I am new to the electrosensitive issue. I desperately need some
advise or someone pointing me to a source of information. I have suddenly become electrosensitive after new neighbours moved below me. I cannot sleep in bedroom , teeth fillings hurt, muscle twitching, severe abdominal pains, burning skin. I used a reliable Trifield meter to check out the EMF, which was not that high in my bedroom (1-2 miligauss, going to 6 mgauss with High E fields) Although the living room-kitchen area has 100 mgauss with circuits turned off on the floor per se,which I guess means the house is poorly grounded. By mistake I switched to Electrical field reading Volts/meter in my bedroom ( no apartment on top of me), the bedroom is 9 feet high, from the floor exdenting 5 feet up I get 150-200 Volts/meter electrical field, also from ceiling down 3-4 feet roughly 100-70V/m, even when my circuit is turned off. My bedroom shares a circuit with living room, no E reading in living room. My neighbour switches something on when he comes home from work and the E field goes up. Trying to figure this out I have called a knowledgable person at a place that sells meters, he could not imagine what could cause these high readings through the entire room other than a powerline, he could not think of an appliance other than a flourecent lamp, but even with that, the reading would drop off at a certain distance. Actually he said he had never heard of of a high reading like that in a dwelling. He suggested a wiring problem. If it was a wiring problem would one not expect the high field on that entire circuit bedroom and living room? I cannot bring the subject up with a housing inspector or landlord until I know if with these readings (electrical field in Volts/meter)are in fact readings any electrician or housing inspector would consider a "legitimate" complaint ,I do not want to expose my electrical sensitivity and be laughed at. This knowledgable person I spoke to, said, the expectation is that all dwellings have a Zero field reading and that the field from wiring would drop off within a foot. That is why I never measured the Electrical field. What could cause this? Do I have a legitimate complaint to my landlord? Are there national guidelines for electrical fields in apartments. Would the power company take this serious? This is like living under a powerline. What appliance could throw this much Voltage out? There should be only 120 Volts on the line, why do I get fields of 150-200 V/m electrical field. This is something my neighbour turns off and on. There used to be a low frquence humm, like a fan ,associated. Not knowing about the E field ,I asked them to turn the motor off, which they did. But the E-field is still there. Could it be that this is an airconditioner with a hermetic motor compressor which would require an HARc seperate circuit like a stove. It must have to do with the appliance because it get switched off , the reading returns to Zero. If ,however, it is a wiring problem, the landlord would be extremely mad at me for having to rewire possible many apartments, possibly getting the housing inspector involved. Most of you have probaly researched these issues much more. So I would so much appreciate your help, since I need to sleep at a friends house and I have basically no home. I either need to address this with the landlord or I have to move out. The latter is a big financial hardship because I live in a rent controlled apartment. I have contacted an electrician who brushed me off and trivialised the Tri-Field Meter and Electrical fields, which made me insecure. But apparently the power companies use similar equipment for EMF, but I do not know if the investigate Electrical Fiels in Volts/meter. Thanks to anyone who would take the time to respond. Lena |
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