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Does Anyone Else Have Problems With Light Sensitivity To Headlights?

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New Bern, NC

As the days get shorter night driving or even being a passenger in car the oncoming headlights trigger a terrible migraine. I have bought glasses that are supposed to reduce the glare but they don't help much. I find that as the days get shorter by life gets smaller.

September 24, 2019
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A MyMigraineTeam Member

Why not polarized?

October 19, 2019
A MyMigraineTeam Member

I was having so mud trouble w that, I finally went to c my eye doctor. Now this was just my case. I had caterrac surgery 4 yrs prior. My doctor didn't tell me I had cataracts behind my cataracts. Her removed the second ones & I can drive @ night now.

September 28, 2019
A MyMigraineTeam Member

The on commingling lights really hurt my eyes. If I don’t cover my eyes I will get a migraine.

September 24, 2019
A MyMigraineTeam Member

I find it difficult to drive in the dark, because the glare is so bright. It doesn't immediately bring on a migraine though.

September 24, 2019
A MyMigraineTeam Member

I asked my neurologist about this and he said make sure you have a good pair of sunglasses and that they are not polarized. I recently bought a very expensive pair of prescription sunglasses but they were polarized. I went back to my eye dr. And they made me new lenses without the polarized for free. They are not as dark but they don’t give me a migraine!😊

October 18, 2019

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