optometry
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | Education, General+Life Stuff, Health, Life Lesson, Tips / Learning | 1 Comment
I attended a wellness session today and one of the “things to do” was to take an eye test.
They called it a screening which in turn tells them if I need the eye test or not.
Fancy chin onto the holder thingy machine and you are also told to look straight ahead of you into the lenses or whatever its called. As the screening process continued, I saw the green dot-like thingy moving forward and backward and blurring and clearing again – I also noticed that I tended to wink both my eyes alot at certain times during this process.
See, I work on either of my laptop screens or on the LCD at the office but I was however using the CRT screens up until mid 2006. My mom and both my sisters wear spectacles and so it is only natural that one crosses fingers that “it wouldn’t happen to me”!
Turns out that my eyes were very good; he said that I should “watch my eyes” but he meant that they can still become bad if I don’t look after them. Any symptoms like headaches, dry eyes, constant blinking that become more and more regular are all signs that you should go see your doctor. Apparently my sight is good when looking at a far distance and cannot focus for long on short distances.
I then inquired about these headaches etc and I have the following reasons for the causes:
- headache on the sides of your eyes: short sighted
- headache in the middle of your head / forehead: cannot focus short distances; far sighted
- headache “behind the eye as if the pain knocking outwards from inside your eye ball” (this is how I described it to him and he understood me..yay): dry air/ congested nasal passage/ usually when too long in an office type air conditioned environment
I have since checked out the internet and found some really cool links to what I think would be important to you and all related to caring for your eyes, computers and eyes etc:
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