There is a new special tint for people with migraines and light sensitivity and/or photophobia- instead of the yellow night driving tint, it’s actually shown to be more effective as a pinkish tone (they call it “rose” but it’s very pink).
This is an ad for this specific company- but the research regarding FL-41 (the pink/rose tint) is real. It was suggested to me by my doctor after I talked about how painful and frequent my migraines are and how light often feels like someone’s stabbing me in the brain and makes me want to claw my eye out with my fingers (or at least wear an eye patch), but I just ordered my first pair so I don’t know yet if it’ll be effective for me.
My migraines and photophobia are caused by a car accident injury back in 2018, which left me with a tbi and damaged ligaments around one of my eyes among other injuries.
I’ve had my migraine glasses for about two weeks and so far:
Had one instance where I was aware I had a headache and already had my glasses on when the feeling started. Did not progress past maybe a 1 or 2 on the pain scale my entire day at work, until I took my glasses off at home and had the worst killer migraine.
Woke up with a migraine and put my glasses on since I had to drive. Within a 30 minute span, migraine reduced to barely noticable pressure with no pain.
A couple things:
I’m not using the advertised brand above, I got my glasses from Zenni which were about 55 bucks for my rx level + tint, but the FL-41 tint is the most important. Don’t buy “red” or “rose” or “pink” glasses, make sure they’re FL-41 tinted.
I do use my glasses at night. I have only about 10% tint so they aren’t very dark. It does really help with bright headlights- I’m in a really rural area with a lot of wildlife crossing the road so most people don’t bother to turn off their brights when passing and that means my photosensitive ass is often IN HELL driving at night. But with these glasses it no longer feels like someone is carving my eye out with a spoon so I feel like that’s doing *something* to protect me?
It does seem to both stop migraines in their tracks and also prevent new migraines from getting out of control. This is really great because usually my migraines aren’t touched by the OTC pain meds I can take with my other issues, and I’m in the “too few migraines and also too many migraines for meds” zone where doctors won’t give me rx meds at all to control them so I guess I get to just suffer.
The glasses at 10% tint look super pink from the outside but aren’t noticably pink when I look through them while they’re on my face. There’s a brief moment of “oh that’s very pink” and then I blink a couple times and it stops. My color vision isn’t quiiiiiiite correct- very light blues and greens on reflective or backlit surfaces look much more grey. I can see that my blue water bottle is blue, but my coworker’s light powder blue car looks like a blue-ish silver to me. We color-code appointments at work and the greyish light green color on the screen also looks fairly grey to me. It also means when I take the glasses off, everything looks fairly green.
This makes sense to me because it’s blocking specific blue light that are known to be migraine and photosensitivity triggers, so of course bright lights that are blues or greens are going to have less light/color to them. Interestingly, purple is unaffected by this, which proves to me that purple is the superior color. I can also play videogames with my glasses on with no big problem with color, but then I’m not playing very *blue* games, and it seems the eye strain is fairly reduced as well because I don’t tear up as much while playing.
Lastly I get tons of compliments on them! A lot of people have responded really positively to my glasses, and nothing’s changed about them except the tint because I ordered the same frames.
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#the more you know #migraines #transhumanism #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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