OT: Dana

[Guest guest]

>I also have difficulty with flourescent lights, I can hear them and

>the light itself gives me a migraine. I don't know much about

>sound therapy, but I personally do not know how it would affect how

>I hear the lights. But I do not believe it would affect the

>headaches, because they are from the sound and the light itself.

>

> I can also see the computer monitor refresh several times each

>second, very distracting.

Hey Dana,

Do you also see a slant in the computer monitor? Until recently I

thought it was just the settings were messed up. I don't really know

how to explain it, but the top of the screen looks like it's more to

the left and it gradually goes to the right as you go down the

screen. I guess you'll know what I mean if you see it too. Last week

I finally broke down after 3 years with this computer and asked Mike

to try and make the screen strait. He didn't know what I was talking

about and had to get a messuring tape out and messure the distance on

the top of the screen to the margin and do the same at the bottom of

the screen to show me they were the same distance. Of course now it

bothers me even more because I KNOW I'm seeing it wrong.

My computer doesn't automatically refresh, so I don't have that

problem. But when I'm in a chat room it flicks all the time. Doesn't

it do that for everyone though?

[Guest guest]

> Hey Dana,

> Do you also see a slant in the computer monitor? Until recently I

> thought it was just the settings were messed up. I don't really know

> how to explain it, but the top of the screen looks like it's more to

> the left and it gradually goes to the right as you go down the

> screen. I guess you'll know what I mean if you see it too. Last week

> I finally broke down after 3 years with this computer and asked Mike

> to try and make the screen strait. He didn't know what I was talking

> about and had to get a messuring tape out and messure the distance

on

> the top of the screen to the margin and do the same at the bottom of

> the screen to show me they were the same distance. Of course now it

> bothers me even more because I KNOW I'm seeing it wrong.

In addition to hearing difficulties, I have vision difficulties [fun

when you are a very visual person LOL]. I see my screen as " not

straight " even tho intellectually I know it is straight [yes I

measured it too LOL]. But I do not see it as diagonal like you

describe.

> My computer doesn't automatically refresh, so I don't have that

> problem. But when I'm in a chat room it flicks all the time. Doesn't

> it do that for everyone though?

I may have been slightly misleading in my reply on this issue. Have

you ever seen television or computer screens in the background on the

local television news show? They always look like they are

flickering/refreshing, because broadcast cameras operate on a

different speed than television/computer. That is how I see a

television and also movies in a theatre. But not always for the

computer, depends on what site I am viewing.

And I have no idea whether or not is does that for everyone.