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Any of your with wicked light sensitivity and floater problems have advise on working on a computer with an LCD or watching TV on a flat screen LCD, outside of wearing sun glasses?
I am a graphic designer, so can't avoid the LCD. Compared to the old big clunky monitors, the light it puts off is unbearable.
Same with TVs. Everyone loves the flat screen TVs. I can not stand them. I feel bad for my husband as we are stuck with the large outdated TV, but my eyes can't possibly tolerate all that light.
I wonder if there is a filter that can be put over the TV or monitors that will dial down the brightness. I already have my monitor's brightness level down to the lowest amount and it still feels like I am staring into the sun.
Thanks!
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We found some cling window film at Walmart back in automotive that we use on our TV and computer screen.
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This is my worst symptom(s) by a long long way. I have my monitor down as low as it can go.
The floater and light sensitivity has me totally housebound in daylight hours. I actually get severely nausous.
Wish I could give you some advice.
Hope it goes away soon. Mine went through the roof with bicillin and ricephin. Hope its not a med side effect or something.
Take care
Neil
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go to my table of contents in newbie package links and look for EYE SENSITIVTIES....
read in detail about NOIR, no infrared sunglasses; they are outstanding for pc/tv since your eyes are that sensitive.
i have mine in 3 different shades:
think it's 4%, 10% and one in between ...
i wear them all the time outside; my pc screen is turned down to ZERO on brightness/contrast each.
i know what you mean. these folks are marvelous to deal with and they give me FREE replacements yearly if a bow breaks or plastic lenses scratch!
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Our eye uvea needs zinc and selenium.
The uvea is the middle ***Vascular*** layer of the eye. It is made up of three parts: the iris, ciliary body and chorid. Uveitis is the inflammation (or swelling) of these parts of the eye.
My sis (with lyme) developed very serious uveitis. It bagan with very dry eyes.
Bb has zinc fingers...
OmegaBrite (very high EPA with some vitamin E) may help. It reduces TNF alpha and IL1B.
The Omega 3s are very much suggested for many eye problems (esp. "dry eyes").
Inflammation can be very damaging to the eyes.
(Viagra is a PDE5 inhibitor. Know about the eye problem "side effect" in some men who have taken Viagra..."blue vision/loss of vision"?) If the vessels delivering nutrients to the eyes are already narrowed...
What we are aiming for looks like it might be to activate PDE6G which binds to PDE6A and PDE6B.
Study how the eye works in light and darkness...re: "transducin" (a G protein "helper").
Our body is trying to "oxidize" the lipoproteins in Bb's cell walls (plural). Problem is: Bb is capable of rebuilding those cell walls.
Too many free oxygen radicals....damages healthy cells too. And our eyes can really take a hit.
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Note also that LCD displays can flicker more noticeably than CRTs, and that flickering can trigger migraine-type symptoms.
On the computer, I configure my preferred color settings to a light text on a dark background. Such a setting emits far less light than the now common dark text on a bright background. Note that some poorly designed web sites and software have trouble with such settings, but most work fine.
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thanks for all the helpful hints. this week has been rough and i'm doing my best to stay off the computer unless it is a neccesity. thanks everyone.
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