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I do not want to sound like I am sponsoring someone, but also this other video from the same doctor is interesting. She successfully cured a kid wearing Coke-bottle glasses, enormously reducing her lens prescription.

Patient Update: Success With Decreasing Lens Prescription In A Five Year Old

That is what I saw happening at a workshop by Leo Angart. Some attendees, all adults over 50 yo, went to a nearby pharmacy and bought glasses with reduced prescription twice within the two days of the training, consisting of exercises with Brock string and else.

Looking Inward: Treating Convergence Insufficiency (CI) with Vision Therapy | Wow Vision Therapy

Gurm I've started taking CBD and it definitely helps make my MacBook screen more tolerable by relaxing the eyes/muscles/focus.

vince Thanks for the info. Which product are you using exactly and where are you based?

I use Cymbiotika Nexus which has CBD. But I’m sure there are many good brands. I’m in the US. I only take 1 pump vs the 14 pumps recommended. But taking 2 pumps definitely relaxed my eyes so that the MacBook was tolerable. CBD is quite amazing.

vince I can't imagine what would happen if you took 14 pumps...:-)
Side effects?
Do you have any concern?

It does slow dow your reflexes, so I wouldn’t drive after taking it. But you will find it has other benefits you didn’t expect.

vince Uh, that can be a serious downside. Is avoiding to drive your precaution or Is it illegal to drive after taking the oil?
If I am not too invasive, did you get the oil prescribed specifically for your eyestrain issues? In case, I am curious what the diagnosis of your doctor was and which type of specialist you visited, given that no one seems to know what is causing our eyestrain. Thanks.

Has anyone found a way to recover from eyestrain quickly, like, within a few hours? I am thinking of a medicine which can be purchased anywhere, possibly without prescription, such as an anti-inflammatory drug, a painkiller or a muscle relaxant.

JTL Hey JTL, did you try the neurolens? I am pretty curious about that product especially about the machine that they use to check your eyes alignment! Unfortunately, they are only in the USA and Canada, not Europe!

vince I lived there and I got a feeling of the differences in the medical system.
Do you consider CBD a homeopathic solution? How long can you take it for without developing any side effect or addiction? Thanks.

AGI I don’t think there’s any stopping CBD now. Even Martha Stewart has her own line. I do consider it a better alternative than big pharma drugs. I try not to take everyday as I noticed I will get irritable. I can imagine one can get addicted to it since relaxes the body so much and makes you feel less anxious.

vince Thanks. I see.
Are anxiolytics / anti-depressants (I vaguely know they are distinct drugs) known to help with our symptoms?
I may have missed your initial posts. Have you been diagnosed with heterophoria? Are you doing else like vision therapy?

AGI I haven't been diagnosed with any eye issues. But my optometrist told me my eye glass prescription is very sensitive and he had to do some top to bottom measurement. Usually that's not necessary and they only measure PD.

vince New adjusted glasses do not provide any relief, do they?
I too have not been diagnosed with any eye issue and I do not wear glasses. Yet, as of Tuesday I have not recovered from 20 min looking at a couple of laptops in an electronic store on last Friday.

JTL Furthermore the marketing of Neurolens kind of rubs me the wrong way. Some of the science is somewhat sound (that strain of eyes can cause optic nerve issues that cause other problems), but I'm not fully convinced it's the solution.

AGI I don't have any special adjustments in my glasses, other than the top to bottom measurement. My eyes are really sensitive so I'm not surprised I can't tolerate LED backlighting in laptops. I would like to try the neurolens.

This is a personal question. I do not know if anyone feels like answering.
Has anyone experienced that anti-depressants / anxiolytics improve tolerance to offensive electronics?

About 10-15 years ago I took Zoloft 25 to 50 mg per day, which was the smallest dose. I was prescribed the drug because I was under immense stress and I made the wrong use of it, in the sense that I ended up pushing myself even further. I was able to sleep really little and be very performant, work like a dog, do sport. I was tireless. After a year I decided to go back walk on my legs.

I remember that those days I had to buy a laptop to use up the long commuting time constructively and I spent 6-9 months looking around for a "good" device. I could not find anything easy on my eyes. I returned a few DELL laptops ordered online, because there was the option of returning within 15 days. Finally, I had to buy something at all costs and I opted for a LENOVO ThinkPad T60. I kept it in my drawer for 6 months because it would fry my eyes and provoke the characteristic neck pain within minutes. At a certain point, I had no chance but to use it. First, I found out that I could handle it connected to an external LCD monitor. Yet, the sole peripheral sight of the laptop display would bother me. Ultimately, I figured out that the laptop would pass from unusable to usable 15 hours in a row without the slightest issue by reducing the resolution from native to 1024 x 768. I already brought this up multiple times and I am kind of drifting from the point I intended to make.
All this to say that Zoloft did not help reduce my eyestrain in any way. Hadn't it been for the trick of reducing the resolution, I would have wasted EUR 1,800 in 2007.
I am not an expert of those types of medicines, but I believe Zoloft is catalogued as anti-depressant. I guess an anxiolytic may have a different effect on eyestrain. Has anyone tried out?
I also wonder what the principle behind the effectiveness of CBD oil in treating eyestrain is compared to anti-depressants / anxiolytics.