Hello,

I have noticed a funny thing yesterday regarding my eyestrain (macbook pro retina 15in).
I have noticed that when drunk, the display does not bother me as much. My friend who is a doctor said it might be that the muscles in my eyes are more relaxed and do not try to focus on the flicker.
Another option is that when there is dust on my monitor, it seems i refocus quite often on the dust and not on the (possibly) flickering display, which is impossible to find a fixed spot to focus on. The dust seems to serve as a screen protector and a thing for my eyes to fix upon.

I know we cant all be drunk all the time to work on modern displays, but maybe its a thing worth testing🙂

Good luck with your eyestrain

    martin I should write about some of my medical cannabis experiments.

    I don't drink (don't like alcohol but not opposed to scientific research of drugs and such)

    I wrote to @degen about some of them earlier 😛

      I confirm that while drunk I get less eye strain, but of course it's something that doesn't really help that much in practical terms.

      Yea it helps. Benzodiazepines help even more but obviously neither are good solutions.

      6 days later

      This is likely why some people find relief with matte screen protectors - changes the focal point of your eyes by introducing a textured layer in between the screen and you...

      It's really legitimately worth a try. I might nab one from work and try on my MBP 15" Retina and see if it helps.

        a month later

        Gurm it does help. The problem is that on the mac i had, the worse the screen protector (bubbles, low quality), the better. But as a photographer, that became unusable for me. If its for coding its worrh a try. With more quality screen protector, my trouble was back. Wound up returning the mac.

          9 days later

          my eyes are especially dry from the strain but when I go out have a few drinks to the point that I'm tipsy, my eyes un-dry itself lol. And I would come back home really late, use the computer while drunk no problem till I wake up the next day staying on the computer for a few hours. But obviously not a solution because that would be like saving your eyes at the expense of your liver.

          Also, not for nothing, but stress plays a big role in neurological conditions. Getting drunk/taking drugs is a great way to lower stress, which might have an impact on your symptoms

            ensete

            THey most likely make symptoms worse when the drug/alcohol effects wears off. But on it, temporary relief.

              ensete

              don't forget that alcohol lowers the reactivity of your nervous system. Some doctors also recommended me medicine which exactly does that, however I refused to take such drugs.

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                6 years later

                Due to jet lag I slept 2/3 despite taking 14 drops of Minias (benzodiazepines). I am also without glasses for astigmatism correction (I have only 0.5 / 0.75) and I feel better today (after 8 hours of work in front of a notebook) than many times when I sleep 8 plus hours and use glasses.

                I think benzodiazepines can help but it cannot be a long-term solution for sure. I am using a good setup anyway.

                  Lauda89 probably because they are muscle relaxing. Eye strain is partly eye muscle strain. No contraction no pain.

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