Regardless of a latest wave of deceptive headlines, Simon Cowell’s doing simply high-quality. The Britain’s Received Expertise decide addressed some on-line chatter about his well being, and defined why he’s all the time rocking red-tinted glasses nowadays.

“I simply came upon, in keeping with the web, I’ve a ‘thriller sickness,’” Cowell wrote on Instagram. “For anybody involved, I missed two auditions on the finish of in the future, two weeks in the past, as a result of I do get migraines after lengthy days within the filming lights…For this reason I put on these glasses!”

Within the first photograph of the put up, Cowell is smirking and carrying his signature specs as he sits on the judges’ desk. Within the second, he poked enjoyable at himself by together with a close-up of a fly with giant copper eyes. A number of individuals within the feedback empathized by sharing that additionally they cope with migraine assaults and have tried all kinds of issues to forestall them.

Migraine is a typical neurological situation that’s largely characterised by extreme, throbbing complications, in addition to signs like nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to mild and sound, all of which could be debilitating. Stopping a migraine assault—the stage when signs of the situation hit most intensely—often includes avoiding triggers, which may fluctuate a ton from individual to individual: alcohol, caffeine withdrawal, loud noises, vivid lights, ongoing stress and anxiousness, sure odors or perfumes, the record of potentialities goes on and on.

So, sure, for some individuals with migraine, carrying tinted glasses can assist preserve the ache away—particularly if sure sorts of mild or vivid mild appear to be a headache set off, Dane M. Chetkovich, MD, PhD, professor and chair of neurology at Vanderbilt College Medical Heart in Nashville, tells SELF.

These particular glasses often have a tint known as FL-41, Kevin Weber, MD, assistant professor of neurology at The Ohio State College Wexner Medical Heart, tells SELF. “It is a sort of tint designed to dam the blue mild portion of the sunshine spectrum,” he explains. (Whereas Cowell didn’t specify which sort of glasses he makes use of, they appear much like loads of FL-41 shades in the marketplace, which generally have lenses with a pinkish-to-reddish hue.)

There may be some information to counsel that particular sorts of mild can exacerbate migraine complications in individuals with the situation. One small examine of 69 individuals recognized with migraine concluded that blue, amber, and white mild made complications worse. FL-41 glasses, which had been initially made to cut back mild sensitivity attributable to fluorescent hues, had been even studied again within the early Nineteen Nineties, in a small analysis venture that had 20 youngsters with migraine put on the coloured shades for 4 months. Children who wore rose-tinted glasses particularly skilled a formidable drop in complications, from roughly six a month to at least one to 2 a month.

That stated, the specialists SELF spoke with say extra analysis is required to know how properly they honestly work, if different sorts of tints could also be useful, and why. “There are many various factors that affect migraine frequency and severity, and everybody has distinctive triggers,” Dr. Chetkovich says. “Medicines and units which will assist one individual could not work for others.”