LED Incident Reports
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May 30, 2025 – Milton, DE – Migraine
Our Small town in Milton Delaware has begun installation of LED lights on our residential streets. There’s lights are cause sleep disturbances and severe migraines. Walking the streets is like walking through a filly lit stadium. We live in the Broadkill River where birds migrate. We have all types of wildlife which will be negatively impacted by 150 W LED lamps.
May 27, 2025 – Woonona, NSW, Australia – Migraine
I have a condition which causes intense headaches and eyestrain when exposed to almost all OLED and, more recently, newer LCD panels (e.g. latest MacBooks), presumably due to PWM and/or PAR.
It has never occurred with CRTs or older displays. I have had extensive eye checks with multiple ophthalmologists, but they can find nothing wrong except mild astigmatism. The general diagnosis I have been given is “idiopathic migraines” and advice to “avoid such displays.”
However, they are now everywhere. Apple, for example, doesn’t make a single laptop or phone anymore that uses their older non-flickering tech. Other manufacturers are starting to do the same. There’s no single flagship phone that doesn’t use OLED with PWM. As my entire career has been built in IT, this is slowly becoming a huge concern. As the older hardware becomes outdated, breaks and becomes harder to find, I might find myself completely unable to interact with modern tech. I have written to accessibility teams at Apple, Google and Microsoft to ask for possible tuning options to no avail.
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The US Department of Energy describes LEDs as radically new technology with a directional light and unique characteristics. It is these features that make LED light so harmful. LED chips emit intense light from a tiny surface. The lens the of the human eye recreates the intensity of the source light onto the retina, giving LEDs their feeling of sharpness and often eye pain. The unique characteristics of LED light include high luminance from a small source into a directional beam, unnatural spectral power distribution, square wave flicker, and digital flashing. Each individual and creature reacts differently to the different characteristics. There are little or no government regulations for any of this.