What is color blindness?

There are three groups of inherited color vision defects. Monochromacy is the inability to distinguish any hues. People with dichromacy have either a red-green or blue-yellow defect. Anomalous trichromacy is a less severe defect in distinguishing red-green hues.

How do members experience color blindness?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with color blindness*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for color blindness*

Who has color blindness on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 1
20s 4
30s 22
40s 23
50s 10
60s 6
70+ 0

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 46
Female 22