Fluorescent lighting

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Does anyone have problems with this?  When I go to a store like Home Depot or Walmart I get dizzy and get a headache very quickly.  I always had this reaction, but it seems worse now during taper

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Funny, I was just telling someone about this. I had it too, and especially in Walmart. And Sears. Both places have too much florescent lighting. It hurt my eyes, and made everything look flat and ugly. I still don't like it,, but it no longer bothers me like it did back then.

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I was in a Home Depot just the other day. The ceiling seemed a lot higher than normal and the vastness of the place began to frighten the hell out of me. I know I'm dealing with this derealization thing but I thought it would be alright to be someplace besides home for a little while. I was wrong. After awhile I completely forgot why I was there and frantically looked for an exit. That escape only led to a frightening parking lot. This must be getting worse because up till now I did not freak out while being someplace other than the house. Of course, the house and yard are scaring me too now. Does this EVER end?  :'(

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I have always had a hard time with Flourecent light and i am sure during a withdrawl they would just be worse so have no fears !

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I've had this for half my life, and it's the reason I was put on benzos in the first place (you know, the usual anxiety crapola dx). 

It happens in supermarkets, big department stores (Costco's a bad one), shopping malls and funnily enough indoor food courts do it too.  Oh, and big hospitals are the worst!  I get so lightheaded and spacey and disoriented, my eyes become glazed and I feel faint!  Horrible.

 

Hope it eases up for you as you get further along in your taper. 

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Does anyone have problems with this?  When I go to a store like Home Depot or Walmart I get dizzy and get a headache very quickly.  I always had this reaction, but it seems worse now during taper

 

This strange symptom is pretty common actually.  IMO it's due to hyper-sensitivity. When I was in acute withdrawal I only went into mid-sized stores that I was already familiar with, and I often wore lightly tinted sunglasses as well.  It was only one of my many visual symptoms, which included but were not limted to sensitivity to bright colors and patterns, minor hallucinations, and extreme dry eye.  These are temporary though, and will get better as you heal...

 

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Florescent lights make my skin crawl and give me migraines, they hurt my eyes so much. I usually end up wearing sun glasses in the store even at 1am.

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I've always hated that lighting, both the light and the constant sound it makes. When I worked in a corporate office, I covered the light over my desk  with large-sheet engineering drawings (taped over it). This always baffled everyone who came over my way - like literally everyone at that place just LOVED having a big florescent light over them 9 hours a day, and thought I was odd. 

I just figured that, as usual, I'm a freak. But continued on with my way 

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the dull just awful noise is the worst! I was at my moms work a few months ago and was helping go through a storage room and the light in there was out of a horror movie, it was just hanging from the ceiling and would flicker and was loud. I endned up turning it off and using the flash light on my phone lol.

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I've had this for half my life, and it's the reason I was put on benzos in the first place (you know, the usual anxiety crapola dx). 

It happens in supermarkets, big department stores (Costco's a bad one), shopping malls and funnily enough indoor food courts do it too.  Oh, and big hospitals are the worst!  I get so lightheaded and spacey and disoriented, my eyes become glazed and I feel faint!  Horrible.

 

Hope it eases up for you as you get further along in your taper. 

 

Yes!  You described it perfectly!  I was at macys recently in the fitting room, and there was something wrong with the lighting.  It made a horrible buzzing sound and the fluorescent lights flickered.  It felt like a horror movie.  I had to drop and go, because i felt like i would get a migraine

[[Th...]]

Does anyone have problems with this?  When I go to a store like Home Depot or Walmart I get dizzy and get a headache very quickly.  I always had this reaction, but it seems worse now during taper

 

This strange symptom is pretty common actually.  IMO it's due to hyper-sensitivity. When I was in acute withdrawal I only went into mid-sized stores that I was already familiar with, and I often wore lightly tinted sunglasses as well.  It was only one of my many visual symptoms, which included but were not limted to sensitivity to bright colors and patterns, minor hallucinations, and extreme dry eye.  These are temporary though, and will get better as you heal..

 

 

Good to know, i think you are onto something about hypersensitivity.  The bright colors and patterns bother me too sometimes.  And the weird sound from the lights.  Dry eyes are a symptom too??  So i have more symptoms than i thought lol

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patterns on white mess with my eyes, I made the mistake of buying white with pink and purple black outlined leopard print sheets and i cant even look at my bed if it just the sheets my eyes can't focus.