11 years of VDU abuse...

[Joe 90]

Has finally left me short sighted!

So now I've got some glasses \o/






taking a bit of getting used to.

keep feeling well tired after wearing them for a while

[Feek]

I'm not really sure that looking at screens does have that effect. my eyes started going south when I was about 7 or 8 and stopped changing at 16ish. They've never changed since and I spend all day every day looking at screens.

Glasses look good though, they suit you

[SidewinderINC]

Armani glasses eh.. don't do things by halves


They look nice, shame you don't really get to see them unless you've got them on

[Will]

People with glasses officially rock more than most.

They suit you dude

[Kell_ee001]

They suit you

[Del Lardo]

They look good though real men wear contacts

[Joe 90]

Originally Posted by Feek

I'm not really sure that looking at screens does have that effect. my eyes started going south when I was about 7 or 8 and stopped changing at 16ish. They've never changed since and I spend all day every day looking at screens.

Glasses look good though, they suit you

yeah i wasn't sure if it did or not, but the optician said that considering i'm 22 theres no other explanation as to why i'd be short sighted already. He said that concentrating on this close by, i.e. writing/reading and computer use for so long has caused it. because my eyes have been concentrated on things close by for so long that now they have trouble focusing on distant things

Originally Posted by SidewinderINC

Armani glasses eh.. don't do things by halves


They look nice, shame you don't really get to see them unless you've got them on

ha. Mum was like "dads just got his bonus, want that trip to the optician now?" so i couldn't resist

Originally Posted by Will

People with glasses officially rock more than most.

They suit you dude

I'd have to agree now \o/

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

They look good though real men wear contacts

ha, lies. I can't really wear contacts cose i don't need to wear them all the time so its nice to be able to take em off whenever i don't need em

and thanks for the 'suits you sir'... so far everyones said that so my fears of choosing a pair that look crap was unfounded \o/

[Feek]

Originally Posted by |Show|

yeah i wasn't sure if it did or not, but the optician said that considering i'm 22 theres no other explanation as to why i'd be short sighted already.

What a fool! So he's saying that the only reason young people get short sighted is through looking at screens? Crap.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Feek

What a fool! So he's saying that the only reason young people get short sighted is through looking at screens? Crap.

It isn't crap if you don't do some eye exercises. If you look at a VDU (or anything else that requires close-up study - e.g. needlework) all day without a break *and nothing else* then this is entirely possible.

VDU use doesn't cause the problems - poor eye health does.

Either that or it's just a pre-existing condition, which is the more likely answer.

[Joe 90]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Was they your choice or did you get help?

the help consisted of the woman in vision express gettin this 'box' thing which i ended up putting 5 pairs in... some that my mum liked n some that i'd picked out... i'd pretty much already decided on these frames when i came to narrow them down so it didn't take very long for me to decide \o/

Originally Posted by Mark

It isn't crap if you don't do some eye exercises. If you look at a VDU (or anything else that requires close-up study - e.g. needlework) all day without a break *and nothing else* then this is entirely possible.

VDU use doesn't cause the problems - poor eye health does.

Either that or it's just a pre-existing condition, which is the more likely answer.

yeah, i perhaps should of believed all the warnings and stuff that you get at work and with computer games to take a 15minute break every hour