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Thread ID: 26051	2002-10-18 07:23:00	somthing funny with my eyes!! please help	TiM©:*) (977)	Press F1

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90541	2002-10-18 08:54:00	Now I am convinced he's taking the p*ss. BALDY:-)	Baldy (26)
90542	2002-10-18 09:06:00	Actually his statement is somewhat true. When concentrating your eyes on a flat surface with no disturbance by extra colours etc, you can actually make out the bacteria that live on your eyes. Now you can't just go and do this willy nilly. it takes practise it's a bit like those pictures that are made up of crazy little dots, that when you concentrate right you can see the 3D image. As for comments of white lite in corners of the eyes, well i agree with Babe Ruth when saying that too much off THAT will cause that :-) Not that i'd know anything about that or anything ummmmm bye	roofus (483)
90543	2002-10-18 09:35:00	Actually Roofus, the surface of your eye is pretty much sterile (tears see to that). The bits of stringy things that you can sometimes see are called "Floaters" (no smart remarks please!). The objects are found in your vitreous fluid (black goo) inside your eyeball. A good explanation can be found here (www.retinas.com) Tim: If you quit poking yourself in the eye, the flashes may subside. HTH Jen	Jen C (20)
90544	2002-10-18 09:49:00	Yea i knew it was something along those lines. that page sums it all up	roofus (483)
90545	2002-10-18 10:02:00	Tim I have found I get exactly the same symptoms as you (hazy vision - like looking through a flyscreen, with small white 'sparkly' flashes), whenever I stare at the monitor too intently for a period of time. I need to look away from the monitor and refocus on something in the distance on a regular basis, or I get the above symptoms. This seems to happens quite often when playing games, rather than typing documents, as I find that when I am playing games I know what buttons to press without looking, and when typing I am looking from the keyboard to the monitor constantly (not a touch typist yet!). So mate, look away every five minutes, focus on a picture on a far wall or something, blink a few times, and look after your eyes... you only get one pair of them. J. :D	Jester (13)
90546	2002-10-18 10:21:00	Good advise Jester.......	Baldy (26)
90547	2002-10-18 19:44:00	whould my eyes go back to normal?? in a few days without computer??	TiM©:*) (977)
90548	2002-10-18 21:49:00	>>> whould my eyes go back to normal?? in a few days without computer?? Yes Tim, they probably would, but it might take more than a few days. I'd strongly advise you to give your eyes a break and leave your games alone for a while. Don't spend too much time on the PC at all and when they get better don't sit there for hours without a good break every hour or so. And do what Jester said. The least damage you might do is have to have glasses. The worst - well I don't know what the worst will be, but you'd be very silly to try and find out. Your eyes are precious - look after them.	Susan B (19)
90549	2002-10-18 21:57:00	> whould my eyes go back to normal?? > in a few days without computer?? It would certainly do your eyes good having a break from the computer . You might want to check out the refresh rate on the monitor in case subtle flickering is adding to your problem . Perhaps put a time limit on your sessions, and have eye rest breaks as Jester suggested . If you are still concerned about your eyes after giving them regular rests, talk to your Parents about seeing an eye specialist as your family Doctor suggested .	Jen C (20)
90550	2002-10-18 23:58:00	I didn't realise we F1 contributors were expected to be expert ophthalmologists as well :-) I had occasional (not chronic) visual disturbance that sounda rather like your experience; sparkle, floaters and the like and the "through a sheet of platic" feeling, in apparent association with either looking at the PC screen or stress - sometimes, for various reasons, the two go together :-) As a victim of the occasional migraine earlier in life, I described it to my doctor as "like a migraine without the headache". She referred me to an ophthalmologist who said "Your description is probably on the button; it's a migraine. As you get older the blood-vessels in the brain become stiffer and the later phase that gives you the headache doesn't happen so easily" So: if you are fairly "mature" (I'm in my 50s), if you have ever experienced a migraine and if the visual disturbance is similar, it may be a "headachless migraine" and the prescribed treatment is half an aspirin a day: specifically aspirin; not panadol, neurofen or other analgesic - and not to cure a headache that isn't there, but primarily for its blood-thinning properties, I was told (I suspect he meant "primarily because we know it works, but we haven't figured out how".) It worked for me, and it can't do any harm to try it for a few days. Hope you find a cure. Argus As for childhood patterns in the dark; yes. My favourite and most frequent motif was the five little green circles nestled together in honeycomb fashion, and apparently spinning, each with a tiny yellow dot at the centre. I haven't noticed whether I still get them. When it gets dark tonight, I'll have a look.	argus (366)
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