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What do flickering/flashing lights do to you?

Sat, 05/16/2009 - 19:24

What 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 rebekkaherinbolt on Sat, 2009-05-23 - 11:02

Flashing lights used to make have seizures. Keppra now keeps my seizures under control. I started taking Keppra two years ago and ever since I haven't had a seizure. I thank God for the outcome.

-Rebekkah

"Believe in yourself and you can do whatever you set your heart to. Whatever/whoever you hold dear shall be blessed if you are a child of God. With God, all things are possible." look up John 3:16

Flashing lights used to make have seizures. Keppra now keeps my seizures under control. I started taking Keppra two years ago and ever since I haven't had a seizure. I thank God for the outcome.

-Rebekkah

"Believe in yourself and you can do whatever you set your heart to. Whatever/whoever you hold dear shall be blessed if you are a child of God. With God, all things are possible." look up John 3:16

Re: What do flickering/flashing lights do to you?

Submitted by annmariegio on Sat, 2009-05-23 - 13:33

Does anyone feel funny or fall when you go outside in the sunlight?  This happens to my daughter.  She puts her sunglasses on but sometimes she still falls?????

Does anyone feel funny or fall when you go outside in the sunlight?  This happens to my daughter.  She puts her sunglasses on but sometimes she still falls?????

Re: What do flickering/flashing lights do to you?

Submitted by Divinity on Tue, 2010-09-21 - 18:21

I am not sure that I am photosensitive as there is no evidence to my knowledge that says that I am.

But for the past 2 months I have been having problems with certain things especially the lights in the lifts in the place where I have been going to do my Level 2 Numeracy. The light in the lift seems to be faulty and it flickers and it makes me feel a little strange. If it was just that I wouldn't have given much thought about it, except the thing that has happened a few times after. The tutors at the place where I go for Maths said that I have been having "funny turns" by that they meant that I seem to display things like "zoning out" which from what I read appear to be absences and also they described what appears to be partial complexs where I am non-responsive for a few minutes.

Perhaps it's just a coincedence or my body and brain not being fully awake yet, I don't know.

Roll on 1 October. :)

I am not sure that I am photosensitive as there is no evidence to my knowledge that says that I am.

But for the past 2 months I have been having problems with certain things especially the lights in the lifts in the place where I have been going to do my Level 2 Numeracy. The light in the lift seems to be faulty and it flickers and it makes me feel a little strange. If it was just that I wouldn't have given much thought about it, except the thing that has happened a few times after. The tutors at the place where I go for Maths said that I have been having "funny turns" by that they meant that I seem to display things like "zoning out" which from what I read appear to be absences and also they described what appears to be partial complexs where I am non-responsive for a few minutes.

Perhaps it's just a coincedence or my body and brain not being fully awake yet, I don't know.

Roll on 1 October. :)

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