Tips for Coping with Fibromyalgia - Sensitivity to Light

Many people with fibromyalgia experience hyper-sensitivity to sound, light, smell or movement. Perhaps it’s a greater awareness, lower tolerance or that experience simply doesn’t match expected sensory feedback. Like so many symptoms of fibromyalgia, science has little explanation or cure. Until more answers are uncovered, sufferers can only find ways to cope.

This hype-sensitivity may come and go, but any way you slice it, it can disrupt functionality.

If you’re experiencing higher than usual light sensitivity and you’re finding it difficult to even sit at your computer to work, try dimming your monitor.

You can press the buttons of your PC monitor to lower the brightness.

If you have a laptop, try holding the function key down while pressing f7 until the screen dims to something you can handle. When and if the hyper-sensitivity passes, holding the function key while pressing f8 will brighten the screen back up.