From my own personal experience, the Irlen Filters may actually help
relieve the pain for your client.
For me, the Irlen Filters were a life changing miracle.
Before I got my Irlen Filters, I was in so much pain, I couldn't
function. I had an excruciating headache that never went away. It
just went back and forth between that and an unbearable migraine. I
had constant, intense pain in my entire body. If there was any place
in my body that didn't hurt, I couldn't tell you where it was. I had
numbness, tingling, muscle spasms, uncontrolable shaking, and I would
get horrible chest pains and my body would turn blue one one side.
The doctors diagnosed it as peripheral and autonomic neuropathy that
came as a result of a head injury.
It had a horrible effect on my eyesight. I just couldn't see right
anymore. Only 10% of my vision problems could be improved with
prescription lenses, but any little bit of help was appreciated. I
got the lightest weight, most comfortable glasses possible. They
have Flexon semi-rimless frames and small, light weight lenses, but
still I couldn't tolerate wearing them for long because the weight of
the glasses added to my pain. Even with the glasses, my vision was
so distorted and the distortions were constantly changing because, in
addition to the fact that my eyes wouldn't work together, I had
blurry, double vision in each eye separately. Add to that the fact
that my eyes were wandering around, doing their own thing instead of
working together as a team and you can see why my brain couldn't cope
with the visual input and make any sense out of the jumbled up mess.
My brain would altenately try to work with both eyes, one eye, the
other eye, or block out all visual input altogether. Because of this
problem, I could not tell what I was seeing. I was extremely s-l-o-w
and clumsy. After many years of living with this intolerable yet
incurable condition, a literacy expert told me about the Irlen
Institute. It seemed like they might be able to help me with the
vision problems so I talked with my doctors about it to try to get a
referal but they refused even though the doctors admitted they could
do nothing for me. Finally I contacted the Irlen Institute and was
encouraged and decided to see if they could help me.
When I got financial help I was able to get screened and got my
overlays. I was amazed at how such a simple thing could calm the
distortions and allow me to read again. I quickly discovered that my
headache eased when I was using the overlays and I read to escape the
pain. One month later, I got my filters and the real miracles
began. The first thing I noticed when I put them on was that my
vision was normal again, instantly. I even got my depth perception
back! Within an hour, I noticed that the headache was gone. Wearing
the filters full time, very quickly I noticed that the pain,
numbness, tingling, muscle spasms and other problems started to
subside. When I take the filters off, the problems quickly return,
so now I have 3 pairs of filters: my regular pair, a spare and my
Irlen filter sunglasses.
I hope that your client will give it a try. She might find that the
headaches and pain in her face subside when she wears the filters.
You can have her read my message and if you think it would help, I
would be happy to answer any of her questions about my experience
with the filters.

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Julie M. Evans"
<julie@c...> wrote:
> I just had a client in her 40s who obviously has Irlen Syndrome.
Lost her place, then counted 15 Xs, for example.
> She has had headaches daily for more than 20 years and has taken as
many as 20 Aspirin daily. She also has arthritis in her face and
finds it difficult to tolerate glasses or a hat because of the pain.
At initial mention, would not consider contacts because she has had
lasik surgery. (Had the light sensitivity before the surgery as
well.) Is very looks conscious in a high-profile job. I suspect, like
me, she needs time to process the idea that she has something "wrong"
that toughing it out just makes worse... and she'll someday be
wearing Irlen lenses or contacts! But if any of you have thoughts,
chime in.
>
> She is a hard-charging executive, very anxious, speaks in a clipped
manner. Never read for enjoyment as a child, claims to read for
enjoyment now but also feels great anxiety when faced with reading
for work. (Felt anxiety during the screening... and angry.)
>
> My question: Any of you have arthritis in your face? I'm wondering
if the Irlen Syndrome may contribute to the arthritis?
>
> Julie Evans, lenses wearer and screener
>
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