Sensitivity to sunlight

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i hate the sun on my skin or in my eyes.

It's not uncommon for me to sit in complete dark and not notice.

That being said, while I like sunlight I get annoyed quickly. but that might be because I'm a very white, blue-eyed Irish person.

Yea same here. I squint alot too.

I so have sensitivity to sunlight - but not so much as a child. It came about when I was in my late teens and has become progressively worse the more I age.

I can't just walk outside on a sunny day. I've got to have my overfitters cause I have glasses (regular shades don't work with prescription glasses), and these shades took a while to find cause I had to have the ones that covered my eyes from all perspective. My perefial (sp) vision needs to be covered all over. I don't just look straight ahead I use all aspects in my vision.

If I try to go outside without the shades my eyes shut instantly and require a lot of effort just to open them, and when I succeed in that, they water so much I can't see anything anyway.

But it isn't just sunlight. I wear my shades when in the supermarket, and sometimes at the mall - the lights are so bright there that I have to. I receive a lot of stares but I don't care, it is better to be calm inside and wearing odd shades, than all aggravated because of the blinding light.

I even have computer monitors' brightness turned down.

Candles are soft light to my eyes - unless I have a headache then all my senses are amplified including sight to 'extremely sensitive' and then candles are too bright.

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Very sensitive to light and not just sunlight. The sun can be the worst, it depends on the cloud cover. Very dark sunglasses even on cloudy days. Bad florescent has to be tops and it can damn near drive me into a panic attack. Lately I've been using an Ott-Light in my cave and it almost feels like I can "feel" a difference when I'm using it. It feels soothing. Very pricey for the bulb or at least where I have seen them. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say I'm much more sensitive to light now vs my younger days. Light can be almost painful. Maybe it's just an age thing with me. I don't see it as pronounced as others in my age range, but I don't know for sure.

Optical migraines and eye pressure I also have.

Looking more directly towards the sun also makes me sneeze.

This is interesting, and now that I think about it, does anyone else have issues with reading bright text against dark backdrops? I think this developed during my teens, as reading websites with such color schemes could be headache-inducing at times.

I'm happy not to have this sensitivity. Spring is my favorite season because its sunny but not scorching like summer.

I've never had someone say that to me, but I do both of those. I *NEED* sunglasses too, especially for driving (where I can't allow myself to be incapacitated by the sun!) My mom doesn't get it that I *NEED* them and has acted weird when I was completely panicked before work searching for them.

I prefer having a hat with a brim too (which is hard because my head is huge...I mean I don't look wierd or anything, but normal "one size fits all" hats just sort of sit on top of my families' heads). Even with sunglasses outdoors too much light can get around them without having a hat too.

Sort of weirdly, I need bright light on when I'm eating. If I don't have bright light I *HAVE* to turn on the lights (even if otherwise it's not dark enough to turn on the light's yet). It makes me REALLY uncomfortable to eat without bright enough light. I don't know why. (I joke that I'm afraid my food will attack me...which is almost how it feels).

My mom says my dad was the same way. She'd want to have this candlelit dinner and have everything set up, and he'd need to come in and turn the lights on full blast to eat.

Wonder if anyone else is like that or what the heck that is.



I think I was like that too. Got worse in my late teens. Thankfully it stopped getting progressively worse, and I can make it from my car to a store without my sunglasses or that sort of thing (hurts a bit, but I can do it).

I wear glasses too, and my hat is to help with the sunlight getting around the edges of sunglasses I guess.

My last two pairs of glasses came with built-in sunglasses. Like they're magnetic things that just easily attach to the top. I LOVE that design and will try to always get that since I need to use sunglasses multiple times a day.



Are you bothered by normal incandescent light bulbs? And what type of monitor do you have? Some stuff I've learned recently about florescent lighting:

-Besides containing mercury, it gives off ultra violet light, like the sun. It's supposedly not much, but I've read some English studies that show it does increase cancer risks just slightly, and some UV light does get out.

Florescent lights actually generate UV light as their primary thing. The UV light hits a coating on the inside of the glass that converts the UV to visible light-not not both UVA and UVB, and not absolutely 100% of it.

The locations you mentioned are all probably lit by florescent lights, and your computer monitor if it's LCD probably uses a florescent backlight (or if it's CRT that would be just as bad with shooting high energy junk at you).

There are a handful of LCD screens starting to come out that use LED lighting instead of florescent, which I assume doesn't produce much of anything but visible light. I assume they SHOULD be safer, and I wonder if they won't bother people with florescent sensitivities?

I'm also concerned by the law that's been passed in the U.S. and Australia banning normal incandescent bulbs. What effect is that going to have on people with these sensitivities, and on cancer rates for that matter?

I know I'm trying to shop for a laptop that has an LED backlight (there are very few models) to avoid florescent lights where ever I can. Unfortunately they're hardly available at all in full sized monitors or TVs (since it costs more the larger it is).

The sun never affected me like that. I never wear shades. But the more depresssed I get the more darkness that I like. It be getting to the point where I stay up most of the night where I can be comfortably alone while parents are sleep. And sleep half of the day. I also don't like light in my room. I usually have the lights off.

I LOVE sunlight, I get in a lousy mood if I don't get enough.

I cant stand sunlight. That's why I'm called 'bat'

Although, an optometrist has said that it's due to my high myopia.

I don'tlike the sun it makes me sneeze I really like it when it's overcast, because theres still light but its kind of subdued so I can actually look around instead of my feet.

same with me...........

I am very fair skinned and burn really easily...I am more sensitive to the sun than the average person...it seems....

I have had some really crippling lobster-girl sunburns where I got severly burned and the people around me were not as badly affected.....and being out in the sun too much without protection gives me really bad headaches.

I have never tanned...but I freckle

Even though I am a very dark brunette, I joke tha I am part-redhead....my mom has mousy brown hair, blue eyes and freckles, but all her siblings are total redheads

I don't mind dark or light places but if i've been inside where its dark and go outside into the sun, it makes me cover my eyes for abit, i get this quite often. And some certain lights I look at make me go all weird.

I'm very sensitive to strong sun. I wear the darkest sun-glasses I can find and hate the beach in summer. Sadly, I live in a place where the sun is strong as hell, almost all year round.