greetings from a new member

Hello to all the electrosensitives out there, my name is Jon. I was
introduced to the strange world of ES about a year and a half ago,
thanks to a great new hd cable box I had installed. It did give a
nice quality picture, but unfortunately had a different effect on my
quality of life. I don't have time to type every detail, (what
electrosensitive person would want to type up that much or even read
that much on a computer?) but I rapidly became rather ill, pretty
heavy fatigue, major trouble sleeping, assorted paresthesias (which
essentially felt like electric currents for the most part at first)
that spread out gradually from an area around the back of my jaw on
one side of my head, eventually getting to just about everywhere.  
After a few months I was finally able to identify the problem, (no
thanks to any doctors of course, perhaps a couple of you are
familiar with this sort of thing?) at that point the response
became more acute, and more and more things started having an effect
on me. I'm afraid my initial fascination didn't help me any, as I
was rather curious to see what effects things would have, though
that didn't last long as I soon became curious as to why things that
didn't effect me a couple days ago had started to effect me, and
other things that previously I had found to have mild influence on
my body soon intensified to very uncomfortable levels.  
I have done little to aid myself with medicines or any other
such experimentation on myself, though at some point I took some
melatonin which definitely seemed to help me get my sleep patterns
in a more reasonable order. I have done my best to avoid things
that bothered me, and have made a good recovery, and though there is
still plenty of room for improvement, at this point fortunately I'm
far from the nadir of my experience with ES, and of course hoping to
continue in that general direction.

Jon

In a message dated 2/23/2008 6:08:18 PM GMT Standard Time,
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still plenty of room for improvement, at this point fortunately I'm
far from the nadir of my experience with ES, and of course hoping to
continue in that general direction.

Jon



Out of interest did the problem eminate from LHS behind jaw ? Also has this
effected your work etc...

Paul uk






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Our next door neighbours have recently installed a new satellite dish. Sue
is worried that this may be affecting her ES - her head feels more disturbed
on that side of the house. We can try things out with shielding, but were
wondering - is there documented evidence somewhere of whether and how much a
dish can affect electrosensitives?

Ian




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--- In [hidden email], paulpjc@... wrote:
>
>
> Out of interest did the problem eminate from LHS behind jaw ?  
Also has this
> effected your work etc...
>  
> Paul uk
>

It emanated from the right side, and spread almost everywhere,
though for the most part paresthesias have been stronger on the
right, with a few exceptions a while ago when things were much worse
for me.

I stopped working and left my apartment for a while (not knowing
what the problem was yet), then got a little better and went back to
work and returned to the apartment and within a few days of that I
found myself to be ES, and after a couple of weeks I could feel
things like a magnet held over my hand, or if people near me
received a text message or call, and a wide variety of other
things. So anyway, I quit working again shortly after that and went
into EM hiding, and have only worked some part time seasonal work
since then.
I'm 33 living in California by the way.

I've often had trouble sleeping since this started, even recently,
but less so now. Symptoms often seem to show up as I drift towards
a sleep state, like I could be feeling fine but as soon as I get
close to falling asleep symptoms pop up that sometimes prevent
sleep. Anyone else have this sort of experience? I don't know if
it could be because of a the positioning of some part of my body, or
is somehow related to the way the body functions when going to sleep.
Perhaps some sort of autonomic nervous system malfunction.

Jon

Hi Jon

Welcome to the group.

Not sure if this info is useful, Im suure you have found most of it on the archives but here
is my 10 pence worth!

I presume you have made your house 'safe' by removing
wifi, mobiles, dect phones and anything radiating a
signal, making sure it is switched off. In fact, anything that does
not need to be plugged in, remove it and see if it
makes a difference. It is good to try and keep a
diary, this has helped me. Install a wired connection
for the internet but give yourself a break until the
symptoms settle down.

I would also suggest looking at your health and diet.
Switching to a fresh organic diet helps and also
changing anything else that adds to the toxic load on your body,
eg, all my home products/beauty products have been
switched to Eco ones.

I would also suggest speaking to someone about
vitamins and minerals as many ES people have low
B-Vits and trace minerals. I would also look at
taking an antioxidant to keep in optimum health.

I am getting some good results from Epsom Salts baths
which detoxify you. If I have been on a computer for
a long time and have one of these baths, it takes away
that horrible numb feeling...it may help and it is
cheap to try.

I would also suggest getting some fresh air and taking
up some exercise or form of relaxation if possible.

These are only my suggestions and many of the people
on this site have much more experience than me, I just
wanted to try and help if at all possible.

Please come back to me if you have any questions on
the things I mention above.

Alison






--- In [hidden email], "prentice_jon" <prentice_jon@...> wrote:

Hi Jon:

Welcome! I have similar symptoms to yours. Stronger on my right side.
Would suggest you check out metals in your mouth and cavitations. That's my
next step. Hope this helps.

Donna

Hello.

As a poor sleeper myself I can attest that getting up and having a
shower will sometimes work.

--- In [hidden email], "Marguerite Brink" <health.rehab@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> If melatonin helps, that's a pretty good indication that your sleep
problems
> are infact due to EMFs and you should be extra careful w/ limiting
those
> near where you sleep.
> There could also be waterlines running under the ground under your
bed. I
> would try moving the bed to another locations in the room and see
if that
> helps.
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:57 PM, prentice_jon <prentice_jon@...>
> wrote:
>
> > --- In [hidden email], paulpjc@ wrote:
> > >
> > I've often had trouble sleeping since this started, even recently,
> > but less so now. Symptoms often seem to show up as I drift
towards
> > a sleep state, like I could be feeling fine but as soon as I get
> > close to falling asleep symptoms pop up that sometimes prevent
> > sleep. Anyone else have this sort of experience? I don't know if
> > it could be because of a the positioning of some part of my body,
or
> > is somehow related to the way the body functions when going to
sleep.