For the past couple weeks I've been getting stomach aches and headaches multiple times during the day
Nothing looks blurry to me but the sickness seems to come from looking at the computer or the TV for a long time

I'm always lookin at the computer of the TV and have never had these problems before?

basically do things have to look blurry for you to need glasses?

2/2/2009 11:51:22 PM

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2/2/2009 11:52:13 PM

No, you need liquor.

2/2/2009 11:52:37 PM

or marijuana

2/2/2009 11:52:57 PM

Things need to be out of focus to need glasses. If you're having trouble focusing up close you may need reading glasses of some sort.

Let me chance a guess at something here though. Do you have a CRT monitor? If so, do the following steps:

1. Right click on your desktop and select "Properties" (or "Personalize" if you're in windows vista).
2. Click on the settings tab on the far right of the window that pops up (or click on "Display Settings" at the bottom of the window if you're using vista).
3. Click on the advanced button ("Advanced Settings" in vista).
4. Click on the Monitor tab and select a refresh rate of 75hz or higher. If you can't pick a higher refresh rate, try lowering your resolution and see if you can pick a higher refresh rate then.

If you don't have a CRT and you have an LCD, well, chances are you are just getting eye strain from sitting too close to the monitor and the text is too small for you to read. You'll either need to adjust the font sizes under the appearance settings for windows OR just lower your resolution so everything is bigger (and not too small for you to read from 3 ft away).

[Edited on February 2, 2009 at 11:56 PM. Reason : Chances are you're looking at this shit too much, go outside or read a book.]

2/2/2009 11:56:09 PM

2/2/2009 11:57:35 PM

Dude,
You're supposed to look away every once in a while. Let your eyes focus in and out from long distance to short distance to medium distance and repeat. It's good for them.

2/2/2009 11:58:44 PM

^ This is also true. I don't do it consistently (just cause), but what ya wanna follow is the 20-20-20 rule. Every 20 minutes, look at something about 20 feet away (something like a tree or a painting or something) for twenty seconds. Do that and you'll have a much reduced occurrence of eye strain.

The CRT monitor thing got three people at my office though and me telling them how to fix it has cured their headaches and fatigued eyes like magic. Pisses me off that CRT monitors aren't run at their highest refresh rate by default to avoid eye strain.

2/3/2009 12:03:32 AM