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.
Name for our condition and wikipedia page
"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.
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reaganry
The Short answer is not really. I have a pile of web archives stored on my local machine to avoid managing login info for all the journals, but each article contains only a grain of information that is relevant. without a summary of why it was saved, its probably not much good. I would be happy to email you a tarball if you send an email to my user-name at proton mail. I will eventually tie it all together in a single document, I just haven't gotten that far yet. here are some random articles that were easy to tie back to a url in 5 minutes if you want to start your own web of investigation.
http://www.hrpub.org/download/20160229/UJEEE3-14905726.pdf
https://psychtoolbox.org/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309096261_Flicker_Regularity_Is_Crucial_for_Entrainment_of_Alpha_Oscillations
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/31/10137.short
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/24/38/8278.full
https://thejournalofheadacheandpain.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1129-2377-14-65
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026233624772
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0060035
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
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I think LED allergy or LED sensitivity sybdrome is a good name. I need this also to take political action. In my country, Czech Republic, the pirate party has significant minority in the parliament, they are all tech people and they could understand. I need t push this through them and lightaware.org to european parliament.
Also, we can start whatever page we want, research is not being done bcs noone even really knows abou this yet, so it needs to start somewhere.
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.
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Peter Good, I like that one too. Shall we start it on regular wikipedia? I can write up a draft and just put it there as a stub, then we can all keep adding info to it and making it more informative and better. I however never done any wikipedia editing, so if anyone has some experience maybe it would be better.
Sounds good, easy to spell and understand and it translates into other languages very well too.
Peter yes great name.
The guy from http://www.conradbiologic.com/ recommended Subliminal Flicker Sensitivity Syndrome. I sort of prefer that, because I have issues with CCFL and Plasma also
MagnuM I think LED is the catalyst to our problem. Alexander Wunsch says it causes immediate damage and I think people like us are affected more quickly then normal people. Shiva I believe you can make your eyes a little stronger. Do you have a lot of exposure to flickering lights and LED and CFL everyday?
jasonpicard Do you think after enough years of exposure, general everyday people are going to start having issues with macular degeneration after years of looking at LED displays? What if everyone else should be having the same pain that we do, as our eyes/brains/etc are telling us we shouldn't be looking at it!
There are a few reports from reliable sources (e.g. ANSE) that refer to the risk of macular degeneration after years of exposure to LEDs.
My ophthalmologist says that I may be lucky in the end, she believes that chronic use of LEDs destroy the eyes, especially in children. However she says that we do not have sufficient research data to prove this.
It seems people are the test animals in this case (LOL) !!!