Unsure where to put this.

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Hey, I'm unsure where to put this.

Okay, I've had these headaches(in the upperright side of my head) for about 2-3 weeks, and with that headache, comes an eyeache above my right eye.

I'm a diehard gamer, on weekdays I play for anywhere from 8-12 hours, and weekends 12+ hours, sure, I have a girlfriend that I hang out with so I dont game all day due to her. Currently I'm addicted to world of warcraft(for anyone who plays it, youd know how it is.)

but yea, basically, I guess the question i'm getting to is, am I going blind?

I have recent glasses, so my prescription is fine, so that's not causing my headaches. But the weird thing about it, is I got the headache in the shower. While masturbating, now whenever I masturbate, the headache is still there, and If my girlfriend gives me any type of enjoyable stuff, it hurts like hell, and I sometimes stop her. So I don't know if the headaches have to do with my eyes, but. --Am I going blind?

hmmm...have breaks in between gaming. like play for an hour or two and then take a 20 minute break or sumthing..your straining your eyes hunn. sometimes this happens to me if im on the comp too much. if you still get head aches ever after taking a break, i suggest getting your eyes checked again.and my brother plays WoW..and holy crap...hes done for. like..completely addicted. its crazy. o and btw...hes 22 >.<

lol, i thought it was straining my eyes, but i wasnt sure. thanks. btw.

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lol. =[

WoW is the devil!

o your welcome hunn im a gamer myself, and i find it hard on my eyes after a while. i was addicted to Diablo 2 for a while..hmmm...i think im gonna play now lol. o and the sims...ROCKS

My uncle does networking stuff all over the world and with it he has to stare at a monitor or some kind of computer screen many hours throughout the day. He ended having to get his corneas replaced... He had the money to get it done.You can tire out your eyes and it does some wicked stuff to your body. Everything was getting really blurry and stuff. I stopped gaming like that since. But that was back when I was younger and didn't have a job and a whole lot of responsibilities.Just... take this as a fair warning.

Cornea replacement is a long way from eyestrain. I've never heard of cornea failure from spending a lot of time staring at a monitor. Lots of people spend their days in front of a screen. Why is he so certain of the correlation?It's good not to stare at a monitor for more than 20 minutes or so at a sitting. Stop, stand up, walk around look around...take a little break before continuing.

I honestly believe that some day in the future gaming addiction will be up there with drug and alcohol addiction. I know it screwed me up academically, I should've done so much better at school, but with such a fun, ever changing and diverse game just there I had no hope.
I was lucky though that I still managed to socially excell. I know a lot of guys who are socially inept because of online gaming. They're all smart, nice, friendly people, but now have zero confidence in many big social scenes. They also struggle interacting with the opposite sex too.

Another example would be my parents, my Mum is a housewife who has unlimited time to play WoW. However, she was playing it to a point it was putting a strain on their marriage. She'd be too busy playing to prepare dinner, the house was always a mess, you'd go days without talking to her, etc.

The worst example I know, is this guy who used to big into the rave scene. Moving his way from ecstasy, speed, acid, ketamine and finally onto crystal meth. He'd go out, party all day and night, then play WoW during his comedown. Both addictions are so strong now he now longer even gets out. He just sits in front of his computer smoking ice and playing for literally days on end.

Online gaming is fun, and easy to moderate. I think many parents and tennagers are ignorant to exactly how dangerous it can be.

Not sure if there is a correlation with it. It's hard to put those things together. To me, it makes sense because of the light intensity. If you stare at the sun you're going to damage your eyes. Long exposure to a less intense light can probably do the same thing. Besides that, from what I've read a lot of people who work on computers as a career have had a lot of problems with their eyes and hands. Arthritis and crazy eye strain.But I can say that staring at a monitor for 12 hours every day is not good for you. It demands a lot from your eyes.

Yeah just take breaks every so often.WoW is an evil game. I've lost many freinds to it . . . I tried to warn them not to buy it. But they didn't listen.

Mate I have some advice to you when it comes to world of warcraft. Type /gquit and NEVER join a guild again, just pvp casualy whenever you feel like it and play for 3 hours at the most. THe thing about world of warcraft is that when youre in a raiding guild is that you have times you HAVE to show up for raids. Besides PVE is for pussies and the gear is shit.I would really recomend playing casualy and staying clear of things that are going to make you addicted to it. When you pvp get a target, I wouldnt recomend going higher than rank 10 if you want to keep your GF. Contrary to what you probrably think, world of warcraft is about 80% luck, today I beat a nax high warlord geared warrior with my mostly blue geared enhancement shaman. Why? Because the games about luck, and windfury pwns . You dont NEED to spend lots of time getting good gear to have fun on it.I would recomend putting it in perspective before you start loosing friends, your job, your girlfriend, your education, your family. All the things that LOTS of people I know have lost to a stupid game.

Btw what server are you on? I am on laughing skull and stormreaver.