Glasses and Red Eye

Higher resolution on your computer can help.

I had less eye strain after setting my computer screen to light gray background rather than white.

Look away from your monitor every few minutes and focus on someone farther away for a minute or two or just let your eyes roam around the room for a moment.

....and check back with the doctor

I leave work with bloodshot eyes almost every day, it sucks but I find drinking lots of water helps and so does proper sleep.

Two things that may help - both related to the GLARE

I always got tinted lenses as this reduces the glare.

Now they have what they call 'anti-glare' lenses -

It just adds a few bucks to the cost of your glasses

It has a lot to do, not only with the PC resolution but with the lights in the room where you are - (and the brighter your colors on your monitor the more it makes your eyes scream)

Plus the fact that your monitor should be EYE LEVEL - not above. not below but straight ahead.

As well you should look at something far away and focus on it at least once an hour, and rest your eyes (close them) for just a few minutes OFTEN -

Aside from all that you really are straining your eyes just from over-use - I know because I have been there and am still there. Glasses get a little stronger every year.

Don't ignore the signs and do see your doctor every year - Sounds trite but it is true - some things can permanently blind you unless you catch them in time...

p.s. one simple thing that helps also is the Control plus the [+] key to make everything larger (and then control plus the [-] key) to reduce it back - do either one as many times as you need to to be comfortable.

p.s. just realized what you might mean about 'trapezoid'.

Sounds like either side of progressive lenses - bi-focal tri-focal (either you need them or you just got them and need to adjust to them).

Likely 'pc' glasses have at least short and mid range - (bi) if not also far (tri).

So the dizzy discombobulated feeling of the bi-focal (@ sitting/standing @ PC) - (or tri focal) they addressed with 'progressive' - instead of two or three separate 'frames' - much better progressing automatically/gradually between distances -- so why 'progressive' lense.

pssss - this year they even have 'digital' glasses - supposed to have it all but way more expensive - I went el cheapo this year and that was $500 minimum.

Ron,

I never needed glasses until just a few years ago. I still have problems but I need to get my eyes checked again. Here are a few things that may help:

1. I read that we tend not to blink as often when we're on the computer. This can cause the eyes to become a little dry and could cause red eye. There are two things you can do. Of course, one is to make sure you blink regularly. The other is to use eye drops. Not the cheap stuff like Murine, according to my eye doctor, but the good stuff that simulates our natural eye moisture. Around here that runs about $7-9 a bottle, but it lasts a long, long time.

2. Every 10 or 15 minutes look away from the computer for a minute. Look at things at different distances. According to my eye doctor, this helps prevent eye strain.

3. I used to have my monitor's brightness nearly maxxed out. I found it helps to lower that so whites aren't so bright.

Hope that helps.

Good advice, on the brightness in particular. Experimented a little today, if the monitor brightness matches the room its a lot less eye strain. Not having to focus on something thats brighter or dimmer than the ambient light in the room makes a big difference.

This is so, but actually I think you've done well and had some really good and helpful replies above.

I have a little awareness of this subject (my mother's an ophthalmologist) and I understand the point about astigmatism and prismatic lenses - the only suggestion I can add is to have your eyes re-tested, even though it's been only a year, because the degree of astigmatism can change in a year. Good luck!