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MagnuM Not really. Dell has one for ~$3000 USD but it has some panel quality issues and PWM flicker, among other things.

I'd wait. If it was perfect I'd buy one now, but nope.

Anyone have a way easier time in the summer? I don't think it's due to dryness. I run a humidifier in the winter and that helps some, but it's not enough. I think it's due to prolonged darkness in the winter sensitizes your eyes.

I don't think the sun solves any underlying problem, it just desensitizes your eyes a bit, even when in a dark room. A day out in the sun has always given me some extra leeway in using problematic devices that night.

This has always struck me as a bit odd because sunlight contains so much blue and uv light. It seems healing, and wearing sunglasses seems to negate this positive effect. I've taken to wearing a baseball cap and only wear sunglasses if there is sharp glare or reflections, like when driving.

degen I do not. However sungazing especially later in the day before susnet is a recommended natural way to build tolerance for photophobia. Blue light and UV light are healthy, just as sun in general. They might just not be what you need before sleep according to some studies.
Sunglasses are a nice fashion accesory, but I think theyre not really essential to life at all. A lot of things like that (protection from sun, cold etc...) just make people weak in the long run in my opinion.
However, sun has an even spectrum of colors, LEDs do not. Sun also does not flicker. So theres that too.
I think you can train your body to become stronger to any kind of stressors. However I still have not figured out whether that would be desirable in case of flicker or not. Either we who have this problem are weaker and could use that, or actually more perceptive and others are not.
Migraines however, are known to be an overly protective reaction to stressors that might not be stressful to most. Similar to allergies.

What I am trying to do right now is to research migraines to see some natural remedies, training or cures for them, as well as continue to research whats wrong with the tech that gives me the trouble as compared to the one that does not.

If you feel like researching this more, you can read about Bates method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method or Meir Schneider. Of course, these things take a lot of self work, instead of prescription and comfort, and might be very individual, so its up to everyone personally to take up such task and see for themselves. It can be bullshit as a lot of things out there, or the bullshit can be companies that make eyewear paying for studies "proving" you need to buy their products.
Since we have already a good experience here with companies making shit products and making you pay for them, I guess we might be on the same level here.
I have a general rule for this - whenever someone tells me I can improve my condition by a lot of self work, trouble, discomfort and challenging myself, but it does not have to cost me any money, I believe him more over someone who tries to sell me remedies.

I don't buy into Bates really, but a few things have grown out of it that have have been validated over time. For example, minus spherical correction does stimulate rearward axial growth of the eye.

I met an optometrist who has a great reputation for visual therapy for lazy eye, accommodative and convergence dysfunction etc. for kids mostly but also adults, and this was his opinion. Took the astigmatism completely out of my script and reduced my spherical correction. Those were the most comfortable and functional glasses I ever had. Unfortunately I moved too far to do the weekly vision therapy sessions.

As for the sun, the idea here is that there is a hormetic response. A large amount of sun and uv light will just end up giving you the equivalent of a sunburn on your eye. But limited daily exposure you build up some resilience through up-regulation of defensive genes. I don't advocate staring at the sun. Sunglasses are pretty mandatory much of the time due to all of the extra glare caused by pavement and cars. But think of natural environments like forests, clearings with grass, etc that humans evolutionary spent a lot of time in. The only protection you need is a wide-brimmed hat. It's the concrete jungle that makes sunglasses so mandatory. One of the best and scientifically validated examples of hormesis is that many of the benefits of exercise are completely eliminated when antioxidants are taken before or after a workout. Oxidative stress caused by workout is actually necessary for the benefits of that activity.

Personally I just think northern climates create a mild photophobia (happens to everyone after days of dark weather) that is much more problematic in myself due to existing sensitivities.

I think optometry as a whole is one of the most underdeveloped professions. Take a script to 5 different optometrist and you will get completely different scripts from each one, not even just margin of error level changes. There is a lot of variation between medical doctors but I don't think it's as bad as between optometrists. The practice of sitting in a chair and is A or B better now pony up for your $400 lenses is so flawed and should be completely scrapped for a more patient-centric approach where you figure out what you need from a lens on your own time doing activities that are relevant to you. Only exception here is when lenses are needed to meet a driving ministry test.

One more thing. I think those of us having to turn down the brightness on the screen to super low (I know not everyone here has that problem, but a significant number do), so very unfortunate. I mean, we have to make it very dim or else it causes headaches, but it's very bad for accommodation. The dim screen makes it way harder to focus and really stresses your ciliary muscles (and ciliary contractions are intrinsically linked to convergence). So what starts off with a sensitivity to certain technology, after a lot of strain and pain, becomes eventually a wide ranging asthenopia problem requiring complex refractive corrections. Often times, I can't make out a damn thing on the screen, I turn up the brightness and bam it's very readable (I always have text and ui elements huge so don't suggest that lol), but I have to turn it down shortly because of the oncoming headache.

My optometrist did find one interesting thing though. For a long time the pupil on my right eye has been larger than my left. When we did imaging you can see that the nerve into my right pupil is much smaller, meaning less parasympathetic input into that pupil. This impairs accommodation and pupil constriction. I have no idea how/when this happened because it wasn't like that when I was a kid. None of my family seems to have any idea when it happened so it seems to me like it came on gradually. I think me or others close to me would have noticed if one of my pupils suddenly got larger one day.

@JTL Is cannabis the only thing that has helped? Could it be related to anxiety?

ryans AFAIK the main issue with iPhone X is PWM because of the OLED display

Yes, possibly the Face ID as well since it's a pulsating infrared LED, and staring at an infrared LED is similar to looking at the sun. I've accidently looked into a gaming mouse sensor with an infrared LED and it hurt real bad. DON'T DO THAT.