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Light therapy or phototherapy consists of exposure to daylight or to specific wavelengths of light using lasers, light-emitting diodes, fluorescent lamps, dichroic lamps or very bright, full-spectrum light, for a prescribed amount of time and, in some cases, at a specific time of day.
Advice & Tips:
I have had Seasonally Affected Depression since I was a kid when my grades always dropped in the January-March grading period. Now living in the NW where winter nights are long and days are often dark, my full-spectrum light has really helped especially when adding 400 units of daily liquid Vitamin D each day in the winter. Caution: the cheap lights don't work as well.
Advice & Tips:
I was having 4 treatments per week and things were going well. Within a month of dropping to twice weekly, I was almost as bad as when I started. Went back up to 4x/week, and showing positive results again.
Severe
(dry skin, itching, pustules, hyperpigmentation (skin darkening))
Adherence
Always
Burden
Somewhat hard to take
Dosage:
M,W,F
Advice & Tips:
Treatment is somewhat of a burden because I live 40 minutes away from where I have to go 4 mornings a week, and the treatment currently only lasts 20 seconds.
