Do you all that grow have issues with your eyes?

ryan1918

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #1

I'm curious if anyone else has problems with there eyes after growing, I know over the years of growing I try not to stay in the room to long and I hardly wear sun glasses like I should but I know bright lights hurt my eyes now, and if I go in the grow room long I used to turn down the lights as much as I could now I just try not to be in there long.

 

Resinhound

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #2

Yep pretty soon im gonna have to take the lenses off my cobs and walk around looking through those.

 

dirtyho1968

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #3

Yeah, i turn that shit down to the lowest watt settings or turn off most of them and wear a big ass hat. Got some of those special glasses but forget to wear them half the time. Try to avoid looking at the bulbs. You close your eyes and that's all you see for minutes. Ugh...

 

ryan1918

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #4

dirtyho1968 said:

Yeah, i turn that shit down to the lowest watt settings or turn off most of them and wear a big ass hat. Got some of those special glasses but forget to wear them half the time. Try to avoid looking at the bulbs. You close your eyes and that's all you see for minutes. Ugh...

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yeah I never look at them learned the hard way lol, yeah glasses don't work if don't wear them like me lmao

 

dirtyho1968

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #5

ryan1918 said:

yeah I never look at them learned the hard way lol, yeah glasses don't work if don't wear them like me lmao

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and me, lol.

 

dirtyho1968

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #6

the only reason I take quick peaks is to see they are all working and on and didn't trip a breaker.

 

Metasynth

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #7

I got a cheap pair of blue polarized lenses on eBay for 3 bucks, work just as good as the premium ones

 

dirtyho1968

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #8

I'll have to check the out?

 

Metasynth

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• Jan 24, 2016

• #9

I think they were marketed for shooting practice. Wish I'd bought ten so I could leave em all over the grow

 

dirtyho1968

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #10

I think they are shooting glasses.

 

hellmutt bones

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #11

Them lights will fuck up ur eyes and i always forgot to whear them too.

 

Metasynth

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #12

dirtyho1968 said:

I think they are shooting glasses.

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Yeah, whatever they were, it was a great deal!

 

R1b3n4

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #13

Get some of these, made by Lumii or Method 7, cheap as fuck, proper helps with your eyes day to day

 

Elwood Diggler

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #14

other than red and half shut, my eyes are good. sunglasses are standard equipment around here

 

Aeroknow

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #15

I've been growing indoor for a long time, i'm fucking stupid for not wearing shades of some sort in there while working
Starting about 10 yrs ago, i kept occasionally getting a fucked up eyball, mainly only one at a time. It was bad. Would last for 3-4 days. I went to an eyball doc, and the only thing he could tell me was that it is corneal edema. He told me to buy some drops, it kinda worked when I did have the problem, which seemed like once a month or even more often.
Just a few years ago, as i'm doing my once a crop staking/tying/pruning at about 2 weeks into flowering, it dawned on me! I was getting flashburn. What a fucking retard!
I used to weld and be around others welding quite often when working my trade. You'd think I knew what flashburn is, as i've had it before. Durrrrrrrrrr.
When i'm working for more than a few minutes under lamps now, i just turn those lamps off.

 

theslipperbandit

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #16

R1b3n4 said:

Get some of these, made by Lumii or Method 7, cheap as fuck, proper helps with your eyes day to day

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I sware by those...never go in my room without them

 

MonkeyGrinder

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #17

Yep toss sunglasses on and turn the ballast down as much as possible.
The first few runs I did was with my old room mate. He had several under his belt before I jumped in. I never stepped into the room without shades on. Him on the other hand even though he had a pair hanging outside of the door never put them on.
Nah man I don't need em.
His vision has gotten iffy and it's attributed to the lights.

 

ttystikk

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #18

My vision has always sucked. I got LASIK for my myopia long before I was a regular grower. A couple years ago, I got a detached retina. I was up front with my doctors about what I do for a living and they said something very interesting: staring at your smartphone is worse for your eyes than grow lights, unless you get the welders eye @Aeroknow mentioned above.

Still, wear sunglasses- retina burn is no fun. Getting bud in the eye is a bitch too lol. Finally, the potential is big for blurple LED users and HID users to be exposed to excessive UVA/UVB, leading to progressive damage and macular degeneration.

 

BarnBuster

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #19

ttystikk said:

progressive damage and macular degeneration.

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and/or earlier than normal incidence of cataract development?

 

qwizoking

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• Jan 25, 2016

• #20

i wasnt sure by the title where this thread was going, ie hps light and your eyes. cannabis induced photophobia, or physical cannabis like while trimming an the eyes.

my eyes are so sensitive from weed i can barely go outside, a few 1ks on and im dying. i try not to go in with lights on at all. i think its sort of a compound effect. sucks.