ever had or heard of photophobia?

[Bertha Venation]

Lord, I'd be in trouble if this were "fear of photographs;" I'm a shutterbug.

No, the medical definition (paraphrased) is oversensitivity to light.

More and more in the last few weeks, bright light has hurt my eyes. I have to turn the "bright" on my monitor all the way down and the "contrast" almost all the way down. Next time the light bulb man comes through the office I"m going to have him pull out 3/4ths of the fluorescent tubes out of the ceiling above my cube. I often wear my sunglasses at night because the light of oncoming headlights hurts -- and it blinds me.

Anyone else experience this? Advice (besides going to doc, which I plan to do ASAP)?