Some guy on here told me my monitor was too low and I laughed it off but after 3 days of neck pain I finally bought a $25 riser and now I can actually feel my shoulders relax while I work, has anyone else ignored a simple ergonomic fix for way too long?

He just said 'your neck is gonna hate you in a year' and I rolled my eyes but then I noticed I was tilting my head down every time I opened my design files and now I'm wondering what other obvious stuff I'm missing that someone else can just point out.

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casey2681d ago

Well I'll be. I spent two years hunched over a laptop thinking I was just getting old and stiff. My dad actually gave me a monitor stand for Christmas and I shoved it in a closet. Three months later I fished it out because my neck was so bad I couldn't look left at stop signs. Now I feel like an idiot. You don't realize how much tension you're carrying until it's gone.

bell.jessica1d ago

Has anyone ever considered that it might mess with your vision too? @casey268 I noticed after I fixed my monitor height that my eye strain basically vanished. Like I was squinting into that laptop screen without realizing it because the angle was so bad. Now I can actually see the edges of things without that weird tired feeling at 3pm.

lee.cora12h ago

Huh, I actually see it the opposite way a bit. I've got my monitor propped up on books (you know, the classic poor person setup) and it honestly made my neck worse. Like @bell.jessica said about eye strain, I found looking up at the screen made me drop my head forward even more to see the bottom parts. I switched back to a lower position and my shoulders relaxed a ton. Maybe it depends on your desk height or something, but for me lower was the fix.