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hi everyone, i wen to the eye doctor yesterday and she told me i was photophobic, at first she suggested that i get transtional lenses until i told her that florescents also bother me, so i have to fight the sunlight as well as the indoor lights, even the television light seems to bother me. i really hate this cause it’s very annoying, especially having to wear your sunglasses in the house. I still don’t know exactly what color lenses will work best for me, i guess i will have some trail and error, but who wants to go through that when the error, will end with a full blown migraine.

The entire ER staff knows me by now, and they barely recognize me when I show up without my sunglasses because even when I get into a room with all the lights off.. that little bit shining through is BRUTAL. So, I wear sunglasses inside all the time. You have no choice, the light makes the pain so much more terrible!

I just went to the eye doctor recently, and now have a new pair of sunglasses – way overdue. For me, brown tinted lenses are the only way to get through the day. Melissa, I too wear them all day long. I get by in my home because we replaced all our windows with tinted ones, but that is a luxury for most Migraineurs.