Particularly when I put in a session at my computer. I lean forward to see the screen (my eyes are also going) or type something or move the mouse, winding up in this position for a while, getting up stiff and sore.

I think it's cutting into the time I put in writing, too, which I have to do at the same keyboard with the same effect. I haven't produced much this summer, possibly because of this.

I can still get by at work, whiere I can pace myself and limber up...but I'd like to get some relief at home, too. Maybe a new chair would improve things. Maybe, too, if I got a laptop and tried working from a prone position.

I gave myself a compression fracture of my lower back falling off a horse back when I was in college. When my back bugs me, I tend to take the lap top and a computer lap desk onto my bed to write. Seems to work for me. I also know you can buy one of the "hospital tables" to swing over the beds if you wanted something larger and more desklike. I think they are fairly easy to come by.

Hope some of these suggestions help. I have definitely spent time working on a laptop on my lap on the couch or bed, but that position has its limits too. I find that my tailbone hurts if I sit like that for long.

I find that if I'm going to be doing a lot of typing on a desktop keyboard, it helps to put it in my lap.

At work, I religiously wear a backstrap support---not 'cause I think much of its ability to protect from or prevent injuries, but it does remind me not to bend at the spine.

Hadn't thought of keyboard-in-lap or increasing-the-type-size.

My keyboard is ergonomic---it's also wired to the computer, part of my desire not to put any more radio transmissions into the air immediately around me. But I could move it to my lap---I think.

The last time I enlarged the type size, it happened by accident---and I had a devil of a time getting it to go back.

But---

---it was awkward to keep juggling the keyboard on my lap. I grew up in the typewriter era, where they didn't have a number keypad on the right side.

---it was also like learning how to type all over again---I couldn't hit the right keys consistently.

---up till now I had no idea how dependent I had become on using the mouse---which I still had to lean forward to use.

I think that is the way to go, at least for writing. For this online web surfing, or whatever it's calle, I'll have to refine it some more. But thanks for the suggestions.