mostly. I do take breaks from the computer regularly. I have a very hard time sitting still.

Hiya Dawn, I'm not wearing glasses in my avatar as I was on a night out at the time but the rest of the time I wear them constantly. Because I've been blogging my diaries I often read about problems with my eyes, even back in the 80s when green print on a black screen was the 'norm' and was for some considerable time until..I'd say, the late 90s, for me at least. My eyes don't hurt when I'm on my home computer as I can control how much time I'm on here for. If I was in a work environment I could be typing away for hours on end without a break (until half an hour for lunch) but the multi-coloured text on-screen is far preferable to just one colour, as it makes the brain work that little bit harder. The guidelines for computer use have varied over the years as it gives companies an excuse to manipulate the hours we're on them. Gone are the days when we were 'advised' for a 10 minute break every hour. This just doesn't happen now. We've gone backwards as far as that is concerned. I do wear varifocal lenses now so these glasses are slightly heavier than my other ones, on the bridge of my nose. There is nothing I can do about this as that's the design of them now. I was most annoyed when I was told that my old frames could not be used for these new lenses as they are deeper (3 lenses in one, in effect) so, in order to fit them in my old frames would cost an absolute fortune and 'might not work.' I've still kept them though, just in case things change in future regarding lens sizes. When was the last time you had your eyes tested, just out of interest?

Ahh, so that explains it. I spend a lot of time on the computer (like mostly all day and night) and I also make jewellery sitting in the same chair at the table. Some of the jewellery work requires better vision than what I have so I wear a head light with a pull down magnifier. It lets me do close work and is fabulous - I'm wearing my glasses as well. Since I've been using the head light, a couple of times when I'm NOT using it, my vision has gone very blurry while working at the computer, so much so that I have been unable to re-focus for several moments. I believe I sit back and not look at my screen for a few moments then everything is fine again. Aging is something I dislike intensely.

I can't read PAPER in a dim light, but because the computer is self illuminated, I'm fine with that. I guess I learned early on that I needed to get out and "stretch" my eyes every so often - one time my supervisor found me outside staring into the distance. She asked me what I was doing and I told her I was stretching my eyes. Now, you have to understand that at that time I didn't need reading glasses - or medium distance glasses even. She said that was really smart of me and left me alone after that - after all, I WAS on break. Now, I need reading/computer glasses, something about pushing 60 ya know... but for someone my age, I've AMAZINGLY good eyesight!

i kind of have that problem.that art site i work on,after so many hours i have to get up and take a break my eyes,and well,also my legs need a break from sitting there. they just get tired/strained from looking at the screen.

This is my problem now. I could hardly see or so blurred because of too much computer use

I'm okay with the computer, but I have left nighttime driving to my boyfriend since we got together. I am a bit young to have trouble with night vision, but I have some issues with it nonetheless. It's sort of depressing, but what's a girl to do?

Actually for the last several years I've experienced my eyes doing something that is quite strange. You know as people get older their vision tends to get worse. Mine have been doing exactly the opposite, I have needed to wear glasses for distance vision since I was in 6th grade but the last time that I had my eyes checked, it has gotten to the point that my vision is 20/20 in one eye and is steadily improving as well. I might actually get to the point that I won't have to wear glasses at all anymore.

Since I've worked here (since April 2011), I've had had to change my monitor twice. But it wasn't because I requested it. The people I work with have had to change my monitor because they complain about the 'squiggly' lines they say they see when they come and look at whatever I'm working on. I do notice it when they point it out, but most of the time, I don't even see it. Could this be related to 'computer vision'?

Hello my dear, After years I have noticed the same computer have really affected to my eyes. Now I don't see so good when I need to watch on objects, words, photos which are very far from me. I remember that before few years my father said that computer will affect my eyes, but I didn't pay attention to it so much. Now after longer sitting to computer I take long breaks too.

I have always had astignatism and need to see that the text is darker then the background so I never understand why the starters of web pages put a yellow print next to a yellow background or a light grey for a white background. I guess they are extremely near sighted. I am slightly far sighted and one of my eyes are stronger then the other so I have to really work at getting focuses. I had an eye exam some years ago, about twenty and they told me that I could not see the contrast, but that my vision would stay the same. I suppose if one is near-sighted, then they have a worse problem. I also find that I have to use prescription reading glasses because the regular reading glasses do not work. I have had my glasses for years but when the print is dark enough and the light is good do not need them.

I started wearing glasses at age nine. I am nearsighted with stigmatism. A few years ago I noticed it was time for bi-forcals. You can't tell I wear bi-focals. I have noticed when I drive at night it is harder then it used to. Eye doctors never mention this as you get older! I now am really hating driving at night! So that is my eye issues!

Anybody past 40 years old has to wear reading glasses soon or letter -- for me, it was at 43 --. I have also the same problem of blurry vision than you when I spend a lot of time in front of a monitor. For the rest my eyes are still good, or not more bad than when I was younger.

I have been wearing reading glasses for the past 15 years. The first time I noticed that I could barely read was when I one day grabbed a copy of Enquirer and could not really focus on the letters. And I needed to close my eyes every 15 minutes just to be able to read one paragraph. I got scared and thought that I might be getting blind! It was really not until I was working in my online job just three years ago that I have to make use of my glasses most of the time even if I am not reading. It has never been the same. I could be squinting after staying at Mylot until 8pm, but if there are interesting topics, I just go on with the squinting and continue reading.

Well, it is known that spending too many hours staring at the computer screen, it hurts your eyes. Now with the advent of flat-screen, it seems a problem of the lower level, however, the fact remains that our eyes are striving to read what is written (sometimes in small print) on a screen. My father even told me years ago that those who had jobs to stay a long time at the computer, they were subjected to an allowance. However, once in a while, if you spend several hours a pc for work, it is wise to be examined by an ophthalmologist and maybe buy special glasses.

this is really an eyeopener and surely bound to impress many and i have seen many people suffer for it and it is inevitable i presume all the way