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by dwedge 106 days ago
Yeah I have this. Mild but constant headaches, and a big floater I've always had has recently moved right into the centre of my vision and bounces around when I read on a screen, really harms my focus.

I've been to opticians they said nothing is physically working and there is nothing they can safely do. I found some vitamins that apparently help and they do seem to be helping but they seem to have broken up other floaters so now I have more.

I know the only real cure is to get out of this game, but it's a hobby as much as it is a skill

2 comments

Floaters are very annoying. One solution for me has been to turn my brightness down as much as possible, but of course this might make it difficult to see what's on your monitor if there's too much ambient light around you.
My wife is a former optician, so maybe she drank enough of the Koolaid, but she seems sold on the value of blue-light filtering. I also stick with dark mode as much as I can, and get the largest screens I possibly can (have dual 32" screens at home and at work), and so far I think I'm free of vision-related discomfort (I do have pretty terrible vision though without correction, and I am 49)