Coloured Lenses.

[broughton20]

Hi

Has anyone tried yellow or green wrap around glasses for indoors watching tv with gluacoma?if so what do you find are the best colour to stop glare.

Thankyou.

[Lynne-H]

I have angle closure glaucoma and I was once recommended yellow lenses by the RNIB - not for watching the tv but to cut out any glare. They did work.

Hope this helps.

[broughton20]

Thankyou for your reply.

[Stairs10]

Hi

That's really interesting. I've recently been wondering if there were indoor sunglasses against the glare !

Some builders merchants sell wraparound glasses in various shades. I bought blue for cycling on overcast days. But I might see if they have a yellow version !

Thanks

[frankthebank]

Hi, I have Greens and Orange's. I can't recommend them enough TBH, personally I think they are an absolute essential for Glaucoma, but obviously far easier to buy if you don't need prescription glasses. Both mine are wrap around. Both block out 90% of all other light spectrum colours, so help correct vision if you have some sight loss, also they help with light sensitivity. The greens are my go to pair I wear them the most outdoors and also indoors alot (work well for headaches as well) The oranges I wear more driving and often in shops (depends what feels more comfortable day to day) both I got from RNIB website. I will wear sunglasses when very sunny also. Hope that helps give you a bit more info. All the best.

[broughton20 in reply to frankthebank]

Thankyou.That is very helpful advice.

[eyesong in reply to broughton20]

Hi, this is the first I have heard about different colors to help see, TV , read etc. I have a problem seeing my computer screen. I need it to white with dark black letters and I can't see the lt blue that websites use. I try to adjust my settings but I seem to make it worse not doing the right thing. When I get an update from my Browser it sometimes changes my default settings and I am back to square one. A problem that is getting worse as my vision is going so quickly. I just wish that contrast was a more important issue being addressed. I will try the colored lenses to see if that helps, thanks to all.

[broughton20]

That's what is great about this forum we can all help each other.I was told about the coloured glasses by someone that is in contact with RNIB.