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The original was posted on /r/monitors by /u/loutusira on 2023-08-21 16:54:39+00:00.

A little brief history, I only had eye strain once in my life couple years ago and I was able to resolve it within a week I stayed away from screens until I got fixed but this time I had eye strain for almost 5 months and I couldn’t look at screens most of the times and I didn’t know how to fix it until one day I realized what if this problem is caused by the brain and not the eyes, I’ll walk you through how I got this problem in the first place to understand my point, I usually work from one laptop only but recently I started working from two different laptops at the same time and it took only 10 days until I reached a point where I couldn’t look at screens at all and because I’m dumb I didn’t realize the cause so I started doing a little bit of research and I found people talking about bigger screens and higher resolutions and refresh rates and vertical vs horizontal waves and I said that’s why I have eye strain because laptop screen is small and have low refresh rate about 56 so I bought two other expensive monitors just to experiment and guess what it got worse.

What I tried next is eliminating all other monitors and sticking to to my default laptop and guess what the eye strain have gone away couple days later, My conclusion is when you use a certain monitor for a long period of time your brain get used to it and when you change it you get eye strain and that’s how the brain is adapting to the new screen I will guess that it will take couple few months to get used to a new screen if your brain is attached to a certain monitor for along period of time.

You also want to keep the same setup surrounding your monitor like the lighting and the painting of the walls … to not catch eye strain.

The conclusion is what cause the eye strain is not the bad monitor but changing the monitor so stick to your monitor no matter how bad they are and I would recommend you use a laptop because it’s functional more and can move around with you. And use only one monitor for everything like working and gaming and entertaining don’t use multiple screens and lower the time you use your phone because it can also contribute to this issue.

And also to not forget what cause me the eye strain long time ago was watching a lot of movies from my tv screen and go back to my laptop so basically the same issue.

A thank you will be nice if this help you!!