✌️ Cause of my Temporal Dithering LED eye strain and an effective treatment

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.)

Zodios Thank you

Zodios We live not in ideal world, and windows laptops especially old models allow to do a lot of tickering. In fact there could be a checklist to do X, Y, Z. Also, there is a contract between consumer and manufacturer, so in this case, you need to look for clearly stated promises such as flicker free etc. Also, it comes down to a price I believe with some exceptions (clearly M3 Macbook Pro was a fail), but XPS or top of a range MSI, Asus etc, where some of them have flicker free certification, would be a good start at least. But to come back to a main point, I do not believe, if you would not solve external irritants it will solve your problems, even if you become budhism monk on a mountain with best eye drops in the world, and best posture, and best food/liquid intakes.

Zodios get more colors from the same cheap 8 bit panel by doing flickering by pixels

I still didn't found real 8-bit panel, having only pixel inversion flickering ( without additional smooth mechanisms like FRC or dithering ). The monitors I tested last summer, was declared as 8-bit, but I found FRC in it similar as nvidia 2x2 spatial dynamic model looks )

Zodios

Thank you.

Also can you elaborate on your treatment plan? I already got Latanoprost drops. I guess if they help it's gonna be life long treatment like with real glaucoma. Or your want to try use it in courses?

Zodios Some part of population has zero issues, but significant part of population - have different coping mechanisms (than many people in this forum). But eye strain is real. If you take a holiday of 2-4 weeks without screen time, you will be able quicly grasp how bad specific device is for you. Some are better, some are worse. You can strive to use the better, or tweak it to be better for you. The goal is to have a strategy so you for example use 30 minutes of screentime - 5 minutes or rest rule and be able to use the device. One part which I agree (if I correctly assume your position), mindless tinkering, without any strategy, data collection and statistics, does not mean anything. You can reach the point of being so exhausted, that you do not even register correctly what works better for you. For example, I strongly dissagree that just because some dude posted that everybody should install ditherig.exe everyone should do it. For some machines it makes it worse, and I feel like temporal dithering is not used that much anymore on premium or mid range office machines. So without going into essay here, I am suggesting this forum is really missing - 1) good proper surveys, 2) checklist instructions from A to Z in order to assess if tweak is needed or not. This will cover subjective side and technical side. But for someone who is in real pain right now, no tweaks will help anymore, you have to gradually de-slave yourself from your tech and stop projecting that the fix is "out there outside of you". Human - machine interface includes both parties equally - human and a machine, so surely do not "write off" yourself.

Is there a chance that workout exercises targeting the neck muscles help with eye sensitivity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gimeRpdqWQw

Zodios happy to hear that you found a solution!

BTW, how did you check that you don't suffer from histamine overload?

Zodios and also, how significantly your IOP dropped after you started treatment?

This is an interesting post. While I was looking for issues my optometrist has found early stages of glaucoma through some laser technology I can't exactly explain. I'm not well versed into the topic. But my IOP was increased.

Now that was a couple of years ago and I kinda gave up looking for cause.

As far as I'm aware starting such drops means you have to effectively use them for the rest of your time.