Dear all,

Here my little introduction and questions to you!

1. What brings you here?
A very good friend of mine brings me here, gravelbed, also registered on this forum. I sent him the link of this forum to him a few months ago and he arrived to register on this forum but as he has severe vertigo, headache, fatigue and low-energy due to SPD, especially due to light sensitivity, he has a hard time staying long behind a computer or just during the day. Times are hard for him lately and I am posting this message just to hear what treatments other people with SPD follow. Gravelbed is using topiramate 100mg and also uses xanax to relax, especially when there is heavy vertigo due to light sensitivity what creates anxiety. Also he follows a vitamin treatment based on blood analysis. But still no serious improvement occurs, and that already since 5 years. Living with vertigo induced by light sensitivity has been very hard and is still hard because we are living in light the whole day. Mainly only the darkness and sleep seems to bring rest in his head.

2. What is your relations to someone with SPD? Do you have it? a child of yours? Do you treat SPD kids as a professional?
So gravelbed is a colleague of mine at work. And he is very good in what he does but he has difficulty keeping up at work due to his SPD.

3. Share a little of your journey if you'd like.
I'm just trying to support him as life is not easy and I was hoping maybe via this forum some other help could be found or maybe sending him an encouraging message might let him find other people that have the same problems.

4. Is there any immediate help you need?
Yes, any possible treatments that people with the above problems followed, life is hard for gravelbed at this moment.

5. SPD doesn't run your life! What are you or your child's gifts? Interests?
Gravelbed does photography and plays in a band, he is very creative and tries to get it out like that.

6. What do you like to do in your spare time? Any hobbies or interests?
Like doing photo and reading. And helping out a friend!

So I ask your help to react on this message just to see how people with the same symptoms try to live, and what treatments they follow and what was the result of those treatments. Maybe there exists someone on this forum that also have vertigo, headache, fatigue and low-energy due to light sensitivity (SPD) and maybe you found a treatment that works. Life is hard when solutions are scarce or the existing treatment followed seems to work not as hoped for. Karamel thanks you for your reactions on behalf of gravelbed!