I am doing traditional vision therapy and have my second appointment tomorrow. At this point, I haven't even been able to do all of the exercises they gave me on a daily basis. The last couple days I've managed to do two out of three exercises, but today I only did one. I talked to them and they said if it was affecting me so much, it was okay to scale back, but I'm just wondering if I need to get to some reasonable baseline before I continue therapy.

I wake up and my eyes just hurt. As the day goes on it gets worse and worse. I haven't been using the computer, but I haven't been able to keep away from my iphone. I'd consider giving it to my husband and telling him to hide it from me, but that's not very practical, as it is the only phone I have. I do use voice recognition on my iPhone to write these messages, so that's something but I'm still spending too much time on this phone. I would guess about two hours over the course the day, possibly more on a bad day like today. I did have a 10-day period when I barely used my phone--just 20-30 minutes a day max--and it helped but not much, which is why I kind of threw in the towel on that experiment.

What's the best way for me to get better? Is this therapy going to work if I'm feeling this AWFUL all the time?