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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
But be sure to have adequate lighting when working. A reflected (vs. direct) light source works best, imho.
Thanks for the tip
Nish
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Nish
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With the CP blood in him.
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Nish, seriously, it's done wonders for my work environment at home. Now I can work 18-20 hours at a stretch without hurting my eyes. Of course, my back is completely gone by that time.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Of course, my back is completely gone by that time.
After 20 hours, that's not very surprising
Nish
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Nish
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Just as I got your reply, my back went into a spasm. Weird man! I think I need to give up this hacking thing and become a sanyasi. Too bad Hari Polavarapu's taken the domain name.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Just as I got your reply, my back went into a spasm.
Sorry to hear that, Ravi! I hope your back improves soon!
Nish
Regards,
Nish
Native CPian.
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With the CP blood in him.
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So i guess u also have pile?
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Edd wrote:
So i guess u also have pile?
What's pile?
Nish
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Nish
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With the CP blood in him.
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I think he meant "piles" (hemorrhoids).
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I think he meant "piles" (hemorrhoids).
Regards,
Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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I don't understand why working in a dark room would have a bad effect on your eyes when you are working on a computer, I hear this from people all of the time.
However, I do prefer to work in the dark. My eyes feel a lot better at the end of the day if I have worked in a dark room rather than a well lighted room. Some days I also stare at the screen for up to 16 hours, so I don't know.
I do know that I have light colored eyes so I am very sensitive to sunlight as well, so maybe that is a factor in my case as well.
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kilowatt wrote:
My eyes feel a lot better at the end of the day if I have worked in a dark room rather than a well lighted room.
An engineer friend of mine who has a thyroid problem also prefers working in subdued lightning, as bright light hurts her eyes. You might want to make sure you don't have a thyroid condition. (Don't mean to scare you, just wanted you to know).
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
You might want to make sure you don't have a thyroid condition.
Hmmmm, what are the symptoms?
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They can vary. You might want to browse www.webmd.com for more info.
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Hello Kilo
My doc advised me against sitting in a dark room. Because compared to the dark room the monitor would be real bright. That's an extra exertion for the eyes
Nish
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Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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I've never understood the "don't sit in a dark room" opinion. The surrounding room should be darker than the screen. If the monitor is darker, you end up stressing your eyes more in order to see. (Imagine standing outside in the sun, and trying to look through a doorway into a building... hard to do, right? It's the same thing with a bright room/dark monitor.)
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Sorry to hear that nish.
I occasionally have back pains, not sure what I can do other than stretching out.Since I'm six ft two I rarely have furnitures designed to my physique ..
Kannan
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Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote:
Since I'm six ft two I rarely have furnitures designed to my physique ..
I have the same problem. I am 1.5 inches shorter than you.
Nish
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Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
I also get sudden attacks of headache. I have a sinus problem at times but this is the no-sinus headache. I occasionally used to have migraines too during my teens.
And about an year ago I had severe eye pain and suddenly everything was blurry.
These are also symptoms of a brain aneurysm or tumor. You should get a CAT scan and if nothing shows up there have them do a spinal tap. I think 20% don't get picked up by a CAT scan. Oh and ask for a small needle otherwise you will have a backache for weeks.
I used to get a horrible pain behind my sholder blade. It would shoot down my arm. The mouse was the problem. So a bought a trackball for work and it got better. Then I started working out. At home I have a mouse and Rodney would throw a fit if I spent any money buying a trackball. Now that I'm unemployed I'm spending a lot of time on my home computer but the pain hasn't come back. I think working out fixed it.
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Cathy wrote:
I used to get a horrible pain behind my sholder blade. It would shoot down my arm. The mouse was the problem. So a bought a trackball for work and it got better. Then I started working out. At home I have a mouse and Rodney would throw a fit if I spent any money buying a trackball. Now that I'm unemployed I'm spending a lot of time on my home computer but the pain hasn't come back. I think working out fixed it.
I had similar pains. My right shoulder arm and wrist all ached a lot and my hand felt cold. I started regular stretching, had some massages and started working out more and things started getting better. Then I noticed that my pains got worse if my mouse cable snagged on anything, even a slight bit of extra resistance (like the mouse cable rubbing against the phone cable) caused shoulder pain. I got a cordless mouse, pushed the keyboard way back on the desk and now use the mouse infront of the numeric pad. Things seem fine now, but I still stretch and work out regularly.
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Cathy wrote:
These are also symptoms of a brain aneurysm or tumor.
Gosh Cathy! Don't scare me
Regards,
Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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Your chance of survival greatly increases if these things are caught early. Go get checked!
Cathy
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Cathy wrote:
Your chance of survival greatly increases if these things are caught early. Go get checked
*faints*
Nish
Regards,
Nish
Native CPian.
Born and brought up on CP.
With the CP blood in him.
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I voted 'Minimal stretching and minor ergonomic aids', when I should have voted 'None':
- I'm up and down fairly often to head into the lab or onto the production floor. As a result, I'm out of the chair fairly often.
- I'm a runner/cyclist, and I'll stretch at my desk now and then just because I feel like I'm getting stiff.
- I have an ergonomic desk chair and a keyboard drawer mounted at a comfortable height. My company felt like coddling its programmers a while back , so they bought us nice chairs and desk accessories. They'll spend $1400 each on chairs, but won't buy all of us CD writers .
My point is, the health benefits of these things are side effects. The original intent doesn't have anything to do with RSI.
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I chose "Regular stretching, breaks each hour and good ergonomic equipment", because it was the only one that mentioned regular breaks. I rarely spend more than, say, thirty minutes sat in front of a machine without getting up and wandering about (if only to get a fresh coke or fetch a file). I also tend to take my hands off of the keyboard and mouse whenever I am not actively using them, and do a lot of stretching them behind my head and down my sides - this regular stretching (every ten minutes at a minimum) is true to almost everything I do, I do it in the car, I do it at the pub, and I used to do it at school. I just *love* that stretching feeling.
I'm booked into a "special club" for a taster session next Thursday evening - in the paper they advertised that they could provide "the ultimate stretching experience through the aid of medievil techniques". I can't wait!
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You stretch your hands behind your head in the car!?
/Magnus
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