Light sensory glasses?

I peobably should be looking into this more, but for now (and for some time) I've reached the point of wearing sunglasses, a not insignificant percentage of the day, in all sorts of places. Overhead strip-lighting is so ubiquitous that, now in my forties, I'm willing to look like an utter berk (if I even do, not sure!) just to mitigate the pain and overwhelm. Then there's intense daylight levels even on cloudy days. Apart from some initial comments about the Blues Brothers etc. in the office from less tactful colleagues, it hasn't been too much remarked upon, so maybe just let the anxiety about 'how does this look?' etc. fade a little more with each use. You can just keep them in your coat pocket or something when you feel the conditions are more favourable. 

I peobably should be looking into this more, but for now (and for some time) I've reached the point of wearing sunglasses, a not insignificant percentage of the day, in all sorts of places. Overhead strip-lighting is so ubiquitous that, now in my forties, I'm willing to look like an utter berk (if I even do, not sure!) just to mitigate the pain and overwhelm. Then there's intense daylight levels even on cloudy days. Apart from some initial comments about the Blues Brothers etc. in the office from less tactful colleagues, it hasn't been too much remarked upon, so maybe just let the anxiety about 'how does this look?' etc. fade a little more with each use. You can just keep them in your coat pocket or something when you feel the conditions are more favourable. 

I was diagnosed with visual stress (it has other names too) but this is not recognized by the NHS. The so called specific glasses cost a fortune so I skipped on those. I was finding screen use an issue mostly so I just turn down the colour that is a problem, red in my case.

When I did go for an eye test I was told that this is all rubbish but the optician grudgingly got my lenses tinted blue for me. But this same optician also gave me a completely wrong prescription. Firstly he failed to notice that my nose is not straight (hair lip and cleft pallet) so I suspect I was looking through the sides of his test lenses and not the centers. Then my eyes were probably so stressed that they were not relaxing enough. And so apparently my eyes were 0.5 diopters different. This berk decided that my eyes would adjust so instead prescribed glasses that were 0.25 different. This berk was supposed to be very experienced and a big noise in the optometrist world, he has even written papers......

He then sold the practice to two sisters and retired, these two stupid people continued to supply glasses based off his prescriptions and I suspect leaned on his past prescriptions for new ones rather than doing their own proper assessments. By the time I moved away and went to another optician I was told my eyes were 0.75 different. He said that having strained eyes made no difference to the result of the test, yea right!

Then I discovered that my nose is wonky and that my pupillary distances are not the same. I experimented myself before going to spec savers where without the need to be told the optician found that my my pupillary distances are 30mm and 34mm. He also found much to his surprise that my eyes are not different and that I am simply short sighted by 0.5 diopter.

So now I have my new glasses which seem a lot better. In the 9 days wait for them I stopped wearing the glasses that are it seems very wrong and I found that the most source of headache was in fact the red light of a screen or tinting of the room light due to a lampshade. I use only daylight bulbs and thankfully we now live in an age of LED bulbs where I can just pick up 5500-6500k bulbs without much fuss. Those "warm white" aka 2700k bulbs are awful.

So what I have learnt over the last 10 years is that glasses are an excuse for people to charge an awful lot of money whilst coming out with utter rubbish! I don't know how they are regulated but it seems more like an art than a science.

I am now using my polarized prescription glasses and these are feeling much better when looking at a computer screen.

Bonus tip if you made it this far: IPS monitors rock. Much more expensive but I find that I get more out of them with less light. There are also 2 types of TN monitors, one is cheap and very nasty, the other while not as good as IPS, is nearly as good.

This really resonates with me. Without sunglasses I just develop such a headache - thought I must have a brain tumour years ago before realising it was a result of autism-related sensory issues. Always wondered why no one else around me was affected in the same way.

I've asked and opticians seem unaware of it, I got quite a frosty reception when I asked specsavers about it, if you do find any,  please let us all know?