Approximately 9% of men and 18% of women suffer from migraine headaches. Almost all migraine sufferers report light sensitivity during a headache. Some people with migraine report that light can trigger their migraines and some people with migraine are light sensitive all of the time. The investigators have recently determined that certain colors of light are more likely to trigger migraines than other colors. In this study the investigators want to know if people who wear glasses that block these colors of light will have fewer migraine headaches.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
48
Subjects will wear a therapeutic lens coating for 2 weeks.
Each subject will wear a sham lens coating for 2 weeks.
John A Moran Eye Center; University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
HIT-6
Primary outcome measure is improvement in HIT-6 while wearing therapeutic lenses compared to baseline. The HIT-6 is the Headache Impact Test, a trademarked and copyrighted test (2001 QualityMetric, Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline Group of Companies)
Time frame: 10 weeks
Headache frequency and severity
Secondary outcome is reduction in headache frequency and severity as assessed by headache diaries.
Time frame: 10 weeks
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