Klarinet Archive - Posting 000496.txt from 2000/10

From: Bob Shaw <theshaws@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Headaches
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:54:39 -0400

I experience the same symptoms, but they seem to lessen when I play my clarinet. Wierd, huh?

GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:

> Neil says:
>
> <<In my case, I literally go blind in one eye -- sometimes both -- when a migraine headache is
> about to occur. This warning (a rather potent one, eh?) is called an "aura" (it's different for different people) and, in my case, gives me the oppor-
> tunity to mitigate the ensuing agony.>>
>
> I experience a "limiting" of my eyesight, as if I were looking down the wrong end of a telescope. My peripheral vision seems to disappear. Forget about overhead, it's gone.....Neil, is this the same thing?
>
> This is waht happens to me under flourescent lights. I have been known to abandon my wive in mid-grocery shopping. Getting outside, especially to daylight really helps, if I do it fast enough.
>
> If I don't, I literally have to go to bed to get rid of the resulting headache.
>
> Down with Flourescent lights!!!!! Storm the Bastille!!! Up the Revolution!!!!
>
> Whatever.....anyway, if you get headaches from fluorescent lights, you are not alone. Hey, lets' start a mail-list and a support group!!!!!
>
> Walter
> who is posting WAY too much today!!!!!!!
>
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