Eye Strain

Shikkaka

Shikkaka

Shikkaka

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Afternoon all,

Does anyone else suffer from eye strain at work when working with computers? For the last so many months I've been suffering but it's got to the point where I'm waking up and my eyes are hurting.

I do wear glasses, I've had a recent eye test and also use hypromellose eye drops, recommended by my opticians but I still get heavy eye strain.
 
you could try:

increasing the windows dpi
use nosquint firefox addon
using black backgrounds with white text in your applications (there's a way to do it in most!)
 
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No, I don't think so, I think it's the amount of caffeine I have that gives me headaches.

Go back to your opticians. You only get one set of eyes.
 
Go back to the ops, also, what's your computer screen like? Do you sit with a window behind you causing reflections? Is the lighting ample?
 
near point stress - your eyes natural "rest" is on something approx 20 feet away. Your eyes aren't liking it when you spend all day looking at something ~2foot away. This is will probably result in progressive short sightedness until around 40 where it will be irreversable so taking regular breaks from the PC is important :S tho not very practical.
 
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I dont know why, but looking at green plants/trees relaxes my eyes.

So if you have a park/garden near work, go outside and look at the trees.
 
Some of the causes of eye strain:

Screen glare
Poor image quality
Need for different spectacles
Reading the screen for too long without a break
Poor posture​

You should be able to address all of those. Under HSE regulations your employer will be able to help.

As a VDU user you should be aware of this:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf
 
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Rroff said:
Ambient light compared to the screen especially can result in severe eye strain.
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In what sense, too much or too little?

At work I have no way to alter this, and sometimes my eyes do feel a bit "tired" by the end of the day.

At home I'll vary the light, curtains open or shut, and for some games (L4D2 especially) i'll have the light off, and only a little light coming in from the hallway. All about the atmosphere :p
 
Since recently spending long hours infront of my monitor gaming on the 360 I think I've had eye strain coming back on.

I used to get it a lot back in my WoW days, eyes would hurt and they would generally feel tired.

I probably need glasses, I haven't had an opticians appointment for years.
 
matt_fsr said:
In what sense, too much or too little?

At work I have no way to alter this, and sometimes my eyes do feel a bit "tired" by the end of the day.

At home I'll vary the light, curtains open or shut, and for some games (L4D2 especially) i'll have the light off, and only a little light coming in from the hallway. All about the atmosphere :p
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Depends a lot from person to person I think as to what their eyes are comfortable with. I find if theres a large contrast between the monitor and ambient light levels my eyes feel strained very quickly, whereas some people like my cousin have to have the room dark (which is very bad for me).
 
I'm getting pretty bad eye strains recently, due to the nature of the work I do the background environment needs to be very dark (colour lookups / gamma control etc), which means having a very bright LCD monitor and near pitch-black ambient lighting environment.

There's no other way around it though that I can see, apart from causing a fuss and asking my employer to sit me somewhere with a little more natural light i suppose!
 
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