how did you get your EMS diagnosis?

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> Hi, Rixta,
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> I went decades before figuring it out.  I have had some symptoms of ES since early childhood and got ES in particular places/ situations from the time I was at least 5.  I stopped watches from the age of 5 or 6 (whenever I got my first watch).  When I was in my late teens, doctors started saying how I affected their electrocardiographs badly.  I had been quite ill from early childhood, but doctors didn't seem to notice much, except I had "failure to thrive" and almost constant swollen glands.  (I finally got a dx for what caused this--celiac disease--at age 49.)
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> I began to suspect electrical problems in my body as causing some of my symptoms in my teens.  I also became more and more environmentally intolerant as time went on.  I occasionally wondered if radio waves affected me because I sometimes felt very weak after I listened to the radio.  But pretty much I thought my internal wiring was faulty, not that emfs outside me were to blame.  (I also had to be careful not to "fry" electrical things--light bulbs, electronics, watches,....)
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> I searched unsuccessfully for medical conditions which would cause this for years.  In my late 30s/ early 40s, I began noticing more and more places which were affecting me each year.  I found this forum in my early 50s (2003, I think) and by that time I was sure I had a form of ES.  In 2006, after a pesticide exposure, I became very ill with ES for 3 years.  I am now less reactive again, after doing various therapies I have previously mentioned at this forum.
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> My 2 cents on the subject,  ;)
> Diane
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> --- On Tue, 11/30/10, Rixta Francis<[hidden email]>  wrote:
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> From: Rixta Francis<[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [eSens] how did you get your EMS diagnosis?
> To: [hidden email]
> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 4:03 PM
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> You are probably not the only person who suffered that long before
> finding out what's the problem. I attributed many of my symptoms to my
> CFS for several years. Till I got such bad muscle spasms that I couldn't
> deny any longer that there was something else going on. Then it still
> took me about a year of many tests and many doctors' visits before I
> started to search on line and found what I needed to know. Still it
> seems that my body reacts quite differently to these things than with
> most of you. It seems that one of the first symptoms is ususally
> headache, but I rarely have a headache... But my body has always done
> things differently. I'm a doctor's nightmare, because my body doesn't
> make any sense.
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> Rixta
>> That is correct - it did take me almost 10 years to figure it all out. I feel so dumb looking back but back then there was so little info on this and I didn't have internet access. I didn't
>   want to believe that it was the power lines that were causing it. However, once I admitted it it gave me new hope. I figured if I moved I would get better.
>> Cheryl
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>> --- On Tue, 11/30/10, Marc Martin<[hidden email]>  wrote:
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>> Subject: Re: [eSens] how did you get your EMS diagnosis?
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>> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 10:59
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> Hi, Rixta,
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> I went decades before figuring it out. I have had some symptoms of ES since early childhood and got ES in particular places/ situations from the time I was at least 5. I stopped watches from the age of 5 or 6 (whenever I got my first watch). When I was in my late teens, doctors started saying how I affected their electrocardiographs badly. I had been quite ill from early childhood, but doctors didn't seem to notice much, except I had "failure to thrive" and almost constant swollen glands. (I finally got a dx for what caused this--celiac disease--at age 49.)
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> I began to suspect electrical problems in my body as causing some of my symptoms in my teens. I also became more and more environmentally intolerant as time went on. I occasionally wondered if radio waves affected me because I sometimes felt very weak after I listened to the radio. But pretty much I thought my internal wiring was faulty, not that emfs outside me were to blame. (I also had to be careful not to "fry" electrical things--light bulbs, electronics, watches,....)
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> I searched unsuccessfully for medical conditions which would cause this for years. In my late 30s/ early 40s, I began noticing more and more places which were affecting me each year. I found this forum in my early 50s (2003, I think) and by that time I was sure I had a form of ES. In 2006, after a pesticide exposure, I became very ill with ES for 3 years. I am now less reactive again, after doing various therapies I have previously mentioned at this forum.
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> My 2 cents on the subject, ;)
> Diane
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> --- On Tue, 11/30/10, Rixta Francis<[hidden email]> wrote:
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> From: Rixta Francis<[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [eSens] how did you get your EMS diagnosis?
> To: [hidden email]
> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 4:03 PM
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> You are probably not the only person who suffered that long before
> finding out what's the problem. I attributed many of my symptoms to my
> CFS for several years. Till I got such bad muscle spasms that I couldn't
> deny any longer that there was something else going on. Then it still
> took me about a year of many tests and many doctors' visits before I
> started to search on line and found what I needed to know. Still it
> seems that my body reacts quite differently to these things than with
> most of you. It seems that one of the first symptoms is ususally
> headache, but I rarely have a headache... But my body has always done
> things differently. I'm a doctor's nightmare, because my body doesn't
> make any sense.
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> Rixta
>> That is correct - it did take me almost 10 years to figure it all out. I feel so dumb looking back but back then there was so little info on this and I didn't have internet access. I didn't
> want to believe that it was the power lines that were causing it. However, once I admitted it it gave me new hope. I figured if I moved I would get better.
>> Cheryl
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>> --- On Tue, 11/30/10, Marc Martin<[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> From: Marc Martin<[hidden email]>
>> Subject: Re: [eSens] how did you get your EMS diagnosis?
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>> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 10:59
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> Hi, Rixta, 
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> Most doctors could be brain dead, imo.  lol  The funniest thing about me nearly blowing the electrographs was one doctor actually told me disgustedly and in an accusatory voice that I nearly blew his machine!  Like as if I did it on purpose!  lol  Never gave it a second thought that, gee, she must have something very hinky going on for that to happen!  Nope, you woulda thought, but no.  Only one doctor out of ?dozens?--a neurologist who did ECG and an EEG on me, thought to even give me a sign this was REALLY abnormal.  (I think that's the name of the test--the casket type bed you lay in with electrodes on and then they shock you all over).  I had that test from 3 different doctors and only that one doc ever said, "Gee!  That is weird; I wonder what is going on with you?"  The doctor who "got it" said I "obviously" had a condition for which they had no reading parameters for YET. And went on to tell me not to give up, but to come back
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> I once told a doctor that alot of doctors must themselves have psychiatric problems because that is their first avenue of choice when they cannot diagnose something correctly.  (He wanted me to see a psychiatrist, and when I said I had and that the psychiatrist thought I was fine, except that I had an undxed illness; his reply was, "Well you know how crazy psychiatrists are!"  !!!)  I told him, he should see how crazy medical doctors look from my side of the table.  I could literally write a book of crazy things doctors said and did to me while I was trying to get dxed with celiac disease.  If I didn't have ES and MCS, I would volunteer to be a stand-up comedian at doctors' conventions.  lol  Wonder who would be laughing then?
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> Diane
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> --- On Wed, 12/1/10, Rixta Francis <rixta.francis@...> wrote:
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> From: Rixta Francis <rixta.francis@...>
> Subject: Re: [eSens] how did you get your EMS diagnosis?
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> Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:09 PM
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> Wow, that's a pretty extreme situation. And in my humble opinion it's
> strange that no doctor picked up that you were so "charged" yourself. If
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> you. But I always say that if the tests don't show up anything, then the
> only correct conclusion is that the tests are negative. Which can mean
> that the patient isn't sick, or it can mean that the right tests aren't
> available. But most doctors automatically stick with the first.:-(
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> Rixta
> > Hi, Rixta,
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> > I went decades before figuring it out. I have had some symptoms of ES since early childhood and got ES in particular places/ situations from the time I was at least 5. I stopped watches from the age of 5 or 6 (whenever I got my first watch). When I was in my late teens, doctors started saying how I affected their electrocardiographs badly. I had been quite ill from early childhood, but doctors didn't seem to notice much, except I had "failure to thrive" and almost constant swollen glands. (I finally got a dx for what caused this--celiac disease--at age 49.)
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> > I searched unsuccessfully for medical conditions which would cause this for years. In my late 30s/ early 40s, I began noticing more and more places which were affecting me each year. I found this forum in my early 50s (2003, I think) and by that time I was sure I had a form of ES. In 2006, after a pesticide exposure, I became very ill with ES for 3 years. I am now less reactive again, after doing various therapies I have previously mentioned at this forum.
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> > --- On Tue, 11/30/10, Rixta Francis<rixta.francis@...> wrote:
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> > From: Rixta Francis<rixta.francis@...>
> > Subject: Re: [eSens] how did you get your EMS diagnosis?
> > To: [hidden email]
> > Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 4:03 PM
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> > You are probably not the only person who suffered that long before
> > finding out what's the problem. I attributed many of my symptoms to my
> > CFS for several years. Till I got such bad muscle spasms that I couldn't
> > deny any longer that there was something else going on. Then it still
> > took me about a year of many tests and many doctors' visits before I
> > started to search on line and found what I needed to know. Still it
> > seems that my body reacts quite differently to these things than with
> > most of you. It seems that one of the first symptoms is ususally
> > headache, but I rarely have a headache... But my body has always done
> > things differently. I'm a doctor's nightmare, because my body doesn't
> > make any sense.
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> > Rixta
> >> That is correct - it did take me almost 10 years to figure it all out. I feel so dumb looking back but back then there was so little info on this and I didn't have internet access. I didn't
> > want to believe that it was the power lines that were causing it. However, once I admitted it it gave me new hope. I figured if I moved I would get better.
> >> Cheryl
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> >> --- On Tue, 11/30/10, Marc Martin<marc@...> wrote:
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> >> From: Marc Martin<marc@...>
> >> Subject: Re: [eSens] how did you get your EMS diagnosis?
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