Gurm I kept the "good" fridge downstairs. Sadly these things have a limited lifespan - you can't keep fixing them forever, and it looks very ugly in the kitchen, so I'm tolerating the new fridge for my wife's sake (but I keep the screen off as much as possible, yes it's a Samsung with the screen in it!)

I would challenge that notion. Everything can be fixed. It's just a matter of time, money, and will. I took up component level electronics repair as a hobby just so I could help keep old things running that work for me. Among many other things I've fixed a few TV's that were good for me that I owned and broke so I didn't have to replace them.

Gurm I also started experimenting with binocular vision as a way to reduce eye strain. Covering one eye and forcing myself to focus was VERY helpful. I have a new pair of eyeglasses that I haven't started wearing routinely yet because the new prescription is difficult to get used to, I probably need to accelerate the timeline on that.

Patching my right eye has made my Win10 work computer experience tolerable. Not great, but instead of a painful migraine its more a mild wooziness.

Gurm Stress/anxiety makes this 100x worse. It's definitely brain related. We need to stay strong, here.

Thats what the doctors all told me, the migraines aren't going to cause any physical damage, the most dangerous thing to your body is the stress they cause and that CAN cause physical damage, especially in the CV system.

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          Lauda89

          Already did, or what I believe happened. Since 2018 i have been training with one eye covered, and now i can use all screens. It’s not perfect, my eyes gets tired and hurts a bit some nights, but i can handle 10+ hours behind any screen now. Back in 2015 i could handle 1 hour a day behind a old computer.

            ensete Patching my right eye has made my Win10 work computer experience tolerable. Not great, but instead of a painful migraine its more a mild wooziness.

            Sounds a bit like my journey, keep on patching one eye for at least a hour a day some weeks when you use a bad screen so we can see if you also get progress. The first thing i lost with patching one eye was the terrible tension headache. Can you feel any different feeling direct after you patch the eye? I felt a bit discomfort in the beginning.

                mike

                Do you patch your eye to see with both eyes or do you patch your eye to get better with one?

                Did you change your patched eye or do you always patch the same eye?

                Do you still patch your eye?

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                    xelaos My left eye is my dominant eye, and I usually cover my right eye, sometimes my left. I have put a paper over the right glass on a pair of gaming glasses and uses them when I train behind a bad screen. I have both my eyes open because i think it’s hard to close one eye for a long time like a hour. The first training-time back in 2018 I looked at a bad screen for an hour a day for three weeks. After that I could use both my eyes to look at that screen with much less problems. The rest of the time I looked at an old screen without covering. Nowadays I only cover one eye when I look at a new screen, for about 30 minutes and then it works. I don’t uses any glasses today, but I take medicine for my sinuses every day. When I don’t look at screens for a day I don’t have to take that medicine.

                        mike

                        Interesting. Thank you Mike for your response.

                        I close or cover my dominant eye on "bad" displays. Then I have no problems with this display but it doesn't improve my binocular vision. So if I use both eyes I have the same problem again.

                        Maybe I try the other way round and close my dominant eye and see if it helps.

                            xelaos I close or cover my dominant eye on "bad" displays. Then I have no problems with this display but it doesn't improve my binocular vision. So if I use both eyes I have the same problem again.

                            Maybe I try the other way round and close my dominant eye and see if it helps.

                            I did my first test with one eye closed back in 2012. Didn’t do anything to my binocular vision I thought. So I told every eye-specialist that it’s no different. That was one of my biggest mistakes in life. I should have keep on training because now I can look at every screen with both of my eyes. So have patience, keep on cover-one-eye for a hour a day at least a month

                              mike

                              Can I know the name of your medicine? Do you take it because you have sinusitis or just because it helps with the eye strain?

                              Thank you 🙂

                              • mike replied to this.

                                  Lauda89

                                  The name of the medicine is Rinexin, i live in Sweden and you need a prescription to get it.

                                  If i look a little at screens I don’t need to take it. But i am a screen-junkie so usually i take it every day at 16:45.

                                  If i don’t take it my eyes begins to hurt a little around 18-20 and i get a blocked nose. I have visit a nose-specialist that stuck a camera down my nose, nothing wrong. And If i don’t look at screens i have no problems with sinusitis, or what is happing.

                                      There’s definitely something to food/supplements. You can see it in the inconsistency in which you feel pain. When you eat/drink certain things you have different tolerance levels. Some days you can use devices for an hour before any symptoms. Others it is straight away. Particular foods that have helped me a lot: grapes/raisins

                                        Quad43

                                        Another factor to look at is foods that block the absorption of vitamins and minerals. Such as the phytates in wholemeal bread, grains, coffee.

                                        I'm going to try and give up coffee. I think coffee is blocking specific nutrients.

                                          5 months later

                                          mike

                                          Hi,

                                          Just wanna let you know about the following I just read on wikipedia about the active ingredient in Rinexin:

                                           In the United States, PPA is no longer sold due to an increased risk of haemorrhagic stroke.[12] In a few countries in Europe, however, it is still available either by prescription or sometimes over-the-counter. In Canada, it was withdrawn from the market on 31 May 2001.[13] It was voluntarily withdrawn from the Australian market by July 2001.[14] In India, human use of PPA and its formulations was banned on 10 February 2011,[15] but the ban was overturned by the judiciary in September 2011.[16]^

                                          You probably already knew that, but anyway, be careful! 🙂

                                          Also interesting from that article is that the drug is dopaminergic - it acts on the central nervous system. So it might be helping your eyes in a way that is totally unrelated to your nose/sinusitis.

                                          Also I'd like to ask: have you tried some other decongestant meds, such as xylometazoline or tramazoline? They cannot be used long term (this leads to rebound congestion), but I'm considering them for cases when I have an eye crisis.

                                          • mike replied to this.

                                              ryans I tried it but it dosn't work with me. I have problem with copper and vitamin B12 but i don't see any real improvment even integrating these two things.

                                                logixoul

                                                Well, i know Rinexin isn’t perfect. I don’t have any of the ordinary side effects that you can read about. Even if the risk for a stroke increases, the risk is still very small. For me it works great, and my goal is to stop with it to the summer.

                                                Before Rinexin I took a nose spray everyday, Nasoferm. That spray is for short term usage and i had used it for many months and it worked ok, but Rinexin is so much better.

                                                  ryans yeah I still take it. Between that supplement, bilberry, and doing binocular therapy (covering and focus exercises) I am doing much much better. Some things still hurt - the lights at my office in Boston still burn me out after a short time and the effects linger - it I never have to expose myself to stuff like that for much time.

                                                      a month later

                                                      Gurm

                                                      Hello. Sorry for off topic (PM don't work for me on this site) and my bad English, I've read your massage in one topic, where you said that mbp early 2013 was the best for your eye. If you still remember, tell me please, whether you have tried mbp late 2013, or 2014 and which one was finally the best. And were they 15' or 13' MacBooks?

                                                      This is really important for me. Thank you in advance

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