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To: FrogMom

I have fatigue problems under the flicker of fluorescents.
A coworker has severe headaches unless she turns them off.


37 posted on 07/15/2011 4:47:34 PM PDT by Aroostook25
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To: Aroostook25

I personally like that the CFL bulbs for energy savings, since they lowered my power bill by about $80 a month when I first got them. (I solved that energy problem by moving to a house with more windows, haha). I also hate, Hate, HATE the heat produced by the incandescents, because I hate sitting under a heat lamp while trying to work.

However, regarding what you said:

“I have fatigue problems under the flicker of fluorescents.”

I remember hearing a blurb on the radio (The John Tesh Radio show’s nightly trivia maybe, it’s been a few years), that said that one hour of exposure to fluorescent lighting, messed up a person’s melatonin and affected sleep for a three hour period, on average, after the exposure ended. I noted it to a lot of my coworkers at the time, who all mentioned that that was how long it took them to finally get to sleep after work. I worked a swing shift, and so we all wanted to go to sleep after work, but often couldn’t. I’ve notived I sleep much better, and much more deeply if I limit my exposure to Fluorescent lighting, but hey, that’s just me.

(As someone else commented, I too used to have problems telling colors apart under the light of CFL’s, but not anymore.)


86 posted on 07/15/2011 7:46:51 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: Aroostook25

It is called scotopic sensitivity. My husband and Sister in law have it.

He gets migraines, nausea and vomiting if he sits under (or near) florescent lighting. My sister in law has epileptic seizures if she is exposed to florescents for very long.


89 posted on 07/15/2011 7:52:51 PM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
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