AbiYork

Really pleased that this article has been written, the more exposure to this problem the better.

For all those stating you feel some pain or strain with the OLED screens etc but you're gonna give it a few weeks to see how it goes, please reconsider this.

I am almost three years with pain after an iphone 12pro gave me a headache, two weeks later I went back to my 11 and the pain started to subside, but the damage was done.

I have paid hundreds with a private neurologist who has diagnosed me with New Peristent Daily Headache(NPDH). The pain never goes, and never will. Usually brought on by viral infection but can be triggered but other means, repetitive eye strain being one. It triggers pain within glands in the brain.

I have tried lost of drugs, some which have been effective but the pain breaks through them after time. Next treatment once my current one fails is botox therapy, 37 injections in my scalp every 10 weeks.

Appreciate this PWM issue is only a very small percentage of users, and the chance of someone also getting my condition is even lower but if there is pain, please stop.

I would gladly use a Nokia 3310 for the rest of my life if it meant my condition went away.

mfryd said:

AbiYork said:

Really pleased that this article has been written, the more exposure to this problem the better.

For all those stating you feel some pain or strain with the OLED screens etc but you're gonna give it a few weeks to see how it goes, please reconsider this.

I am almost three years with pain after an iphone 12pro gave me a headache, two weeks later I went back to my 11 and the pain started to subside, but the damage was done.

I have paid hundreds with a private neurologist who has diagnosed me with New Peristent Daily Headache(NPDH). The pain never goes, and never will. Usually brought on by viral infection but can be triggered but other means, repetitive eye strain being one. It triggers pain within glands in the brain.

I have tried lost of drugs, some which have been effective but the pain breaks through them after time. Next treatment once my current one fails is botox therapy, 37 injections in my scalp every 10 weeks.

Appreciate this PWM issue is only a very small percentage of users, and the chance of someone also getting my condition is even lower but if there is pain, please stop.

I would gladly use a Nokia 3310 for the rest of my life if it meant my condition went away.

I am sorry that you are going through this.  You do bring up an interesting question.  NPDH is normally brought on by a viral infection.  How did your doctors determine whether your case was brought on by an OLED screen, or a viral infection that roughly coincided with you getting an OLED screen?

Human beings are biologically trained to assume cause and effect when two things happen at the same time.  Often, there really is cause and effect, but sometimes it is just coincidence.   Eat at a new restaurant and get sick the next day, and most people would conclude that the restaurant was the cause of the sickness, but it is also possible that the sickness was from some other cause, and it was just coincidental that you ate at a new restaurant.

When I was sick in bed with Covid, I ate a lot of cherry Lifesavers®.   I ended up with a mild case and a full recovery.  Should I conclude that the Lifesavers are a cure for Covid?

Some very random agenda you have there.

I am currently under the care of one of the best headache neurologists in UK, possibly the world. It’s seems you’ve googled my condition and diagnosed me.

My condition, as you say, can be brought on by a viral infection. However head traumas, surgery, exposure to certain elements such as strong fumes or bright flashes of light can also cause this. One of its characteristics is that you can pinpoint the exact time when it started, which for me, was the day I used my new phone.

It’s a fairly new condition but my neurologist and his team have noted an increase in recent years and the amount of screen time people have these days is probably not a coincidence.

My optician has so many more children wanting glasses from a younger age.

Theres a lot of folk who struggle with OLED but that number is about to shoot up once more and more use VR headsets with a screen so close to their eyes.

I just wish I had stopped with the phone and it not taken 2/3 weeks for my to realise that was the cause of my eye fatigue and headache.

I’m not some flat earther with uneducated beliefs. It’s science, and I’m happy that big hitters in the media world such as Apple Insider are starting to highlight the issues, hopefully more do the same which eventually forces Apple, Samsung etc to add options where PWM and OLED become safer.