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What do flickering/flashing lights do to you?
Sat, 05/16/2009 - 19:24What effect do flickering or flashing lights have on you? Can you describe a bit how you feel when you encounter them and what happens to you?
Does everyone with epilepsy have a reaction to them? Is everyone photosensitive in this way or is photosensitive just one specific type, and there are others who are not bothered by what they see?
Comments
Re: What do flickering/flashing lights do to you?
Submitted by pellykate on Sat, 2009-05-16 - 23:22
Re: What do flickering/flashing lights do to you?
Submitted by cvargas on Sun, 2009-05-17 - 02:09
hi, pelly
ya know I would love to say that I could watch all kind of movies and not care that the little cars in the airports with the litte flashing lights dont affect me ...but...well.. they do in fact I was gonna see a movie the most recent of the 007 and I couldnt cuz I started having my "epidsodes" look its different for everyone I know that for a fact but I do know that if a dr asks me to trigger a sz I know what to tell him...
right before my brain surgery they were doing some testing and they wanted to see exactly where all the sz were coming from and the question came out "do you know what triggers your sz" hmmm I thougt should I tell them and have a gran mal or pretent I dont know .....It came out "saving private Ryan" within seconds I was having sz after sz
look we are all different and we just gotta find out which ones are our qlich
your hand of cards have been delt now play them the best you can and WIN!!!!!
never give up!
`Christina Vargas
hi, pelly
ya know I would love to say that I could watch all kind of movies and not care that the little cars in the airports with the litte flashing lights dont affect me ...but...well.. they do in fact I was gonna see a movie the most recent of the 007 and I couldnt cuz I started having my "epidsodes" look its different for everyone I know that for a fact but I do know that if a dr asks me to trigger a sz I know what to tell him...
right before my brain surgery they were doing some testing and they wanted to see exactly where all the sz were coming from and the question came out "do you know what triggers your sz" hmmm I thougt should I tell them and have a gran mal or pretent I dont know .....It came out "saving private Ryan" within seconds I was having sz after sz
look we are all different and we just gotta find out which ones are our qlich
your hand of cards have been delt now play them the best you can and WIN!!!!!
never give up!
`Christina Vargas
Re: What do flickering/flashing lights do to you?
Submitted by bethy123 on Sat, 2009-05-16 - 22:29
I really don't find that I have a problem with them, when I was first diagnosed though my doctor told me to be aware so I don't go staring into strobe lights or anything. :) A few times when I have been in a club and they have strobe lights on and I am very close to them, I will get a sort of headache but no seizures. And I can watch japanimation just fine.