DEAR DR. GOTT: I have been meaning for the longest time to comment on an article of yours relative to eye tics.
A number of years ago I suffered with an eye tic that was driving me mad and I couldn’t imagine the cause. Then, one day I bumped into a sign painter who recognized the problem immediately. He asked me if I was doing any intense eye work under a fluorescent light. I answered that I was. I was creating artworks, using the silk screening process and highly-detailed stencil cutting was involved.
He explained to me that a fluorescent bulb has an undetectable blink and that using one for intense work can cause your eyes to blink in sympathy with the bulb. I changed to an incandescent bulb and the tic immediately disappeared. [Read more...]