laur5446 I am wondering if I should ask our IT if they have an older monitor I could use but I hate to be a bother especially because I don't know if it will help at all.
Yes, I did that. In two working places they switched to flat displays and I asked to keep my super-old, small CRTs.
But that was 15 years ago. After 2010 when I would get a new job, I would also get modern computer / displays. Depending on the place, I asked to use my private laptop or had to adapt to the situation.
And yes, I mentioned a couple of times I had terrible symptoms. In a small company I was invited to buy whatever I wanted, but the problem was I did not know what would work so I spent three years with eyestrain and neck pain. Those days I was unaware that the graphic card could affect the quality of the imaging, I was only focusing on monitors. Now I know why my desktop's monitor was hurting badly, but monitors of the same type in the lab were not. Different Intel graphic cards.
In my current job, I have been talking to facilities about the fluorescent lamps which bother me. A long story short (I posted some data obtained with a spectrometer on another thread), in offices the same type of fluorescent tubes which do not disturb me in labs is run at lower power and drives me insane. Wavelength-wise there is no difference (the tubes are nominally identical). I am speculating the dimmer light flickers at a frequency that my eyes are sensitive to. The easier thing to do would be to rise the power to what is used in the labs and see if my symptoms stop, but that is not possible, as the power is determined by the circuitry and cannot be changed. I was offered to test new tubes, but it is like with computers. What am I sure will work? Nothing, until I understand what is what. I am looking for an oscilloscope to verify my speculation on the flicker. Until I have concrete, quantitative data to show, I would just look like an hypochondriac.
It is unpleasant to be a "bother", as you said, but finally if we do not mention we have problems, we will never go anywhere. Most people are unaffected by lighting or displays, and, as such, do not have the slightest clue of what we are going thru.
laur5446 you implement the exercises when you're dealing with a bad eye strain situation?
Kind of, but, as @Gurm said, they take only a few minutes a day so it would be better to keep doing them. We use our eyes a lot, and some daily stretching does not harm.