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Cheers for the replies. I have realised that other flickering lights such a low sun through bare hedges don't help but that's not too often, just a couple of days in the year if I'm unlucky. It's the fact that I'm riding in a group with others who insist on not only having lights on during the daytime but flashing ones and the brighter the light the higher the likelihood of a headache or migraine. I was wondering if anyone has been met with the same lack of empathy as I have. One kind suggestion was that I need to ride in front of everybody and another to wear sunglasses. Asking for the lights to set to steady, let alone off seems to be a touchy question and I've kind of given up. A couple of people have been kind enough to set their lights to steady or don't have their lights on at all but when there's several others in the group who do neither... I spend the ride trying to dodge them and stay behind one of those with no lights.

Hello, does anyone else have problems with flashing rear lights triggering headaches and migraines? I've worked out what I think are my triggers for migraines: stress, drops in air pressure and flashing rear lights. I'm really struggling to ride in groups since I started having migraines a few years back, with the current trend to ride with flashing lights on all the time. I've tried asking people to put lights on constant while I'm in the group but I feel like I'm asking the impossible. It's getting to the point where I feel reluctant to go out in a group even though cycling is not only my exercise but also my social life.