Normal Light bulbs vs Flourescents

Thanks for the link, have suffered with this all my life,

Janner France

I haven't been able to stand fluorescent lights since I had my two cataract surgeries last year. After ten or fifteen minutes in a store with fluorescents I want to run out screaming, that includes quilt stores.

Denise in NH

Thanks for listing the link to this information! Could very well explain why I get jittery during cloudy days when I have the lights on more than usual. For more than 20 years I have had problems with tinnitus---ringing in the ears----and I really have a problem in stores where the fluorescent lights give off an annoying sound---it drives me nuts and I must leave the store. Thanks again! Barbara in FL

I can NOT work with Flourescents at all. If there is one(or more) in the room I either have to leave OR have a regular light bulb right next to me while doing what needs doing, or I really get a whopper of a migraine. This explains why:

I have even have had to leave certain stores if they have the 'older version' of flourecents. Te flickering kills me. I have to have a regular light on even when watching TV,and even with one on my TV time is limited after nightfall. I LOVE the VCR :)

Nightmist, I thought of you when I was reading this......wonder if it affects Ash in school?

Butterfly

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hmmm..... they bother me too but I had no idea how bad it could be for some. Polly

I find the old flourescents are an issue for me, at times. In our courtrooms they have replaced the bulbs in the can-type fixtures wit h CFL bulbs. All fine until they start to go, then I am sending "disco ligh t alert" to the maintenance team so they can get replaced pronto. Somehwere long time ago I read about the strobe flashes triggering epilepsy or other issues.

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I'm sure there is truth in that: they always broadcast a warning of flashing lights before a news broadcast which has flashing lights in - like photographers en masse....

Pat on the green

Ash's school does not use flourescents in most of the rooms students are ever in, so it is not an issue there. However in some stores it is a problem, and we absolutely avoid taking him to the mall. He has always gone into total meltdown at the mall, even if it is nearly empty. we are not sure if it is the lights (my guess), or stray frequencies in the muzak system (DH's guess), or something else entirely. We're pretty sure it is the lights in the other couple of stores though. There is one grocery store frozen food section where he just collapses with his eyes screwed shut and his hands over his ears, screaming like a banshee. I think it is the multiple flourescents, the overheads plus the case lights that does it there. We have become very careful about taking him to stores, and especially grocery stores.

NightMist

A couple of weeks ago my DD and I went to the supermarket and they had icicle lights hanging from the ceiling, the colours were flowing downwards and the lights were hanging in rows so were flowing along the rows at the same time, but all really, really fast - it was nauseating and I almost had a migraine, had to run through the section that it was hanging in to find relief. We returned the following week and they were static blue, much better, figure that they must have had complaints or loss of sales.

Janner France