jeremykeys wrote:
At the risk of sounding very harsh, I would have to say that if you suffer form migraines; and I am very familiar with them as my wife and daughter both do; and a blinking LED is causing problems, either put black tape over it or perhaps find another instrument.
I'm very sorry. I DO not mean to be cruel but if this is a medical issue then you must take precautions. I have to assume that you don't play out in clubs. Certainly not ones with flashing strobe lights. These annoying things can give anyone a headache and for someone susceptible to migraines even more so.
Just out of curiosity, does the blinking disk led bother you?
Me?
I've suffered from migraines for around 30 years since I was around 18. The sort where one side of my face would go completely numb. Was seen by every person possible in the UK (good company private health scheme) and it was finally brought under control by a neurologist trying antidepressants (after they had tried virtually every other drug they could).
I used to get migraines lasting up to five days, now if I get one, its just for a few hours.
But, in my early twenties, I was attacked while walking through town by about 20 drunk servicemen. I had seen them kick both crutches away from some guy, causing him to fall over and I helped him back up, they came back and objected to me doing this.
End result, I was in hospital for a week, had three operations on my skull including one to pull my eye socket back out after it had literally been kicked in (and was told I was very very lucky I wasn't killed)
Since then, I have had constant blurred vision in that eye, its hard to explain, my vision changes daily, I could have 3 eye tests 3 days in a row and would be given different prescriptions.
Thankfully vari focals have been a godsend but only today for the first time in ages I could see the TV clearer without my glasses than with them.
I can't stand strobe lights, when I used to play live there was usually just the normal red/green etc coloured lights.
certain shops with modern lighting in make me feel very disorientated in, led lighting seems to be the worst for this, and I have to leave.
Certain modern car headlights also make me feel sick.
A fluorescent light on its way out drives me nuts, I can see them flickering weeks before the average person seems to notice it and I can't be in a room with one flickering.
Camera flashes don't seem to bother me if its my pic being taken, I look away from the TV if there's a lot of photography on a news report etc.
My daughter suffers from photo epilepsy and can't look at the same things as me, and finds exactly the same things I've described above, likely to trigger it. I have never had any sort of fit though.
Its worse when I'm tired, but as for the last twelve years I've suffered from chronic fatigue, that's pretty much all the time.
When I purchased my active monitors, first thing I did was put black tape over the bright piercing blue power LEDs.
This is also the reason I told sharp I didn't like the new proposed forum colours as they hurt my eyes.
And the very very first thing I said to my wife when I first switched my Kronos on is "why do they use such bright obtrusive led colours, that flashing one will drive me nuts"
