Hi glasses wearers.
I've been lucky enough not to need glasses but at 50 I realised that holding my phone at arm's length to read it wasn't right, and last year I got a prescription for some glasses which totally sort out that problem.
However I've not really been wearing them, mostly out of habit and forgetting to taken them with me etc.
Recently I've been getting headaches, I noticed only when I've been working in the office. It took me a while to make the link, but I guess it's likely related to my vision.
At home I don't get headaches, I work primarily on 2 x 27" 1440p monitors 3 days a week.
I do 2 days in the office where there's 2 x 1080p monitors. I'm assuming the lower resolution means I'm straining a bit more, or some other environmental factor.
I tried my glasses but they only help with close-in stuff, the monitors don't appear and clearer, in fact they seem more blurry, so I don't use the glasses when at my desk either at home or in the office.
So... I went back to the optician with this info. She gave me a test and told me I needed a slightly stronger prescription. However, she said there was no point me getting new glasses until I got used to wearing the old, and that I should wear them when in the office.
I tried this for a few days, but headaches have been worse and it's still way clearer without them than when wearing them.
I'd assumed that I needed different glasses depending on how far away I wanted to focus, and was expecting this to result in me getting some glasses which made that spot a couple of feet from my face clearer, but it seems not.
Am I missing something, or should I go back to the optician? Or should I see a different optician?
I've been lucky enough not to need glasses but at 50 I realised that holding my phone at arm's length to read it wasn't right, and last year I got a prescription for some glasses which totally sort out that problem.
However I've not really been wearing them, mostly out of habit and forgetting to taken them with me etc.
Recently I've been getting headaches, I noticed only when I've been working in the office. It took me a while to make the link, but I guess it's likely related to my vision.
At home I don't get headaches, I work primarily on 2 x 27" 1440p monitors 3 days a week.
I do 2 days in the office where there's 2 x 1080p monitors. I'm assuming the lower resolution means I'm straining a bit more, or some other environmental factor.
I tried my glasses but they only help with close-in stuff, the monitors don't appear and clearer, in fact they seem more blurry, so I don't use the glasses when at my desk either at home or in the office.
So... I went back to the optician with this info. She gave me a test and told me I needed a slightly stronger prescription. However, she said there was no point me getting new glasses until I got used to wearing the old, and that I should wear them when in the office.
I tried this for a few days, but headaches have been worse and it's still way clearer without them than when wearing them.
I'd assumed that I needed different glasses depending on how far away I wanted to focus, and was expecting this to result in me getting some glasses which made that spot a couple of feet from my face clearer, but it seems not.
Am I missing something, or should I go back to the optician? Or should I see a different optician?
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), it does sound like I can get glasses which are tailored for me to see a monitor properly at a standard distance, and thus hopefully stop these headaches.
