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I was patching also for about 8 months, then I suddenly noticed that the screens were not bothering me anymore and I could start using without a patch.

Now I have Honor Magic 5 Pro and though it is OLED with 120Hz PWM, I'm able to use it. The first day it irritated me, but then I was using my Motorola g100 when ever I used the phone for longer times, but now I find that I can use Honor many hours a day, with maybe just slight irritation if I use it on many consecutive days many hours. Then I just dial back a bit for a couple af days, or use my Motorola G100 if I need/want to use my phone more.

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    hello. thanks for your sharing. i have started patching my dominant eye as of today ( for about 3 hours of computer use) and have one question. did you get strain on your patched eye?

    like it seems that the eye that i am using is pain free but the one that is patched hurts as usual even with 0 screen contact.

      How exactly? Only covering part of your field of view (like the OP patching his glasses) or with the patched eye closed (the patch laying directly on the eye lids)?.

      More like the OP, although I found eye patches that I can comfortably slide behind my eyeglass lenses, so I didn't have to attach it to the glasses themselves. If I close one eye vs patching and keeping it open I find the relief to be less

      Any side effect from patching for so long?

      No. I discussed my patching with my neurologist, my ophthalmologist, and my nuero-ophthalmologist and all three told me there was no evidence of any long term negative side effects from patching one eye

      To be honest, the mechanism by which you have cured your symptoms isn't clear to me, and to my orthoptist and behavioral optometrist either.

      The problem is with our binocular vision. Patching "turns off" your binocular vision. And WTF is a "behavioral optometrist?"

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        ensete The problem is with our binocular vision. Patching "turns off" your binocular vision.

        I am getting awful symptoms just by sitting under certain LED lamps. I was immersed in the nature for a week and I could accommodate easily again. It took me a couple of days to recover my ability. Back to civilization, an hour at the airport under awful bright LEDs and I was seeing almost double. Not sure it is only a binocular vision problem...

        ensete And WTF is a "behavioral optometrist?"

        Maybe just another name, hopefully a science with a different insight?
        https://www.behaviouraloptometry.org/science

              AGI Not sure it is only a binocular vision problem...

              LED lights can trigger BVD, that trigger mine. No way to know if it is the underlying thing, but it seems to be one of the more common conditions here

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                vladgh yes, at the very beginning of training both of my eyes hurt(honestly I suffered from headache more, byt eyes too)

                    Do you have your patched eye closed or open? Because I can see different results with open and closed eye. When my eyes are strained, closing one eye help me get rid of the strain and regenerate myself. However patching with one eye open is for me more like a training and when I'm strained it can worse my symptoms. I have also noticed that covering my eyes alternately helps me more than just covering my dominant eye.

                      bisk89 I don't feel any differnces between cases with closing and patching eye.

                      If you feel good with patching alternately eye - do your exercise this way, i suppose it doesn't really matter and many people who had reached the success patched different eyes.

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                        arturpanteleev

                        I want to thank you man. You saved my career. I searched everywhere for the solution and spent a lot of money with doctors. The patching really works.

                        I started patching daily about 10 days ago. The first 2 days were uncomfortable. And then I started spending 10 hours on my laptop every day with no pain. But the moment I remove the patch I start getting eye strain in 20 minutes.

                        I have a question for you. Did your results last? I mean the results after you stopped wearing the patch.

                        Will there be a point where I can remove the patch and never worry about it?

                        Thanks again for this post.

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                            vladgh happy to hear about your success! Really nice, that post is helpful for somebody!

                            Did your results last? I mean the results after you stopped wearing the patch.

                            Yes, they are. Now I use patching only when I try to use a new device. Usually, it takes about 2-5 weeks to become able to use a device without a patch. For example, last month I bought a MacBook(have never used Apple before) and had been using patching for about 15 days before it started to work comfortable with 2 eyes.

                            I am gonna write a post about my last 9 months after patching) Spoiler: everything is fine, I can use any device after a few weeks of preparations.

                              I started experimenting with patching a few days ago, and so far the results are quite interesting, because it seems that I'm able to use a previously problematic screen with much less eye discomfort.

                              I have a question though: whenever I take off the glasses (that have a paper on one of the lenses) I get a "weird" sensation in the eye that wasn't covered. It's as if it receives less visual information or something and it's just slightly blurry. The eye that was covered feels much sharper than the non-covered one. After a few minutes my vision normalizes.

                              Does anyone experience something similar?

                              I get this sensation after covering any eye, but now I mostly cover my non-dominant one.

                                rpozarickij What happens if you remove the patch and turn the light off ? I tried patching a few times before bed time. Afterwards in the dark I would "see" weird light flashes for a while.

                                    AGI I tried this (I was sitting in a well-lit room with my "patching glasses" and went to a completely dark room), and didn't experience anything unusual.

                                    Another thing that I've noticed, is that if I'm using my computer in the dark and cover my non-dominant eye completely (that no light reaches it at all) then I start getting very strange visual artifacts in my non-covered eye. My vision becomes grainy (something similar to an old TV static), but that graininess appears in waves. Very unusual feeling.

                                    It disappears though if I cover only the lens and my "covered" eye receives some light from the environment.

                                        rpozarickij I have a question though: whenever I take off the glasses (that have a paper on one of the lenses) I get a "weird" sensation in the eye that wasn't covered. It's as if it receives less visual information or something and it's just slightly blurry. The eye that was covered feels much sharper than the non-covered one. After a few minutes my vision normalizes.

                                        This happens to me still, although much less intense. I usually normalize in a few seconds.

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