Vestibular Migraines?

ryans

I wonder if some of us actually suffer from vestibular migraines.

This thread on MAV has people very similar to our symptoms.

And the associated FB Group, there's one interesting thread here about adapting to devices in ₂ weeks:

Here we go again. I just bought a new Dell screen to replace a 27" iMac screen. It's a beautiful screen but of course it's sending me off the deep end with dizziness and vertigo after about 10-15 minutes of use. I can't believe this is still going on after 17 years -- ever since I got vestibular neuritis! This brain of mine has to compensate again to the new screen.
When I bought the iMac in late 2014 it took me 2 weeks of exposure before the dizziness stopped so I guess it's going to be the same thing again with this one. What a drag.
I am replacing the iMac because it became apparent with COVID and WFH that the retina display was triggering headaches with long use. They flicker at a high frequency. Dell screens don't flicker and there is zero refection from it. Also used Dell screens in my last two jobs and never had headaches from them.
Any of you still need weeks to adjust to new/ different screens?

hayder1983

I tried getting used to my BenQ which gives me nausea. I think i have like 500 hours of usage on it, the nausea started after about 200-300 hours of usage. Trying to get used to it didnt help me, it did just make it worse. Not sure that works for everyone, but i can relate that you would want to try.

ryans

hayder1983 Hey @hayder1983, how've you been nowadays? hope you are better

hayder1983

ryans hi. Im ok. Didnt have nausea in months. I dont wear my glasses at all. Im using eye drops, same amount every day. Using the old Samsung monitor and everything got better. Im using very odd settings, very dark, but i can read and play games. My work laptop is also safe for some reason. I still get pain from super bright screens and hard flicker, but this only happens when i am e.g. in another appartement. 🙂

Tobiyas

I do suffer from vestibular migraines only if the a display is flickering at below 50 hertz. The more I stare at it, the worse is the spinning dizziness. Its rare but I do suffer ocular migraine from staring at monitors with a constant backlight flickering at 60 ~ 120hz(Not referring to PWM here). I owned two Dell monitors, 1 24 inch and the other with 27 inch. In reviews, they were said to be flicker free. However, I quickly got red, dry and sore eyes within minutes of looking at the screen. Next, I'll get ocular migraine.

(btw, ocular migraine is a migraine that also affects your eyes visual causing temporary visual distortion.)

Once, I used my iphone and turned on video recording on the dell monitors up closed. I was able to see a constant faint grey pulsing, and this constant pulse is very different from PWM.

The results I saw really resembles what was reported from NotebookCheck on Galaxy Tab A 10.1. No PWM but a constant backlight flicker pulse at 60hertz.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-A-10-1-2019-Tablet-Review.422775.0.html

ryans

hayder1983 What OS / laptop do you use comfortably?