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These results are for your information. If you choose to share them with us we can assess how likely you are to benefit from a full assessment and Visual Stress management. Please grade each question with an answer from 0 to 5 where: 0  is  Not at all,  1  is  Very occasionally,  2  is  Sometimes,  3  is  Often,  4  is  Normally  and 5 is  Always.

Symptom Tracker

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Tell us about yourself

Next step: Migraine, headache and visual perceptual discomfort
Your age
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Migraine, headache and visual perceptual discomfort

Next step: Flicker sensitivity
Do you suffer from headaches when reading or looking at a VDU screen?
Do you have regular or severe headaches?
Do your headaches sometimes include changes in your vision, such as aura, before or during a headache?
Do you experience afterimages, ghosting or trailing?
Do you experience "visual snow" or pixelation?
Do you suffer from eyestrain when reading or looking at a VDU screen?
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Flicker sensitivity

Next step: Pattern sensitivity
Are you sensitive to faulty artificial lighting?
Are you sensitive to light flickering when sunlight is coming through trees when on a car or train journey?
Are you sensitive to flashing lights or rapid action scenes on television or at the cinema?
Are you sensitive to flashing lights from emergency vehicles?
Are you sensitive to falling snow or rain?
Are you sensitive to scrolling screens on a phone or computer?
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Pattern sensitivity

Next step: Difficulty with reading and computer work
Can your eyes "go funny" in response to certain patterned clothing e.g. a stripy shirt?
Can you have difficulty with bold or repetitive patterns in carpets or wallpaper?
Can you experience dots or spots in your vision when reading?
Can lined or graph paper or spreadsheets cause you difficulty?
Can words or text have patterns or faint colours around them?
Can a page or screen of text seem bright or glary?
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Difficulty with reading and computer work

Next step: Light sensitivity
Do words come in and out of focus, fade, darken or disappear when you are reading?
Does the text seem to stand out in three dimensions (3D) above the page?
Do words go smaller or bigger when reading?
Does text move, jump around or vibrate?
Do patterns or shadows appear in the text or in the spaces between the words?
Do words on a page seem too close together or can it appear as though letters are trying to merge?
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Light sensitivity

Next step: Behaviour

On a scale from 0 to 5, with 0 representing 'Not at all' and 5 'Always', how would you rate your experience with the light sensitivity symptoms?

Do you have discomfort with certain artificial light?
Do you limit your time in certain places because of the lighting there (eg the Metrocentre or supermarkets)?
Do you struggle with bright headlights?
Do you prefer to wear sunglasses or tinted lenses inside, as well as in bright sunshine?
Do you prefer subdued lighting?
Do you prefer to wear a cap or peaked hat to shade your eyes?
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Behaviour

Next step: Results
Do you find yourself blinking a lot?
Do you rub your eyes a lot?
Do you suffer from sore eyes when reading or trying to concentrate on detail?
Do you lose your place or use your finger as a marker when reading?
Do you have difficulty with escalators?
Do you have poor concentration for reading, only being able to focus for short periods?
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Richard

The staff are absolutely fantastic and they provide a fantastic service, would highly recommend them!

Geordie

Having Irlens Syndrome recently diagnosed I didn’t know what to do as most opticians don’t have the specialised equipment to prescribe the correct type of tinted lenses I needed to correct my issue.However after a little bit of research I discovered the amazing Andrew Keyes and his practice and they have been absolutely amazing supporting me and prescribing- as well as follow up with a genuinely caring and friendly service from start to finish. I have a whole new lease of life now I wear the correct lenses for my Irlens Syndrome eyes! Thank you SO much Andrew and Olivia and all the fantastic team

Jon

The support and service that we have received from Andrew and Katherine has been excellent. They took the time to understand our needs and the experience has been nothing other than positive and have made a real life-changing difference. We can highly recommend Vision Through Colour for any visual stress difficulties associated with Autism and ADHD.

Jacquie

An extremely professional service and very knowledgeable about visual stress and the impact it has. From our first visit with Katherine, we were made to feel welcome and valued. Our concerns regarding visual stress were acknowledged and discussed throughout the consultation visits. My son enjoyed the examination and was put at ease immediately by the team. We look forward to continuing the relationship in the years to come.

Dee

Fantastic service which I highly recommend. Very friendly and understanding of my needs as a Neurodivergent person. I found it very interesting to see the comparison in my reading prior to wearing the glasses to afterwards as it gave me a better understanding of the struggles I had been experiencing with dyslexia. The glasses prescribed with tinted lenses are extremely helpful for managing my tired eyes and headaches while increasing my ability to read without draining myself and I am less overwhelmed/drained by bright lights therefore reducing my previously constant eye strain etc.

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Staff are Friendly and helpful. The service was indepth and thorough. Would recommend.

TheGoldenMagpie

They were very kind and professional and really helped me out, my quality of life has improved a lot from my new glasses

Sharon

I can not recommend Vision Through Colour hight enough! We were given their details from the Dr who completed a Neurodevelopmental assesment on our Daughter. As well as being diagnosed with ADHD and ASD the Dr also suspected she may be suffering with Visiual Stress.

I made an appointment with Vision Through Colour, The process was very straightforward and the communication was excellent with no long waiting time for an appointmnet.

The assesment itself was extremely professional, they were very accommodating to my daughters needs taking things at her pace allowing breaks when needed, even allowing her to hold a stuffed toy that they have I the office. My daughter and myself were fully infomormed at every step of the assesment as to what was happening and why. My daughter was diagnosed with visual stress and it was recommended, following the assesment that a coloured tint be added to my daughters regular glasses prescription to help her with her symptoms.

My daughter has now been wearing her new coloured prescription lenses for approximately 6 weeks and both my daughter and myself have been delighted with the results. My daughter informs me that she no longer sees coloured outlines around images and words and is able to read for longer period of time without her eyes hurting. She also say that lights are not painful to her and everything feels much calmer. Her school teachers have also reported that she is more focused in lessons and not as distracted.

My daughter loves her coloured lenses and wears them constantly and has not asked for her old glasses since she recived her new ones. If you or your child are feeling g symptoms of visual stress I would 100% recommend a vosit to Vision Through Colour for an assesmen.

Angie

Having coloured lenses, unique to me, to filter out all of my trigger colours has transformed my life. As a long term migraine sufferer, I used to lose days of my life, even though I had prescribed medication I regularly lost 3 days a week to migraines. Having these coloured lenses plus my medication means I can function normally. I have only lost 2 working days to migraines in the past 5 years, thanks to Keyes eye cares miraculous glasses.
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Ellen

An absolutely outstanding optician/optometrist and the highest quality service and professional standards.I am absolutely delighted by the assessments and tests I received for my visual stress issues - one of a very few specialists in the area of these issues. Such lovely welcoming staff in every part of the process. 

Victoria

From the moment I arrived all the Staff were very friendly and it was a very calm environment. As an autistic adult I suffer from visual stress so I got precision tinted lenses which have made a huge difference to my work and every day life. They have even helped with travel sickness and the lights are less bright and the ground doesn't move when out walking. I wouldn't go anywhere else for my eyecare thanks to you.

Dr Jake Hutchinson

As a neuropsychologist, I always identified visual stress difficulties in myself. These difficulties have been with me since childhood and have burdened me greatly over the years, impacting every aspect of my life. As an example, having to avoid certain rooms with complex stripes and being unable to read on some days due to letters moving on the page.

While I visited numerous professionals as a teenager, nobody was able to identify an appropriate intervention that would improve my daily functioning. However, following a thorough assessment, including colorimetry, I found the Keyes team full of expert knowledge and advice. They were able to find a colour to put into a pair of frames to ease my everyday difficulties. The results have been transformative; I couldn't possibly be without my precision-tinted lenses, they have significantly transformed my life.

I cannot recommend Andrew, Katherine and the team at Vision Through Colour highly enough.

Anonymous

Fantastic service for both my children - welcoming staff that put them at ease. My son has visual stress alongside his ADHD and Autism and the whole process of getting his vision through colour glasses was stress-free- the team have so much patience and understanding of how to make neurodiverse individuals comfortable. Honestly can not recommend them enough!

Tristan

I suffer from a complex and extremely difficult-to-manage visual disability and cannot thank Andrew Keyes enough for his patience, understanding, and technical knowledge in helping me... My visual stress is extremely severe and to get the correct lenses takes a lot of time and patience, he was great (nobody else knew what the problem was or how to solve it... my GP said there was nothing they could do, the hospital examined me for tumours and gave up... Andrew knew straight away!)

James

They were more than happy to go the extra mile to ensure I was happy with the results. I'm an indecisive person but did not feel rushed at all, and with my sensory issues (related to ASD and ADHD), I was happily surprised when the lights in the test room were adjusted for my comfort, which aided me in making the correct choices, etc.

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