Just an update:
I've been to an eye teaching uni clinic and also an optician. The clinic can do various tests but not until October due to the restrictions but they did give me some vista mesh glasses that prevent light scatter and block electromagnetic fields from monitors and such like, sadly its not been the savior for me yet......
The optician was more productive, they identified a mild case (if any) of Blepharitus and Meibomian Gland Dysfunction but it hasn't been graded yet as such! So the next step is Blephex treatment, which actually everyone here should go and get since it helps with eyelid hygiene and this is a total domino root cause for dry eye as without good eye lid hygiene (basically we all need to clean the eye lids with the right products, not a splash of the face jobby) we develop eye lid dandruff in the form of Demodex which is problematic to get rid of, abit like head dandruff!.
I've reduced my chronic dry eye pain for the moment by improving my eye hygiene and also started to use warm compresses (bought an electric one) which is wonderful but I went one further and got blephasteam goggles, sends you to sleep even but the point is it helps to melt any glands that are blocked up and then you just use am eye lid wipe to clean the eye lid and push the oils (expressing) up the gland and into the eye. When our eyes produce tears, its the oil that comes from the glands in our eyelids that combine to create the lubricant to our eyes, without this our tears just simply evaporate and then inflammation runs havoc.
So 1. Test for Blepharitus 2. Test for MBG disorder 3. Test for evaporative tears 4. Test for tear production.
Treatments for faster results: IPL (Intense pulse light) or Lipoflow.
I have IPL treatment booked for 18th August In Coventry (2hr drive) including a full diagnostic first on the eye performance.
There are links to Photophobia (light sensitivity) due to dry eye conditions and my gut feeling is the inflammation occurs mainly due to the dry eye issues like if I spend 30mins on this monitor I have my eyes go pink and any more time then there bloodshot for days. Interesting to see in that blog mention of nausea and chest pains which I seem to suffer when its bad.
So 2 pronged approach, sure try different tech or sources buy eye health comes first, maybe if the eyes are looked after better then the ability to withstand visual stress improves