I'm happy to report my patching has continued to work, and has improved my overall ability to withstand Windows 10 dramatically. It;s been around 2 years now and I intend to keep it up.
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Do you patch both eyes alternatively or only one ? If one, is it the stronger or weaker ?
Do you always use the pc while patching or can you use it without ?
bkdo It's been over a year, did you do vision therapy? I read that you started to wear prisms in that time and they improved symptoms for you. However I think that for CI vision therapy is the first thing that one should be doing, and only if that fails, then consider prisms. Or prisms + vt simultaneously. Because in CI they don't cure the cause, just relieve the symptoms? It's different with divergence insufficiency I think.
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@mike I'm also having symptom relief when using patching. I've tried patching once already, about month ago, but I wasn't noticing any change. I gave it one more chance yesterday and I noticed that with one eye patched (no matter which eye) I can look at the screen with 40% brightness on my laptop, whereas before it had to be almost 0% (had to use additional screen dimmer to go below default minimum). It doesn't affect my other symptom, which is "eyes being out of sync/misaligned" feeling, but it does lower the pain when looking at screen. Pretty good news and interseting finding I would say.
UPDATE: after 3 days of patching, new kind of pain is occuring in eye that is looking at the screen, so this is not a solution for me, I'm stopping it for now, maybe will come back to it later…
Hey, I did do vision therapy for about 3-4 months. I did it myself at home for about an hour a day. I unfortunately didn't see any noticeable improvements, so I stopped, since the time investment was getting to be a bit much. My prism lenses have also stopped providing enough relief, so I'm stuck with my old prescription.
I did see a Dr. Debby trained specialist and am getting new prescription glasses within 1-2 weeks. Literally putting all my hopes on them at this point.
bkdo Hey, I did do vision therapy for about 3-4 months. I did it myself at home for about an hour a day.
Did you do this with an optometrist or just self-guided? I think with our condition, the VT needs to be under a specialist to be successful.
bkdo My prism lenses have also stopped providing enough relief,
This could be "eating" the prism. Over time, sometimes the eyes/brain need stronger and stronger prism.
I used my Kaiser optometrist/opthalmologist's exercises and did them at home, they took about an hour a day and I didn't really see any relief, unfortunately.
Yeah, from what I was told, relief with brand new prism lenses usually last about a month, then you'll need recalibration. Then, your prescription can change year-to-year. It's frustrating
arturpanteleev Sorry for late answer, been working long days (behind my screens).
When I started training I didn’t understand that this training was going to work. Less headache, but my eyes was still strained, after some weeks I could see results that the training worked.
mike thank you! I tried to do patching a few times, but every time quit halfway through. Gonna do another trying
Eye patching changed my life. I was so happy, that I can use devices that I cannot from a long time again. But unfortunately something went wrong. I was patching one of my eyes from about a year and recently I think I overloaded my eyes/eye (or maybe my body), got a lot of stress, and lose the ability to use devices to which I got my eyes used by patching. Now I can say, that I’m starting over, somehow I reset my eyes to the stage that I cannot use almost anything at all. The worst part of the problem is that, now the patching wont work at all. I irritate my eyes very quickly, No matter if I’m patching or not. Have any of you had such a problem? Did anyone have to start from scratch? If so, do you have any advice? I'm a little heartbroken because I was able to use all these devices fairly normally and enjoy life in my own way, and now I've lost that opportunity, not knowing why
AGI I Was at the point where I can, for example, play on my PS5 for one hour without patching at all, after one hour patch one eye for half of an hour, and then play another ~hour without patching, etc. It was like cure for me, cause before I cannot use almost any devices at all. Unfortunately, despite trying and patching, I wasn't able to last longer without patching than 1/1,5 hour in front of a screen. Although, sometimes when i'm drinking alcohol, I was able to last much longer without patching, even 2-3 hours
I started patching a month ago after mike replied to my topic about eyestrain with modern devices. Firstly I couldn’t believe in this and thought that’s bullshit. I tried a few days, but nothing changed. Eyestrain, dry eyes, tinitus and headache as regular. But after a few weeks I felt a huge relief. Now I can use ALL devices with patching my right eye and continue using this method to full recovery.
I want to say @mike thank you. I can’t even describe what I feel. You really saved my life after a 2 years of nightmare.
Snooper is it your dominant eye you Are patching ?
CrestfallDreaming I think so, but I don’t know certainly. I did some tests to check which eye is dominant, but different tests give different results. I just try with both eyes and choose patching right, because it’s most comfortable for me.