darkenergy
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Hi,
I'm looking to find out what the absolute best monitors for eliminating eye strain. I'm not worried about price. I desperately want my productivity and life back.
I'm currently still using my 24" Asus VW246H CCFL backlit LCD from September 2011. It's pretty harsh on my eyes, and it's what I was using when my eye strain problem started.
I tried the ViewSonic VP2770-LED 27" IPS monitor because it reportedly has no PWM. It burned my eyes faster than my Asus does. I gave a week, but it was unbearable, so I sent it back and received a refund.
So I'm left wandering if maybe LED is too harsh for my eyes. Maybe PWM isn't the root cause of the problem for me, or perhaps the damage has already gone to the point that even without PWM, my photosensitivity maintains the pain.
I read this article about PWM initially, which is why I had hoped it would be THE problem to solve. http://vasyafromukraine.webs.com/
Do any backlights come as incandescent on any monitors? Are they all flouroscent?
I've saw mentioned somewhere here on hardforum that the older Nec 2490WUXI monitor is really nice, though they're out of of production now (and they're CCFL backlit, which I'm not sure anymore if that's good or bad for me). Is this monitor really easier on the eyes?
Has anyone here actually solved their eye strain / migraine problems by switching to a different monitor? Which monitor?
Edit: As for specs... 24" or less would be ideal, but if it'd solve my eye strain problem, bigger would be an option too. So basically, anything goes.
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Extra info below (perhaps too much? I'm a rambler)
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I've had bad eye strain (migraines, burning in the back of my eyes, occasional eye twitching, hard to focus, occasional nausea; it's just plain painful) since around last September (2012). I've been trying everything, including those eye vitamins (EyePromise or something like that). I'm 27, male, 140 lbs (quite underweight it seems), anxiety/panic disorder, carpal tunnel (managed by using a Kinesis keyboard), etc. Maybe my eye strain is the product of stress or a more general disorder/disease. /shrug
I have been to 2 different eye doctors and they found nothing wrong (and my prescription hasn't really changed enough to warrant new glasses, and it's been 8 years!)
Tried computer glasses from one eye doc and it hurt my eyes to use them; that magnification was too rough.
Tried Gunnar computer glasses (crystalline lenses because the yellow tint seemed like a bad idea), The magnification on those has also been to hard on my eyes for me to stand using them for long. I figured the magnification would be light.
I'm a programmer, and I use flux to tint my screen, I have the brightness setting at 0, and I use darker color schemes like Moss for Vim (a text editor), as well as dark themes for Visual Studio when I have to code .NET. They're not totally black background colors either, Moss is a dark shade of green, and I believe is the VS scheme is obsidian or something like that.
I work at home, and I have an incandescent light on the ceiling and a lamp as well behind me across the room.
Flux is set all the way to the lowest tint for all day long.
I'm looking to find out what the absolute best monitors for eliminating eye strain. I'm not worried about price. I desperately want my productivity and life back.
I'm currently still using my 24" Asus VW246H CCFL backlit LCD from September 2011. It's pretty harsh on my eyes, and it's what I was using when my eye strain problem started.
I tried the ViewSonic VP2770-LED 27" IPS monitor because it reportedly has no PWM. It burned my eyes faster than my Asus does. I gave a week, but it was unbearable, so I sent it back and received a refund.
So I'm left wandering if maybe LED is too harsh for my eyes. Maybe PWM isn't the root cause of the problem for me, or perhaps the damage has already gone to the point that even without PWM, my photosensitivity maintains the pain.
I read this article about PWM initially, which is why I had hoped it would be THE problem to solve. http://vasyafromukraine.webs.com/
Do any backlights come as incandescent on any monitors? Are they all flouroscent?
I've saw mentioned somewhere here on hardforum that the older Nec 2490WUXI monitor is really nice, though they're out of of production now (and they're CCFL backlit, which I'm not sure anymore if that's good or bad for me). Is this monitor really easier on the eyes?
Has anyone here actually solved their eye strain / migraine problems by switching to a different monitor? Which monitor?
Edit: As for specs... 24" or less would be ideal, but if it'd solve my eye strain problem, bigger would be an option too. So basically, anything goes.
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Extra info below (perhaps too much? I'm a rambler)
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I've had bad eye strain (migraines, burning in the back of my eyes, occasional eye twitching, hard to focus, occasional nausea; it's just plain painful) since around last September (2012). I've been trying everything, including those eye vitamins (EyePromise or something like that). I'm 27, male, 140 lbs (quite underweight it seems), anxiety/panic disorder, carpal tunnel (managed by using a Kinesis keyboard), etc. Maybe my eye strain is the product of stress or a more general disorder/disease. /shrug
I have been to 2 different eye doctors and they found nothing wrong (and my prescription hasn't really changed enough to warrant new glasses, and it's been 8 years!)
Tried computer glasses from one eye doc and it hurt my eyes to use them; that magnification was too rough.
Tried Gunnar computer glasses (crystalline lenses because the yellow tint seemed like a bad idea), The magnification on those has also been to hard on my eyes for me to stand using them for long. I figured the magnification would be light.
I'm a programmer, and I use flux to tint my screen, I have the brightness setting at 0, and I use darker color schemes like Moss for Vim (a text editor), as well as dark themes for Visual Studio when I have to code .NET. They're not totally black background colors either, Moss is a dark shade of green, and I believe is the VS scheme is obsidian or something like that.
I work at home, and I have an incandescent light on the ceiling and a lamp as well behind me across the room.
Flux is set all the way to the lowest tint for all day long.
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