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@burgerbecky@mastodon.gamedev.place good eye doctors are like that.

i was having issues i didn't understand how to address and that were making it hard for me to work (i, like you, use computers for a living) and was extremely stressed about it, both because it was hard to read things due to the double vision and blurriness, and because it was painful. old eye doctor didn't help at all.

so i went to my childhood small-town family eye doctor, he took a look, and just started casually explaining to me that there was nothing to be worried about, he got me some "computer glasses", got my insurance to pay for them, and told me a specific type of eye drops to use and when/how to use them, and explained why the whole thing was happening (basically: eye infection a few years ago never properly recovered, surface layer of my eye kept getting re-damaged during the night as my eye dried out, in somewhat of a "feedback loop"; surface layer heals fine if you give it a little bit of help, and then it will also lubricate itself properly)

apparently a lot of issues he sees are like this, where people are worried and facing debilitating issues but there's a simple way to address it