Hi Everyone, I don't know if their are any new post, because when I
open this website up I get June 15? I know this is not right, but in
any event I wanted to give you an update. I caught the terrible cold
going around in California when I returned from Colorado on the 12th
of July.  Interestingly my indoor glasses stopped working like before?
I think this is a new brain pattern I can't seem to get away from.
I've been on over the counter medication, and I thought I had beaten
it when last Friday the virus went deep into my inner ear. Nothing
could be done but wait for it to work it's way out, but I had
excruciating pain. The doctor gave me strong pain pills to help me
through the process, and also something for my vertigo. I have never
had vertigo where "I spin" it is the worst vertigo I have ever
experienced. Yuck.

Anyway, I wear my other glasses the same so it's not as bad as before.
I can't stay on the computer too long as the cold has wiped me out.

Lu

The last post I saw was dated June 26th, so if anyone posted after
this it did not show up. "Funny" when this happens.  Anyway…just to
let you know that I will be gone and starting today, but I will be
back on the 12th. It all depends on what I find when I am back home,
and I may not be on the computer until later in the week.

I may jump on here and there, and if I am by a computer. Take care
everyone and I hope you have a wonderful Fourth of July.

Lu
PS My color filter reading and indoor glasses work so well that I
bought me a new pair of frames at lens crafters I liked, so when I get
back from Colorado I will get an eye test with them, and then I will
send them in to get tinted. I will let you know if they all work out
fine.

Hi Julie,

You are a sweetheart.

Lu

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Julie M. Evans"
<julieeditor@...> wrote:
>
> Lu (I think it was),
> Feel free to use info I posted here to help anyone. Thanks,
> Julie
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Hi Val,

Congratulations on your new glass frames. Let me know when you get
them and if you like them.  I could not rely on my prescriptions when
I first got my color filters, because of how unstable my vision would
get in different light environments. It was visually too confusing and
planos were always my best bet.  I have been surprised with my recent
reading glasses because they are excellent. I still had my doubts
after Helen tested me because a tint blew out my system and it did not
calm back down enough for me to feel I was in control of my responses
after that, but Helen did a great job with me. I am reading up a
storm, it's been a long time since I could enjoy reading because of
how hard I had to struggle, but now that has all changed.  Of course I
live with the dread now that every time I have a PCS flare up they may
stop working for me...

Lu
PS I responded to an old post because that's what opened up. I still
have a hard time reading on my computer so I did not notice it was an
old post I responded to. I read with the indoors when I am on it...

Hi Donna,

I am glad that you have support from a screener who also is a teacher
to help with the dinosaur-stinking-thinking.  Unbelievable, how
barbaric, and heartless people can be towards a human being. There is
never any justification toward human suffering, and let alone toward a
child. One day...

Lu

Hi Val,

Glad to hear your new filter's tints aren't as dark. I still enjoy my
new two glasses, and my old tint in my sunglasses. Each day only gets
better for me. I am so happy.  I got my first pair in 1999 or 2000 and
it was frustrating trying to use them, but the one thing that kept me
going was how well they controlled my light induced seizures. I have
not bought any new glasses online lately, so I can't help you there.
There are new rules I am not familiar with in regard to the lenses
since 2003 it seems... I am glad all is well with mine.

Lu



--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Val"
<poetic_pets@...> wrote:
>
> I got my new filters.  They aren't as dark anymore.  But everything
> still has a sparkly sort of ISO noise look to it. :(
>
> Things also look darker still, but not so much.  But argh!  It's so
> frustrating.
>
> I guess I'll try to stick with these for now though.  I can't really
> afford to keep taking time off work and to keep trying new colors.
>
> I was getting all excited about sunglasses, but I think I'll put
> those off until later too now.  If I do get them right away, I was
> wondering if anyone had any luck getting the 39 dollar glasses place
> to use the CR-39 lenses but not tint them?  They have them available
> with the prescription for like $10 extra, but they're tinted.  I
> wonder if they could do them and not tint them.  I know the Irlen
> lab requires that you get plano through them, so I was thinking of
> getting a slight prescription or something so that I could save
> money and get my glasses online.
>
> The hard part, is that I look horrible with huge sunglasses, so I
> don't really want to buy any.  I'm thinking of just going with some
> that have the large frame on the side, but the lenses aren't super
> huge.
>

Lu (I think it was),
Feel free to use info I posted here to help anyone. Thanks,
Julie

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Oh I didn't know it costs more to tint prescription.  I might just
have them put in planos.  Perscriptions don't do anything for me.

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, brainstormwriter
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Val,
>
> The price to have my prescription retinted was $45, and with my
planos
> it was $25, and they added two layers on tope of what I already
had.
> It's cheaper in the long run to use planos, but if you need
> prescriptions it's a different story. It cost more to have them
> rushed, and I usually have them rushed.
>
> When I come back from visiting my daughter in Colorado in July, it
> will be time agin to have my eyes retested to see if I need a new
> prescription for my reading glasses. So far my indoor glasses help
me
> to read better. I am surprised, because I could not before with
them,
> but until the new indoor tint prescription with Helen, and
regardless
> I see medium dark when I read now.
>
> I am glad you found a pair of glass frames you like. It is hard to
> find in one place a pair of glass frames you like. I know how it
feels
> when you find something you like. The one thing I do miss is not
> seeing my eyes when I wear the color filters all of the time, snd I
> may consider gettting contacts (for my indoors) in the future with
> Helen. Good luck.
>
> Lu
>

That is great news!

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, brainstormwriter
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Val,
>
> Thank you for wishing me good luck, because when I took the retint
> check with Helen, everything went fantastically well. I am so
pleased
> with my new tints for my indoor glasses. They are better at claming
> down my Irlen/PCS symptoms than my outdoor glasses. I actually feel
> happy (emotion) when I have them on, interesting, I don't get that
> same effect with my other two pair of color filter glasses. My best
> pair prior to my retint check was my outdoors (sunglasses) but
their
> full effect now comes into play when I am fully outdoors.
>
> I now have three, indoor, outdoors and now reading, and I stayed
> within my original colors (tints.
>
> With my indoors I can read better, process better, access my files
> better...the strain on my eye muscles are gone. They help my eye
> muscles not get so stiff when I move them from side-to-side...due
to
> light sensitivity.  I wish I had gone in for a retint check a long
> time ago... Live and learn.
>
> Lu
>

I to have to go for a tint check soon, my glasses are great for at night but
some times inside they are a bit dark.

  I think i will be another person who has 3 pairs of glasses i ahve the
clips to put on top of my every day\outdoor ones then for reading or doing
cross stitch work they need to be a bit lighter my glasses are yellow and
blue and when i am inside i see the yellow not much but enough to make it
annoying.





On 6/22/07, brainstormwriter <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi Val,
>
> Thank you for wishing me good luck, because when I took the retint
> check with Helen, everything went fantastically well. I am so pleased
> with my new tints for my indoor glasses. They are better at claming
> down my Irlen/PCS symptoms than my outdoor glasses. I actually feel
> happy (emotion) when I have them on, interesting, I don't get that
> same effect with my other two pair of color filter glasses. My best
> pair prior to my retint check was my outdoors (sunglasses) but their
> full effect now comes into play when I am fully outdoors.
>
> I now have three, indoor, outdoors and now reading, and I stayed
> within my original colors (tints.
>
> With my indoors I can read better, process better, access my files
> better...the strain on my eye muscles are gone. They help my eye
> muscles not get so stiff when I move them from side-to-side...due to
> light sensitivity. I wish I had gone in for a retint check a long
> time ago... Live and learn.
>
> Lu
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

You are so right our children  should not depend on the system for anything
like education. Both of my kids were in the low 50's for marks and when i
took them out of school and taught them at home they soared and the
creativity came out.

  I just wish we were closer to Helen Irlen because you can believe i would
have called on her to help me explain to the school why i and the screener
asked for these considerations i was in the school each day while she had
her first pair of glasses and still the dinosaur thinking on the teachers
part was incredible.

  I could not let my child suffer with teachers who were so uncaring as to
make my child suffer needlessly when they had the information to make her
life easier.(my opinion only about the teachers as i saw it)

  Now since they are home schooled they are in the high 90's and have
finished thier year i think in February.

  For sure next year i will be slowing them down alot so they will finish as
the normal school year ends but hey if they want to go ahead who am i to say
no.

   We have a diagnostician closer who also is a teacher and all her family
has Irlen and she has been a big help to us she is a great person who has
helped us when we have asked questions. This lady is a friend to all of my
family.





On 6/22/07, brainstormwriter <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi Donna,
>
> I am sorry that the Canadian School system did not respect your
> daughter's medical dilemma to light sensitivity.
>
> Helen explained that the color tints help to regulate my brain's
> wavelength, and they help my brain to avoid inflammation due to the
> strain placed on it. The negative physical response I have to certain
> light wavelength frequencies causes me to have problems within my
> brain, and this is when it malfunctions (Irlen/PCS/BI). I am very
> vulnerable to certain wavelength light frequencies, and to the point
> where I am placed at risk to suffer a light induced seizure to be set
> off... How barbaric that anyone can't respect an expert like Helen's
> work as being medical science...did they not take physics? Ignoranance
> is no excuse for them to use to be bliss, as it makes them look
> ancient and outdated to be involved in the public education of our
> future (our children who depend on them, but should not).
>
> Lu
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Congratulations Val!!!

Every little help is a push towards independence, and I hope you
always will enjoy your blessing.

Lu
PS Have you heard of the Hearst Family donating 13 miles of coast on
Hwy 1 to the State for a State Park Elephant Seal's reserve?  That
includes Piedras Blancas lighthouse?  But you have to go to Friends of
the Elephant Seal website to get information about them, but they are
right next to one another...it's worth the trip. One day I would love
to go there again, but I don't drive and I rely on others to take me
there. http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/bakersfield/Programs/pbls.html
http://www.elephantseal.org/

Hi Donna,

I am sorry that the Canadian School system did not respect your
daughter's medical dilemma to light sensitivity.

Helen explained that the color tints help to regulate my brain's
wavelength, and they help my brain to avoid inflammation due to the
strain placed on it. The negative physical response I have to certain
light wavelength frequencies causes me to have problems within my
brain, and this is when it malfunctions (Irlen/PCS/BI). I am very
vulnerable to certain  wavelength light frequencies, and to the point
where I am placed at risk to suffer a light induced seizure to be set
off... How barbaric that anyone can't respect an expert like Helen's
work as being medical science...did they not take physics? Ignoranance
is no excuse for them to use to be bliss, as it makes them look
ancient and outdated to be involved in the public education of our
future (our children who depend on them, but should not).

Lu

Hi Julie,

I made a text of this and placed it in the file section here for
people to refer to it when they need help like this from schools. I
hope you don't mind, let me know. Great job.

Lu

Hi Val,

The price to have my prescription retinted was $45, and with my planos
it was $25, and they added two layers on tope of what I already had.
It's cheaper in the long run to use planos, but if you need
prescriptions it's a different story. It cost more to have them
rushed, and I usually have them rushed.

When I come back from visiting my daughter in Colorado in July, it
will be time agin to have my eyes retested to see if I need a new
prescription for my reading glasses. So far my indoor glasses help me
to read better. I am surprised, because I could not before with them,
but until the new indoor tint prescription with Helen, and regardless
I see medium dark when I read now.

I am glad you found a pair of glass frames you like. It is hard to
find in one place a pair of glass frames you like. I know how it feels
when you find something you like. The one thing I do miss is not
seeing my eyes when I wear the color filters all of the time, snd I
may consider gettting contacts (for my indoors) in the future with
Helen. Good luck.

Lu

Hi Val,

Thank you for wishing me good luck, because when I took the retint
check with Helen, everything went fantastically well. I am so pleased
with my new tints for my indoor glasses. They are better at claming
down my Irlen/PCS symptoms than my outdoor glasses. I actually feel
happy (emotion) when I have them on, interesting, I don't get that
same effect with my other two pair of color filter glasses. My best
pair prior to my retint check was my outdoors (sunglasses) but their
full effect now comes into play when I am fully outdoors.

I now have three, indoor, outdoors and now reading, and I stayed
within my original colors (tints.

With my indoors I can read better, process better, access my files
better...the strain on my eye muscles are gone. They help my eye
muscles not get so stiff when I move them from side-to-side...due to
light sensitivity.  I wish I had gone in for a retint check a long
time ago... Live and learn.

Lu

Good for you






On 6/22/07, Val <poetic_pets@...> wrote:
>
>   Results of my dyslexia testing are in... I'm not dyslexic
> (whoohoo!). The school said that since the dyslexia screener did
> however say that I was definitely having the problem I said I was,
> that I should get accommodations. So finally the school has
> approved my accommodations. :D
>
> Val
>
> --- In
glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com<glimmercoloredfilterglasses%40yahoog\
roups.com>,
> "Val"
> <poetic_pets@...> wrote:
> >
> > I actually don't have a medical doctor (not a regular one anyway,
> I
> > only go every couple years (or every 5)), but I could see if the
> > health center could write up something.
> >
> > What kinds of things should the doctor include on the note? The
> > school is being very vague with me about what they actually need.
> >
> >
> > Val
> >
> > --- In
glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com<glimmercoloredfilterglasses%40yahoog\
roups.com>,
> "Julie M.
> Evans"
> > <julieeditor@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Glimmer 'Colored Filter Glasses' - How CRE: accommodations
> > > Can you get a medical doctor to say you need the accommodations?
> > > We just gave our MD a list of our son's symptoms, a list of
> > accommodations needed and a short description of Irlen syndrome
> and
> > he wrote a letter, which our son's public high school accepted.
> They
> > didn't want to accept a letter "just" from a diagnostician. If
> your
> > dr. needs to understand that there is research behind Irlen, you
> can
> > print out a list of research papers in peer reviewed journal
> > articles from www.irlen.com or my web site at
> > www.readingandlight.com (mine is not updated but last I looked had
> > more on it than the Irlen site).
> > > I think under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) they
> would
> > have to make accommodations if a dr. asks for it.
> > > Julie Evans, screener
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Results of my dyslexia testing are in... I'm not dyslexic
(whoohoo!).  The school said that since the dyslexia screener did
however say that I was definitely having the problem I said I was,
that I should get accommodations.  So finally the school has
approved my accommodations. :D

Val

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Val"
<poetic_pets@...> wrote:
>
> I actually don't have a medical doctor (not a regular one anyway,
I
> only go every couple years (or every 5)), but I could see if the
> health center could write up something.
>
> What kinds of things should the doctor include on the note?  The
> school is being very vague with me about what they actually need.
>
>
> Val
>
> --- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Julie M.
Evans"
> <julieeditor@> wrote:
> >
> > Glimmer 'Colored Filter Glasses' - How CRE: accommodations
> > Can you get a medical doctor to say you need the accommodations?
> > We just gave our MD a list of our son's symptoms, a list of
> accommodations needed and a short description of Irlen syndrome
and
> he wrote a letter, which our son's public high school accepted.
They
> didn't want to accept a letter "just" from a diagnostician.  If
your
> dr. needs to understand that there is research behind Irlen, you
can
> print out a list of research papers in peer reviewed journal
> articles from www.irlen.com or my web site at
> www.readingandlight.com (mine is not updated but last I looked had
> more on it than the Irlen site).
> > I think under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) they
would
> have to make accommodations if a dr. asks for it.
> > Julie Evans, screener
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>

I actually don't have a medical doctor (not a regular one anyway, I
only go every couple years (or every 5)), but I could see if the
health center could write up something.

What kinds of things should the doctor include on the note?  The
school is being very vague with me about what they actually need.


Val

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Julie M. Evans"
<julieeditor@...> wrote:
>
> Glimmer 'Colored Filter Glasses' - How CRE: accommodations
> Can you get a medical doctor to say you need the accommodations?
> We just gave our MD a list of our son's symptoms, a list of
accommodations needed and a short description of Irlen syndrome and
he wrote a letter, which our son's public high school accepted. They
didn't want to accept a letter "just" from a diagnostician.  If your
dr. needs to understand that there is research behind Irlen, you can
print out a list of research papers in peer reviewed journal
articles from www.irlen.com or my web site at
www.readingandlight.com (mine is not updated but last I looked had
more on it than the Irlen site).
> I think under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) they would
have to make accommodations if a dr. asks for it.
> Julie Evans, screener
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Here in Canada i was not as lucky even with our dr. letters my daughter
never got the accomadations she needed to stay in public school so i had to
make a choice to teach her at home,

  actually i teach both of my children at home they are better off than when
they did go to school.

I found that the kids just could not get it in their heads that my girls
glasses were just that glasses, and we were in constant fear of some one
breaking or smashing them on her and if any one knows this they are
expensive but so very worth it

  and i can't afford to keep replacing them at the cost they are. Even the
teachers were not good about them either always harassing my girls to take
off the sunglasses and why wear tyhem if they do no good. This was after i
had explained about 20 times what she has and eventhe Dr. notes to the staff
and the screener she has came from where she lives to talk to the staff to
make sure she could get the consideration she needed never happened for me
but if you can get it well i am so very glad at least one child is not being
bothered by some one who choses not to understand.





On 6/20/07, Julie M. Evans <julieeditor@...> wrote:
>
>   Glimmer 'Colored Filter Glasses' - How CRE: accommodations
> Can you get a medical doctor to say you need the accommodations?
> We just gave our MD a list of our son's symptoms, a list of accommodations
> needed and a short description of Irlen syndrome and he wrote a letter,
> which our son's public high school accepted. They didn't want to accept a
> letter "just" from a diagnostician. If your dr. needs to understand that
> there is research behind Irlen, you can print out a list of research papers
> in peer reviewed journal articles from www.irlen.com or my web site at
> www.readingandlight.com (mine is not updated but last I looked had more on
> it than the Irlen site).
> I think under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) they would have to
> make accommodations if a dr. asks for it.
> Julie Evans, screener
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Glimmer 'Colored Filter Glasses' - How CRE: accommodations
Can you get a medical doctor to say you need the accommodations?
We just gave our MD a list of our son's symptoms, a list of accommodations
needed and a short description of Irlen syndrome and he wrote a letter, which
our son's public high school accepted. They didn't want to accept a letter
"just" from a diagnostician.  If your dr. needs to understand that there is
research behind Irlen, you can print out a list of research papers in peer
reviewed journal articles from www.irlen.com or my web site at
www.readingandlight.com (mine is not updated but last I looked had more on it
than the Irlen site).
I think under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) they would have to make
accommodations if a dr. asks for it.
Julie Evans, screener


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

They are cool!  I didn't think about a non-adjustable frame being
slightly off center with my ears, but, it won't matter since you can't
notice that once they're going to be tinted so dark.

I had my prescription put into these.  I won't get another pair with
prescription, it doesn't help me at all.  Doesn't make things worse
either, just doesn't help.  But they'll be tinted, so no one will
notice that one eye will look absolutely giant.

So now I know where to get glasses frames from now on.  But I guess
I'd need to have some slight presciption at least put into them so
that the Irlen institute will still tint them and not charge for new
lenses.

The school told me they'd do all of my accommodations if I was
actually dyslexic.  I'm like "Hmm... that makes no sense.  You guys
only treat disabilities that you like or what?"

Yesterday I finished dyslexia testing.  I doubt they'll say I had
anything.  The only thing with the reading was that I was very
slow.  But once I could see each word (it was on high gloss white
for the most part), I could read it to them.  And I think on
spelling I only missed like two words, and both were words I didn't
really know.

I can't really be home schooled though, I'm in my 5th year of
college. ;)

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Donna Leonard"
<emmiezmom@...> wrote:
>
> that is bad I also couldn't get anything printed on colored paper
either
> which i have no idea why but now i home school them so it is okay
no
> fluresent lites in my home so that is good.
>
>  Yeah and helping you as if you are dyslexic is okay but if all
you have is
> Irlen then are they not doing more harm than good? I would think
so.
>
>
>  The school people thought my oldest was dyslexic too but all she
has is
> Irlen. now she is fine.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 6/15/07, Val <poetic_pets@...> wrote:
> >
> >   So last quarter, the school decided I could receive help like
a note
> > taker for the board (didn't find one, but I'll try next quarter)
and
> > extra time on tests. It did help, but it was on a temporary
basis,
> > provided I could get them more paperwork. They had also sent me
for
> > dyslexia testing, which I haven't been able to complete yet (4
hours
> > to go, ugh).
> >
> > So now I brought them more paperwork, and they tell me that it
would
> > be easier for them to help me if I'm dyslexic, so they want to
try
> > that still and still have me get the testing done. I told
them "but
> > what if I'm not dyslexic?" and they seem to think that this
problem
> > alone (Irlen syndrome) wouldn't be enough. Because they pointed
out
> > it says on the sheet "this is not reading remediation or a visual
> > impairment" and they think I need reading remediation (I think
I'm
> > fine on actual skills, it's just processing the page that's the
> > problem).
> >
> > If anyone here had success with the school disability office,
let me
> > know what paperwork you got. Maybe I'm missing something. The
> > school won't print my tests on blue paper or anything unless I
can
> > have more documentation. But for now, since the delay in testing
> > was not my fault, they will give me accommodations as if I was
> > dyslexic instead.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

That's a good point.  Sometimes the actual glasses give me a
headache if they poke into my head a certain way.  These frames are
fairly loose though now.  I kind of don't like them so much anymore,
because I've found frames I really wanted online.  But I paid too
much for them to change them just for looks.

Best of luck tomorrow!


Val

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, brainstormwriter
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Val,
>
> I am glad that your new tints don't give you headaches. I thought
of
> you this past weekend in regard to your headaches. I remembered
that a
> pair of glasses I had gave me headaches, because they would pressed
> against a nerve on the bridge of my nose. It would get worse when I
> would fall asleep with them. I got new frames, and the problem was
> gone. You may want to keep this in the back of your mind.
>
> I like oval frames, but you are right they are small most of the
time
> I try them on. I use squares and aviators mainly.
>
> Good luck on your new frames with prescriptions, as long as they
use
> the right lenses Helen uses they will work. I am going to see her
this
> Wednesday, wish me luck.
>
> Lu
>

luck

On 6/18/07, brainstormwriter <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi Val,
>
> I am glad that your new tints don't give you headaches. I thought of
> you this past weekend in regard to your headaches. I remembered that a
> pair of glasses I had gave me headaches, because they would pressed
> against a nerve on the bridge of my nose. It would get worse when I
> would fall asleep with them. I got new frames, and the problem was
> gone. You may want to keep this in the back of your mind.
>
> I like oval frames, but you are right they are small most of the time
> I try them on. I use squares and aviators mainly.
>
> Good luck on your new frames with prescriptions, as long as they use
> the right lenses Helen uses they will work. I am going to see her this
> Wednesday, wish me luck.
>
> Lu
>
>
>


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Hi Val,

I am glad that your new tints don't give you headaches. I thought of
you this past weekend in regard to your headaches. I remembered that a
pair of glasses I had gave me headaches, because they would pressed
against a nerve on the bridge of my nose. It would get worse when I
would fall asleep with them. I got new frames, and the problem was
gone. You may want to keep this in the back of your mind.

I like oval frames, but you are right they are small most of the time
I try them on. I use squares and aviators mainly.

Good luck on your new frames with prescriptions, as long as they use
the right lenses Helen uses they will work. I am going to see her this
Wednesday, wish me luck.

Lu

Hi Val,

Sounds like a good plan.

Lu

--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, "Val"
<poetic_pets@...> wrote:
>
> That totally ruined my day... and most of my week trying to call the
> insurance people.
>
> I can see all colors of cars... I guess I described that wrong.  I
> meant that I watch how the entire road is going before I change a
> lane.  And then I look and I wait for the car that I wanted to pass
> me first to go, and then I go.  I like to go by colors, because that
> way I'll know I got the right car.  Like if I see in my rear view
> mirror blue, blue, blue, white, grey, grey, orange... nothing...
> then it is easy to go after the orange car has passed me.
>
> Now I think what actually happened, is that there is no way I really
> missed seeing their car, just that since they were speeding, they
> jumped in trying to pass me after I had looked but before I had a
> chance to look again.
>
>

that is bad I also couldn't get anything printed on colored paper either
which i have no idea why but now i home school them so it is okay no
fluresent lites in my home so that is good.

  Yeah and helping you as if you are dyslexic is okay but if all you have is
Irlen then are they not doing more harm than good? I would think so.


  The school people thought my oldest was dyslexic too but all she has is
Irlen. now she is fine.






On 6/15/07, Val <poetic_pets@...> wrote:
>
>   So last quarter, the school decided I could receive help like a note
> taker for the board (didn't find one, but I'll try next quarter) and
> extra time on tests. It did help, but it was on a temporary basis,
> provided I could get them more paperwork. They had also sent me for
> dyslexia testing, which I haven't been able to complete yet (4 hours
> to go, ugh).
>
> So now I brought them more paperwork, and they tell me that it would
> be easier for them to help me if I'm dyslexic, so they want to try
> that still and still have me get the testing done. I told them "but
> what if I'm not dyslexic?" and they seem to think that this problem
> alone (Irlen syndrome) wouldn't be enough. Because they pointed out
> it says on the sheet "this is not reading remediation or a visual
> impairment" and they think I need reading remediation (I think I'm
> fine on actual skills, it's just processing the page that's the
> problem).
>
> If anyone here had success with the school disability office, let me
> know what paperwork you got. Maybe I'm missing something. The
> school won't print my tests on blue paper or anything unless I can
> have more documentation. But for now, since the delay in testing
> was not my fault, they will give me accommodations as if I was
> dyslexic instead.
>
>
>


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So last quarter, the school decided I could receive help like a note
taker for the board (didn't find one, but I'll try next quarter) and
extra time on tests.  It did help, but it was on a temporary basis,
provided I could get them more paperwork.  They had also sent me for
dyslexia testing, which I haven't been able to complete yet (4 hours
to go, ugh).

So now I brought them more paperwork, and they tell me that it would
be easier for them to help me if I'm dyslexic, so they want to try
that still and still have me get the testing done.  I told them "but
what if I'm not dyslexic?" and they seem to think that this problem
alone (Irlen syndrome) wouldn't be enough.  Because they pointed out
it says on the sheet "this is not reading remediation or a visual
impairment" and they think I need reading remediation (I think I'm
fine on actual skills, it's just processing the page that's the
problem).

If anyone here had success with the school disability office, let me
know what paperwork you got.  Maybe I'm missing something.  The
school won't print my tests on blue paper or anything unless I can
have more documentation.  But for now, since the delay in testing
was not my fault, they will give me accommodations as if I was
dyslexic instead.

I think these seem better over time.  I still see the sparkles, but
not bad headaches.  I can read better with them, but I still just go
with the blue sheet if I can (and I don't read for fun, I just do
audio for that, so I really don't read a lot).

I like oval frames best, but they always seem too small.  So I
compromise and get square frames.

I got plano for my indoor glasses for the Irlen center.  But on the
$39 frames site, the lenses actually come included (and they did CR-
39 at no extra charge).  So I wanted to try out my prescription just
to see if it's any good (considering that was free to do anyway).
It's a lot cheaper than having to buy the plano lenses (they would
have done plano too, but I know they said at Irlen that they don't
do outside plano lenses).


Val


--- In glimmercoloredfilterglasses@yahoogroups.com, brainstormwriter
<no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Val,
>
> I don't know what to say about all the concerns you still have
about
> your glasses. How are your headaches? I can only share through my
> experiences, and it took time for me to accept that the color
filter
> glasses would not help calm all of my symptoms, but for the major
ones
> it did.  I focused on the symptoms they helped me on, and worked
> around the other symptoms.  I think your headache is a major
symptom
> for you to consider with them.
>
> If I wear my light color filter glasses I see the "sparkly" with
them,
> but if I put on my dark ones I don't. The problem is they are too
dark
> to wear inside the house for the most part. I've learned to use the
> light color filter glasses for the indoor.
>
> That must be frustrating not being able to take off of work to keep
> trying new colors should you need to.  Gosh, whatever are you
going to
> do to help yourself then?
>
> I always got my CR-39 lenses from Helen, so I don't deal with the
> lenses problem. I use Plano. I never bought a prescription online
> either; I wish I had the information you need. Why types of look in
> frames do you like best?  I am fond of Squares (rounded on the
> corners), Ovals, or Aviators, and the frames I try on come in
various
> sizes.
>
> Lu
>