✌️ Cause of my Temporal Dithering LED eye strain and an effective treatment
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Zodios
Great discovery 
I agree 100% with your thinking. Finding a device that doesn't give us problems but we can't perform a software upgrade is not a real solution but just postponing the problem.
Did your symptoms include migraine or “only” eye strain?
What is the name of the eye drops you are using? In Italy I got out “Xalatan” which is supposed to have a concentration of 0.005% latanoprost. Does it have the same concentration as your eye drops? How many drops and how many times a day do you use it? It will be hard to buy it because you need a prescription here..
In the meantime I'm trying to work on the autonomic nervous system too, with the course “Prima Trust”.
Primal Trust is great. Their Instagram has a lot of free resources.
Also look if you are on Reddit look into r/somaticexperiencing. Also this: https://youtube.com/@painfreeyou and https://www.instagram.com/jonathanmead have been helpful resources for me!
I also do EFT (https://youtu.be/K6kq9N9Yp6E), trauma releasing exercises (TRE, check YouTube) and Yoga (for anterior pelvic tilt, forward head posture, general reduction of muscle tension)
Re Brain Retraining Programs: a great summary: https://www.dnrs.50webs.com/
I’ve noticed if my neck muscles are really relaxed I hardly have any of my normal issues with oled screens, I’ve been in 2 major car accidents one where I fractured 2 vertebrae in my neck so I always have neck pain and my muscles are always tense
What were/are your symptoms before you figured out this treatment? For me on OLED phones (and also LCD phones with later versions of iOS, what seems like any Windows 11 computer and late versions of Windows 10 etc.) I feel bad almost immediately (weird dizziness/nausea feeling, fullness in ear like it's clogged, body warmness, sometimes pain in shoulder and arm)
Just curious because I know many people have varying symptoms here. Mine seem to be pretty severe in terms of how quickly they come on.
Zodios The breakthrough came when I found this study:
IOP reduction in a third of patients with OHT improved flicker sensitivity, however no improvement was observed in glaucoma patients
Can you give a link for the study?
There are many interesting things here and your case has filled me with hope for the future. I too have been investigating many of the conditions you mentioned and am still on the journey to finding the reason for my sensitivity to OLED screens.
The IOP issue is interesting. In September, my ophthalmologist measured my eye pressure and it turned out that my pressure was about 21 mmHg, so in the upper limit.
Unfortunately, in my country latanoprost is also only available by prescription. Maybe the physiotherapist I've signed up with will help.
What was your IOP before taking the drops? Just about to retest my eyes as my last test had an IOP of 18/19
Zodios I agree, I always inspected my eyes in the mirror and it was clearly visible under high strain situation, eyes looked popped out with high preasure. But I believe its a chicken and egg situation. And I was about to share Today, that PSR (Panel Self Refresh) is ways more important cause then PWM or temporal dithering (Old and new laptops). Those folks in other posts who have shared how macbook flickers when image is playing in the background, and when it does not, and how this affect the flicker, are living proof of that. So, beyond tackling health side of things, I think it is really important to make sure at least devices are used/modified in order to cause least amendment of a natural healthy state. (Apart from obiously factors beyond technology, such as focus, posture, coffee overdose, overwork, etc.)