Name for our condition and wikipedia page

KM the one that doesn't flicker is blue light causing the burning. I have been in many flicker free situations and unless you wear the SCT orange and have the sides taped with black electrical tape so no light gets in your eyes will burn. I think this is the case for most people on this site with flicker free monitors. I believe dithering may be a factor but if you can't tolerate a flicker free led light then blue light is a problem also.

ShivaWind
I will summarize my research (meta-research-- no actual experiments) at some point and post it here, but it will be very hard to not get jargon intensive. also, this is sort of green field as far as research goes. I think the only ones who know for sure are not publishing (classified)

Came across this today: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskDocs/comments/8a9ndn/why_do_i_get_tension_headaches_immediately_as_i/

As far as anyone is concerned at this point, we're probably all just a bunch of hypochondriacs to them. None of us have been studied. None of us are doctors or understand the medical science behind what is happening (would anyone?) We also haven't passed any double-blind tests or any experiments of the sort.

Also, many of us seem to have different triggers (dithering vs. flicker vs. blue light). I don't think we can just start a Wikipedia page and give this unknown symptom a name just based on a vote. It would need original research and verifiable facts.

I'm afraid we may just become like peanut allergy sufferers. There's nothing inherently wrong with peanuts - the overwhelming majority enjoys them all the time without issue. To a severe allergy sufferer though, it can be fatal. I'm not sure if the medical community can honestly say they fully understand such severe overreaction of the immune system to something as innocuous as a simple peanut, however the recommendation would remain to practice total avoidance with probably an EpiPen on hand at all times. Lifelong avoidance of gluten for a Celiac sufferer is similar. "They" may not exactly know all the mechanisms behind the overreaction, but avoiding gluten seems to keep the symptoms at bay for a Celiac-sufferer.

That's why I would suggest "LED Allergy" as a potential name, because "Strain" sounds too trivial. Everybody gets strain from time to time after overuse! Some of our "solutions" are total LED Avoidance, just like an allergy sufferer.

I can say one thing though. It's really good to see all the activity on this forum as of late. New posts seemed to be few-and-far-between not that long ago, but lately there's been tons of good discussions.

MagnuM I really like LED allergy. You are right no one even treats this like a real problem. My doctor is so useless. I saw a lot of different doctors at the start but I don't even waste time these days.

"LED Sensitivity (syndrome?)". i think the path to 'recognition' is like with gluten. 10 years ago noone thought gluten was from the pit of hell, but now lot of people do - and most accept the need to accommodate folks with IBS, gluten allergies, etc.

similarly most people have empathy for epilepsy and migraine sufferers & understand flashing lights can trigger them.

ShivaWind any links on AVE? i've experimented with EMDR & electrical stim at different frequencies. entrainment is a given trigger with epilepsy...

the smoking gun paper would be something like

Prolonged rhythmic stimulation of the retina through regular subliminal flicker at specific physiological frequencies matching the alpha, theta, or gamma band of the individual result in habituation and sensitization of neural oscillations via entrainment in regions outside of the visual processing circuitry of the brain.

but I will have to piece together evidence from the existing literature

It would be helpful to have a wiki page summarizing what the the hundreds of posts in this forum say. For example, if I were to build a custom laptop right now, what components would I use to reduce the risk of eye strain? From what I know so far I'd:
- Stay away from Intel Integrated Graphics and Drivers and use nvidia or AMD graphics
- Stay away from Windows 10 and use 7, 8.1 or Linux
- Don't use macOS since it is known to dither regardless of graphics card
- The screen should not use PWM to decrease brightness
- Depending on the panel or external screen use, install the correct ICC color profile

ryans Most laptop screens are 6+2 bit color depth (aka FRC)

This is a very good idea. It will bring more attention to this problem that so many of us are having.

I suggest we dont be too specific, as there are multiple causes of the issue. But I also understand the need to have LED somewhere in the name for legal purposes. Perhaps something like:

"LED and display technology eye strain and headaches".

The LED is for LED of course. Display technology is to cover all other display related, from PWM, OLED, graphics driver, dithering etc. The eye strain is self explanatory but we need to also put headache or migraines, in order to differentiate that this is not the normal "tired eyes" type of eye strain, but this is pain in the eyes and throbbing headaches and migraines etc, which we can describe in more details in the wiki page.

Kray It's also important to make the distinction between usable devices and non-usable devices. For most of us on here, some devices are quite comfortable, others not so much.

reaganry

I second the LED Sensitivity Syndrome. It sounds more scientific.

Sounds good, easy to spell and understand and it translates into other languages very well too.

Peter yes great name.