Eye pain

[hlockz]

Recently I purchased an Acer Predator 27in Oled 1440p monitor.  It looked great but I ended up in a lot of pain after an hour of use and felt sick.  I unplugged the monitor and my eyes hurt even the next day not using it.  I tried fiddling with the settings but even after 5 minutes of use with just the desktop the pain came back.  I'd describe it like wearing someone else's glasses is the only thing I can compare it to.  The back of my eyes hurts and aches, I feel nauseous, and get a headache.  This doesn't happen on my phone which is an OLED but did happen many years ago on a TN panel monitor.  I'm thinking it might be PWM monitors maybe causing it, but I'm not sure.  I returned the monitor today.  I currently use two Asus IPS displays just fine.  Any ideas what might be causing it?  I looked at monitors and TVs at Best Buy and had to leave due to feeling sick again... 

[GigabyteSux]

Perhaps you used a HDMI cable that doesn't support 240hz and the mismatch in frame rate is causing some sort of flickering.

[hlockz]

I used two different display port cables.  One being the one already being used by a 144hz 1440p monitor that was being replaced.

[spacepickle]

This isn't a normal thing, maybe talk to an eye doctor or something

[Caroline]

Could be the flickering but also the insane brightness those things output, anything LED is often obscenely bright for the human eye, so try to reduce brightness to a level that's not flashbang-like.

 

I get the same with LED lighting, gets worse at night with all the cars with misaligned ultra-bright headlights and super harsh streetlights so I wear dark sunglasses to make it a bit better, it's just awful. Went to the doctor and my eyesight is great, problem's the lights.

[Stahlmann]

Reduce brightness, double check if the monitor is flicker-free, use warmer color temperature. That's basically all you can do on the monitor side.

[Doobeedoo]

Yeah doesn't seem normal regardless of display. Make sure to configure anything you can, check if maybe monitor has strobing on. That can cause strain especially with bad implementation. 

[hlockz]

I returned the monitor.  Thanks everyone who commented.  With that being said I went back into Best Buy and after being in there maybe 30 minutes my headache had returned.  I've carried a similar feeling headache for about a week now so doing my best to not look at many screens at the moment.

[dogwitch]

5 hours ago, hlockz said:

I returned the monitor.  Thanks everyone who commented.  With that being said I went back into Best Buy and after being in there maybe 30 minutes my headache had returned.  I've carried a similar feeling headache for about a week now so doing my best to not look at many screens at the moment.

i would both talk to a eye doc and normal doc.

you my be sensitive to certain hertz of lights .

there a type of led light strip that will give me a headache if i look at it to long.

[Omon_Ra]

All LED's are constantly flickering, it's generally at a high enough frequency you don't notice, but some people are more sensitive to it. There's a lot of LED lights that bother me, not causing nausea/pain, but definitely make me feel uneasy/uncomfortable. Blue light blocking glasses help reduce eye strain for me. I wear prescription glasses. All my glasses I now get the blue light filtering option; I have a non-prescription pair for if I'm wearing my contacts as well. But if you're sensitive to the frequency of the LED flicker itself, those won't help.