Anyone else unable to, or afraid to drive at night because of Lymes???
All the traffic lights, street lights, and headlights have a horrible Streaking and halo effect... almost like I need to put on sunglasses.
Just wondering if I am the only one, or if these problems go away after treatment... or maybe there are some special herbs I can take, etc. The eye doctor keeps telling me that there is nothing wrong with me, and that my eyes are just inflamed/irritated for no reason.
Thanks all!
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I will do *anything* I can to avoid driving at night. I have fantastic eyesight (20/30) and yet I have major problems:
The first problem is like you describe, I am just way hypersensitive to headlights, traffic lights, lights of any kind. They blind me, and don't even get me started on those flinging flanging people in SUV's with halogen bulbs -- I swear it's like being attacked when one of those comes from the other direction.
The other problem I have is that my eyes just don't seem to want to adjust very well when light changes suddenly, i.e. from broad daylight to walking in a movie theater after a movie's started. I have this absolute need to hold someone's hand/cling to them like a koala/stage whisper "Don't abandon me!" etc. etc.
My eyes don't feel inflamed in any way and otherwise work great (except for daytime driving when my floaters like to dance out into the middle of my vision like some microbial version of Swan Lake).
Alison
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Me too. I have terrible problems with lights, mirrors, reflections. Sometimes my eyes stop focusing.
Night driving is tough and driving on sunny days is even worse. I love cloudy days!
It is getting better though, little by little. I've noticed improvement since I stopped tetracycline. It causes light sensitivity.
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WildCondor
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Many of us have been there. I used to have the same problem, and I couldnt drive at all for a year because of it. I needed the thick glasses in the daytime too because of the Lyme. It got 100% better with treatment and I havent had those symptoms in 5 years thank god. Aggressive treatment should be a big help!
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Include me in this group as well. Jade your desccription is right on. This is a fairly new problem for me.
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EYES. SENSITIVIES & NOIR, no infrared sunglasses info., 2-28-06 updated YES, I have what you have! Are you on doxy too? That made my extreme eyes
200% MORE sensitive than they we were earlier. I learned a lot about eye sensitivity/lighting on www.marshallprotocol.com board.
Look for AUSSIE BARB'S EAST FINDER and then eyes/sunglasses, etc. Wealth of info there.
I ordered the NOIR sunglasses. 2-26-06 corrected wrong email to:
mention you have lyme and marshall protocol, they will give you 20% off!
Also they have been kind enough to replace the SCRATCHED LENSES & BROKEN BOWS! How's that for service?
I don't drive often at night, but I can wear NOIR's 901 lenses at night while driving; it creates soft candle lights coming at me...tolerable. NOT to wear in town with all the action of people crossing where they shouldn't be, etc.
from LOU to Betty on LONG web links and Thank You Lou!: "If you hit the return key in the middle of a link, I don't think it will be clickable anymore. An alternative that maybe Betty should be telling people about is the tiny url website. I have it on my tool bar at the top of the page and use it for those incredablylongwebsiteaddresses.
All you have to do is ask tiny url to produce a short version, which it will do with a unique address, which you then use instead in your post. Works just the same when clicked! Here is the website, spread the word!
3-1-06, fyi, I tried dragging tinyurl to my toolbar without success, so that''s why I currently have LONG addresses vs. short tiny ones! I''ll keep trying.
I hope the above will help you as it has me!
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