Thank you for your reply. I can't begin to tell you the hope you have given me as I've been worried I've messed myself up for life and will never be able to watch tv or be able to relax outside again.

So I started going to a vision therapy group about 6 weeks ago. The first week to week and a half I think I was doing syntonics wrong as I was just sitting on my back deck in the shade and looking at light beams that passed through the trees but didn't shine into my eyes. I asked the therapists if I was doing it correctly and they said no that you want to have the light shine directly into your eyes. So I would have the sun in my field of vision to where it created a shadow behind me but didn't look directly at it of course. Also had a 60 watt standard incandescant bulb that I sat maybe 3-4 feet from where I didn't look directly at it but had my eyes looking a little above it. I didn't realize it at the time but in hindsight after making the adjustment to have the beams hit my eyes it probably didn't take more than a few days for the major light sensitivity, eyes burning/hurting, and sensitivity to motions on screens to all come on.

I honestly didn't even realize it was the syntonics that was doing it initially as it didn't happen directly during or after a syntonics session but just woke up one morning feeling that way. So I continued doing syntonics for a good 2 weeks after these symptoms came on and then one day after I finished doing a session in the sun I got extra light sensitive and finally made the connection.

I expressed concern to the vision therapy group and they said that it's normal for people to have reactions to syntonics (though admitted mine was a little extreme) and that my body is just getting used to changes and needs to build up a tolerance for it. I ended up taking 4-5 days off of syntonics but the symptoms didn't really subside. They then had me try just doing 12 minutes per session instead of the 20 I had been doing to see if that helped. I did the 12 minutes once and felt so overstimulated that it felt like I was rage cleaning my house that night and of course the symptoms were all real bad the next day. I called them and they said okay let's back it down to just 5 minutes with the green filter. I did that and after 5 minutes I felt nauseous and have been for the past week. I was getting a lot of pressure on my forehead as well so it's like it was just putting too much pressure on my head or something.

They mostly had me doing a blue/green filter combination, which concerns me as that should I think be not as stimulating of colors. It would be one thing if I was doing the red and then got overstimulated as I think the natural fix for that would be to just shift to a blue/purple/green and that may do the trick but I have been worried there's no way out for me since the colors that are supposed to be the most calming were overstimulating me.

Seeing you say that you wear the filters and don't look directly at the light source makes sense though and sounds like it worked well for you. I'm afraid to try even that but if you can give me some specifics on what filters worked to help get your eyes back to normal after these bad reactions and how long your wore them for then that would be a tremendous help.

How long did it take for your eyes to recover during these bad reactions you experienced? Not that I would hope you were in longer amounts of pain but I've been concerned that things didn't revert back to normal after 3-5 days off for me so I'm hoping you say it took 3-4 weeks or something or that it was just a matter of wearing the filters for a week without looking at the light directly as you mentioned in your original post and that did the trick.

Sorry for the novel but I wanted to go ahead and get this all down for you to see your thoughts. Thank you so much for your response and any additional information and help you can provide me with!