Hello,

There is a better solution where you will not need $50.
Every time the pain begins and your vision become temporarily blurry,
rest them in a way that is effective to you, like you can:

Close your eyes and then place palms of hands over them, until you
feel rested and eyes feel strong again and pain has been relieved, or;
Close your eyes for a while, just resting yourself in the mind.
Remember the blackest black you can remember but do it in a  playful
way and restful manner that is not straining to you, or, if the pain
persists by either of these two methods and it is difficult for you to
rest, then;
Close your eyes and rest them, by either of the above methods and then
after you feel rested, say after 5 minutes, then open your eyes for a
flash of a second and look at something on the screen, then without
giving the pain a chance to resume itself, close your eyes again and
rest them again, and keep repeating until you feel well and that all
you can imagine is a feeling of the uttermost comfort, of rest, and of
relaxation incessantly, and keep that feeling with you after you have
rested yourself by this method.

Remember always, all the time from when you are awake to when you go
to sleep, remember the feeling of rest, relaxation and comfort
incessantly. And always, especially at straining environments such as
the computer screen, keep blinking in the most comfortable and restful
manner and keep the gaze always shifting around in what way feels
natural and nice.

If your breathing is shallow, then relax your respiration and breathe
comfortably and fully and nicely.

If you need more help, look at the central-fixation.com website wherin
are contained articles and papers and books such as 'Better Eyesight
Magazine' which will tell how to relieve your pain and eliminate
blurriness by the rest methods as I have described.

This is the cure, by rest treatment.

Zetsu

Dear Justin,

Subject:  Two suggestions.

1.  If you have 20/20 (by checking your own eye-chart) then
perhaps the best idea would be to do nothing at this time.
That is what MOST people would do.  Just being
prepared (when your Snellen goes to 20/25, 20/30 and 20/40)
would be a big help.  Assuming that you would like
do more than "wait" for your vision to go down you could:

2.  Get a low-cost "reader" of about 2.0 diopters (for
about $9 and just try it out.  (Any drug store in the
USA will have these on a rack.)  Simply put them
on an read at about 20 inches.  If that feels comfortable
for you -- then use them.

If you complained of headaches, or "tired eyes" to an
OD, he would probably suggest the same idea.

More commentary:

Otis> It is often said that "looking up" or looking "in the
distance" relaxes the eye.  The optical effect of a +2 diopter
lens, is to move your computer-screen to the (optical) distance.
(This is basic physics and science).  Thus I use
the term "relaxing" in that context.

Also, what magnification would you suggest and when would I use them?

Otis> Since you state you are 20/20, your eyes will have a positve
refractive STATE.  (You could check this yourself if you wish.)
Thus, for instance, if you read at 20 inches (-2 diopters) you
can use a +2 to exactly neutralize that "environment".

The concept is just basic engineering and physics.

Best,

Otis

Hello Justin,

Otis is wrong I am afraid. There is no such thing as 'relaxing
glasses', all glasses, no matter their power of correction or purpose,
are corrupt and a form of idiocy for the wearer and throw the vision
and the mind out of its natural balancing mechanism and prevents you
from being cured easily. The only real solution, which will cost  you
0.00 pennies, is to rest your eyes and mind with the instructions that
I have given in my previous reply which will cure the sight and remove
the pain and blurriness that you suffer from.

In any case you must never ever wear glasses, because they will throw
you into the more permanent state of refractive error whereupon it
will be harder to cure yourself by the rest methods.

Zetsu

Having worked at a college for 25+ years, I know that many students are
in their 70's.  The median age for students at my college when I started
was 35.  That probably translates into a lot of presbyotic students.

It seems to be getting better, but a lot of professional people are
still being given CRTs to work with because it would cost too much to
upgrade them to LCDs.  You pay someone US$80,000 a year and won't spend
US$250 to make their working conditions much better?  Oh, I forgot, I
worked for the State.

I am retired now, but fought the light battles many times.  At first it
was too bright, and I had to request less light so I could see the CRT
screen.  Then people wanted no light at all.  That made it hard to see
written material.  We always worked it out, though.