Posted by Russ on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/house-electricity-entry-point-tp4022102.html

Hi.  I'm very happy to have just found this group.  I live in the Seattle area and I've been aware of my electro-sensitivity for about 5 years, though I imagine I've had it longer.  Can't use cell phones, watch television, be in wifi areas, etc.  I think my degree of sensitivity is on the high end, but not real familliar with what other folks out there deal with.  Looking for some help with the following...

I have found that I am extremely sensitive to the corner of my house where the electrical wire from the street connects to the side of the house, with the meter on the outside of the wall and the circuit breaker box on the inside of the wall.  I have to pretty much avoid that room.  Being in that corner or along that wall, either inside or outside the house, is as bad as using a cellphone or being in a wireless internet area, and perhaps worse. To a lesser extent I am sensitive to the whole front yard where the wire from the street runs diagonally overhead at a pretty low height (since the house is set above street level).  

So, what I'm trying to figure out is whether this is something particularly bad about this house (an old house built in the very early 1900s) and/or this neighborhood (also old) or if I would be this sensitive to the electricity entry point on any house.  I'm considering moving (I'm a renter) but don't want to put forth the effort if I will have the same problem in another house.  

Is the electrical entry point of a house normally this bad for people with EMF sensitivity?  Any thoughts on what might be going on here and whether it is more likely to be a problem with this particular house/grid or a problem I would encounter in any house?  Anyone aware of "experts" that take phone calls or answer email who I might contact with this question?

Note: I don't think the house has a "smart meter".  I'm in Seattle and though Puget Sound Energy uses smart meters, I have electric heat with Seattle City Light and I don't think they use them yet.  Near the meter is where it affects me the most, but this is also where the wire connects to the house and as I mentioned, I think I can notice a sensitivity to the overhead wire in the front yard as well.

Thanks!

Russ