Computer Glasses – My Prescription My for Eyestrain Relief!

I don’t know about you but with years of being in front of the computer has left my eyes sensitive to light and glare. And the new computer screens with their high gloss surface are just added punishment to already exhausted eyes. Fortunately I have older style matte screened laptop that is a lot kinder to the eyes.

I searched the net to find a computer glass prescription that would take care of the problem. Mostly, I found an anti-glare coating was used. I was told by one eyeglass place that would solve my problem. Since I have anti-glare on my long distance glasses I was familiar with the coating. Just as an experiment, I wore my long distance glasses to work a short time on my computer. Of course, I could not see as well as with my reading glasses but I could function. I found even with the anti glare glasses and turning the light down on my monitor, the lighting on my computer was still irritating.

Experiment 2: My goal was to tone down the brightness of my screen and still being able to see my computer screen well. I had a pair of sunglasses with light pink lenses. I wore them over my reading glasses working on my computer. It was stupid looking but I did not care my eyes were relieved. I know I was on my way to putting together the perfect computer glasses for myself.

The next day I called the place I usually get eyeglasses and asked them if I could have a pair of computer glasses made with anti glare and a light tint. They said I had to have one or the other but not both. I called another place and they said they could absolutely do it.

The computer glasses they put together for me had anti glare on one side of the lens and a 10% brown tint on the other side. The eyeglass place I went to had tint samples that I could look through. I tested each tint in front of a computer screen. I decided on the brown since it did tone down the light but actually sharpened the images and text. The optometrist also suggested the brown lens for the same reason.

Another important part of the script for computer glasses is to make sure to estimate how far away you work from the computer. I measured with a tape measure how far away I sat from my laptop and gave the measurements to my ophthalmologist.

As you can see, I did not choose a beautiful frame. I did not want the teeny tiny lenses that all the fashionable glasses are these days. I wanted eye relief and big lenses where I could see just glass and not frames. Yes they are ugly but I really don’t care. They relieved my eyes tremendously.