Visual Stress

[ringading]

Research measuring visual impairment meresearch.org.uk/our-resea...

[CheshireKatz]

For such a common symptom there is no mention in diagnostic criteria or common symptom lists hosted by the charities.

[Peter-J]

Meds side effect on gabapentin can blur sight.

[Ian123]

Light and noise sensitivity, we don't know the causes but they're often called "generalized hypervigilance" that means our bodies are constantly on high alert.

Exposure to bright or flashing light can overload our sight and noise can become painful, causing nausea, anxiety, headaches along with an old favourite fatigue.

[pandemic]

I thought time for stronger lenses had arrived but the optician gave the readings as same as last year and the letters floating on the page were a sign of tiredness.

Reading a book at bedtime is a visual stress following this research makes sense of my own experience when the eye test didn't.

[ninjanina in reply to pandemic]

Done the same blamed on my age dimming eyesight.

[Bellated]

How many times I have lost my glasses and I am wearing them you have to laugh.