Getting a new monitor only to start feeling eye pain and headache problems can be a bad experience.
Here we just want to tell several things which may cause eye pain and headache and some ways to fix the problems with your new monitor.
Screen size
- Bigger monitors cause more eye pain and headaches
- One reason is that they emit more light and more blue light enters your eye
- More light into your eye is bad. It works just like looking at the Sun, it’s not healthy
- At night the monitor shouldn’t look like a light source in the room
- Lowering the brightness is the solution, but if your monitor is using PWM this is actually worse
- You can use Iris to lower the brightness without PWM
LCD vs LED
- LED lights emit a lot of light and make the letters on the screen more blurry
- LCD displays are better and they mostly don’t use PWM
- TN (Twisted Nematic), IPS (In-Plane Switching), VA (Vertical Alignment) are all different kinds of LCD displays and they mostly differ by the viewing angle
- The different kinds of LCD displays don’t cause a different level of eye pain and problems, they are all the same
- Too much-emitted light, blue light, and PWM flicker are the causes of eye pain
Glossy vs Matte
- Glossy displays like this on the Macbooks cause eye pain because you can see reflections and this is called double image
- Our eye constantly switches the focus between the screen and the reflections of the room and this causes eye pain
- The solution is to get a Matte screen
- Another solution is to place Matte screen cover on your Glossy monitor
Blue light
- You can read more about blue light effects on our eyes from our Blue light article
PWM flicker
- You can read more about blue light effects on our eyes from our PWM flicker article
Monitor testing
- You can test how healthy is your monitor for the eyes with our tests
- You can make every monitor healthy for the eyes
- Install Iris
- Match the screen brightness to the room lighting
- Place your monitor so the window in the room is left or right to you
- Get a matte cover if you have a glossy monitor
- Yawn more to produce more tears
- Lower the Blue light and control the brightness without flicker with Iris
Answers also
- What can cause Eye pain and Headache problems from a new Monitor
- What do I need to know about a monitor to be more healthy
