Originally posted by tillamook

OK WTH? Seriously sometimes people feel the need to share a bit too much...Bioware forums are not your medical doctor btw.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=281222 

 

Anyone else have issues? Perhaps a visit to a doctor or neurologist or is advised?

   I played SWTOR and it made me die, I re-incarnated into a cat and pawed my owners lap top got to SWTOR and passed away again, came back as a rat in someones garage and he threw his SWTOR box away in disgust and it hit me in the head and I died

Originally posted by eddieg50

Originally posted by tillamook

OK WTH? Seriously sometimes people feel the need to share a bit too much...Bioware forums are not your medical doctor btw.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=281222 

 

Anyone else have issues? Perhaps a visit to a doctor or neurologist or is advised?

   I played SWTOR and it made me die, I re-incarnated into a cat and pawed my owners lap top got to SWTOR and passed away again, came back as a rat in someones garage and he threw his SWTOR box away in disgust and it hit me in the head and I died

This sounds legit.

the new gcd animation is garbage.

This thread caused me to vomit.

SWTOR never did it to me, but I can relate to the complaint.

I have actually gone to the ER over an Everquest  gaming session, started with motion sickness, progressed to a horrible migraine, and ended up with a seizure.

Turned out to be photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy, and until this incident I had never presented a single symptom.

Since that seizure I get frequent inner eye pain, migraines, and my eye twitches.

So seriously it can happen just saying.

Originally posted by Sorrow

SWTOR never did it to me, but I can relate to the complaint.

I have actually gone to the ER over an Everquest  gaming session, started with motion sickness, progressed to a horrible migraine, and ended up with a seizure.

Turned out to be photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy, and until this incident I had never presented a single symptom.

Since that seizure I get frequent inner eye pain, migraines, and my eye twitches.

 

So seriously it can happen just saying.

Oh I know it can, in SWG for some odd reason the dark light and constant flashes of Mustafar made me and many others sick and or dizzy, but I'm not realy certain BioWare cares about every sympom someone has and if you took a tylonol. If it's serious, discontinue use and go talk to your doctor. Lets see how they respond to this I guess.

The poster on the SWTOR forums is funny...that wasn't an "experiment" that was just him getting a headache and continuing to play the game.

Any game can trigger a headache. Heck, sitting down in front of his computer could have triggered a migraine. There are plenty of bright flashing lights just streaming the internet. 

Furthermore, most migraine sufferers will tell you if they feel a migraine coming on there is typically very little they can do (short of something like lying in bed with their eyes closed) that will stop it from getting worse (and even then it typically still gets worse, they are just more prepared by being in a quiet place in the dark). Someone feeling a migraine coming on and thinking "Hm I'll just keep playing a video game" is just asking to suffer.

Originally posted by DrWookie

The poster on the SWTOR forums is funny...that wasn't an "experiment" that was just him getting a headache and continuing to play the game.

Any game can trigger a headache. Heck, sitting down in front of his computer could have triggered a migraine. There are plenty of bright flashing lights just streaming the internet. 

Furthermore, most migraine sufferers will tell you if they feel a migraine coming on there is typically very little they can do (short of something like lying in bed with their eyes closed) that will stop it from getting worse (and even then it typically still gets worse, they are just more prepared by being in a quiet place in the dark). Someone feeling a migraine coming on and thinking "Hm I'll just keep playing a video game" is just asking to suffer.

hehe, and an honest Doctor response kills the legitimacy of the complaint.

Originally posted by tillamook

Originally posted by DrWookie

The poster on the SWTOR forums is funny...that wasn't an "experiment" that was just him getting a headache and continuing to play the game.

Any game can trigger a headache. Heck, sitting down in front of his computer could have triggered a migraine. There are plenty of bright flashing lights just streaming the internet. 

Furthermore, most migraine sufferers will tell you if they feel a migraine coming on there is typically very little they can do (short of something like lying in bed with their eyes closed) that will stop it from getting worse (and even then it typically still gets worse, they are just more prepared by being in a quiet place in the dark). Someone feeling a migraine coming on and thinking "Hm I'll just keep playing a video game" is just asking to suffer.

hehe, and an honest Doctor response kills the legitimacy of the complaint.

Well if honesty is the policy here I have to preface it with the fact that I'm actually a third year medical student, not quite a doctor. However I have seen my fair share of migraines (and I suffer from them as well).

as someone who used to get multiple migraines a week, the best way to get rid of them is to figure out why you are getting them, and stop doing it.

in my case it came down too stress and caffeine, the first trigger we figured out was over caffination, and then cutting it cold turkey caused as well, eventually not having caffeine at all alleviated that trigger.  later on in life i figured out once i had no stress at all, i had no migraines at all.

medications and whatnot dont help with migrains, the only cure is to avoid getting them in the first place, either its a trigger, or you have a tumor ect, either way fix it and no more nasty headaches, just regular ones that aspirin and the like actually work on.

Originally posted by neorandom

as someone who used to get multiple migraines a week, the best way to get rid of them is to figure out why you are getting them, and stop doing it.

 

in my case it came down too stress and caffeine, the first trigger we figured out was over caffination, and then cutting it cold turkey caused as well, eventually not having caffeine at all alleviated that trigger.  later on in life i figured out once i had no stress at all, i had no migraines at all.

 

medications and whatnot dont help with migrains, the only cure is to avoid getting them in the first place, either its a trigger, or you have a tumor ect, either way fix it and no more nasty headaches, just regular ones that aspirin and the like actually work on.

I'm curious as to what you base "medicines and whatnot don't help with migrains" on. Perhaps you mean to say "Medications and what not did not help with my migraines", which is a very different statement. There are some good medications for migraines, though they aren't things you just buy at the counter (like aspirin). 

Though I agree that the best way to help with migraines is to avoid getting them in the first place, though the trigger isn't always easily discovered or eliminated.

Originally posted by DrWookie

The poster on the SWTOR forums is funny...that wasn't an "experiment" that was just him getting a headache and continuing to play the game.

Any game can trigger a headache. Heck, sitting down in front of his computer could have triggered a migraine. There are plenty of bright flashing lights just streaming the internet. 

Furthermore, most migraine sufferers will tell you if they feel a migraine coming on there is typically very little they can do (short of something like lying in bed with their eyes closed) that will stop it from getting worse (and even then it typically still gets worse, they are just more prepared by being in a quiet place in the dark). Someone feeling a migraine coming on and thinking "Hm I'll just keep playing a video game" is just asking to suffer.

I must say lying in the dark never made mine better but lying in a room with very little light with my eyes open helped.

When i use to get migraines in a regular manner closing my eyes tended to make it much much worse.

To the OP what is your problem with the guy you quoted, he had a problem and asked the community about it. That's what forums are for.

Im sure in the original thread someone told him ANY video game can cause headaches and even epiliptic seizures.