ensete It could be an issue with the trigeminal nerve. It has to send and receive information at the same rate otherwise issues occur. My doctor has a patient that is a programmer @ Microsoft which he gives her a medication to stimulate the nerve which allows her to use screens again. Another trick without med is using an electronic tooth brush and placing it on each side of the nose. Supposedly doesn't always work as the medication is stronger. I haven't tried either yet.. was told if it doesn't work the medication could make you feel crazy temporarily otherwise I'd try it
9 months of a happy life after eyepatching
Where im getting at is I wonder if the eye patch allows people to use screens since it's information from one eye only. Maybe stimulating the nerve could help people that benefit from the patch? I'm no doctor just a thought
arturpanteleev Can you tell us more about your patching? How long you patching with new devices to accommodate? Do you making any breaks, or maybe when you sit in front of new device you stay still, but for how long? Are you patching only one eye? Or maybe you are switching your eyes? If yes, after how long? If you can, please be precise in terms of time, how many hours, per day, how many days? Etc. I’m patching for about 1h and switching eye. I find out that is better for me to close one eye than patch. How about you? But still I’m able to use device with both eyes for about 1h, sometimes 1,5h and cannot longer. Maybe i need to patch for I don’t know 5h with one device? Please share your thought's. Thank you in advance
reaganry yes, I covered the dominant eye. But honestly i suppose that there is no any sense which one you cover
twomee u can read all the answers here https://ledstrain.org/d/2258-my-success-story-about-one-eye-patchnig-after-10-years-of-suffering-i-win/40
@"bisk89"#p31644I think you shouldn't change the eye that you started to patch. If you can't more than 1.5 h start with this time a try to make a new best result every day
@arturpanteleev I have almost exactly the same story as you, but now after being "cured" for one year, my symptoms came back.
So now I'm back to patching. This is really really weird. I've tried to think what could be the trigger, but there seems to be none, or what was the cure. I don't think Paching cured me. My eyes just spontaneously went to the previous state after some 8 moths.
Maxx did you change the used device or not? Maybe the software was updated?
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jordan The trigeminal nerve is the "pathway" to trigger the migraine. Nerve blocks, medications, or other external devices (can't say I've heard of a toothbrush) can block signals going through the trigeminal nerve and prevent th migraine from setting it. Important to note you are not actually preventing the problem at it;s source, your brain, you are just interrupting the signal to trigger the response.
All that said I would never choose to take a lifelong pharmacuetical medication over wearing a dollar eyepatch
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I haven't looked into how it works but not saying your wrong. I just know my eye doctor said stimulating it helps eye strain with individuals that cannot use screen. One of his parents used the medication but found out the toothbrush method works as good and doesn't cost money. He said some people don't respond to the brush the same as others. People use the toothbrush method for dry eye too I think?
What worries me about the eye patch is that your training your brain to use one eye and overtime I feel like that would screw up the binocular function of your eyes. Or surpressing one eye over time ? 
@arturpanteleev no changes in devices nor software. It must be the covid since symptoms started after covid. Also, I'm thinking it was the covid or the covid vax (I'm not anti-vax) the 1st time around.
Also, during the recovery of the first "tilt" I gained the best aerobic fitness that I've had since 20 years. Now I'm in pretty bad shape after covid, so let's see if it improves when I get adequate weekly Zone 2 and HIIT and Gym.
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ocean10 hey I haven't went back to him at all. I think he's just a optometrist but he seems to dig around and finds things to help dry eye/eye strain. The other thing he does is gives patients diluted atropine to take at night so by the morning it's either worn off or almost worn off but supposedly the relaxation to the eye still remains. Ive tried this but unfortunately got a reaction to atropine so stopped taking it. Didn't fix anything but made my eyes feel so relaxed. I am sensitive to dithering so I don't think any medication is going to fix that unfortunately
I tried to patch an eye, I tried but I was very stunned and my vision was dark for at least 5 minutes each time I used it...
I gave up when I saw that a guy on youtube had tested the thing for 30 days and by the end his eyesight had fall...
arturpanteleev finding this discussion feels like it’s opened my eyes so much. For the last few years I’ve had so many issues with screens, to the point where I worry so much about buying any new devices. I could never figure out what type of screen caused me issues, since the screens I own and can use all seem to be different so it made no sense.
Until I read this and figured out the connection was that I’m used to all these screens. It’s amazing but it all makes so much sense now!
I ordered a steam deck which is due to arrive next week, and I’ve been googling tips to help prevent eye stain on it, which is how I found this site. I’ve used patches before because I have convergence insufficiency which I’m sure is why I have this screen issue too, but I’m going to order a proper one (I had a home made one) to use when my steam deck arrives and pray it works for me.
I can’t thank you enough for talking about this and sharing your story. I’m so glad it has worked for you and I’ll be hoping it works for me too.
nilghias It's one thing to use a patch for web browsing or texting, it's quite another to use it for gaming... You risk tiring your eye very quickly... I'd advise you to go very slowly at first, because I think you'll soon realize that it won't be as easy as you think anyway, and that fatigue and irritation can happen very quickly when playing video games.
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Jo09 can you give me link youtube ?