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Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

340 points jbornhorst | 1 comments | 07 Mar 25 17:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.239s | source

I’m digging into an idea around eyeglasses, screen-time, and vision discomfort. If you wear prescription glasses but still get headaches, eye strain, or blurry vision after long screen days, I’d love to chat briefly (20–30 min).

Pure research, zero selling.

Interested? Drop a comment below or email me directly at jbornhorst [at] gmail.com. I’ll coordinate a convenient time to talk.

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jasode ◴[07 Mar 25 20:22 UTC] No.43294134[source]▶
The solution for me to eliminate headaches when working at computer screens was getting an extra set of intermediate distance glasses specifically for computer work. The "computer screen distance" of 3 ft is in between book-reading distance of 1 feet and driving distance 20'+ feet. I also avoid progressive lenses or high-index lenses for computer work. I commented about how arrived at this solution previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15375221

Reading glasses work fine when the screen is very close to your face such as a laptop screen. However if it's a separate monitor that's ~30 inches away, reading glasses are slightly blurry which can lead to eyestrain and headaches.

https://www.warbyparker.com/learn/wp-content/uploads/2023/04...

Look into it if you suspect it's a contributor to headaches: https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+glasses+%22intermed...

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1. ddmf ◴[10 Mar 25 14:24 UTC] No.43321005[source]▶
I got a pair of these just before Christmas and they've really helped - I tried "occupational lenses" which are a strange bifocal with a central focus of 3ft and then outwards it changes to the reading prescription, did not work with how I use the display in that my head is usually fixed and I move my eyes.

The intermediate distance lenses are great and my headaches have vastly reduced - because they were specific for VDU, my work paid for a portion of them.