Good News or Bad News - The Latest HOLIDAY LIGHTS - LEDS ....

[brain]

GOOD NEWS or BAD NEWS ...
They've got these NEW LED LIGHTS!

They were actually starting to send me off
to complex partial's! Fortunately the Tenant caught that
in a hurry. AND IT WAS EVEN BOTHERING HIM!
HE complained to the Manager about those
Lights ~ and the Manager remarked
"A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD BEEN COMPLAINING AND
THEY HAD SOME PEOPLE VOMIT!"

Well the Tenant went on to say that I had
Epilep ... and the Manager didn't even let him
finish! He went on to say, "OH yeah, them too,
Epilepsy, Heart, Diabetics, and even on a Cast
and on Medications - it effects them."

Was at several stores - they've got them.
And he complained there. It bothers us both!
Nearly same Responses / Replies from Associates,
Assistant Managers, or Managers.

I'm trying to find Holiday Cards so I can get
writing.

WELL - Why aren't they
removing them?

If you think about it .. people ARE complaining,
health issues or not ...

Hasn't anyone seen them yet? Hasn't it
bothered you or affected you to any degree?

[Bernard]

Tell 'em you'll take your shopping to the internet if they are going to be so inconsiderate.

[brain]

Tell 'em you'll take your shopping to the internet if they are going to be so inconsiderate.

Ummm - yes Mr. B; but we DO have to shop
in grocery stores too!

[Nancy]

To my knowledge I haven't seen them WORKING in stores yet.... just in packages for sale. Husband is desperate to have the exact ones he wants for "our" trees (which, of course, are already up, decorated and working)

Monday we go to the city for my 6 month ~shudder~ neuropsych test and he'll have 4 1/2 or 5 hours to go shopping and he plans to find his exact lights for next year. He might even un-decorate a couple of his smaller trees to re-light them now. I do doubt if the new lights will bother me at all.

Hurrah -- I haven't had a seizure (just a "little" aura in June the docs know about) for 6 months thanks to that surgery. If the tree lights cause one .............................

[brain]

If the tree lights cause one .............................

My son's home now, and his friend's mom had
to take all of HERS back to the store - It made
his dad and mom sick to their stomach and their
DOG dizzy, only when it was on! (I thought the
animals were color-blind?)



I am confused. I spoke with my good neighbor
2 doors down, and he got them and put them
up on his roof getting them ready for Thanks-
giving (He always does, flips the switch at night,
but does a test run), and it made him so dizzy
that he felt like he drank a whole bottle of
Bacardi Rum. It didn't bother his daughter but
it bothered his daughter's husband and he was
getting dizzy from it. They took them all down
immediately and are going back to "last year's
lights" which that's what they did this morning
and I will be doing in about an hour; except I'm
going RETRO LIGHTS (THOSE GLORIOUS 1960s
ERA HUGE LIGHTBULBS OF THE PAST!) on my
roof. So my son and his friends will be there to
help me while I'm on the rooftop (I know, I know
I'm not supposed to be up there.)

And to top it off. I was talking with one of my
old neighbors from long ago - actually they're
not old - they're just neighbors from where I
grew up, where my mom lives. And letting them
know about my son. And we got to talking about
these lights, and they got the small bright ones
for their bushes; and her husband has health
problems and as soon as it got dark, they plugged
it in to see how it all looked and he got really sick
from it and it started to give her a massive head-
ache. Those were returned back to the store and
they exchanged it for the traditional "net-lights",
since the one they had was old and wasn't safe
anymore.

GOOD NEWS - I learned that 2 stores have pulled
them off the shelves from my neighbor because
of excessive returns and complaints. (But this is
local - I do not know if it's going to end up being
a wide-spread national issue.) My other neighbor
who is a Nurse, she reported that they have had
people come in ER's because of the reactions
that were traced back to the LED lights. She
responded the common complaints so far were:

Dizzy or Dizziness
Headaches
Vomiting / Nausea
Seizures
Light Sensitivity
Raises Blood Pressure
Tremors
Staggering
Sudden Flush / Paleness of skin

(very similar situation with the "Chaser Lights
at settings at high speed" to which they were
modified to eliminate high speed chases as they
were provoking epileptic seizures and photo-
sensitivity seizure attacks, even on individuals
who have no epilepsy history from the past years)


I believe it's only a matter of time before it gets
published in the news/media.

LED Light Recall


I guess we will have to wait and see.

[brain]

They have removed the....
"problematic" LED's off the shelves but
the "good LEDs" remains on the shelves.

[criskris]

They look kinda cool and blue-white, and don't bother me, but I can't imagine how awful it would be to get sick from Christmas lights. Yuk.

[speber]

I always loved spectacular lighting. Pink floyd laser light shows, strobe lights, etc.......I even wanted to BE a lighting technician for awhile. But just recently, I suffered something unknown that has introduced me to migraines AND a touch of photo-sensitivity.

I now understand a little about what it's like for a person who has to turn away when cray lighting enters the picture.......and it's a drag.

It (for me) is like losing my lifestyle to epilepsy all over again.....except I haven't quite figured out what caused this latest chapter.

*sigh*........where's my tunes?

oh, THERE they are!

[criskris]

I always loved spectacular lighting. Pink floyd laser light shows, strobe lights, etc.......I even wanted to BE a lighting technician for awhile. But just recently, I suffered something unknown that has introduced me to migraines AND a touch of photo-sensitivity.

I now understand a little about what it's like for a person who has to turn away when cray lighting enters the picture.......and it's a drag.

It (for me) is like losing my lifestyle to epilepsy all over again.....except I haven't quite figured out what caused this latest chapter.

*sigh*........where's my tunes?

oh, THERE they are!

It sucks when the band your in starts playin different tunes. Sorry to hear that you lost something important to you. I lost my ability to go see good music/light shows to TMK syndrome (Too Many Kids). I saw my first Pink Floyd show in San Antonio in the 80's and ELO in Austin in 83. You ever heard of a sleepy little town called Luling? That's my hometown. Austin was where all the tunes were happening when I was growing up.

[Shelley]

Yeah, I got a sister in Luling. She can have it. Too many oil wells.

[wonderdogs]

I saw them last year and I was not impressed. I prefer the original lights... LEDs are missing that "glow."