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Lights in public

Any one else have a problem with flickering lights in public? These has been the bane of my existence sense I was diagnosed . I had to leave my senior prom because of a strobe light, my girl friend is mad at me because I dont want to leave the house, anybody feel the same way.

I never have had trouble with street light. I can say that when July 4 fireworks are going off I end up have a spell. And if it is one thing I love it is fireworks.

Have you ever tried wearing sunglasses? Just curious if it will help.

There should be others along to assist you shortly.

Darlene:hug:

Hi Win,
Take my word bright flickering lights have always triggered seizures for me. I saw my epileptologist and he did a special e.e.g on me flashing different color strobe lights one at a time and he found that bright white, amber, and florescent green were the 3 main colors that would trigger seizures for me. He told me that when this happens it means that a person is photosensitive. If this happens to you again turn your head away and look at a dark color this has helped me a lot from having any seizures from the bright lights. I wish you the best of luck and May God Bless You!

Sue

Sunglasses, sunglasses, sunglasses...... They don't have to be expensive or any special type--- I get the cheap walmart ones (usually in a darker tint) and they help a lot !

I have problems with flashing lights too. Whether it's fireworks (some are just terrible for me), or oncoming car lights at night (they almost seem to put me in a trance at times). Strobe lights are the worst. Or bright light through trees if you're driving at a high speed. It doesn't necessarily trigger a seizure but it sure messes with my eyes and again almost puts me into a trance like state. Weird. Talk about giving me a headache.

I dont like leaving the house on bright sunny days, cant do it unless i have sunglasses. and even the bright gray days of winter mess with me unless i have sunglasses. They have not caused me to seize, but they give me a TERRIBLE headache...pain as soon as the light hits me...I have noticed that riding in a car, on the interstate, ecspecially a busy one...really makes me ill....i experience the nausea that always comes with my aura...i can travel better at night, as long as I dont have to look straight on into headlights...i dont know how I will manage it when I start driving again....which will hopefully be in April!!

Blue lens sunglasses have helped a lot of people, you insurance may even cover them if you find some.

Ellie-
You say blue lens sunglasses help? I'll have to check into that. I have a lot of issues with lights too. Thanks for the tip. Now if only I could figure out something to do about the headlights at night...

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Originally Posted by vodpop (Post 228246)

Yeah, here's some information:

Source: PubMed

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Division of Neuropsychiatry, Sendai City Hospital, Japan.

The suppressive effect of sunglasses upon photoparoxysmal responses (PPRs) elicited by 15-Hz flicker stimuli with a low luminance of nearly 10 nits was studied in eight patients with photosensitive epilepsy. Using three commercially available sunglasses of neutral density (ND), blue, and brown, the influence upon generalized PPRs elicited by a flickering dot pattern (FDP) and red flicker (RF) stimuli was separately examined in six patients; the luminance of the visual stimuli decreased from roughly one-fifth (ND and brown sunglasses) to one-tenth (blue sunglasses). With FDP stimulation, four of the six patients wearing each of the three sunglasses had no provocation of PPRs, whereas two of the six patients had provocation of generalized PPRs with all of the sunglasses. With RF stimulation, two of the six patients wearing ND sunglasses had provocation of generalized PPRs; three of the six patients wearing brown sunglasses had similar provocation; in contrast, none of the six patients showed provocation of PPRs while wearing blue sunglasses. These results suggest that the suppressive effect of the three sunglasses on FDP stimulation is mainly due to a luminance diminution, whereas that of blue sunglasses on RF stimulation is produced by an inhibitory effect of short wavelengths and possibly by a luminance diminution. Thus, blue sunglasses are thought to be useful in the treatment of patients with photosensitive epilepsy.