The screen at work is better, but it's not a solution, and my eyes have been actually hurting since yesterday when I attended the office and used the flat monitor. I don't know whether that's due to the cumulative effect of the medication or sitting under the fluorescent lights in the office or what. (It just so happens that due to a medical emergency elsewhere in the family that I've been working at home and not sitting in front of my work monitor much lately. I've been in front of my CRT monitor with lighting from low energy light bulbs overhead.)

All monitor use is currently causing me visual distress resulting in a red and green shadowy transparent sunburst after image which stays around for a couple of hours after I stop using the monitor and which I can see whether my eyes are open or closed.

Driving has also been causing visual distress, but I can put on dark glasses for that. However, my dark glasses are too dark for use with my computer monitor. I tried them to see. And I couldn't see!

I'm a bit over 50 and hopeful that the migraines might quieten down somewhat, but they haven't done so yet, and with this work sickness and absence policy looming and me taking about twice the number of sick days a year that the policy sets as its upper target, I wanted to try and reduce the number of days I was taking off, plus I'd rather not be under the weather that often. It's got to the point where I'm reluctant to pre-book anything in case I end up wasting the ticket due to having a migraine and that's no way to live, so I really would like to be able to continue with this new regime if possible. However, if it is precipitating glaucoma, that won't be possible and I'll have to seek an alternative answer.

I'm seeing the optician later this afternoon and at least I'll get an answer about whether the pressure is up in my eyes. I know that it always does run at the high end of normal. If I'm lucky, my problem is something other. I was doing Internet research a couple of weeks ago and had virtually convinced myself that my problem wasn't glaucoma, or I would have sought medical/optician advice a couple of weeks sooner even though I was trying to work, fit in music practice for a concert I did an item in a couple of weeks back, fit in hospital visits, fit in looking after the cats whose owner was in hospital, but is now thankfully home again, etc, etc... We got her home from hospital and I thought I'd better get the ball rolling on me. I'm no use to anyone if I go blind by not looking after myself.

I've got a Sapphire Radeon 9200 Atlantis graphics card in my PC. I suspect that might not be good enough to support the sorts of monitor you're suggesting, but I need to go away and do my homework as it's not a bad graphics card - and I also need to check what my credit card can stand after it's been to the optician!

I never expected to need to be asking these questions on here, but then you never do until they come out of the blue and bite you.