Had my yearly eye exam yesterday so I could order more contact lenses (disposable).
I just go to Shopko, but the particular doctor I see has always been a nice guy, interested in my life, chatty, etc.
He's also good at what he does. My first time there he asked if I was having a lot of headaches. "Not a lot, why?" My previous doctor had my prescription MUCH stronger than I needed. This new guy lowered it appropriately and now I have better than 20/20 vision when corrected.
Well yesterday we were chatting and he asked again if I got a lot of headaches. My job is on the stressful side and I do seem to get migraines from time to time. When I told him I spend a lot of the day reading text on a computer, he did a test I've never had done before.
Long story made shorter, I have a condition called Convergence Insufficiency. Normally when you look at something up close, your eyes pull together ever so slightly. Mine don't, or at least not enough.
I basically suffer from a lot of eye strain when I'm reading anything.
I did more online research last night and several other symptoms sound very familiar: vertigo/motion sickness (I can't even watch someone play a first person shooter or I get ill), problems with double vision when reading, problems keeping your place when reading big blocks of text.
It also happens to be fairly common, and you can have perfect 20/20 vision without any correction and still have this condition.
I don't have the cash to see a specialist to train the muscles in my eyes to work better, and I'm not on the 'extreme' side of this condition, so I'll be trying out prizm coated eye glasses. the coating does something to help, it must be bending what I see so my eyes don't have to converge...I dunno...but they're only like $40 and I would wear em at work, along with my normal contacts to correct my near-sighted vision.
I just wanted to share, cuz looking over the statistics, there's probably 2-4 other members here with the same condition who may not know it.
I just go to Shopko, but the particular doctor I see has always been a nice guy, interested in my life, chatty, etc.
He's also good at what he does. My first time there he asked if I was having a lot of headaches. "Not a lot, why?" My previous doctor had my prescription MUCH stronger than I needed. This new guy lowered it appropriately and now I have better than 20/20 vision when corrected.
Well yesterday we were chatting and he asked again if I got a lot of headaches. My job is on the stressful side and I do seem to get migraines from time to time. When I told him I spend a lot of the day reading text on a computer, he did a test I've never had done before.
Long story made shorter, I have a condition called Convergence Insufficiency. Normally when you look at something up close, your eyes pull together ever so slightly. Mine don't, or at least not enough.
I basically suffer from a lot of eye strain when I'm reading anything.
I did more online research last night and several other symptoms sound very familiar: vertigo/motion sickness (I can't even watch someone play a first person shooter or I get ill), problems with double vision when reading, problems keeping your place when reading big blocks of text.
It also happens to be fairly common, and you can have perfect 20/20 vision without any correction and still have this condition.
I don't have the cash to see a specialist to train the muscles in my eyes to work better, and I'm not on the 'extreme' side of this condition, so I'll be trying out prizm coated eye glasses. the coating does something to help, it must be bending what I see so my eyes don't have to converge...I dunno...but they're only like $40 and I would wear em at work, along with my normal contacts to correct my near-sighted vision.
I just wanted to share, cuz looking over the statistics, there's probably 2-4 other members here with the same condition who may not know it.