Assistance needed with Incandescent Bulb Ban

Moderator's note:
Please send your responses directly to Margaret Baird at uncmom59@AOL.COM


Hello,

I have been asked by Congressman Howard Coble's office to send a paper outlining all of our and other medical condiditons impacted adversely by the Energy Act's incandescent light ban as of 2012.  They are going to send it to the Energy Committee.  They requested my paper contain input from the disability community.  This includes persons with photosensitive epilepsy, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, lupus, migraines as well as the CFIDS/MCS related complex partial non-clonic seizures I have after about 4-5 minutes in the lighting.

Journal articles, physician comments, website URLs, patient and support group names and experiences would all be helpful to making our case.  Whatever you can do would be helpful.

Thank you.
Margaret Holt Baird

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The CFL manufacturers are claiming that they have fixed all the problems, and patients say they haven't.  So, be sure to specify if you've used the newer CFLs so the manufacturers won't try to argue that you're discussing problems that have been corrected.

As noted above, please send your comments to Margaret -- leaving them only as comments to this blog won't get them to her.

You needn't write pages and pages, even a single sentence that "After a few minutes under CFLs, I get [list symptoms]" will suffice.

If you know of research studies, doctor comments, etc., please send them along to Margaret.

My take on the situation is that I'm all for conserving energy, but I will not save a few bucks on electricity at the cost of my health.  Force me to use CFLs at home and I won't be able to work even the few hours I work now.

Tags: CFL, CFS, CFS/ME, ME/CFS, epilepsy, fluorescent, incandescent, autism, seizures