Eye Need Sleep!

My eyeballs are tired! So close them and take a nap would be the logical thing to do but see, that doesn't work. What I mean is, when I close my eyes my eyeballs feel like they can't relax so it makes me want to open them. It's very frustrating and it's driving me nuts. Really it's eye strain throughout the day that is caused by not enough sleep, allergies, excessive computer, phone and tablet use and not wearing my reading glasses sometimes when doing some of these things. I think I am guilty of every single one of them. It's been going on now for about a week, not a huge deal but no less annoying.

So what do you do about it? Well their are things you can do to relax your eye muscles to relieve that feeling. Such as blinking your eyes rapidly and then closing them to rest and repeating. Palming, which is rubbing your hands together to warm them and then placing your palms on your eyes until the heat subsides. Looking at a object in the distance and changing what you are looking at every 20 min. and of course limiting those things that are causing the strain. Then their are exercises that you can do to stregthen those muscles such as looking to the left while you move your head to the right and vise versa also doing that same movement up and down. I tried the above relaxation techniques and exercises and they did seem to relieve the irritation somewhat. So hopefully if I keep it up it will go away. Well I'm hopeful it will anyway.

I figured I'd blog about this because it's such a weird thing to have that maybe if anyone else was experiencing this, you would remember this post and know what to do.

When you get to be my age, the ripe age of 41, you start having all these things going on that you never had to worry about before. I never even needed glasses except sunglasses, until 40 and now I have to wear reading glasses to read comfortably. They still feel foreign to me though. I mean, they help and all but I just can't get used to the fact that I have them and need them but hey, what are ya gonna do. I'm only hurting myself by resisting them.

Well seeing as though I'm not practicing what I preach, I should get off of the computer for awhile and rest my eyeballs. Here's to a relaxed eye muscles tonight!