Well my pressure has come back at the high end of normal but that's where it always comes back. However, apparently (and I didn't know this) pressure is higher in the morning and I had a 4pm test, so I'm to go back one morning next week for an early pressure test to be on the safe side.

I don't know whether my pupils are dilating or whether my sensitivity is genuinely increasing. I will have to think about that one. I do know that in the dark, pupils naturally dilate, and that when they do so that my astigmatism becomes noticeably worse. I have trouble reading matrix signs at night but have no problem reading them in the daytime. I may be able to tell from how I can manage things like that whether my pupils are dilated or not. It's an interesting question.

I've elected to go without a tint. I could have had reactolite on my regular pair of glasses, but that probably wouldn't have helped much with the monitor.

The screen only seems to have one refresh rate, so there's not much I can do there. I've always been satisfied with the screen until now and don't think anything has gone suddenly wrong with it. I think it's me that's changed.

I already have the contrast turned down fairly low, as I've always been somewhat light sensitive. I haven't actually been doing a lot of image editing lately as my hard drive is full. I've been mostly emailing and web surfing and using the PC to run work terminal emulation software. I use the "Rose" windows theme, as that's just about as low contrast as you can get. However, I wonder whether I need to tailor it to get rid of the white background and make it a light colour instead - or even a pale grey.

I might find the PhotoShop desktop less wearing on the eye than, say, this forum!

It will be interesting to see how much difference updating my glasses prescription makes. After three years (yes, bad me, I've been economising on glasses, but the optician got me good an proper today with two pairs of varifocals for the price of one, plus reading glasses for reading in bed, plus piano glasses because playing the piano in varifocals induces a conditiona akin to seasickness...) I'm sure my eyes have been having to work hard with my old prescription, so I might even see some benefits just because I don't have to try so hard just to stay in focus.

I still need to bear in mind that I might need to update to a flat monitor if updating my glasses alone isn't enough to sort out my visual problems. I think that I might be forking out a tenner for more frequent eye tests for a while to keep abreast of the glaucoma situation, too, just in case anything develops.