(08-20-2010, 01:52 AM)beck7422 Wrote: Ugh. Men and hiding their problems!

On Irlen Lenses, I have linked below the Irlen Center's web page to the find a clinic page.

http://irlen.com/index.php?s=findclinic

Irlen Lenses are expensive. However, there is an inexpensive diagnostic test you go through first that will make it clear if the Irlen Lenses would be beneficial to you.

I highly recommend anyone with Light Sensitivity problems at least go through the diagnostic test, use the Overlay they give you for two weeks, if that significantly improves your reading, then go through another test for the Irlen lenses.

For me, the Overlay made it possible for me to read textbooks again. When I went back to test the Irlen Lenses, for the first time in over 6 years I could walk down a hallway without walking into a wall.

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I forgot to mention the price. You have to buy your glasses elsewhere and then they tint the lenses for you to block out the wavelengths of light that are triggering your brain to go into sensory overload. The tint is about $150-200 I think. It has been a while since I last got mine.

Contacts are a lot more expensive. Each pair of contacts to be tinted is about $120. *Shudder*

Although expensive, being able to walk in a straight line, not get stunned every time the light changes a little, and being able to read whatever I want means more to me than $200.

oh man, that's expensive. Can medical insurance cover that? My boyfriend and I are poor students