Migraine Glasses You Need to Know About! - Photophobia Glasses for Light Sensitivity 

Eye Health QOTD : Have you tried Migraine Glasses? What do you think of the rose/ pink tint?

Living somewhere dark with dark painted walls would be nice

The 'looking at the world through rose colored glasses' puns are setting speed records in my head.

I literally go blind when I go outside.

I watched this video about 2 months ago and decided to order the Axon Optic glasses. I ordered the transitional so that I could wear them in the stores and while outside in the sun. Not only do I suffer from chronic migraines but also have photo sensitivity. PLEASE do not hesitate to order these glasses!!!!! For the first time in forever I have gone one month without a migraine or any auras. I’m going to order a pair of transitional reading glasses next. Thank you SO much for this video. It has changed my life!!!!!! Beverly

I need one of these i suffer from photophobia , its making my life miserable .

Honestly having a migraine feels like getting stabbed by a knife beside the eye

Thank you for this video! Ive been suffering from migraines for a while now and the light sensitivity is so awful! I will definitely adventure into this option to help! Really appreciate the video😁

I have severe migraines of several types. I've had the sunglasses for years. LOVE THEM! They work best for me indoors. Outdoors I wear a darker pair over them and it works well for me. I would probably prefer the darker lens as contacts so I can wear just one pair of sunglasses outside.

I would never have thought of the rose-coloured glasses, Dr Allen, but I’d try anything that helped me with the photo sensitivity I endure day in day out. I have epilepsy due to a nasal fall as a child, but Drs also say the pupil of my right eye is very dilated. Whatever it is and however I came by it, I’d definitely try the glasses in your video as at present I have to turn down all lighting indoors and especially on my mobile, laptop etc. Going out in the sun is a pain when it’s sunny, and taking the clip-on sunglasses off I’m really startled, the same when waking up! I’ll most certainly get one or both sets of glasses, by the way, yours look great on you! Many thanks for a brilliant and eye-opening video Dr Allen, you’ve helped me so very much indeed

I can't stand retail lighting, especially at big box stores with exposed flourescents. There are whole chains I just boycott, especially hardware stores with those lighting fixture aisles running 80 kitchen lights and fans at once. The makeup aisles at most drugstores are so overlit with LED displays I can't go down them. I don't know why chains insist on over lighting. It can't be pleasant for employees either.

These lenses sound amazing! Lights always cause eye pain and I can't wait till I can get my own

Thank you very much for the sunglasses tip. I've started wearing mine in doors more often, but I gotta keep an eye on it now

The presenter has really nice eyes tho

I've got darker brown lenses, not quite as dark as sunglasses, but darker than those. They help alot!

great video - crushing these videos.

My current glasses have medium brown tinted lenses that help with my light sensitivity. The tint is somewhere between the barely noticeable fashion tints and sunglasses, they're darker than the former but lighter than the latter. I wear them practically all the time, inside and outside. Before the tinted glasses, I used to immure myself in dark rooms as much as possible.

I get migraines very frequently due the light sensitivity , these glasses are doing wonders for me ,they just work 100% , i have two pairs one for work and one at home ,I am going to buy one more pair during the thanksgiving as backup .

Looks good 👍😊 thank you I never knew that there were migraine glasses

Your residency in the VA seals the fact that you are a terrific person. Bravo.

I have visual snow syndrome with migraines and do wear tinted lenses all the time. If available, my recommendation is to go to a Optometry School and get the testing at their Binocular Vision Clinic. The reason being they should have quite a bit of sample tinted lenses to choose from. My tint is non-standard Violet 73% not FL-41 and have two pairs for my distance/progressive lenses and my computer/reading lenses.

3:24 , i wasnt looking at the video. My heart skipped a beat. Love your videos !

My optician has always ignored my eye concerns since youth. My vision has changed many times but never my prescription. I’ve had optical migraines for years so painful that nothing helped and I would eventually cry myself to sleep. My migraines seem to be triggered by light sensitivity and low sugar. My vision goes blurry, my body shakes and I struggle speaking. I’ve gone through this for years with no answers from greedy Drs. I’ve even had a MRI and they found “nothing”.

I have m.s affecting my cranial nerve 6. this is exactly what I'm looking for!!

Great vid👍 I have photophobia from TBI and had my glasses tinted w fl41 and i think they about help 15 - 20,% Which is not bad .I would recommend to those who suffer from light sensitivity it not easy 😎 I have a pair of proscription glasses that have clip on sunglasses and the tow work not too bad And thanks again for the info 👍 and video

I have visual snow syndrome and it’s a debilitating illness so I have ordered FL-41 glasses. Can’t wait to try them.

I’ve always wanted to try these!

Nice video. Very informative

the glasses look very good on you, Dear doctor!

those look terrific

I’ve been chronically for 18 years and many of those years have been spent in dark rooms. I had chronic migraine dictate my life. My parents’ house has these tall and wide windows that come to a point and finding curtains wasn’t easy, so I stayed locked away in my room, decked out with blackout curtains taped to the walls, for weeks on end. I’d come out after dark (so, not until about 9pm in the summer) and after the lights were turned off, go to the bottom of the stairs so my Mom handed me a food tray. We’d whisper about what had happened that day, so I could keep up with how everyone was. I’d then walk back to my cave. Every time I had a headache, this happened. The longest in a row was 23 days, but it was often more than a week at a time. Botox injections helped a lot, but the last month or so, the coverage was really iffy. It wasn’t strong enough to keep the migraines at bay, but my neurologist couldn’t risk administering the new injections yet. I got about 20 injections at a time and would be crying by the end. Something about a shot in the face and not being able to move or flinch away or react to the pain was really... traumatic and horrifying. Since I have chronic pain, even uncomfortable things are often perceived as pain, and things that normally hurt people get cranked up a level. 20 shots within five minutes always felt like this... barrage I couldn’t stop. I needed the treatment, but it was horrible to get. Now, as a result of being in the dark so frequently, I have photophobia. I’m not sure where it is on the spectrum of problematic to severe, but even on rainy days that are very overcast, in the middle of winter, the light gives me a headache within 10-15 minutes. My apartment is fit out with floor lamps, because their soft light is far more bearable than overhead lighting. My night vision is great and I can read in light most people can’t even function in well enough to get dressed! But light is really hard to deal with. And it isn’t as simple as “open the drapes or go for walks and get used to it.” I have to go about it gradually enough to set off the migraines. It’s a gamble every time I try to become accustomed to light. Blue light glasses are helping me to continue my job as an editor, in addition to having the screens at minimum brightness. By having a flipped sleeping schedule, I can generally avoid being up during daylight hours. I can go to the store at night, go to a 24 hour gym. If I have doctor’s appts either at 8am or 4pm (in winter), I can avoid the brighter parts of the day. But... it’s not normal. I can never forget how odd it is, because it causes issues trying to meet up with friends and family. It’s a weird bombshell when you’re trying to date. There’s a good reason I became photophobic, and what the ophthalmologists I’ve seen appear to not give proper weight to is that those problems are still extant. I’ve never gotten good advice on how to walk back the photophobia. I guess it’s odd enough that they haven’t dealt with it before. I am generally told to ask my neurologist. But he tells me to ask the ophthalmologist. The downside of specialization is that people can get caught in the cracks if they aren’t a straightforward case. And so, years go by, and it’s still a huge problem. I can’t function well in society when I have to hide during the day, pray that it’ll be cloudy on days I have appointments. Every time I go out on a sunny day, I’ll return with a migraine, and that’s when the waiting begins. Maybe it’ll be two days. Maybe it’ll be two weeks. Only time will tell. My new glasses block blue light and it’s been helpful in allowing me the ability to work (as an editor) without constantly needing a break from screens, but I do need something to help my general sensitivity. I don’t know if I’ll be able to reverse years of threshold tampering, or if the sensitization can be undone, but it’s a goal well worth the attempt.

Doctor, it really helps your brand that you have beautiful blue eyes!

I think the color is great, looks great and I would love to try them for my migraines and light sensitivity tbi. I’m going to look into this. Polycarbonate lenses actually cause migraines in me so I’ll have to look to see if there’s another option.

Am I the only one who thought Cyclops at the thumbnail?

Hello Joseph, it would be nice to see from you the reviews of various glasses with FL-41 lenses from different manufacturers and compare them, just like blue-light block glasses review on your channel.

I'm considering picking up something like this, I've had really bad photophobia since my burnout and it's one of the symptomes that haven't gotten better, even after a year.

I need some of these for indoors!! Suffered from chronic migraines for years, though most indoor lighting is fine unless I am suffering from a prior migraine, usually just have to worry about extended time outdoors if I forget my sunglasses.

Omg i need this, this is my salvation

I wish I'd known about these glasses when my daughter and I were suffering from dreadful light sensitivity from each of our concussions! I will recommend these to fellow sufferers!

Just ordered some Zenni sunglasses with their FL-41 lenses- have had bouts of photophobia regularly (tears pouring, can't keep my eyes open in the sun, some swelling, and sneezing nearly every time I go into bright sunlight) and recently started having migraines along with. Look forward to trying them. I feel like having large lenses is important for me and likely other folks. I was in the Caribbean earlier this week and my prescription transition lenses didn't save me (regular rectangular glasses) - ended up with the worst migraine I've ever had- ended up wearing my wife's bedazzled pink oversized sunglasses instead every time I had issues, and even those were just marginally better. One bout on the island I was driving and had to hold one eye open while driving as my eyes felt like they were swelling shut.

I need this, I always have migraine (3/5 from my family members) and light pains my eyes :( but we don't have money :( hurts even more :(

Usually, wearing rose colored glasses is a metifor for utopian optimism, but wearing literal rose tinted glasses can indeed make things more pleasant for light sensitivity!

I guess wearing tinted glasses inside is a lot like wearing prescription glasses in general in that you come to rely on them so much that the feeling of blurriness or light intensity is much more pronounced when you're not wearing them.

I just noticed that I’ve been having bad photophobia for most of my life and wasn’t aware of it. Everyday, especially during workdays, I would have migraines after work and felt fatigued. I bought a pair of glasses from pixel eyewear originally for dry eyes due to eye strain. But then noticed the glasses also helped with my daily migraines. I guess I’m one of those severe light sensitive patients. I can’t wait to try these glasses soon.

they look great on you

yes photophobia here!! sun glasses with polorized lenses help a lot but my problem is the computer screen after a while my eyes start tearing so i have to stop because i have a migraine............. i have to try those glasses he is talking about Good video!!

Would you do a comparison between these and the Theraspecs? Please

I want to try these for my visual snow syndrome. Can you do a video on this topic please.

love to see the research driven migralens reviewed and compared to FL-41 as they block different wavelengths. I'm 3 months on and they are life changing

I need these. I have migraines everyday. It’s debilitating 😫

I like your content, thank you. I suggest leaving the channel plugs at the end. Cheers

These are awesome! I never knew they existed.Had a horrible scare one time while driving: I noticed tiny weird squiggles kind of like a line of dead pixels in a damaged led tv screen, in the corner of my eye. The line vibrated and then began to diffuse across the vision, which was then followed by loss of speech. Went to neurosurgeon next day and had a whole slew of tests only to be diagnosed with migraine with aura. I noticed that there are a couple of triggers for me: Aspartame Sun light Food poisoning New shirts that I was too lazy to wash ( chemicals in the clothes during shipping and processing can leach out and be absorbed through the skin) Avoiding the others are easy and now I can add the glasses to my arsenal since wearing sun glasses indoors will often get you stares with people assuming you were high last night, or had botox, or trying to be Anna Wintour lol.

I literally had an Occular Migrane for the first time of my life the other week. Had a tiny spot in the right eye that was completely blurred. It only lasted maybe 5 minutes but definitely shocked me. The next day I would have heat wave looking things with black and red lightning bolts in my peripheral vision. I've never suffered or even had migraine headaches in my life and before and after the episode never got a headache. It's pretty funny because my dad who's been an optometrist for 45 years was out of town and had his phone off so the one time in my life I had something weird going on with my eyes I couldn't ask him about it and listen to him talk about eyes for the next 92 minutes.

I know these would be helpful for VSS

Used to get most severe migraine in summers. Happened when sunshine would bounce off a metal part on a car in front of me when driving. Felt for a second that a long knife had went thru one eye. Knew that within a few minutes if I didn't get one of the migraine meds I took in 80s I only had less then half hour to turn around and get home with a excruciating migraine. So bad I would usually vomit. Gone now after menopause. Used to get 1 to 4 a month from 25 on.

3 to 4x a YEAR?! Wow. 3x a month for me; Topamax helped a lot. Rose tints also helped a lot! Great review.✌

I’d wear them. And yes, the rose ones look good on you. So it’s a win. 3:59

What do you think about Avulux glasses? They are also maid to reduce photophobia and migraine. I highly hesitated between the two. I have light sensitivity due to autism (my green eyes dosent help). I don't really understand the diffrence between Avulux and Axon glasses.

looks great

It would be nice if the FL-41 was avaliable as a flash to mirror photochromic, that could be paired with a G-15 polarized photochromic.

When wearing these glasses and you have Photophobia will you still need to squint or close your eyes?

Do they make these for astigmatism as well and do I have to order from the website or are they available at most eye care centers?

They really need to make a pair shaped more like Oakley where the lenses actually wrap around the side of the eye protecting & preserving vision from the side as well! (That side mirror when driving and ignorant people not turning off their high-beams come up behind me & it really hurts!) I know a lot of technicians that would buy them up if they'd just make them in this more accommodating style.

I think i need one Cause light and migraine worries me a lot

Could this help reduce Visual Snow symptoms ? Like the static thing.

I suffer of Visual Snow , would be good for me this kind of glasses? or should I take a Cerium Curve Test?

So for computer use is it better to get these or blue light blockers if you have photophobia, mines is mainly triggered by computer lights but I do get some photophobia from other lights.

Thanks for this video. Questions: must it be FL-41 or any light tint (like John Lennon's light blue tint). Is FL-41 a color code? Thanks in advance.

I suffer from severe (aura) migraines and photophobia and have had migraine glasses since February 2018. They've helped me a lot over the years but during the past six months I feel like my photophobia has gotten way out of control and not even the glasses are any help. I had to quit my last job because of my light sensitivity and now I'm having super hard time finding a suitable job/work environment where I can keep my eyes open without piercing pain and throwing up. Fun. But I definitely recommend the glasses! I love mine! Makes me (apparently) look like Tony Stark's daughter. 🙈

I'm curious if these would be of any benefit for psuedo tumor cerebri headaches 🤔 i might give it go

Those glasses are way cool.

I hope they can combine with glasses for astigmatism I need this one it so hard taking too long on computer

I'm pretty light sensitive and unfortunately the indoor axon lenses are just not enough for me! I wore them for the first week at school, where my light sensitivity is the worst because of the fluorescent lights, and they barely helped. My eyes felt less gritty and strained, but I still got a migraine every day. They offer an in between indoor and outdoor lens, which I'm going to order. I like the indoor ones when I'm working on digital art and need to see color, but for everyday use I think the in betweens are for me.

Hello, Thank you for this video. I just wanted to purchase these glasses unfortunatly they seem not to be available in Munich Germany. an online shop seems also to not be possible, if I am wrong please provide me the link for the online possibility. Thank you!

Life through Rose Colored Glasses (if your familiar with that phrase - means “a good life”)...... looks good on you, transitions works for me even in regular glasses.

I get Migraine ocasionally and I've got Migraine Aura without the headache twice over the past two years. It looked like oily water covering the center of my vision for just over a half hour to 40 minutes. I do get headaches a lot too. I get a headache at least once a week and maybe a few days in a row.

Great info. I have Solar Urticaria which causes photophobia I have special glasses but today my eye dr wants to get aggressive in addressing my photophobia. He said they’re a red clay tint. I didn’t ask what they’re called, I figured it’d be easy to find online and I don’t go back until next month. So I thought I’d ask you :) thank you!

Great review. I’d love to find the three combo...blue screen blockers, migraine light and vision all in one, oh and can you add a prism.

Are you able to try out Zeiss Z1 F133 lenses? My husband has photosensitive epilepsy and we are curious if these would be helpful to him.

Informative! I didn't realize that there are so many types of eyeglasses especially for migraines. I have one for my nearsightedness. Not really proud of it and wish that i could have a perfect vision. =D

I just wear my category 4 sunglasses indoor, out, night. VS and migraines has taken enough of my vision away and I use a white cane anyways, if I can somewhat see great, but at this point, over a year into VS and several months of cane use, not having any vision doesn't bug me as much. Also I found out Noir Medical seems to sell a filter that seems to be the exact same tint according to the charts for their filters but for much cheaper. Filter #41 and #42 seems to match up with the FL-41 filter.

SO glad I grew out of my 'childhood' migraines... whew. They ALWAYS made me cry - :-/ Regarding the tint of the 'inside' lenses, the color reminds me of when the first commercially available lenses that darkened with sunlight and reverted back to lighter; this was back in the '60s or so, before you were even THOUGHT of yet - hee hee. Any who, when inside, out of the sun, there was still a slight tint to the lenses, but again no where near as much as these lenses. And YES, Doc; looks way cool on you. ;-)

I get migraines alot. I work in a grocery store and it gets bad so I really don't care about the color as long they work. Going outside is a burden also. I have to squint all the time and people say I look upset all the time.

does this brand/or any other brand you recommend carry "clip ons" to put over my single vision glasses? I have posterior subcapular cataracts--will this help with it or do you have something you recommend (preferably over my single vision glasses)

whats better for migraines, the red glasses or the green

Can you explain the difference between the FL 45 tint and the blue light blocking glasses. My optometrist recommend I get the blue light blocking glasses even though I wanted the FL45 tent because I work in fluorescent lighting. And my eyes are constantly squenting and head hurting

Does that eyeglass lens improve contrast? I don’t get migraines but do experience severe loss of contrast, which is effectively blinding.

I was so happy watching the video i finally had hope, then i went into the website and the glasses cost 334$ and that's not including shipping, I'm not American so shipping must be very expensive as well.. That's a ton of money where I'm from

LOL. So, literally "Rose tinted glasses". I already see the best in things, I wonder how much better these will make the world appear.

Are they similar to Oakley Prizm? I play baseball and golf.

You should try Avulux migraine glasses

What is the difference between fl 41 glasses and blue light blocking glasses?

Lol! I wear sunglasses and morning I have to pull aside when driving because the sun completely blinded me. I only drive night and from 10am when the sun is not direct on my face. Like 5pm and 7-8 am.

I have them and I don't like the rose color. They are a bit dark. But they do work. I wish they could make them in a clear version. I looked all over for a quality pair of migraine glasses and you just can't find them without the rose color or some kind of color tint.

I bought Theraspecs that are supposed to be the FL41 glasses. I bought indoor and outdoor. Both let in too much light. The lense is like an amber tint. Couldnt wear them near any light. ARe the Axon product lenses like the Theraspecs?

Which glasses are better for indoor use of some one has posterior subcapsular cataract along with RP?

Thank you! Sometimes I get "ocular migraine".

I don't get migraines. I think I only get them only once a year or something, but the light still bothers me a lot. I turn all lights off at home. I used a dark mode plugin on my browser that turns all websites black. Not sure why this is, but I hate it. I did read that it's a symptom of colourblindness, which I have, so I guess this photosensitivity isn't going away any time soon.

can you please help me figure out what type of glasses i should get , the yellow tinted once or these FL 41 tinted. light sensitivity causes me extreme headaches plz help

Are these good for wearing at night when driving cars when they put their high beams on?