My possible solution, treatment and progress so far
tfouto computers seem better now, judging by friends laptops. But Ill know best when I buy a new of my own. Still waiting with that. I think with the glasses I have and the exercises that are filling what the glasses cant, it should be ok now for couple hours of work. Without them, not yet, only the phone.
It still also changes day to day, when Im tired or anything else.
Funny thing however - I used to have really bad headaches when hungover. Theyre gone now - apparently the muscle strain showed much more when tired from drinking previous night.
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Hi @martin and all,
Finally started my vision therapy. I am doing these exercises for a few weeks, will then go back to get harder ones:
Read print with one eye covered and the other eye using two different lenses and switch between them. One lense makes text seem closer, one makes it seem farther away. Will get harder lenses every few weeks. I believe this trains accommodation.
For suppression - take a handheld mirror on one eye at a 45 degree angle. With the other eye focus on an object. Make the image on the mirror appear in front of the object solidly. If it appears behind the object, this is mild suppression. (Similar to http://squintyjosh.blogspot.com/2011/01/vision-therapy-week-5.html)
Syntonics -- using a blue colored goggles, stare at a light 20 mins 3x a week. I'm curious if your optometrist knows much about syntonics @martin .
I've not really noticed a difference in my strain after doing them for a few days but this is probably way too soon to see a difference.
ryans I remember some of these exercises! I believe the device you use in #1 is called a "flipper". I also remember the mirror one being fairly tricky.
While doing these vision therapy exercises, often the very type of strain/pain you are trying to resolve will be brought on by the exercises. Maybe that's a good sign that you're targeting the right area?
I also wondered for those doing vision exercises if there is still benefit of doing the strengthening with strained eyes (or it is better to rest them and wait for there to be no ache/strain?)
Hey, I'm doing my excercise for nearly 6 months now with such spherical and prismn flippers.
one with +-0,75 diopters and and one with +-1,5 diopters
and each a +-1, +-2 and +- 4 prismn flippers
Im doing the excercices while I'm looking for some time trough the + side of the flipper and than suddenly change to the - side of the flipper and so on.
Also I change the distance from the object to which I focus. I change between 30cm, 50cm, 3m and 5m.
These exercices help me a little bit with my strain. However a notebook with intel graphics is still too much for me. I'll do these excercices till february in this kind. After that I'll visit my optometrist again in order to test my progress and try out other excercices.
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ryans I dont know syntonics. If my therapy is finished and the trouble not fully gone, Ill give it a try too. I dont know whats your exact diagnosis, but dont expect results below two months. Even then it might take a few days to get used to some device.
MagnuM Its like any exercise, its muscles after all. I do 6 days on, 1 day off. If its too painfu I take extra day off in the middle of the week, but mostly I have step by step progressively harder exercises, so I dont overdo it and take it slow, allowing me to progress continually. When I did overdo it, I lost ability to focus at close distance completely for a day, couldnt even read books without pain. That was scary but went away when rested. Muscles grow when you rest, but of course the growth in rest period is given by the stimulation in exercise period.
Harrison You should also have a progress track, I write every day results and time into a google sheet table shared with the optometrist. There I can see if, how and in which directions I progress. Also if Im stuck we change some exercises to help bump the system in different ways.
good point. It's clear for me that I'm stuck with my excercices at this point ant that only little progress is going on now. However the optometrist meant that 1 more month with the same excercies could still help.
He also meant that the "change" of the vision isn't linear progress like going to a gym and train your muscles which will get stronger and stronger after every session.
However I'm looking forward to february and maybe some new excercices.
Maybe it's also a good idea if we connect our two optometrists. Vienna and Prague aren't that far away and there aren't so much experts familar with this kind of eye problem. Maybe they know each other yet.
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Harrison to me it actually seems very similar. There are plateaus where I have the same results for month or more, then I break through in a week with a lot of progress and then plateau again. I just keep going and have it as a routine. But yes, the point is no pain vs. growing muscles, so target is different
Whats your specialists name and office address?
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Christoph Rauter
Kaiserstraße 101/1-3
1070 Wien
it seems that his homepage is only in german available.
Harrison Could you also send me a more specific diagnosis if you have it from the specialist? You can use private message here. My optometrist is interested in seeing it as well as contacting him. It would be very useful for future research to see all and which kinds of these issues are connected to the display problem we all have. I believe this will take on momentum eventually.
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martin Could you also send me a more specific diagnosis if you have it from the specialist?
not really. I couldn't give you more than convergence problems. One result of the test was that I get double vision too early when I'm looking through increasing prismn glasses. My eyes could only compensate nearly the half prismn people usually can at my age. The other thing was the cord test -> At about 30cm I lost 3D vision and saw only one cord from the dominant eye any more (if you know what I mean). However this isn't a problem any more. I'm much better after my excercises.
Please give me an update of their conversation then.
I have an appointment at my local university's eye clinic next week. I believe they can and do test for stuff a normal eye doctor wouldn't do. Is there anything I should stress that you can recommend other than "convergence" (which I will mention for sure)? I'm running out of time to collect all information because that appointment literally came out of nowhere and I need to be prepared until Monday in the best possible way. Until then I try to write down everything related to my eye strain issues but also treatments/diagnoses that helped others of us so far.
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So today I was at the university eye hospital. The doctor said I have acuteness of vision 150%. She discovered a convergence issue and was a little fascinated by it, calling it "weird". The boss doctor himself showed up and agreed and told me my symptoms may very well be caused by that issue. He told me prismatic lenses could help, or maybe a surgery. Next week I have another appointment, where they want to check in detail.
But, I am wondering now: if the issue is convergence, shouldn't an eye patch fix the eye strain? I think this has been asked before somewhere.
@martin: did an eye patch help you?
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KM it does and doesnt. Accomodation and vergence are interconnected, and this is a new problem w little research. Could you send me a detailed report please? My optometrist gathers data and is interested in researching how its possible tech makes these issues manifest.
Id need detailed description of the whole issue with numbers.
Also name of the clinic/office location?