Light sensitivity or “photophobia” is common in people diagnosed with eye conditions or sight loss.
Light sensitivity is where the light level in the environment is too bright and causes discomfort. For some people, this discomfort can be extreme and can further reduce their usable vision.
Glare is also a problem with someone with Photophobia.
I have timed it to the point now that if I can see sunshine bouncing of metal or glass.. ie… Vehicles, windows or signs, I move my head and eyes away from the bright ‘flash’, so I don’t get blinded.
It can actually stop you from seeing for a few moments so you cannot carry on walking or carry on with what you were doing previously until your sight comes back. Like a grey fuzzy haze or when it’s dark like a black blob, both with bright light or green blobs. You will have whatever you were looking at like a silhouette stuck in your vision until it fades, after five to ten minutes.
This is why I haven’t my sunglasses on alot of the time as this causes pain, (when I didn’t wear them I would have headaches and eye pain for days on end) temporary blindness and headaches.
Now I know why, I just pop the sunnies on and the symptoms are loads better now ☺
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