Yeah, I suppose that makes sense.
I am not sure what's going on, but it is weird that the week and a half I used the SE 2022 that I had a few weeks ago were flawless.
To be fair, though- yesterday after having not used my phone for over 12 hours, I picked up my 13 Pro instead and used it for about 15 minutes, and had the same dry eye symptoms with it- so I would have to suspect it's just a little phase my eyes are going through, potentially not associated with the new SE. (it was just quite a coincidence that it started at literally the moment I turned it on and started setting it up last week)
My return window closes on this phone this coming Sunday... I feel bad for the phone swapping, but for peace of mind I am wondering if I might want to pick up a different one at one of my local Apple stores and return this one- given what you said about every screen being different, and knowing I had zero issues with the first one.
I'll see how the rest of this week goes.
I wish you all the best. I know it is so frustrating to go through all of this. It makes what’s so simple for so many other people so complicated and even stressful.
Sometimes I feel so sheepish posting my updates: “I’m fine. Oh I’m not fine. Oh I banged my head and everything has changed. I’m fine with this, but not with that, except on alternate Tuesdays after a full moon on Monday night.”
I feel I’m subjecting you all to a bit too much.
So I often think “Don’t do it”, you’re just adding noise and reducing clarity in the thread”. But I realized there is no clarity! As far as I know there are no peer reviewed studies taking place on the health effects of these technologies on our eyes or nervous systems.
Even when there are reports of issues with aiming concentrate beams of infrared light into our eyes, what do companies do? They double down on ensuring we are required to let lasers blaze into our retinas to authenticate our identity and enable other features on future tech (I’m thinking of that article on Apple’s AR/VR goggles).
I do at least credit Samsung for removing their iris scanners from their phones. They never provided an explanation. But my husband and I suffered excruciating pain after just a few uses, sensitivity that increased dramatically with each use as though some form of damage taking place was cumulative, makes me wonder what Samsung knows about that technology or at least their implementation of it.
So I just figure put the information out there, maybe someone else is going through similar fluctuations in their comfort levels with different displays and other tech that can affect our eyes and brains.
Right now, all we have is each other.
My opthamologist was one of the most progressive medical professionals I’d ever dealt with. He was an avid reader and had immense curiosity and a desire to view the patient as a whole being whose visual health was part of an entire body system. He was the one who told me my problems with my eyelids was an autoimmune problem, specifically asthma. I had no idea I might’ve had asthma. I didn’t have the typical attacks that we all know about, until just a few years ago, and even then, only if I’m very sick with something else. So I was skeptical. But he was ultimately proven right.
And even he has exhibited zero intellectual or professional curiosity about the pwm stuff. He’s not the doc I knew years ago. But he is older like me now. Lol we grew old together. He’s probably just trying to coast his practice into a secure retirement despite the impacts of Covid.
Covid has changed so much. Doctors don’t have time or energy to contemplate anything “exotic”. I don’t know any that I’ve tried to deal with recently who isn’t massively backed up on patients and is basically in a state of constant triage of their patients’ appointments.
And this Fall it’s not just Covid. Our school system has been hit with several intense viruses with heavy impacts on staff and students.
