Dr. Nadia Sledge

So we're increasing the amount of dry eye that we're seeing as well.

The one thing I will ask patients when we talk about eye strain is weekends versus weekdays.

Like we're on our devices, but we might not be sitting in front of a computer, you know, for the entire time.

And are you experiencing those same feelings on your vacation or on a weekend versus those long hours at work?

And most people are like, you know what, I really think about it.

I'm actually, you're right.

I don't feel that tension around my brow or that temporal headache or, you know, any of those signs during the weekend that I do in the weekday.

So we'll look at the prescription first.

The other thing I'll look at is how well do the two eyes work together?

A lot of people are surprised when I tell them, well, you know, when you actually look at how your eyes work together, they're not.

They want to work a little bit in front of the computer or behind the computer.

So then we'll incorporate some prism in the glasses and that'll help the alignment part of it.

So allowing the eyes to relax a little bit more as opposed to the muscles around the eyes, trying to keep those two eyes locked in a specific position and

And then the third, of course, would be the health and dry eye being that significant increase in strain just because we aren't blinking as often.

And so the front surface of the eye is getting more dry and then causing more of that really scratchy, gritty, irritating feeling as well.

I normally tell patients that I call it three by 20 rule.

Every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away for 20 seconds just to give your eyes a little bit of a break and allow that blink rate to go back to a bit more normal for a little period of time as well.

Yeah.

It is, absolutely.

And especially when I see a young individual and then the next year I've seen them and their prescription has increased and we do start having conversation about that.