| Aug. 19th, 2008 @ 01:59 am They recognize it in Sweden, you know. |
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While I've never had a cell phone, I first started feeling the headaches from using cordless headphones about 2 years ago. Eventually that grew to my CRT monitor, and then eventually my Dell Inspirion 1720 - which I can't touch. To rest my wrists on the keyboard burns me, even though the actual temperature of the metal isn't hot enough to burn. I have the font set to 20 and the actual laptop about three feet away from me, using an external plug-in keyboard and a wireless mouse. My hand that rests on the mouse will get a reddish tingling rash that will work its way up my arm if I'm on the computer for too many days in a row non-stop. My internet is wireless, and to get near the DSL modem is excruciating. My sinuses swell up in my head and the fluid vibrates like I'm being microwaved.
I've taken four rounds of antibiotics, which usually does something, but this time it didn't. I’m assuming that when I have trapped, vibrating fluid in my brain it has as much chance of causing an infection as any other time one would have clogged sinuses. I’ve also noticed that when I am around allergens, such as dust or pollen, the pain increases and my tolerance to my laptop is almost at zero. I can hear my elliptical machine when it's not on, but plugged in. I can hear my ceiling fan above me when it's not turned on. I can lean in close to appliances with my eyes closed and feel the pressure in my head increase, the vibrating sound excitedly boil like its trying to cook my brains.
I have a cordless phone and at this point I can't talk on it at all. I had thought that this problem was my eyesight, which had become suddenly blurry. The glasses didn't help, and in fact are painful to wear because they put weight on my already painful face. Since I've been working at home online, going to school online, and socializing online, I've found that I needed to start taking ADD medication. Now while that in and of itself isn't odd for me, I have noticed these past few months that the medicine doesn't seem to be working as well as it did. I feel even more confused and disoriented than I ever have before.
Many trips to the doctor for my "sinus trouble" hasn't helped - even though if I go outside on a nice spring growing day, I find that my symptoms are minimal. I have never had seasonal allergies before a few years ago. I started using the Neti Pot to irrigate my sinuses, and while I did find that flushing the crazy amount of (clear) mucus that filled my sinuses to bursting did help for a little bit, it was just a matter of time before they filled up again. These days I do a sinus rinse every hour and a half, just to be able to get through my day. Unfortunately my problem now seems to be that I end up trapping salt water in my head somewhere and no matter how hard I try to lean this way, lean that way, or have someone squeeze my head, I can't seem to get it out. It feels as if the sinus membranes swelled up more now that the fluid was gone, and the water that was left in my head is now solidly trapped. Anywhere in my head that is full of fluid hurts most when I feel the vibration, and yes steroid nasal sprays like Nasonex do help for a few hours. The swelling loosens just long enough to let the water out...but then I just swell back up with mucus.
The assumptions I've made about this change all the time. Obviously it's the wireless signals...but it's also whatever EMFs the CRT monitor was giving off. It was almost a vibrating buzz that I could hear and feel...but yet not hear or feel but almost *sense*...just try telling that to a doctor. "Hang on, doc. I'm getting a transmission from the Mothership." Because at this point I can feel it being given off by my car when I'm driving, and the refrigerator as it hums away. And like I said, anything that would normally cause a little sinus swelling makes it much worse. Dryness, dust, springtime, a cold, a regular headache, eye strain, the pressure of glasses, fumes, even sometimes just frowning will make the feeling much worse. And what can I do? I bought the laptop because it was the CRT monitor that was the biggest problem in the first place. And yes, while the screen does little to hurt me, the keyboard and the processor underneath has it out for me big time.
By using things to soothe my sinuses, like my humidifier and my filtering fan, I have actually increased the electronics in the room. Has it made it better? A little. But have I really fixed anything? Probably not. And so since my degree that I almost have is in Information Technology, and my job that I have is Internet research, and all my friends that I have are located all over the world at this point…what do I do with my life? Leave society and learn to hunt and forage for nuts and berries and eat tree bark? Because at this point I am –angry-. Angry that I live in an information age that I have become completely dependent upon, and yet the people that I depend on that live in that same age as I do seem to think that being “allergic to electricity” is in the same category as how balancing a purple crystal on your forehead will center your Chi. My uncle, who has had this sensitivity for 35 years, excitedly called me up when he heard of my symptoms, gleefully telling me to make sure and put my laptop in a steel box in the basement before I go to bed. I mean…is that any way to live? Does anyone else see how BAD that sucks?
I have a doctors appointment to review the results of my MRI this week, and if they don’t tell me the happy news that there is something terribly wrong with me that they have to cut me open to fix, I’m so ready to put on my tin foil hat and head to Sweden. luciuschakkouratgmaild*tcom
And...I'm not back. Not really. I just didn't have any other place to put this. *smiles*
Edit: Hey, I found something that seems to work. First I went back to wired everything (Internet and hardware. No cordless phones. Sucks, but eh..). After that I attached ferrite beads on all my wires to negate all the excess charge. Actually what I got were ferrite rings at Radioshack. They were called ceramic magnets and I got like 5 for $2.25. You can buy one for 14 bucks online that clip onto your cellphone, but don't be a sucka. Supposedly you get the best effects if you wind some copper wiring to the ring first, then around the cable in question. You can strip a speaker wire, buy a spool of copper wiring, or I've even seen these copper paper clips at Kroger that might do as good a job. Either way, it's a cheap fix.
I found the fastest relief just by placing one of these magnets on my forehead over my sinus cavity and feeling it instantly deflate (no shit). I tucked two, side-by-side under my basebalI cap as I worked today and had no problems whatsoever. I wore one around my wrist to sleep with and the neighbor's WiFi next door didn't bother me a bit. I'm going to have to perform a covert mission after hours and attach rings on all the bastard satellite dishes outside my apartment. Don't think I won't.
More as things develop.
09/16/08 Edit:
A copper wire clamped between my teeth made me realize that the problem was electrical current. Upon grounding myself and feeling the pain stop, I figured it was maybe my metal fillings and started to do some research. The stuff I learned about the mercury in the fillings sounded bad, since it is poisonous after all, but it didn't really seem to fit the symptoms I was having. Finally, I found info on "oral galvanization", which is where the metals in your teeth conflict and cause a battery effect (like chewing on foil).
It took me a a few dentists before one believed me and did what I wanted them to do. I had the 4 metal fillings removed and replaced with composite. Then I had them pull (yes, pull) the molar that had the crown on it. Why pull and not just go with porcelain and gold? Because in my molar there was metal, probably amalgam with mercury, all the way down the root. Even if they replaced the crown I'd still have the problem.
Very slowly I am able to add more electronics to my day. I was able to go back to DSL and get rid of the cable. The area where they pulled the tooth still feels burnt, much like the inside of my head. I'm still sensitive, like getting hot water on a stove burn, but the more I heal, the less I feel it. Ideally, I should stay clear of the pc for a few days and heal up, but that's really hard to do.
Our bodies have an electrical charge naturally. Electricity flows through us and we don't notice because it's a small amount. Because I'm fried on the inside, even the smallest amount doesn't feel great. Each day it does get better, and in fact I can drive again and touch the steering wheel without being in crazy pain.
The dentist told me that the teeth that surrounded the crown, filled or not, all have a substantial amount of decay. He said that it is maybe electrical decay, and you know I wouldn't doubt it. I don't eat sugar, and it's weird that the only ones with that much decay are the ones touching the crown.
The amount of mental clarity that I've gained since pulling the crown has been astounding, not so much because I can now speak in complete sentences, but because something like this could have effected me so badly.
Right now, I do have a hole in my mouth and I do not plan on getting an implant or a bridge. Either of those will have metal and I just refuse to have any metal in my mouth ever again. I do have a wisdom tooth that popped out of nowhere (at 34. isnt that odd?) and it tried to come up last year. I have room for it now, so let's see if I can coax it forward a bit.
The dentist that pulled my crown (different dentist that took out my fillings) told me that while he did learn about oral galvanization in dental school, I was his first case. He also said that when a tooth is causing the body stress, the body will just let it go. He said that while normally a molar in that area is very hard to get out, mine kinda slipped out easily (don't think at this point I hadn't tried to pull that sucker out myself).
Researching online has shown me that there are many, many people suffering from this and that they have no idea why. Not just electricity in general but cell phones and laptops. Because of the "cellphones give you cancer" scare that was going around, people treat you like a loon when you claim that your cellphone gives you headaches. The first dentist I saw LAUGHED at me and I left in tears. It really pisses me off because wifi/cellphones/laptops are new. The amount of wifi we have around us is only a few years old. Usually before they subject the public to something, like prescription drugs for instance, they do studies on it for years. We don't know how things are going to affect us, and we are guinea pigging ourselves and really have no say. Our culture is becoming dependent on these things and subjecting us to them whether we use them or not. I know I sound paranoid, but try being in pain for two years, getting laughed at when trying to get help, and then coming to find out that your teeth are having a reaction to your laptop. Even Vonnie was starting to get horrible ear pains which were becoming incapacitating. I took her immediately to get her fillings out and the pain is GONE. It was her cellphone and her fillings that was causing the problem.
Honestly, if you have this problem, you have a better chance of telling them that you want to have your fillings changed from metal to non-metal because you think they are ugly than claiming that they cause you pain. If you have metal going all the way down inside the root, you might have to pull it like I did. In that case, bring a friend. The dentist made me sign three documents and agreed to do it only because I brought Von along with me to sign. In his mind, he was pulling a good tooth because the pain wasn't typical tooth pain.
You can also look here for a dentist. http://www.iaomt.org/ They are expensive, but very sympathetic. They are more geared towards the poison of the mercury as opposed to the galvanization, but at the time I wasn't particular.
EDIT 09/22/08:
After getting my crown out, I didn't have the same feeling of current, but there were times I was really still sensitive. I'd look around and try to determine what specific areas were causing issues since it wasn't all the time now. I had removed all the magnets because I realized that now they were causing me pain instead of neutralizing. Once I removed them all I could see exactly which areas needed them. I put magnets back on the neighbor's satellite dishes and on the outside AC unit. I'm using cable internet right now with extension cords and an external laptop. I started using a less powerful laptop and contacted Dell about my large one and ow it was making me and Von react. They said they would send me a new one because it was obviously malfunctioning, although I really don't know. I found a website that will install a MuMetal casing over the fluorescent ballast in my laptop screen, which from all the research I've done about mercury in fluorescent tubes and how high the AC voltage is that comes from them, it sounds like a great idea. (Write me if you are interested.) I just want to be sure I've considered everything in my environment before I do another expensive thing.
I'm not the kind that buys into propaganda, or scare tactics. I loathe marketing schemes and social engineering, and think people who fall for them are morons. Everything I find has to have some kind of root in science or else I just can't buy it. I'm too skeptical. I have my pride. Or at least, I think I have some left.
I did notice that the AC unit in the apartment across the road was really causing me some pain when it turned on. It was making Von's ears hurt too...but it was just too far way to be logically causing problems. I figured that it had to be that maybe I acquired a sensitivity, or maybe that their AC unit was causing a power surge to my building...which wasn't even connected to mine as far as I could see. It was really puzzling until I realized that the large windchime I had hanging up on my balcony was made of copper. I called Von right away to take it down and he said that it hurt his ears to hold. He took it down to the car just to get it away and he said that it felt that a string was attached to the center of his chest and was pulling towards the chime. How scary is that shit? Anyway, the chime is gone and I'm in much less pain right now. I bought a cheap $12 milliGauss reader. It just shows a range of green, yellow, and red...I'm not going to be Ghost Hunting. Once it gets here, I can narrow down areas that are bringing in the electromagnetic fields and tweak them. My goal is to just be able to use my computer like I used to. I really don't want to move in with the Amish and have to churn my own butter.
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