Any eye experts around? Drove south today in winter sun glare - worried

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Totally my own fault for not thinking to bring sunglasses, but this afternoon I drove for about an hour and a half on the M5 southbound, and the glare from the low sun on the wet road was the worst driving conditions I've ever experienced. Obviously did all I could to mitigate it - visor down, sitting up as high as I could to minimise the white sky glare but it was horrible. My vision seems to be fine now, but my eyes feel like they're slightly burning (could just be psychosomatic?) and I'm worried I've done them some damage. Anything I can do now, or is it just a case of wait and hope for the best?

good grief Op

genuine question… do you suffer from anxiety around your health a lot?

What?

Hopefully an ophthalmologist will come on and be a little more sympathetic, OP. For what it’s worth I have an autoimmune disease which would have made those conditions very very difficult even with sunglasses… and impossible without.

when my eyes have had too much glare I use eye drops and press a very warm wet flannel against them. Provides relief from the discomfort

You’ll be fine. You’re probably sore from squinting and the watering.

Thanks for the replies, and the welcome empathy Shewaswanton. Hopefully it's just me being paranoid - I'll chalk this one up to a lesson learned and order an extra pair of prescription sunglasses for the car. Definitely not an experience I want to repeat.

Don't know how old you are but problems with glare are sometimes connected to cataracts developing. As you have prescription sunglasses, you presumably have regular eye tests so you know if some are present?

I'm just past the 50 mark IThinkImAnAlien and my mum has had cataracts so I'm anticipating it's an issue I might have. I always had perfect vision until about 10 yrs ago when I needed reading glasses and it has been a really rapid decline since then with a new prescription every year and I haven't been able to function at all without glasses full time for about 5 years now. I do have a certain amount of anxiety about my vision for sure and don't want to do anything to make it any worse than it already is! Thank you for your reply.