Effects of Visual Stress Symptoms

How the symptoms of Visual Stress can effect an individual

• Experience difficulty looking at a computer screen.
• Be unusually sensitive to bright lights, especially fluorescent lighting.
• Have difficulty judging heights or distances, which sometimes causes problems with stairs and/or escalators.
• Find driving at night particularly stressful, sometimes experiencing a fragmentation of reflected light.
• Develop headaches and migraines when reading.

While reading and writing sufferers may

• Suffer fatigue quickly when working with text.
• Skip words or lines when reading.
• Experience increased difficulty in concentration after an initial period of about 10 minutes.
• Move their head or body position, or move closer to or further away from the page/Computer Screen.
• Read slowly and haltingly.
• Have difficulty comprehending information.
• Track with their finger.
• Yawn while reading.
• Frequently rub their eyes.