As a piano player, I found that the computer glasses were the perfect prescription for being able to read sheet music, since while sitting at the piano the sheet music will be about the same distance as a computer screen. I was getting to the point where the sheet music was just a blur, but using my computer glasses for this solved the problem.
Hey Doc, So, it turns out I don’t have diabetic retinopathy. I went to a retina care specialist today and My retinas look great! I have cataracts! The last thing I would have thought of! But now I’m seeing there’s a connections between diabetes and cataracts, which I had not learned prior to today. It seems it’s mostly the right eye which has a prescription of 10+ which is so thick. I feel like my eyes are crossing and apparently there’s one on the left eye, but it’s must not as bad because that vision hasn’t changed all the drastically. ….. and after all that worry I didn’t even need an eye speculum…..😉 (Thank God!)
Good to hear your retinas look great! Sorry to hear about the cataracts, but the good news is that cataracts can be fully corrected for with cataract surgery. Thanks for the update. 🙂
Hey doc it would be so nice of you to make a new video bout best monthly contact lenses comparing different brands and share your thoughts and tell us which is the best and also the most value for money option for us in the market in 2024 🧡🧡🧡
All of my Rx glasses have had blue light coating I also have a Rx pair of office glasses (more than computer there's 22in. & bit closer for looking down on desk) My glasses are transitional multifocal.
It really depends on the person. There are people that have perfect vision, but may have digital eye strain from working on the computer all day long, and they could benefit from computer glasses.
So if you have 20/20 vision, magnification glasses are still beneficial? I was always under the assumption that prescription/magnification in lenses damages good/proper vision.
i wish blue light glasses was just a placebo... but it's not. i don't have have any vision problems but need to wear clear bluelight glasses when looking at monitor. otherwise my eyes and head starts to hurt quickly. it is extremely evident and been the case for the last 10+ years of my life so i am really surprised a "dr eyeguy" could suggest it is a placebo...
I'm too worried about becoming reliant on the computer glasses and/or having my vision being altered by them so I think I'll stick with the blue light glasses.
What if by looking at a computer screen and accommodating, combined with not going outside, makes your eyes become more nearsighted and more blurry in the distance?
@@DrEyeGuy Exactly. NOT wearing the glasses hasn't done that over a few decades of heavy screen use. But several anecdotes I've heard online seem to point to that being the case with glasses after as little as a year or two.
Your comment highlights your misunderstanding of what computer glasses actually do. Heavy screen use, without glasses, combined with no low time spent outdoors has shown an increase in nearsightedness over the decades. Part of those studies show that we are accommodating at near too much... computer glasses would reduce that. But... thats only part of the issue.
@@DrEyeGuy I guess so. From my uninformed perspective they just seem gimmicky at best and potentially harmful at worst. I've always been told that wearing wrong prescriptions can be hazardous, so why would wearing something that is essentially a slight-prescription not be slightly hazardous?
You left out Office Glasses. Some people use the term Office / Computer glasses interchangeably but they are not the same. Office glasses are a type of progressive that you could read a computer with and a few feet beyond maybe 10 -15 feet or so. You can see coworkers faces or to the next cubical clearly for example. But not farther, so you cant drive a car with them.
Yeah, pretty unique. They have a set prism amount at the upper portion of the glasses, and then gradually increases prism toward the bottom of the glasses. Kind of like Progressives with ADD power, but this is with Prism.
Is it bad/detrimental to use these as someone who has 20/20 vision but uses a computer a lot of the day for work? As an audio engineer, we use earplugs in loud environments as a preventative measure to ensure our ears still work in our late careers, so I'm curious whether it's worth it to also use such glasses as a protective measure so I can still view my screen easily in old age..?
Exciting! I would shadow eye docs as much as you can. See if you can get a job at an eye doc office as either a tech or working in optical to get some hands on experience.
Challenge! Visual comfort starts with a tip top prescription, choosing off the peg rarely is accurate. Zeiss blueguard do not have that horrible blue look. Prism is a bad idea full stop! The 20 20 20 20 rule is the best place to start. Can’t believe an eye doctor is endorsing inaccurate practice!
I agree with most of what you said... to the point I'm wondering if you actually watched the video?? What part was "endorsing inaccurate practice"? The prism part? Are you saying blue light glasses is the way to go and not an accurate prescription for computer glasses?
@@DrEyeGuy yup, prism really? Off the peg? Surely the batting order should have been 1: proper eye exam 2: correct prescription 3:20 20 20 20: 4 possible blue light filter (jury still out). The dumbing down of “proper” optometry and “Jeff Besos for everything” will be the end of the world. Self dispensing of so called computer specs, prism, low additions cannot in the long run be conducive to optimal eye health. Don’t get me wrong, I follow your channel and agree with your broad principles but this, I feel, was a consumer led back to front lost educational opportunity. I do thank you for engaging and wish that I had communicated privately. Kind regards
I feel you are confusing the purpose of the video. I am comparing generic blue light glasses with computer glasses. I highleted the benefits of computer glasses including: prescription custom made for your individual eyes (I say to get an eye exam to get an updated prescription) near add power, prism (if needed.... it wasn't my top reason for computer glasses so I'm not sure where you are getting that). So again... I agree with you... but part of your reason seems to be the purpose of another video, and i still worry you didnt watch the video. In fact, I have a video coming out soon about fighting tired and heavy eyes and I talk about all that you mentioned. Thank you for watching, but I believe you are injecting other topics that were not the purpose of this video
Hey Dock What about if i have non stop headache/migraine from the OLED Screen Phones and tablet? Does the Computer glass or Blue light Filter glass could be helpful? Do you have any recommendation to me ? Thank you :)
Hi, Iam 17 i have recently bought zeiss blue light blocking glass i recently visited the eye doctor and checked my eyes there is no problem on my vision only i suffer with eye pain and eye irritation i don't know why my eye struggles iam wearing the glasses but still my eye hurts eye pain and irritated eyes, redness the doctor recommend these zeiss blue blocking glass still iam experiencing eye pain and irritation planning to buy gunnar optiks is this glasses is zero power? i dont have any vision problem please recommend a good blue light blocking glasses zero power is ginnar potiks yellow tint or gamma ray orange lens which is best?
If you go with Gunners I believe the "natural focus" are the ones with no magnification, and it appears only certain ones have that as an option unfortunately.
@@PocketsandOutlaw gunnar optiks has magnification power there is no option in amazon to choose zero power in gunnar optiks is cheap that why i plan to buy this but it has power i dont have any vision problem i dont know the power affect my eye or not
Omg dr I swear I was just thinking about that So I bought blue light glasses from Amazon and I am weaning it since that day but my eyes is burning a lot I just took them off and notice little bit of relief is ts the glasses the reason ?
Not sure what the exact reason would be, but something with the glasses is not working well with your eyes... either the tint/filter, power if there is any, or base curve/warpage of the lenses.
What is opinion abount lenses from Zeiss,.Rollenstock or Hoya? I live Europe and here is what optics offer as a high quality. I have small astigmatism and i am on the computer over 10 hours a day. I really need something good. Could you please give me some advise? Thanks in advance.
I'm a student who uses their laptop for note taking in every class - 6 hours a day, 5 days a week. If I don't get digital eye strain (or any eye strain for that matter), would it still be recommended to get some computer glasses to prevent damage done to my eyes?
sir please reply. asteroid hyalosis synchysis scintillans my son has this and he is 2 years old. only appears when he become 2 years old... but when he turns 1 year old we see some gold like reflection on his pupil only at the center. and now he is 2 years old, he had sudden sore/swollen eyes for 3 days (severe) and very slow to recover. but now it is very few. it has been a month now (29 days) and sore/swollen has reduce. but now we see this galaxy / asteroid like on his eyes.. and the center gold like has gone. its like it spread and turn like asterolosis .. please reply 🙏. we have already go many doctors here in the philippines. they dont know what it is.
Dr plz ahelp me if you know So I bought blue light glasses from Amazon and I am weaning it since that day but my eyes is burning a lot I just took them off and notice little bit of relief is ts the glasses the reason ?😢
I’ve been using “reading glasses” for my tablet. I don’t need them to focus, but I find them much more relaxing to use. I’m using 1.75 now. Would it hurt me to max out on the magnification to take it a step further? Like would wearing 2.5+ cause any issues if I don’t necessarily need them?
As a piano player, I found that the computer glasses were the perfect prescription for being able to read sheet music, since while sitting at the piano the sheet music will be about the same distance as a computer screen. I was getting to the point where the sheet music was just a blur, but using my computer glasses for this solved the problem.
I love yellow tinted glasses for dawn and dusk and low light situations
After watching this video I ordered some glasses with your link on amazon. Thanks for the info!
thank you! this helps me decide to get prescription computer glasses vs over the counter ones
Hey Doc, So, it turns out I don’t have diabetic retinopathy. I went to a retina care specialist today and My retinas look great!
I have cataracts! The last thing I would have thought of! But now I’m seeing there’s a connections between diabetes and cataracts, which I had not learned prior to today. It seems it’s mostly the right eye which has a prescription of 10+ which is so thick. I feel like my eyes are crossing and apparently there’s one on the left eye, but it’s must not as bad because that vision hasn’t changed all the drastically. ….. and after all that worry I didn’t even need an eye speculum…..😉 (Thank God!)
Good to hear your retinas look great! Sorry to hear about the cataracts, but the good news is that cataracts can be fully corrected for with cataract surgery. Thanks for the update. 🙂
@@DrEyeGuy I’m feeling much better about it! Thanks!
Hey doc it would be so nice of you to make a new video bout best monthly contact lenses comparing different brands and share your thoughts and tell us which is the best and also the most value for money option for us in the market in 2024 🧡🧡🧡
These videos are amazing. Thankyou.
All of my Rx glasses have had blue light coating I also have a Rx pair of office glasses (more than computer there's 22in. & bit closer for looking down on desk) My glasses are transitional multifocal.
Great info here, as usual!
Thks I bought a pair of Glasses and Eye Drops from your links.
I don't get it. Are computer glasses only for people that need glasses or for everyone?
It really depends on the person. There are people that have perfect vision, but may have digital eye strain from working on the computer all day long, and they could benefit from computer glasses.
So if you have 20/20 vision, magnification glasses are still beneficial? I was always under the assumption that prescription/magnification in lenses damages good/proper vision.
i wish blue light glasses was just a placebo... but it's not. i don't have have any vision problems but need to wear clear bluelight glasses when looking at monitor. otherwise my eyes and head starts to hurt quickly. it is extremely evident and been the case for the last 10+ years of my life so i am really surprised a "dr eyeguy" could suggest it is a placebo...
Perhaps your head and eyes arent hurting due to digital eyestrain, but something else that is filtered by the tint?
@@greg_one_izm like what?
@@piotrpp5478 I have no idea, just a general thought on the matter..
I was told cumpter are a phone might cause seizures. Do cumpter glasses help stop seizures?
I'm too worried about becoming reliant on the computer glasses and/or having my vision being altered by them so I think I'll stick with the blue light glasses.
What if by looking at a computer screen and accommodating, combined with not going outside, makes your eyes become more nearsighted and more blurry in the distance?
@@DrEyeGuy Exactly.
NOT wearing the glasses hasn't done that over a few decades of heavy screen use. But several anecdotes I've heard online seem to point to that being the case with glasses after as little as a year or two.
Your comment highlights your misunderstanding of what computer glasses actually do. Heavy screen use, without glasses, combined with no low time spent outdoors has shown an increase in nearsightedness over the decades. Part of those studies show that we are accommodating at near too much... computer glasses would reduce that. But... thats only part of the issue.
@@DrEyeGuy I guess so. From my uninformed perspective they just seem gimmicky at best and potentially harmful at worst.
I've always been told that wearing wrong prescriptions can be hazardous, so why would wearing something that is essentially a slight-prescription not be slightly hazardous?
You left out Office Glasses. Some people use the term Office / Computer glasses interchangeably but they are not the same. Office glasses are a type of progressive that you could read a computer with and a few feet beyond maybe 10 -15 feet or so. You can see coworkers faces or to the next cubical clearly for example. But not farther, so you cant drive a car with them.
Good comment! Yes, there are some awesome progressive designs that can be more customized for computer vision. Thanks for saying this.
I make pair of glasses for a living. I need more information about countoure prism ? Neurolens ?
Yeah, pretty unique. They have a set prism amount at the upper portion of the glasses, and then gradually increases prism toward the bottom of the glasses. Kind of like Progressives with ADD power, but this is with Prism.
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A lot of people have been asking me this question recently. I'll look into doing a video about it.
I go whole hog. Blue light coating on prescription lenses that are set up for computer distances. Same frames as my regular distance glasses.
awesome!
Is it bad/detrimental to use these as someone who has 20/20 vision but uses a computer a lot of the day for work?
As an audio engineer, we use earplugs in loud environments as a preventative measure to ensure our ears still work in our late careers, so I'm curious whether it's worth it to also use such glasses as a protective measure so I can still view my screen easily in old age..?
Im in my senior year of high school and want to become an optometrist, any tips or words of advice?
Exciting! I would shadow eye docs as much as you can. See if you can get a job at an eye doc office as either a tech or working in optical to get some hands on experience.
Is it true wearing glasses make your eye sight worse? Or is that a myth?
Challenge! Visual comfort starts with a tip top prescription, choosing off the peg rarely is accurate. Zeiss blueguard do not have that horrible blue look. Prism is a bad idea full stop! The 20 20 20 20 rule is the best place to start. Can’t believe an eye doctor is endorsing inaccurate practice!
I agree with most of what you said... to the point I'm wondering if you actually watched the video?? What part was "endorsing inaccurate practice"? The prism part? Are you saying blue light glasses is the way to go and not an accurate prescription for computer glasses?
@@DrEyeGuy yup, prism really? Off the peg? Surely the batting order should have been 1: proper eye exam 2: correct prescription 3:20 20 20 20: 4 possible blue light filter (jury still out). The dumbing down of “proper” optometry and “Jeff Besos for everything” will be the end of the world. Self dispensing of so called computer specs, prism, low additions cannot in the long run be conducive to optimal eye health. Don’t get me wrong, I follow your channel and agree with your broad principles but this, I feel, was a consumer led back to front lost educational opportunity. I do thank you for engaging and wish that I had communicated privately. Kind regards
I feel you are confusing the purpose of the video. I am comparing generic blue light glasses with computer glasses. I highleted the benefits of computer glasses including: prescription custom made for your individual eyes (I say to get an eye exam to get an updated prescription) near add power, prism (if needed.... it wasn't my top reason for computer glasses so I'm not sure where you are getting that). So again... I agree with you... but part of your reason seems to be the purpose of another video, and i still worry you didnt watch the video. In fact, I have a video coming out soon about fighting tired and heavy eyes and I talk about all that you mentioned. Thank you for watching, but I believe you are injecting other topics that were not the purpose of this video
Sir, please recommend clip on for computer glasses/blue-light glasses , I use computer lot of time and I have to wear progressive lens.
Hey Dock
What about if i have non stop headache/migraine from the OLED Screen Phones and tablet? Does the Computer glass or Blue light Filter glass could be helpful?
Do you have any recommendation to me ?
Thank you :)
I got computer glasses for a few days, but it put pressure on my eyes and I stopped using it.
Were they prescription glasses or over the counter glasses? Just curious.
@@DrEyeGuy just over the counter computer glasses and it was expensive one 🤔😬
Hi, Iam 17 i have recently bought zeiss blue light blocking glass i recently visited the eye doctor and checked my eyes there is no problem on my vision only i suffer with eye pain and eye irritation i don't know why my eye struggles iam wearing the glasses but still my eye hurts eye pain and irritated eyes, redness the doctor recommend these zeiss blue blocking glass still iam experiencing eye pain and irritation planning to buy gunnar optiks is this glasses is zero power? i dont have any vision problem please recommend a good blue light blocking glasses zero power is ginnar potiks yellow tint or gamma ray orange lens which is best?
If you go with Gunners I believe the "natural focus" are the ones with no magnification, and it appears only certain ones have that as an option unfortunately.
@@PocketsandOutlaw gunnar optiks has magnification power there is no option in amazon to choose zero power in gunnar optiks is cheap that why i plan to buy this but it has power i dont have any vision problem i dont know the power affect my eye or not
Omg dr I swear I was just thinking about that
So I bought blue light glasses from Amazon and I am weaning it since that day but my eyes is burning a lot
I just took them off and notice little bit of relief is ts the glasses the reason ?
Not sure what the exact reason would be, but something with the glasses is not working well with your eyes... either the tint/filter, power if there is any, or base curve/warpage of the lenses.
What is opinion abount lenses from Zeiss,.Rollenstock or Hoya? I live Europe and here is what optics offer as a high quality.
I have small astigmatism and i am on the computer over 10 hours a day.
I really need something good.
Could you please give me some advise? Thanks in advance.
I'm a student who uses their laptop for note taking in every class - 6 hours a day, 5 days a week. If I don't get digital eye strain (or any eye strain for that matter), would it still be recommended to get some computer glasses to prevent damage done to my eyes?
It really does depend on the person... I would definitely check with your eye doc about your specific eye needs.
So my question is which glass should I need to use if am using the computer throughout the whole day 😢?
found it?
@@dev.faizan nope?
Some people are saying all these are bull shit... I just bought blue cut glasses... will it work?? I stay on screen 6-10 hours a day
sir please reply.
asteroid hyalosis
synchysis scintillans
my son has this and he is 2 years old. only appears when he become 2 years old... but when he turns 1 year old we see some gold like reflection on his pupil only at the center. and now he is 2 years old, he had sudden sore/swollen eyes for 3 days (severe) and very slow to recover. but now it is very few. it has been a month now (29 days) and sore/swollen has reduce. but now we see this galaxy / asteroid like on his eyes.. and the center gold like has gone. its like it spread and turn like asterolosis .. please reply 🙏. we have already go many doctors here in the philippines. they dont know what it is.
Dr plz ahelp me if you know So I bought blue light glasses from Amazon and I am weaning it since that day but my eyes is burning a lot
I just took them off and notice little bit of relief is ts the glasses the reason ?😢
It's possible
as a dog, i found no use for computer glasses.
As a computer I found no use for humans
Doggy shoo😅
Where is this guy a " EYE DOCTOR"? I think he is a liar and want to see his credentials.
Why do you think I'm lying? I post my practice in the description of every video if you want to check me out there.
I’ve been using “reading glasses” for my tablet. I don’t need them to focus, but I find them much more relaxing to use. I’m using 1.75 now. Would it hurt me to max out on the magnification to take it a step further? Like would wearing 2.5+ cause any issues if I don’t necessarily need them?
Can you get astigmatism from prolonged screen exposure?