Joined: 17 May 2019 Age: 39 Gender: Male Posts: 14 Location: FL
19 May 2019, 11:06 am
Has anyone had any luck with blue light blocking glasses or Irlen lenses to help reduce the anxiety this causes? I am trying to find something that works the best, if I need to wear sunglasses all the time I might as well get something that has a therapeutic benefit beyond hiding my eyes. Lights in stores make it feel as the world is closing in on me.
Joined: 14 Nov 2013 Age: 66 Gender: Male Posts: 328 Location: Colorado
19 May 2019, 10:07 pm
I use blue-blocker sunglasses while driving and outside in the sun. They dramatically reduce visual overload for me. I don't get anxiety so much when exposed to bright light as I get really tired and irritable. I have a pair of clip-on blue-blockers that can go over prescription glasses too. I tend to get visually fatigued if I look at or read off of a white screen (like the background of this page) too long and I've wondered if Irlen lenses could help, but there's a whole process you go through to be evaluated for visual acuity with different shades of such lenses and they can be expensive. Fluorescent lights in stores can get to me because of their rapid flickering (I guess most people don't notice it), but I don't know if lenses can reduce such flickering.
I have a blue blocking computer prescription that I like but I don't know whether it is the blue blocking on having a prescription that is well suited to what I need at that distance. I'm old enough that my eyes don't focus as well as they did when I was young.
Joined: 26 May 2014 Age: 40 Gender: Male Posts: 2,659
20 May 2019, 7:08 pm
Prescription sunglasses might have been one of my top ten purchases in life. Basically, until I bought those at age 32, I hated going outside, and I wasn't even sure why.
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This thread reminds me of all the times someone walked into a room I was in as a kid and asked "why are you sitting in there with the lights off?" and then turned the light on making me feel uncomfortable.
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Joined: 16 Aug 2016 Age: 44 Gender: Male Posts: 822
26 May 2019, 11:47 pm
dyadiccounterpoint wrote:
This thread reminds me of all the times someone walked into a room I was in as a kid and asked "why are you sitting in there with the lights off?" and then turned the light on making me feel uncomfortable.
That still happens to me and I didn't think I was very light sensitive. Candlelight dinner level illumination is especially nice after a day of sitting under department store level brightness.
Joined: 24 Sep 2013 Gender: Male Posts: 27,828 Location: Twin Peaks
27 May 2019, 2:18 am
I wear KD's Biker Shades which come in a variety of lense colors. I also have a pair of Randolph Engineering aviator sunglasses that have a progressive grey lense.