Health hazards as a video gamer/collector
This topic is about the health issues relating to being a gamer or a games collector. Just want to hear stories from anyone about any illness you have suffered whilst gaming/collecting. 2 commonest conditions that I have are these:
1. insomnia - being overexcited from playing a great game, and wanting to keep playing, even if my body's ready for a break and it's telling my brain to go to sleep. Or at other times, I have difficulty sleeping when awaiting for a grail to come through my post!
2. hayfever (allergic rhinitis) - buying retro games, often we're exposed to more dust/dirt particles than we would like to admit, and unfortunately I suffer from hayfever, which does not help my poor sinuses!
What have you suffered from?
1. insomnia - being overexcited from playing a great game, and wanting to keep playing, even if my body's ready for a break and it's telling my brain to go to sleep. Or at other times, I have difficulty sleeping when awaiting for a grail to come through my post!
2. hayfever (allergic rhinitis) - buying retro games, often we're exposed to more dust/dirt particles than we would like to admit, and unfortunately I suffer from hayfever, which does not help my poor sinuses!
What have you suffered from?
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It's similar to someone traveling in a car or a plane for an extended period of time. You have to get up and move around every once and a while. You could end up with a dvt or a pe.
Or play against you in a Track & Field contest for a week and end up with a legitimately strained right thumb.
Brokitis, a lack of money related to buying too many video games.
I like the term! How about Wallet Deficiency?
At first, I misread as "bronchitis", which is what I have at the moment. At least games help to fill the time, when you're stuffed with a lot of muck in your chest and you can't move around too much!
Is tennis thumb a thing? like tennis elbow but the joint in your thumb? lol. I've definitly had that before. And just cramped fingers in general.. I hate the Gameboy Color for this reason. Too small for my hands to play comfotably. I felt discriminated against lol. The Nyko Shock and Rock accessory helps with the smallness of the gameboy color but.. I Gotta mod an original with a color screen soon.
lol, you're basically referring to finger cramps. The analogy is more akin to a leg cramp. Though if you don't rest properly and play for days with sore fingers then it becomes more a repetitive strain injury, which then makes it more similar to the tennis elbow analogy.
Roaches are bad, but bedbugs are way worse.
It's similar to someone traveling in a car or a plane for an extended period of time. You have to get up and move around every once and a while. You could end up with a dvt or a pe.
Or play against you in a Track & Field contest for a week and end up with a legitimately strained right thumb.
Yeah, my thumbs are pretty diesel.
Laryngitis from screaming into the microphone with Rock Band.
Seriously, I would often end up with a big bruise on my middle finger from the track ball when I would play certain arcade games. Centipede would be an example
Is tennis thumb a thing? like tennis elbow but the joint in your thumb? lol. I've definitly had that before. And just cramped fingers in general.. I hate the Gameboy Color for this reason. Too small for my hands to play comfotably. I felt discriminated against lol. The Nyko Shock and Rock accessory helps with the smallness of the gameboy color but.. I Gotta mod an original with a color screen soon.
I felt the same exact way about the pocket! Too small for my hands, but I couldn’t put it down!