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So in my other thread I have been talking about how Windows 10 is triggering my migraines, and no combination of video card or monitor solves the issue. Even an eInk monitor with no back light, no refresh rate, and no color triggers my symptoms.
I have been taking notes of my symptoms and the muscle pain I am feeling feels like the pain I get when I have an improper prescription contact lens or glasses, and it feels like the muscles in my head are trying to "move" my eye to compensate, resulting in those muscles tightening up which then impinges nerves and causes migraine (according to my nuerologist). Someone in the other thread suggested trying an eyepatch to cover one eye I happen to have one from my vision training, so I put it on, and have been using my setup, and so far (it's only been 30 min or so) I haven't had symptoms. I usually get symptoms almost immediately.
So another hypothesis is that this is binocular focusing related. Somehow the way the Windows 10 desktop compositor is rendering the image, regardless of video card or monitor, is causing my eyes to struggle to maintain a binocular balance between the two eyes, and my brain is trying to compensate for that by activating muscles in my head and "move" my eye to compensate, resulting in those muscles tightening up which then impinges nerves and causes migraine
I'm going to continue wearing an eyepatch when using that system for a couple hours, and if it holds up, that would seem to at least indicate a root cause to the problem: I have no idea how that would be fixed, but at least it is a plausible hypothesis to start from.
Has anyone else had some sort of binocular balance insufficiency identified/fixed? I did some reading on it and it seems like it is something fairly easily fixed among young people by patching one eye but the older you get the harder it is to fix