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My glasses are getting thicker by the minutes!! Prevention?

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Every year my optometrist tells me that my eyes' sights are getting worst and give me a thicker glasses! Pain in the a$$... 🙁 maybe that's the consequence of spending hours on the computer everyday.. or maybe it's my cheap Acer G772. Anyway, I wanna buy a LCD monitor to lay my eyes to rest a bit, I heard that there is less radiation and glare or some sort... Is it worth it? Will it be better for my eyes?
 
i don't know about you but an anit-glare filter will make your eyes very happy 😉 have you tried contacts?
 
how old are you? People's eyesight decreases naturally with age unluckly. I had better than 20/20 vision when I was 5 through 10 and now I can only see about 20/30 🙁

almost 18 btw
 
Ya... actually I have antiglare filter but it did no good 🙁 . I need something that's strong! 🙂
 
Contacts man! I love em, you don't have to have the glasses on your face all day. Sure they require matinence but its not bad and its really worth it. I barely even notice they are in anymore.
 
There's not a whole lot you can do as far slowing down how bad your eyesight gets except try and avoid eyestrain. You might try taking some vitamin supplements, I think it's E that's good for the eyes.
 
From 7th-10th grade my eyesight went from 20/15 to 20/75. Then is pretty much stabilised other than my astigmatism getting very slightly worse in my left eye. Maybe you'll stabilise soon. As for an LCD being easier on the eyes, it definitely is. I run my 15 inch ThinkPad LCD at 1600x1200 and have no trouble seeing it clearly. However, on a 17 inch CRT (16 inch VIS) 1280x1024 is pushing things, so I'd say that an LCD will definitely help. They are quite expensice though.

Zenmervolt
 
Heh, welcome to the club. I got glasses in 2nd grade, contacts in about 8th grade. My vision is about 20/250, I wear -6.75 contacts. Yikes. 😱

But they go all the way up to -12 or so, and my eyes won't get that bad. They've been slowing down lately. I love contacts. I've just been wearing them for so long, I don't even notice anymore...I don't need a mirror to put them in, it takes me less than 30 seconds to pop them in or out. But make sure you get the disposable kind if at all possible!
 
My eyes gradually got worse until my early twenties, then they stabilized. I was never elligible for contacts, so I wore glasses all the time.

Now there are some glasses lenses out that are not thick at all, you should check out those until your eyes stabilize, then look into laser surgery.
 
I spend 40 hours a week at work in front of a monitor + some time at home at night, and I've been using computers for 7 years now. My vision is still 20/20 and no problems. 😛

I'm sure my time will come eventually...
 
I don't think there isn't much you can do to keep your vision from deteriorating. If you are serious though, You should talk to an opthamologist, in addition to your optimologist. Most optimologists have a serious conflict of interest in that they make money by selling lenses and frames too.
 
Ha you guys think yours are bad? My contacts are now at -7.50. I'm thining about having LASIK, but I saw that simpsons where it's the future and bart goes to see flanders and he says he's blind cuz he had laser eye surgery back when it was popular:]
 
I've had the same problem as you between the ages of ~15-18. When I was 18 my vision was 20/200. 😱 I got hard contact lenses and I've had the same prescription for 3 years now. They work! 😀
 
I think hard contacts will pretty much stop your eyes from getting worse (as mentioned above) if you can wear them. I've had pretty good luck with the gas-permeable type.
 
I started wearing glasses in 6th grade (I'm 25 now), and I usuaully get a new prescription about every two years or so. I got my current glasses about 8 months ago, and I can already tell my vision isn't as sharp as it was when they were new. I guess there isn't much you can really do about it. I spend a lot of time in front of the computer with work, and personal use, so that doesdn't help.

I personally cannot wear contacts, I tried them for a couple of years of and on, and I was a mess when I wore them. My eyes were irritated constantly, they dried out all the time. Makes my eyes hurt just thinking about it.

I really want to get the surgery, but the cost and some of the possible complications (halo's, bad night vision) worry me, so I think I'll wait for a few more years.
 
I probably had the worst eye sight known to man:

I had child cataract and after my operation I had a long sight of 21/22 and short sight of god know/what?
This was back in 1983/84 when the technology for intraoccoular lenses were in trials and werent perfected. The only option take the existing lenses out and use glasses to substitute. To date people dont believe I have no lenses in my eyes. Until 1998 my eye doctor was one mrs. manju kulkarni, the person who operated on me in 1983/84. Now I have shifted to the US permernently and have UCLA looking after my eyes.

Presently my long sight is +5/5.5 and short sight is 8/8.5 . Its been reducing over the ears but I am still very careful of my eyes. I change focus ever so often when on teh computer and have to have a higher refresh rate or my eyes hurt (85 is minimum though 75 I can live with).

Over the years people have suggested operation for putting back lenses and more recent lasik. However an operation to put back lenses would mean my eye has to stablize and not change in power also the technology has not yet developed enough to do so (both my doctors said the same thing). Lasik is a no go for me. Frankly I am quite happy wearing glasses. I finally have a pair that dont make me look like a nerd. My earlier pair was horrid, god I dont know how I lived with those. The optitians in India (or atleast the place we were reffered to from the beginning to make glasses) didnt have the latest in technology. Therefore some of the materials were not exactly plyable to form fit anything other than a square frame. If you had a square frame due to the nature of the optics the center has to be circular, thus you had 2 other side portions holding the central bulge. Anyway when I came to the US first thing I did on my first checkup at UCLA was to get rid of these glasses and get some fancy ones with photochrome (something the earlier pair couldnt have due to optics and material standards).

Anyway the bottom line is I am happy.

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The_good_guy, think long and hard about putting the lenses back in! I have a friend who went through this recently in one eye, and the results so far have been disasterous. He used to have peripheral vision, now he has triple vision and is disabled! We have no idea if it's going to get better...

If you are happy now, let it ride.
 
ouch no lenses? Thats amazing🙂 As for lcd monitors, they are good and crisp if you buy the better ones that use dvi connectors. Don't buy one that has only analog input.. those aren't better then most monitors😛 NEver cheap out on your monitor.. eyes are too important.. and yes make sure the one you choose has a nice high refresh rate. 85hz at the resolution you run your desktop at is minimum.


monitors are flat now, i don't see a need for anti glare screens
 
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