Dizzy when reading on the computer or phone?

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I had this issue too. I first started noticing it when I was in denial about needing glasses. My eyes are constantly strained. I feel fatigue, dizzy, and ill at times. But at the time I didn’t know what it was.

Countless family events I missed, and was playing a game of process of elimination. I finally noticed what the problem was after thinking I was hungry I put on my driving glasses and as I drove, it felt much better.

So I went back to watching TV and eye strain returned. Put on my glasses and poof they went away again.

As Ive dealt with this problem over the years after getting glasses, I started to develop more eye strain. I knew it was prescription related, but I couldn’t figure out what was going on.

After going back to my optometrist and double checking my prescription, she said everything was just fine.

I tried to deal with it for another week, and finally gave up and made another appointment with her. I told her that I knew that it was pinpointed to my prescription in the strength of it.

She did a deep exam with a special machine and it turns out my native vision didn’t need such a strong prescription. What my brain was telling me was clear in the initial exams was too clear. Instead of straining to see clear, my eyes restraining to be less clear closer to my native vision.

So I gave up and took my glasses off, completely adjusted the distance between my chair and my gaming monitor and turns out it all went away.

Well, I do still use glasses to drive into watch movies at the theater, I don’t use them to game anymore.

Deep eye exam is going to be your best bet to see your native vision. Drink plenty of water while you game dehydration leads to muscle tightness including your eyes practice the 20-20-20 rule. Every 20 minutes stare at something 20 feet away for 20 straight seconds get up away from your desk every hour and physically go get something to drink all these things are gonna help.

The last thing and the most valuable thing is, there is an application you can put on your computer, the blocks blue light. It’s called. F.lux.
Or you can just wear gaming glasses. I wear gaming glasses when I stare at my phone for a prolonged period of time. I use the application when I came on my computer.

I hope this long winded response helps you, there’s hope.

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Are you drunk? I am

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As others said, there isn’t enough information for us to advise you, and only a medical professional can properly help.

I will say once I had issues similar, but I could see ok, and the optometrist said the prescription was wrong. There is more to glasses than just magnification and they had something reversed. New glasses fixed it.

I different time I suffered from dizziness for a few days and my general practitioner gave me meclazine. That issue resolved after a few days.

Point is, there are different things that can cause this. But I would start with your family doctor. They’ll tell you if you need an optometrist or if it’s an inner ear issue like an ENT

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Consider checking out cyber sickness. Tends to be when scrolling and having your eyes follow motion on a small screen for long periods of time exhaust oculomotor pathways. I get it frequently now that I’m older. Larger screens far away where you can take in the entire image is easier on our ability to absorb motion, our eyes don’t have to flick over the content as quickly in tiny fast moving spaces. The blur at the periphery of your sight could be the overlap as your eye struggles to scan multiple areas of the screen quickly.

My doc recommended larger text on my phone, and slow the heck down on rapid scrolling. He suggested if I’m just skimming material, use a computer instead so I can read more words on wider platform that requires less screen motion.

It’s helped. Dats all I gots for stuffs. Talk to yer doc. Good luck and I hope you get it figured out soon.

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no only thing that happens to me on the phone is i can’t read at all unless i stop. not that i can’t read and walk just don’t like to especially when im out where i use my phone to kill time.

computer wise i just can’t sit down for hours on end i got to get up and walk around a little every now and then. otherwise my butt gets sore and my back.

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OP, I had this issue too and it was diabetic retinopathy. Friend of mine had something similar but it was his retina beginning to detach. So many possible reasons. I hope you find out what it is and get relief quickly.

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Look at anti motion sickness glasses, maybe they will help.

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If you want to scare yourself silly ask a bunch of randos on GD about your health issues.

See a Doctor OP.

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I’m not a doctor but I play one on GD.

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Maybe try reducing the screen brightness.

At least for me I turn it down to like 20% or so.

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If it happen recently you should have it check out by a doctor,I went through shingles located near my temple area where everything turn to fog . I couldn’t read more than ten minutes .