Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome Symptoms
One or more of these symptoms may be related to the condition:
- Eye-strain
- Fatigue
- Headaches (including migraine)
- Nausea, including visually related motion sickness
- Problems with depth perception (catching balls, judging distance, etc.)
- Restricted field of view and span of recognition
- Discomfort with busy patterns, particularly stripes ("visual stress" and "pattern glare")
- Discomfort with extreme conditions of bright/dark contrast (i.e. backlighting)
- Discomfort or difficulty reading (reading involves busy patterns, particularly stripes. People with strong symptoms of the syndrome find it very difficult to read black text on white paper, particularly when the paper is slightly shiny.)
- Text that appears to move (rise, fall, swirl, shake, etc.)
- Losing text content and only seeing rivers of white through the text
- Words moving together becoming one unrecognizable word
- Attention and concentration difficulties
- Seeing the part and losing the whole
- Epileptic seizure related to strobing or pattern glare
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