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4 min readOct 24, 2022

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Hi Eric. Most of what I needed to mention, I've already mentioned in my articles. Including the "Does your food pass my stomach test" article. I have not had any blurring though. One important point to note, is that not all doctor's opinions are the same. Doctors may sometimes be too busy to pay attention to details. Some may not have enough experience to identify certain issues. Some may not know enough about your case history. So firstly, it's important to find a knowledgeable doctor who takes the time to understand what you are going through, and does the necessary tests and diagnoses over a long period of time (a few years) to find out what heals you and what does not. I had the luxury of consulting with a doctor who knew me personally. So he was willing to analyze and give feedback, without charging me a fee. Moreover, most doctors I encountered, were not familiar with how adversely tissues react to stimuli, when chronically affected. So, many were unable to identify the problem and offer the right solution. There was a lot of initiative I had to take, and a lot of drastic steps I had to take, to get better sleep and rest. This included pleading with my neighbours for 3 years, to not make noise at night. Pleading with my family for 5 years, not to wake me up unnecessarily. Learning details of how to cook, so that bad food didn't ruin my sleep. Taking notes every single day about how much sleep I got each night, how many hours of uninterrupted sleep I got, and correlating that with notes of each and everything I ate and drank each day. These helped me isolate the causes of the sleep loss and strain. It also helped identify what caused the strain. The fundamental problem was my sleep loss. It took many years to regain my natural sleep cycle and depth of sleep. Only then did the eye strain start reducing drastically. As for the breaks after 20 minutes, it's a requirement for even normal people. Not just for people with eye strain. But once you recover sufficiently, you won't need breaks every 20 minutes while watching videos. I've recovered sufficiently now, and I can watch an entire movie without taking a break. It's when I focus on reading text, or when doing anything that requires me to concentrate on small areas for a long time, that the eye muscles get strained faster, and the break after 20 minutes is required. From the little you mentioned, I can only assume that the blur might be caused because the muscles holding the lens of the eye might be tired, but that's just an assumption. Please don't depend on things that people write or suggest on the internet. I'm not a doctor, and it is extremely important to get a doctor's opinion on what is causing your problems. Don't depend on only what I've written. There are so many other things that can cause the problems you are going through, and it needs the expertise of a doctor to isolate and identify the causes of the problem. Even I didn't depend on my own experiments. I corroborated it with the doctors right through the ten years I faced the strain, even though I knew I found the solution within the first 3 years. I even continued my eye checkups with ophthalmologists, even though I knew I didn't need to, because I didn't want to let there be even the slightest chance of missing out on finding any stray issues that might have cropped up. I even left my job for a period of time, to ensure that I got better rest and sleep. Do read my articles again, as there are a lot of details that can help. But please make sure you find a good doctor and also make sure you get proper sleep, rest and a well balanced diet of properly cooked food. A good doctor will be able to give you the necessary advice on how to achieve these. It takes a lot of patience and discipline to be able to improve situations, to recover. Chronic health issues will take time to recover from. Like I've mentioned in the article, if you run everyday with a fractured leg, there's no point complaining that the leg pain isn't going away. Also, sleep loss wrecks havoc on the body and badly affects the ability of the body to heal. So getting long-duration uninterrupted natural sleep is something you need to pay particular attention to. It pains me to hear what you are going through, because I know what it feels like. Even I went through a phase when I wondered if I'd ever recover, but I did recover. I hope you do too. Glad you reached out. As you recover, do share the knowledge with others too. There are far too many people being affected with eye strain, and are unable to figure out how to recover.

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