Posted by Ian Kemp on Jun 13, 2009; 11:05am
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/Phantom-Text-messages-EMF-discharge-tp1549571p1549577.html

Thanks for sharing your experiences Giles. As more and more people testify
to what is happening to them and the evidence gradually builds up, public
and medical opinion can gradually change, though it takes a long time.
Similarly with CFS/ME which is now fairly generally accepted rather than
being dismissed as "yuppie flu" - but it has taken 20+ years.

Unfortunately Ben Goldacre is a confirmed sceptic and, in his eagerness to
debunk bad science and snake-oil salesmen (of which there are plenty), he
isn't able to be open to some things beyond his mindset, even when
reasonable evidence exists. This in itself is "bad science" - assuming that
your theory must be perfect even when experimental evidence suggests
otherwise.

Ian

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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
csteils
Sent: 13 June 2009 01:52
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [eSens] Phantom Text messages / EMF discharge





Until last summer I was, like most people nowadays, very fond of all my
modern communication gadgets from wifi to mobile, from Palm to laptops and
all their advantages.
from 2006 onwards I went several times to see a doctor for heart
palpitations, but they couldn't find anything wrong with me.
Then in July 2008 I suddenly started experiencing dizziness on numerous
occasions, till it got so bad one night, suffering even from speech
problems, that I ended up in A&E thinking I had a stroke or heart attack; in
the following weeks I underwent many tests. The results showed I was
absolutely fine, but the symptoms stayed. The doctors told me I was just
stressed, but the thing is I wasn't stressed at all prior to this.

To my own shock and confusion I realized that my dizziness always occurred,
when I was in close vicinity to Wifi, mobiles, Blackberries and mobile
masts.
After medical professionals weren't able to help, I started my own research
and found many websites and blogs by people, with exactly the same problems
as mine. They are sufferers of electro-sensitivity (ES), a condition fully
recognized in Canada and Sweden as a medical impairment (with 300.000
sufferers in Sweden alone) but unfortunately ridiculed in the UK. I had
never heard of it (this to show I am not a hypochondriac), but once I
realized that this was the source of my problems, I started clearing my home
environment from Wifi, DECT phones and non-essential electrical items. My
problems immediately started to get noticeably better.
Most men (especially on a motorbike) carry their mobile in their jacket or
trousers for easy access. I used to carry mine in my motorbike jacket's
front left pocket. I stopped doing that; my palpitations vanished.
In conversations with friends, colleagues and fellow bikers I heard that
many of them experience similar symptoms like pain or tremors in the heart
area or what are called "phantom phone vibrations". Every now and then I'd
think I had a text message, when carrying my phone in my trouser pockets,
but when I checked there was no message?
According to Swedish scientist and ES expert Olle Johansson this is caused
"by high intensity bursts of extremely-low frequency electromagnetic field
charges that your phone is producing and affecting your nervous system."

Of course I don't know, if carrying your mobile is a causing ES or if the
Phantom text messages are just another symptom and the causes lie somewhere
else, like problems with your immune system for example, but I guess it
can't be good to have heart palpitations.

I know: I have heard every joke about "vibrating pockets" and have been many
times referred to Ben Goldacre's "Bad Science". There are definitely
pseudo-scientists out there making a lot of money from scaremongering, but
you have to distinguish between those and the victims in all this.

Retrospectively I am convinced that my heart palpitations were an early
warning sign for what was happening later on. And believe me: ES is not an
easy thing to live with.

Looking back it would have been great, if I had known more about the
possible problems of overexposure to modern communication. So I am trying to
raise awareness wherever I can and hope that by reading this you might
suspend your disbelief and rethink some of your habits, until it's really
proven that there are no dangers involved in using wireless technology to
the extent we do at the moment.

Send this to your friends if the find it hard to believe, that their phones
are 100% safe???

Giles

London UK






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