Paphos Life

I need to buy a decent pair of photochromic sunglasses, and it would be far easier to buy them locally as it takes the guesswork out of online purchases. I suffer from a form of motion sickness under fluorescent lights and look and feel a bit of a prat in dark glasses. Photochromic sunglasses will enable me to look almost normal under these lights and stop me feeling nauseous. Can anyone suggest an outlet?

Both Kyrsof and Elean can help you there, as well as many others I think.

Try Eye Contact on TOTK Road - recommended to us by another PL user earlier this year. We both had new glasses with transition lenses and are very happy with them. In my case they were able to Fit new lenses in my stupidly expensive ray ban carbon fibre frames that Boots / D&A said they wouldn’t be able to do when I initially bought them - liked them so much I still bought them though! Eye Contact quite often have a €100 fo €30 offer on Cyprus Daily Deals as well.

Ian

I'll check these places out, and thanks for the recommendations. My wife was ripped off by an optician in Polis last year and it has rather put us off buying without recommendation.

Just bear in mind that modern photochromic glasses darken up in sunlight very quickly, but take quite a while to normalize back to plain again...

Have you tried standard clear Polaroid lenses to see if this cures the ill-effects of driving under night time fluorescent lighting? Another hot tip: have you had your eyes tested lately? Such weird night driving experiences can sometimes be a precursor of cataracts forming.

Personal experience: All the tail lamps I was following had halos around them, as did oncoming headlights, as did overhead street lights. Horrible! After both cataracts were fixed (a month apart) everything was fixed! All perfect at night, and vivid colours and brightness in the day.

Need 2.5 reading glasses for my crossword and sudoku now, though...

AL

This is not anything to do with driving at night. It is the lights in Papantoniou and Lidl which make me feel nauseous. Motion sickness under artificial lights is well-known, although I had never suffered from it until we came to Cyprus. It is time for new sunglasses and this would, I hope, kill two birds with one stone.

MacManiac wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:46 pm This is not anything to do with driving at night. It is the lights in Papantoniou and Lidl which make me feel nauseous. Motion sickness under artificial lights is well-known, although I had never suffered from it until we came to Cyprus. It is time for new sunglasses and this would, I hope, kill two birds with one stone.

I always wear sunglasses in Lidl TOTK as the lights there make me dizzy, specially in the fridge section, near the tilts it is OK! Strange....
Some people look funny at me - but I don't care.

Max

If you google your problem, you will read that sunglasses will not give you full protection for your light sensitivity, but as its only in the short term may give some help.
If you buy photochromic they will be clear indoors and you will gain no benefit from this.
You do need to discuss this with an optician, I believe there are certain lenses/coatings that are better than just UV sunglasses, many computer operators etc wear anti glare lenses.

Uncle D wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2018 11:06 am If you google your problem, you will read that sunglasses will not give you full protection for your light sensitivity.
If you buy photochromic they will be clear indoors and you will gain no benefit from this.
You do need to discuss this with an optician, I believe there are certain lenses that are better than just UV sunglasses, many computer operators etc wear them.

I wear polarized clips on top of my photochromic lenses. Without the clips it is terrible.

Max

I find some bright lights and patterns can start a migraine. If I look at floodlights at a football ground, it can be enough to cause a migraine. When night driving I have to make sure I don’t focus on any oncoming light

Same for me actually, I am OK with fluorescent in the short term but hate night driving, so my next pair of specs will have a anti glare and photochromic lenses.

I wear my prescription sunglasses most of the time now, although not indoors at home. I used to take them off when in The Mall, or the various supermarkets but found I was uncomfortable in the strong lighting. I'm not worried about feeling like a prat ha ha!