r/eyestrain

M23.I have been dealing with severe eye strain for about a year. My job requires me to sit in front of a computer all day, and the symptoms have become so bad that they are affecting my daily life. After work, I often need to take a nap because I feel completely exhausted and unable to do much else. Simply can’t function

One of the worst times is after looking at a computer up close all day and then driving home. Driving seems to make the symptoms even worse.
I’ve also noticed that stress makes everything much worse. When I’m stressed, I focus too much on my eyes and the symptoms become very intense. Interestingly, I recently had a stomach bug for about a week, and because my attention was focused on being sick instead of my eyes, my eye symptoms did not feel nearly as severe.
I cannot simply change jobs because I need to support my family.
I have already seen four regular eye doctors, and they all told me that my eyes look healthy and that my vision is good. I also saw a neuro-ophthalmologist who recommended vision therapy. I have been doing vision therapy for about two months, but unfortunately I have not noticed any improvement

This is having a major impact on my quality of life, and I would really appreciate any advice about what else I could look into or what direction I should take next.

I go to office daily, my office has those square shaped cool lights(many), it has been only a month since I'm going to office. At first my eyes used to strain a lot and it was difficult for me to even get sleep at night. But after few weeks my eyes got adapted (or I don't know what happened) , now I feel normal, i will sleep normal as before I used to sleep. And i have eye sight of -7 too. Is this adaptation normal ??

Or did my eyes get lost the sense of light , like did anything weakened in my eyes?

it's already been half a year since it started, my eyes hurt while I'm playing/watching smth/working on my pc or laptop, though laptop and pc have different screens (ips/va). I went to doctor as well and he said everything was just fine, you gotta rest fore some time and I tried to give rest to my eyes for 2 weeks and it slightly helped, but I still can't work in front of monitor more than 2 hours a day. Has someone experienced it and what you can recommend? (I'm currently using eye drops as well)

Honestly I don’t do doomscrolling..i have a lot to study in my laptop i m a tech guy so how can i protect my eyes from that?i can feel the strain of my eyes??

A little bit about me first: I write for a living, which means 10+ hours a day at a screen. Every evening my eyes feel like sandpaper and the only advice anywhere was "follow the 20-20-20 rule," which nobody actually does because there's nothing to look at.

So I built the thing to look at. Six exercises, 30sec, 60 sec, or 2 min each, a ball you track with your eyes across the full screen. Smooth pursuit, saccades, figure-8, and a 3D one where the ball flies from the horizon right up to your face so your focus has to shift near-to-far.

Runs in the browser, no signup, no download, free. Phone works too.

Built with Godot exported to web. Happy to answer anything about it. Working on building a VR version.

One thing I'd genuinely like opinions on: there are two visual styles, a clean one and a full retro arcade one. I couldn't decide, so I shipped both. Curious which one people actually pick.

PSA: Not a medical piece of advice, just something fun for your eye muscles.

EyeFlow Application

It's been ages and the strain is because of the difference in my vision levels. (There's like a 20 something difference between both eyes) I don't want to damage eyes too much but the strain won't go away no matter how much rest. So I've just been trying to suck it up and keep doing stuff but I'm blind enough so I don't want to damage my eyes anymore lol.

Hi! So I have ME, POTS and migraines (mostly silent and vestibular). I am pretty light sensitive and can't really watch TV now because of it. Days get pretty long with just audio books for entertainment. Had anyone had luck changing out their TV for a projector? I don't have any experience with projectors, but I struggle way more with direct light then indirect light, so it makes sense to me that it might work better.

Whats your experience?

I have always had floaters and ocular migraines, but I’ve noticed that when I move my head or when I am in a white room, I see shapes in my peripheral vision. It’s really hard to explain, but I guess the closest I would compare it to is an arc shape or almost like a pressure point image in my peripheral vision.

I have gone to the eye doctor three times within the year, for all different kinds of eye concerns since getting pregnant, and he stated my eyes look healthy and no concern on his end.

Some extra details

32 female
11 months postpartum
Still nursing
Near sighted
Wear contacts

I am looking to get a new car, and it seems like every car made in the past ten years includes a bright infotainment display screen in the middle of the dashboard (for calls, navigation, music, etc). I can turn down the brightness to the lowest level, but this only helps my eye pain to a degree.

Has anyone found any solutions for this? Only some of the screens even turn off completely, but then you lose most functionalities. Thank you!!

Hi guys! My name is Raph. I've been deep into biohacking for about six years — cold plunge, fasting, meditation, the whole stack. Somewhere along the way I fell down the circadian science rabbit hole and haven't come back up.

One thing that bugs me: almost every blue-light blocking glass out there treats everyone the same. Same orange tint, same fixed filter, whether it's 2pm or 10pm, whether you spent the day outside or in a windowless office. Your eyes got completely different light exposure in those two scenarios, but the glasses don't care. Indoor office lighting gives you roughly 50-100x less circadian-effective light than being outside on an overcast day — so someone who worked outdoors all morning has a totally different need in the evening than someone who sat under fluorescents for 10 hours.

I used to wear blue light blockers. Most nights they make me feel tired way too early, like they're overcorrecting. Also, some nights I want to continue to work at night but minimize the disruption of the lights. I started wondering if the problem isn't blue-light blocking itself, but that it's completely one-size-fits-all.

I've been researching whether a more personalized approach to managing light exposure could actually work — something that tracks how much light you actually get during the day and blocks blue light gradually, adapting to the environment and your sleep schedule. But I genuinely don't know if people would wear something like that daily, or if fixed-tint glasses are "good enough" for most people.

A few questions for anyone who's tried to manage their light exposure:

1. Do you actually think about your light exposure during the day, or only when you're trying to fall asleep?
2. If you use blue-light glasses — what made you start, and what annoys you about them?
3. For anyone doing shift work — how are you handling the light side of things?
4. Would you want something that adapts to your actual day, or is putting on orange glasses at 8pm fine?

I keep coming back to this idea but haven't committed to building anything. I come from a UX/UI design background, not optometry or sleep science, so I'm trying to figure out if this is a real problem or just my problem. Honest "I'd never care about this" is just as useful as anything else.

I study above 7-8 hours each day from my phone , my rest is seeing yt, ig cause i don't have anything else to do . Atp, I feel my eyes face a lot of pain by the end of the day , what can I do to prevent this

I spend many hours in front of a screen every day.

For a long time, I assumed my eye strain was mainly caused by my monitor. I tried many common solutions, such as lowering the brightness, adjusting the color temperature, and using blue light filters. These methods did help to some extent, but after long periods of use, I would still experience eye fatigue. Later, I realized that in an otherwise dim room, my monitor was basically just a bright rectangle in front of me. My eyes were constantly adjusting between the bright screen and the dark surroundings, especially at night. Eventually, I decided to change the overall lighting in my room. Instead of adding a brighter desk lamp directly behind or beside my monitor, I tried using indirect lighting to create softer ambient light around my workspace. The goal wasn’t to make the room brighter. It was to create a more balanced lighting environment and reduce the strong contrast between the screen and the surrounding area. After using this setup for a while, I noticed some improvements: My eyes feel less tired during long work sessions. The room feels much more comfortable at night, and there is less glare and fewer direct light sources shining into my eyes.

Since I no longer need multiple lamps around my workspace, my desk also feels cleaner and less cluttered. I still adjust my monitor settings when needed, but I now believe that the environment around the monitor is just as important as the monitor itself. I’m curious how others deal with this issue. Has anyone else found that improving the lighting around their monitor made a bigger difference than adjusting the monitor settings?