Hi,

This will be my first post here. I have suspected for a while that
Irlen Syndrome has been the cause for my burning, stinging, tired
eyes, and occasional headaches when I'm in a fluorescent lit
environment. Last October, my suspicions were confirmed.

My Irlen glasses have helped reduce my eye pain a lot, but I think
tinted contacts will help me more since it would filter more or all of
the poison fluorescent entering my eye. I have pain whether I'm
reading or not under fluorescent. Unfortunately, I work in a
fluorescent environment, and my goal is to be as comfortable as possible.

I'm trying to understand something about the options for contact
lenses before I get lenses tinted. I've searched the Internet. For
some reason, I don't think my diagnostician understands what I'm
asking. I've even been emailing with someone at irlen.com, but I've
been getting pretty generic answers.

There's a choice to have the whole contact lens tinted, or to have
the pupil area only tinted. I am told that a pupil-only tint will
work for me, but I don't understand how. The small tinted area would
only cover part of the cornea, so wouldn't some unfiltered light be
entering my eye through the unfiltered area of the contact lens? It
seems like the whole area that covers the cornea would have to be
filtered, not just the center.

My contact lenses cover a little of the white of my eye, so having
the whole lens tinted gray would look rather strange. But I don't
want to have the pupil-only tint done only to find that it doesn't
help enough. I'm so tired of the fluorescent caused pain, I think
I'd rather have odd looking contacts tinted all the way to the edge if
pupil-only tint isn't enough for me. I don't feel comfortable
ordering pupil-only tint until I understand how that small tint area
can be enough.

Does someone else out there have pain/discomfort whether reading or
not, and have pupil-only tinted contacts provided enough protection?

Can you see where the tint stops while you're wearing pupil-only
tinted contacts?

How can a small area of tint be enough to be a relief from the bad
wavelengths?

Thanks so much,
JCD