I am 40, and first noticed symptoms in about 2010. for me it is very obvious when I am being affected; I can tell within a few seconds. There have been devices that have been consistently ok, but most seem to go in phases. When I first noticed it, it was on my work laptop. I noticed by accident that if I un-docked the device that I could see clearly with no problem. I made the connection that the problem only existed when I was connected to the Internet. The next PC I had issues with was not a laptop, but the feeling of not being able to focus my eyes, and a kind of sinus pressure feeling was unmistakably familiar. For a while, I could unplug the Ethernet cable and everything would be instantly fine. After some time, unplugging the Ethernet cable did not work anymore, and my “brain fog” “anxiety” “morning sinus headaches” became too much to deal with and I resigned. I was able to use my home computer without issue for a year until I got another job, then after some time… same symptoms.
My eyes sort of “wash out” I cant focus them on the text. I get a sinus pressure feeling, my heart races, that night I wake up all night long, then the next day sinus headache. I know it does not sound like a technological problem BUT IT IS! The onset of the symptoms is as pronounced and predictable to me as watching a movie i’v seen a hundred times. it's like groundhog day.
The next job I got I was allowed to work from home. If I went into the office with my laptop… Always vision issues. If I worked from home always fine, with the same laptop. Then I started having trouble when using the VM a client Had provided. Non-of my tricks worked on that machine and the symptoms got bad. Very acute anxiety. Strobing peripheral vision progressing to full on visual snow. Terrible brain fog, dementia like symptoms, all culminating in a sort of psychotic episode (I have no personal or family history of mental illness.)
I have a number of tricks that work most of the time… but to play it safe I am solely using a Dasung Paperlike for the time being, and it is great! I always feel uneasy that my set up will not maintain protection, so with this I believe the technology is incapable of causing me harm because it emits no light.
There is lots more I am choosing not to say. <cough><cough>
As for the medical reason-- I assert that this is a TECHNOLOGY problem, but I may be more sensitive to it either because of a history of concussions when I was a kid or because of stress. I have had the issues in the absence of stress though, so I know it is ,in essence, technological and not medical in nature. there has been near perfect correlation between my symptoms and use of certain devices over an 8 year span. never an issue with dvds or movies or anything like that.
I am thankful this site exists! I have gotten too many razed eyebrow blow offs from the medical community.