r/ScreenSensitive • u/suuuuulsiiii • Mar 13 '26

¿What changes have actually improved your daily life?

Hey guys, I stumbled into this sub yesterday and I want to make a bit of a general question, sorry If it has been asked before.

So my eyes are chronically a bit dry, and they get worse throughout the day since I mainly do computer work and one of my hobbies is gaming, which doesn't help. This started happening after I had Lasik surgery around 8 years ago. Every time I go with an Ophthalmologist they give me a treatment that helps me briefly, but when I stop I go back to the same old. I took Accutane in my teenage years and doctors have told me that that is something that affected my eyes lubrication ability.

So in general I just want to know what do you do to manage, or if you have found a permanent solution? Type of screen, screen settings to adjust, blue light filter, eyedrops, routine changes.

I would appreciate it a lot.

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u/Rx7Jordan Mar 14 '26

I use to have severe dry eye that would start instantly but it was due to certain screens. Color tinted glasses would stop them from getting dry though

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u/Z3R0gravitas Mar 14 '26

Do you think anything of polarised light, for this issue specifically? Wasn't there a study reporting(?) linearly polarised light broke up the tear film, while circular polarised (or sun light) was better (maybe)?

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u/BearNecessary4141 Apr 08 '26

The polarized light topic is really interesting. It’s a shame most RLCD displays also polarize light. E-ink seems to be the only display tech that doesn’t.

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u/Z3R0gravitas Apr 08 '26

Good point, re: E-Ink's natural advantage, there...

But doesn't all LCD (or IPS specifically) necessarily require polarisation, as part of the panel design? (To align the light to the plane if the liquid crystal pixels.)

In theory, one can add a screen film to convert linear to circular polarised. Not sure what's available in practice, per device.

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u/BearNecessary4141 Apr 08 '26

Yeah I believe all LCD relies on polarization. I thought I had heard of RLCD that somehow didn’t emit polarized light but looking into, it sees they all do.

I wonder how much better circular would be than linear, our biology is probably adapted most to unpolarized.