Your S8 uses an OLED display, I am guessing everything else that causes you problems is LCD.

Some of my screen problems are linked to food. I am fine today, but if I were to eat something containing cooking oil I would not be able to use my monitors without pain for about 5 days. Unfortunately, eating cooking oil causes me no other problems, I only discovered it was the cause of my worsening screen problems by dumb luck. My problem with cooking oil started suddenly, I was fine ok day and in pain the next. Funnily enough, when it started I could use my OLED Samsung S3 mini without pain, it was only LCDs that gave me pain.

Its a long shot, but try eating nothing but plain pasta for a few days and see if you get better. If you do, you can start looking for what your problems foods are. If it doesn't get better then you'll know its not a food thing - or its the pasta!

Hahaha pasta. Are you 100% sure that cooking oil is your cause? I might try that. So when you consume cooking oil you get eye strain from some screens?

    Tommy98

    Its not my only cause, I can struggle with some screens regardless. But if I were to eat cooking oil, the lcd screen I am using fine now becomes unusable. Similar thing happens if I eat anything with curcumin, or silicon dioxide added (stops salt clumping together, also used in pills). I don't know why, but its been happening for about 4 years now. I have a lot of food intolerances and mild allergies, with new ones appearing fairly regularly. Whilst I don't get a rash or any other symptoms from cooking oil, I assume I am slightly allergic to it, and its getting into my brain and causing some inflammation because of that allergy. Every so often a new food trigger appears.

    The first food trigger to affect my tolerance of screens was sunflower oil. I ate a lot of crisps (lots of sunflower oil) one day and was in much more pain the next day. Stopped eating crisps, got a lot better, soon figured it out was the sunflower oil. Since then its slowly expanded to be all cooking oils, and the other things I mentioned.

        I haven't found a dietary link, not discounting Seagull's experience, but it's not representative.

        The best think would be a elimination diet for 3 to 4 weeks. Starting just with rice and chicken, and broth. Then adding some vegetables, etc.
        There lot of info on google on Elimination Diets.

        6 days later

        Anyone noticed any improvement from supplementing with a good B complex?

          AGI The link doesn't work for me. What's the brand you use?

          • AGI replied to this.

              Tommy98 It is called Sancoba Ophthalmic Solution 0.02% : 5ml x 10.

              Description: This preparation of vitamin B12 improves muscle function related to eye focusing. It is usually used to treat eyestrain.
              Active Ingredients: Cyanocobalamin

              I do not want to create too many expectations. It helped, but it does not cure the issue at the origin.

                  Cyanocobalamin is trash. Methylcobalamin is much better.

                  Edit: That is, if you want a form that can be absorbed and used by your entire body. Cyano needs multiple steps of conversion in the liver that Methyl does not. It is possible that Cyano in eyedrops functions differently when dropped into the eye so I shouldn't dismiss it outright, but I am skeptical.

                  6 months later

                  Interestingly had labs done and am highly b12 deficient

                  Tommy98 Please check here - heteroforie.webnode.cz

                  If the optometrist did not find anything, then that unfortunately doesnt mean its still not heterophoria. You can try the home test and maybe find more specialists to try.

                  It may be stress, but in a different way than you think now - long time under pressure or sudden stress can make heterophoria manifest, as the strain is already too much and under bigger load your body may just give up and let the eyes "slide".

                  Also a lot of people here are looking for neurological solution - heterophoria IS a neurological issue as well. Its a combination of badly set eye muscles combined with how the visual center in the brain processes stimuli.

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