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[burgboc]

I'm an entreprenuer and work soley online. I'm currently working 12-14 hours a day in front of the laptop screen. This has been going for a few years now. But My eyes have become dry and red, they itch ad burn often and I'm starting to get very slight racoon circles and I'm only early 20's.

I need some way to protect my eyes from the radiation and bright lcd as much as possible.

I was searching to see if there was any type of screen protector that placed on the laptop screen would help make it more dim or reduce the radiation but came up empty. I'm also looking into some eye formulas with lutein but I have no idea what kind of formula would support my eye health.

I'm looking for two things:

-A Formula to support my eye health (its dry, red all the time cant even wear contacts anymore beause of the pain)
-A way to reduce the negative effects of staring into a laptop screen almost all day long. Working less is unfortunately not an option at this time.

Thank you! I really would appreciate the help...my eyes need it.

[Joseph_Dantes]

get a program that redshifts your monitor at night.

that completely eliminated my eye strain

for ubuntu i think it's called redshift. for windows don't remember.

[niner]

Those sound like allergy symptoms to me. Have you had your vision checked recently? If you don't already wear glasses, you might need them, and if you do wear them, you might need a new prescription. How's the ergonomics of your work setup? Ambient lighting ok?

[firespin]

Those sound like allergy symptoms to me. Have you had your vision checked recently? If you don't already wear glasses, you might need them, and if you do wear them, you might need a new prescription. How's the ergonomics of your work setup? Ambient lighting ok?

I agree with the above. Also make sure you get enough sleep(7-8 hours a day). Sleep deprivation can also affect you physically and mentally in a negative way.

[maxwatt]

A larger, higher resolution monitor will help, you won't need to be so close to it. Also, glasses; if you're fitted for a reading distance of 15 to 17 inches, approximately, that is typical for reading printed matter. A monitor is different, and a focal distance of 21 to 25 inches will work better. A good optometrist will understand the problem and fit you accordingly. (I am assuming you already wear glasses, but check it out anyway even if you don't._

[e Volution]

get a program that redshifts your monitor at night.

that completely eliminated my eye strain

for ubuntu i think it's called redshift. for windows don't remember.

F.lux

Also a good tip is every 20 or 30 mins be sure to look away from your monitor and exercise your depth-perception and other vision mechanisms by focusing on a few different items in the background and foreground of your view. Just switch it up, fast, slow, detailed, just basically give your eyes a mini workout.

[lunarsolarpower]

First of all, make sure you don't have Sjogren's Syndrome.

Next, get a 30 inch screen (or as large as you can afford). Turn down the resolution or if you're not using Windows increase the font size. You can install F-lux or something like it. Put a light behind your monitor that will illuminate the wall around it (I made a cardboard piece with lots of holes in it and stuck a bunch of white LED Christmas lights through them). Then be sure to take regular breaks to look away and stop straining.

Also while you're at it get a separate keyboard and mouse. Using a laptop is an ergonomic disaster because either the screen is too low or the touchpad and keyboard are too high. With a separate keyboard and mouse you are free to sit much further away from the screen and the further away you are the closer your lens in your eye can be to focusing on infinity.

[Lassus]

How about using a wall projector instead of a monitor for a few hours each day?
They arent that expensive nowadays. Might ease the eye strain a bit (or cause a different kind of eye strain ).
In any case youll be focusing your eyes on something thats further away than the monitor.

[motif]

read about William Bates method about naturally improving sight and relaxing eyes:
http://www.i-see.org...s_nutshell.html

[tham]

It's a typical case of computer vison syndrome.

This is happening to you due largely
to one main reason : your computer
screen is not a piece of paper.

Firstly, look closely at the fonts.
They are not a continuous line like
that drawn by a pen, but rather
each alphabet is constructred from
pixels, pretty much like a jigsaw
puzzle.

Your eyes can't really tell fhe
difference especially from far,
but your brain can.


Secondly, but far more importantly,
you are actually looking at a movie,
rolling at, in the case of most LCDs,
a default of 60 frames a second.

Remember when watching television
and the program happens to show
someone's computer monitor, switched
on ? You will see the frames very clearly.

This framing effect can also be seen
when you go chatting on Yahoo or
Camfrog, and the other party's webcam
happens to be pointed at his own monitor.

It can also be seen very clearly if you
place a table fan between you and the
monitor.

Your eyes again can't really tell
the difference again when staring
at your display, but your brain can
- and the rolling frames are actually
extremely irritating to it, being known
to cause epileptic seizures in some
people.

Photosensitive epilepsy can also
happen in the following case.


Make sure you don't look at those
websites which have Macromedia
Flash with fast flickering images
on it, particularly on the home page.

Very nice and fanciful, but ignorant
web designers do not realize that
this is well known to trigger off
photosensitive epilepy in subsceptible
people, particularly children.

This was exactly what happened years
ago in Japan, when some Pokemon
show on TV featuring the same
fast flickering landed hundreds of kids
in hospital with epileptic seizures.


http://www.articlesn...eizures-/151765

http://www.epilepsyf...ivity/gerba.cfm

http://www.snopes.co.../tv/seizure.asp

http://edition.cnn.c.../japan.cartoon/

http://en.wikipedia....sitive_epilepsy



I don't have epilepsy, but I have tinnitus,
a very complex sympom which some
researchers have likened to epileptiform
discharges in the brain.

Such an analogy is accurate,
because after working on the
computer for hours, my tinnitus
will suddenly become much
higher pitched for several seconds.

(If you want to know what
tinnitus is like, turn on your TV
when there is no program, and
listen to the continuous test tone.
Similar, but many tinnitus cases,
including mine, which involve the
brain's sensorineural system rather
than the peripheral one at the ears,
are far higher pitched.)

Edited by tham, 26 November 2010 - 09:12 PM.

[tham]

Thus, for a start, raise the refresh
rate of your display to at least 85 hz,
or frames per second.

I'm not sure if this can be done
on most LCDs, which are able
to display only at 60 hz, particularly
at high resolutions of 1024 x 576 to
1280 x 720, in the case of the new
models with 16:9 widescreens.


Secondly, set your browser to use
as big and bold fonts as possible.
I set mine to use my own fonts,
ignoring the ones set by the webpage.

I use Franklin Gothic Medium, size 17.
If you set this, this forum's fonts
will appear bold and easily readable.

Such big fonts obviously cause some
webpages to display improperly, so
you will have to reset to smaller
ones occasionally, allowing the
website to use back its own fonts.


Thirdly, get Similasan's Computer
Eyes drops. Very relieving and
soothing.

http://www.similasan...uter-eye-relief


"Computer Eyes"

http://www.naturesst...dID=327&Browse=



I haven't tried them yet, but
you could try Essilor's new
Anti-Fatigue lenses.

http://www.essilor.c...n/anti_fatigue/

" I think this lens is only
beneficial to those who read
or are on the computer a lot."

http://www.optiboard....fatigue-lenses

Edited by tham, 26 November 2010 - 08:54 PM.

[tham]

I have never really liked LCDs,
because most are far too bright.

Set the brightness at no more
than 20, with contrast at which
your eyes feel comfortable.

[tham]

One of the reasons behind your problem
- the flourescent lamp behind your LCD
(and the reason why I always turn the
brightness down to ZERO when using
someone else's computer with an LCD).


" ..... they were going against the expectation
and conventional wisdom that LCD displays
were better than CRTs. "

" A friend of mine develops symptoms similar
to ones I experienced after only about 5
minutes, and he was the one who led me to
the first apparent cause of this: the
fluorescent light used for the backlighting
of the display. "

" ..... many people cannot work continuously
with such a display for as long as they can
with a traditional CRT. Some people feel a
headache after about half an hour of work
in front of an LCD panel, yet they can stay
16 hours in front of a CRT. "

" ..... the same fluorescent light technology
which, I knew, was not recommended for
use as the only light source in offices. "

" Unlike the sun (and other lighting
technologies), fluorescent lights are not
stable, but rather, they are pulsing, i.e.
they go on and off several times per second. "


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