Tried my SAD lamp for the first time today!

Today is rainy and dreary, so I tried my SAD lamp for the first time. I'm not sure if it's psychosomatic, but I do feel better. The lamp I bought is called a "Travelite" by Northern Light Technologies. As some of you know I travel a little bit for work and I wanted something that I could take with me on trips. My lamp cost $225. Yes that is a lot of money, but if it saves me from dipping so low that I need to miss work it's well worth it.

Here's the link to Northern Light Technologies website: http://www.northernlighttechnologies.com/

Just wanted to share my experience.

I'm going to have to look into that...of course, I'd rather just move to Cabo or Cancun, but I don't see that happening any time soon

I agree there is nothing that replaces real sun and the ocean!

I joke to my hubby that Hawaii therapy is what I want if we win lotto.

I am going to ask for a prescription for a trip to Hawaii.....mmmm I wonder if that's covered under my health plan.

I too have a SAD lamp. I find it helps energize me and keep me awake. I use it first thing in the morning and when I get home from work.

Personally I don't start using it until the autumn equinox and stop using it at the spring equinox, but that is because at the height of summer the sun rises at 5 AM it is still sunny at 10 PM. Of course the other side of things the sun doesn't rise till the middle of the morning and it sets mid-afternoon.

I use the LiteBookElite, though I have, perhaps deliberately, forgotten the cost of it.

Hey Merlin, it's funny because we live in the same area of Alberta, so you were experiencing the same weather I was yesterday. I agree I would stop using it come spring.

Do you live in Edmonton?

St. Albert.....so it might as well be Edmonton. And I see we are both up wayyyy too early. Perhaps I shouldn't have used my SAD lamp yesterday LOL!

I grew up in St. Albert and moved to Edmonton as an adult. I agree on the way to early though. I actually didn't get to sleep at all.

Oh no! Do you have anything you can take to help you sleep or do you have to go to work soon?

I am worried if I take anything now it will just further mess up my internal clock. The only work I have to do today is at home, so I will muddle through.