So after several years of not wearing glasses, due to the amount of eye pain and headaches that happened as a result of the immense sensitivity to focus that I developed (thanks to ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia), I am finally taking the plunge and trying again.
When I was reading Temple Grandin’s book, Thinking in Pictures, about her life with high-functioning autism, I took note of the fact that she also had difficulties with her eyes and glasses, and that when she had them tinted, they worked much better for her. As a result, I ordered two pairs of glasses, and put a brown tint on one and a grey tint on the other. I also put glare protection on, because I’m sure that doesn’t help the cause any.
With any luck, I will once again be able to see the television and take in scenery outside! I’ve been walking around in my short vision bubble for a long time now. On the plus side, everyone and everything always looked a little better with a blur (including myself haha).
Fingers crossed they are wearable, as they definitely cost a pretty penny!
These are the Ray Bans I ordered! I can’t remember the brand of the other pair, but I love these <3.
Does anyone else have issues with wearing their glasses due to sensitivity?
xoxo,
Annie
I wear glasses to read and use the computer; any prolonged, close-up activity. Any time I get my prescription adjusted, I know I’m in for several-days-to-a-week of headaches and nausea while my eyes get used to the new glasses. But, once I’m over that part, I get along much better with my glasses, and if I try to read for any length of tie without them, I get a HUGE headache.
If you’re like me, the first day with them on will be the worst. I have to set myself the goal of keeping them on for as long as I can stand it, as many times as I can stand it. The first day sucks, but even the second day improves, and it usually gets better quickly after that.
I hope your new glasses help and are pretty and make your life better!
I have intense light sensativity due to FM and chronic migraines and visual snow. So I always wear sunglasses outside of various strengths depending on how bright it is and how much coverage I need. Indoors I find a rose tint to my glasses really helps take the edge off hostile light, but I know some people with migraines have also had luck with an orange tint. I know there is an insitute called Irlens institute I belive… I recently blogged on it… that looks at different tints and offers products of different sorts to help with sensitivity. I actually don’t need glasses, I’m only slightly near sightened in one eye and have a slight astygmatism, but my eye doc suggested wear them, at work expecially, just because my eyes won’t have to work as hard and therefore will cause less migraines. Not sure about that because the glasses themselves annoy me when I have a migraine, but as I said the pink tint really does lessen the intenity to light which really does help me.