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I have tried blue light bulbs with positive effect Also have negative response (more movement) with yellow or pink bulbs. I cannot walk in bright sunlight. I was one of the first to have success with Tom R and the blue glasses. I wear them 80% of the time....never leave home without them. Become dyskinetic in candle light....as little as a votive candle on a table. I have talked with several neurologists (and demonstrated) the effect of the blue glasses and the response has been less than one would expect from an open minded individual. Following is my response from my last discussion with same: To Neuro's I have Known I once danced with my shadow as I wandered down the lane But youth is short, the shadow long and my dance is not the same. The shadow still protects me, within its lines I move (Though I've walked across the plaza to the entrance of the Louvre!) I tried to tell the wise men about the vision that I saw. I said "Please, sirs, will you listen?" You shook your heads and mumbled "nah". "Humor the little lady, she wants attention don't you see?" "What next?" I asked. You noted on my chart, "Mutually Preferred, the standard fee." "Learn to live with all your symptoms for we know not what them mean. Our science will not back you up, do not shake when you see green. Don't pucker in the yellow light, breathe deep when you see pink. It is the role of imagination, your subconscious it can think! We have no time to help you....we are busy can't you see. We have patients who are really sick. You only have PD." I once danced with my shadow as I wandered down the lane. Youth is short, the shadow long and my dance is not the same. The shadow still protects me, if I stay behind the line. When you ask "How are you doing?" I will smile and say "just fine." I wanted to be free at last, to share my thoughts if you would listen. Twas not to be. Twas not the time. "Is that a tear that I see glisten?" "Learn to live with all your symptoms for we know not what they mean. Our science will not back you up. Do not shake when you see green. Do not talk about your aches and pains for we know not what to do. Take you pills and don't be fussing....Can you walk without the blue?" I once danced with my shadow as I wandered down the lane. Youth is short, the shadow long and my dance is not the same. The shadow is my world now, it is where I function best. Safe haven from your labels and from psychiatric tests. This isn't where I want to be, but where else can I turn. Ambiguity is not an answer...that's the lesson I did learn. Science may still hold the secret but I will not ask again. I will not burden with my questions. I will delete "what might have been". Youth is gone. Shadows deepen. Hope has been replaced by pain. And I must dance within my shadow as I wander down the lane. Rita Weeks June 1995