for many years i have not liked bright days or sunshine or should i say my eyes dont. Like you i just squint, i never really put it down to any paticular reason before. I am always armed with sun glasses.

Hi,
I have chronce C and one of my triggers is bright light and expecially flourescent lighting. I do much better with my attacks if I stay out of light. When I go into stores I have to wear sunglasses or I go into fits...its most embarrasing

I wear sunglasses out in the sun, but I love the way it feels on my skin. Now for indoor lighting I could stay in a mostly dark house all the time,bright indoor light gives me a headache. But then of course the sun wears me out.
Sounds wishy washy huh?

i have also noticed over last couple years that i am less tolerant to bright light, i never used to wear sunglasses, but wear them all the time for driving now. maybe the effort of squinting makes us more tired, i've noticed i squint against the sun a lot more than i used to (and am worried about getting more wrinkles around my eyes too to add to the undereye bags).

The part of the brain that is affected by the N and C is the hypothalmus. This is directly linked to our eyes. Light also supresses the production of meletonin which ours is already messed up to begin with thus making it worse. Its no wonder that most of us have a sensativity to it. The bad new is that the light which most affects us which is the flourescent lights is going to be the mandatory light bulb shortly. They are stopping making the reg lights. Its amazing that they can force this type of light on everyone since it affects so many people not just us. People who have seizures suffer at the hands of that type of lighting as well. Yet there seems to be nothing we can do about it.

thanks for your replies, ah the almighty sunglasses, they don't work i wear 10shade tourch glasses.well i am not really suprised that i not the only one

Oh that just really sucks that all lighting will be floursent. I had them take the floursent light bulbs out of my office at work, and I bought lamps and put reg. ulbs in them. I guess it might be time to start stockpiling light bulbs!