What is EHS?

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is when a person has reactions during an exposure to a electromagnetic fields.  Examples of sources of these are wireless devices such as cell phones (radio frequency radiation) or power lines (ELF extremely low frequency magnetic fields).  For wireless, a magnetic field is sent a short distance or a very long distance depending on the strength of the signal that is required to reach the device receiving the signal, such as a cell phone tower.  During this process everyone is exposed to these signals, many do not feel them, but EHS individuals may react in different ways.  Some can feel the radiation exposure like a sun burn on your face, others get headaches, and other feel very tired.  These are just a few examples of the many reactions people have reported for the last several decades.

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What are Symptoms of EHS?

Each person is different, but many have experienced these :
Headaches,
Trouble sleeping,  Trouble staying awake,
Burning on the skin, Dermatological symptoms (redness, tingling, and burning sensations)
Neurasthenic and vegetative symptoms (fatigue, tiredness, concentration difficulties, dizziness, nausea)
Heart palpitation, and digestive disturbances
Joint pains / Muscle pains
symptoms

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Articles about EHS :


 

You might be Electrosensitive

4 sept. 2010  Toronto Sun Dr. W. GIFForD-JonEs

Are you feeling tired, suffer from sleepiness, depression, increased irritability, unexplained aches and pains, headaches, skin rashes, ringing in the ears, numbness, an irregular heart beat, increased blood pressure or a foggy brain?

If so, you may be suffering from “Electrosensitivity”. Dr. Magda Havas, a renowned international expert on elctromagnetic radiation (EMR), says “dirty electricity” is a growing worldwide health concern. Today, few of us would want to discard our electronic devices. But I never realized how modern electrical gizmos generated so much dirty electricity.

Dr. Havas says clean electricity originally powered our homes and workplaces, using a safe frequency of 60 Hertz (Hz). Today, transformers convert 60Hz to low-voltage power for electronic devices. This creates micro surges of dirty electricity that contain up to 2,500 times the energy of a conventional 60 Hz electrical system. In effect, we’ve created electrical pollution, a contamination that’s not good for us.

I discovered it’s easy to get fooled by dirty energy if you’re not an electrical engineer. For instance, our home has several dimmer devices. I naively believed this was a prudent move, but these devices, along with fluorescent lights, energy saving light bulbs and electrical entertainment centres and computers, generate dirty electricity. In fact, they generally emit more electromagnetic exposure than power lines.

If you want to get a major dose of dirty electricity, use a hair dryer. This device uses up to 500 times more dirty EMR than microwave ovens, electric ranges and washing machines.

This past week, I used a GPS device to keep me from getting lost in Boston. It showered me with electrical signals from 2,000 satellites in outer space. Most people are not aware of this invisible fog of EMR and its implications on our health. But it’s not fooling wildlife. Birds, bats and bees are known to abandon regions where cell towers are built.

Scientists in Russia have been at the forefront of EMR research. During World War II, they noticed that radar operators often suffered from symptoms that we now attribute to EMR. And during the height of the Cold War, they secretly bombarded the U.S. embassy in Moscow with microwave radiation, causing radiation sickness in American staff.

Later, in 2007, a collaboration of scientists from the U.S., Sweden, Denmark, Austria and China released a 650 page report citing 2,000 studies that detailed the toxic effects of EMR. It concluded that even low-level radiation could impair immunity and contribute to Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and heart disease. Other studies have linked EMR to miscarriage, birth defects, suicide, Lou Gehrig’s and Parkinson’s disease.

In addition to these disorders, there’s evidence that EMR triggers cancer. In Australia in 1956, when television was introduced, researchers documented a rapid increase in malignancies in people living near transmission towers. Later, in the 1970s, Nancy Wertheimer, a Denver epidemiologist, noted a spike of leukemia among children living near electrical power lines. Other studies reached the same conclusion.

What about the use of cordless and cellphones? A Swedish study suggests that those who start using a cellphone as a teen have a five times greater risk of brain cancer than those who start as an adult. Next week, I’ll report on the xZubi device, a small disk that protects you from dirty electricity from cellphones.

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Black on White,

Voices and Witnesses about Electro-Hypersensitivity – 1997   Read the Book Online omega

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Electrohypersensitivity – Curse to Blessing

by Davida van der Walt – 2023 (Book / PDF)

                            www.on-route.co.za

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Forced to Disconnect

by Gunilla Ladberg, PhD – 2007 (PDF) https://emrabc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Forced_To_Disconnect.pdf

This book is about people in Sweden who after having developed

hypersensitivity to electricity or/and microwave radiation from

wireless technologies have become fugitives in their own country.

ELECTROHYPERSENTIVITY (EHS)

PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT IN SWEDEN

Somewhere between 230,000 – 290,000 people in Sweden report a variety of symptoms when in contact with EMF sources. There is a Swedish Association for the electro-sensitive – www.feb.se

http://www.radiationresearch.org/newsletters/pdfs/20041124_electrohypersensitivity.pdf

FEB – Swedish Association for the ElectroHyperSensitive

http://www.feb.se/index_int.htm

EHS Survival Guide

http://weepinitiative.org/livingwithEHS.html

ElectroSensitivity UK website

www.es-uk.info mastsanity.org mast-victims.org

 

ElectroSensitivity France

https://www.youtube.com/user/electrosensible/videos

Environmental Health Trust – EHS

https://ehtrust.org/science/electromagnetic-sensitivity/

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Vancouver BC –  EHS from rooftop Cellular Antennas

 

BC –  EHS from Cellular Phones

 

BC –  EHS from Wireless  

 

Toronto Ontario –  EHS from rooftop Cellular Antennas

 

USA –  EHS from Cellular Antennas and Phones

 

other links

http://www.microwavenews.com/www.html

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Area for EHS People “La Forêst de Saoû”

http://www.next-up.org/France/An_area_for_the_EHS.php

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No Place to Hide

A newsletter that was produced because many EHS can not use computers –  sample

The Electrically-Sensitive Trail of Arthur Firstenberg – Author of No Place to Hide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0E6x7seCWc

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Is “Electro-Sensitivity” a Disability?

http://employment.lawfirmnewjersey.com/archives/ada-is-electrosensitivity-a-disability.html

*Businesses have to deal with all manner of disabilities* in their

employeesin a way that complies with the Americans with

Disabilities Act and similar  state legislation such as the New Jersey Law Against
Discrimination.  We’ve previously posted http://employment.lawfirmnewjersey.com/archives/ada-perfume-sensitivity-and-the-ada.html
for instance, on employees who claim to be allergic to perfume. Litigationover that issue has gone as far as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
*Now there’s a hint of a “sensitivity” — it’s not clear whether

doctors will call it an allergy — to electrical and radio waves*.

For more  information, here’s a link to an electro-sensitivity advocacy

group  http://www.electrosensitivity.org

According to KOB.com  http://kob.com/article/stories/S451152.shtml?cat=517>, “a

group in Santa Fe says the city is *discriminating against them
because they say that they’re allergic to the wireless Internet signal. And now
they want Wi-Fi banned from public buildings.”*  There’s no word yet from Santa Fe’s  attorney of a recommendation on how to handle the complaint, but a

CityCouncilor had a point when he noted that the city is already saturated with wireless signals.

Now, perfume in the workplace is one thing, desirable to some but certainlynot essential to conducting  business.  However,* American
business runs on electronic devices: computers, cell phones, Blackberries, and the  like.They’re everywhere.  Business cannot function without them.* Might a court be persuaded to rule that electro-sensitivity is a disability? Perhaps.Stranger things have happened.   If so, how could a
business accommodate the disabled worker?  In most modern office settings there’s no
practical way to avoid exposure to electrical equipment and radio waves.Asa result, *it’s unlikely that circumstances will allow a court to
finessethe issue as the Third Circuit did with perfume sensitivity*  in Kaufman v.GMAC Mortgage
http://employment.lawfirmnewjersey.com/archives/ada-perfume-sensitivity-and-the-ada.html>.
In that case the court assumed, but did not decide, that perfume sensitivity was a disability.  It ruled against the plaintiff
because it found that GMAC  had reasonably accommodated the disability (if it was a
disability).  Because of the pervasiveness of electrical and radio
waves,with electro-sensitivity an accommodation would be immensely
difficult. Of course, there’s always the possibility of a legislative
solution, but Congress has not demonstrated a willingness to scale back the scope  of the ADA by amending  legislation.*In short, we are not aware of any large-scale movement by
electro-sensitives to push this issue in the courts, but it may be
coming. Business advocacy groups may want to start thinking about
how they will react if the issue comes to the fore*.

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Woman stops neighbours using wi-fi because she says it ‘makes her ill’

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/863607-woman-stops-neighbours-using-wi-fi-because-she-says-it-makes-her-ill

Aidan Radnedge – 17th May, 2011

A woman who claims she is so affected by electricity she feels ‘allergic to modern life’ has persuaded her neighbours to stop using wi-fi.

Board games by candlelight: Janice and Carl Tunnicliffe (Picture: Hotspot Media)

Janice Tunnicliffe complains of constant headaches, chest pains, nausea and tingling in her arms and legs when near any electrical devices.

The mother-of-two has thrown out the toaster, kettle and microwave, exiled the washing machine to an outhouse and persuaded neighbours to use cable internet instead of wi-fi because the electromagnetic waves could trigger her illness, known as electrosensitivity.

The 55-year-old cannot watch TV or use the internet so her nightly entertainment is playing board games by candlelight with her husband, Carl.

Mrs Tunnicliffe, of Mansfield, believes her troubles began after she received chemotherapy for bowel cancer three years ago.

She said: ‘iPhones make me feel really sick within about 20 minutes of being near one. Wi-fi makes me feel like I have a clamp at the back of my head which is squeezing the life out of me.

‘It’s completely draining and a home hub can totally immobilise me – I’m left unable to move my arms and legs.’

But she insisted: ‘I would happily live without electricity for the rest of my life and I don’t miss it at all.’

However, to date, scientific studies into electrosensitivity have cast doubt on whether the condition has anything to do with the presence of electrical items.

A Health Protection Agency spokesman said: ‘There is little scientific evidence demonstrating it is the electro-magnetic fields exposure that causes the symptoms.’

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/863607-woman-stops-neighbours-using-wi-fi-because-she-says-it-makes-her-ill#ixzz1MhSqBgDT

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Woozy from wifi? ‘Electrosensitive’ say modern life makes them ill

In remote forest of Sweden, couple escapes electromagnetic waves

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43172844/ns/today-today_health/

Rupert Barker / NBC News

Swedish couple Bo and Sonja Fredburg say that they suffer discomfort from electromagnetic waves. Ten years ago, they moved to Varmland, a beautiful stretch of Swedish forests and frozen lakes, beyond the reach of any cellular tower or wireless signal.

By Melissa Dahl – Health writer – TODAY.com

Much of modern life — the buzzing of cell phones, the humming of laptops, the ubiquity of wifi — is enough to give anyone a headache. But what if electromagnetic waves really did make you sick?

For people who call themselves “electrosensitive,” life in our plugged-in world is becoming increasingly unbearable. As they define it, electrosensitivity syndrome is characterized by headaches, rashes, nausea, fatigue and even fainting when sufferers come too close to electromagnetic radiation.

Although electrosensitivity is not recognized as a medical diagnosis, it’s a condition those in Europe are especially concerned about — in fact, earlier this month, leaders from the Council of Europe pushed to ban cell phones and wifi in schools, the Telegraph reported.

Most people who complain of electrosensitivity are only mildly bothered by electromagnetic waves, but some say the health affects are so severe that they’re unable to live comfortably in a city.

To find more about the extreme end of this condition, TODAY took to the remote forests of Sweden, a country that recognizes electrosensitivity as a functional impairment.

Video: Unplugged! Community lives without electricity (on this page)

That’s where Bo and Sonja Fredburg live — in Varmland, a beautiful stretch of Swedish forests and frozen lakes, a refuge for a band of electrosenstive fugitives, beyond the reach of any cellular tower or wireless signal. The Fredburgs have been living without electricity — no TV, no radio, no refrigerator, no electric lights — for 10 years. The Fredburgs’ only gadget is a 50-year-old telephone.

Susanne Jislon says wifi triggers her electrosensitivity symptoms. Here, she uses an old-fashioned typewriter in her home in the remote forests of Sweden.

When visited by the TODAY team, the Fredburgs insisted the reporters remove the batteries from their cell phones and abandon the hi-definition camera they’d normally use. Instead, the team shot the segment with a 20-year-old VHS camera, which the Fredburgs say causes them less discomfort.  The couple said they immediately felt the health effects when the camera crew entered their home. “I get sort of shaky, and the heart gets effected,” says Bo Fredburg. For Sonja Fredburg, “The most prominent thing is the burning sensation in the skin,” she explains.

Susanne Jislson, a neighbor of the Fredburgs’ who has lived in this remote area in Sweden for seven years, developed a rash on her neck midway through an interview with the TODAY team, something she says was caused by the camera’s presence. Her only gizmo: an old-fashioned typewriter. Jislson believes that wifi triggered her symptoms. “I get headaches; I get really confused. I can’t think straight. I get extremely tired,” she says. “I was a very healthy person before I got these problems.”

Still, many psychologists and neurologists believe that electrosensitivity symptoms are all in the mind. Elaine Fox, a psychology professor at the University of Essex, has studied people in the UK who believe they have the condition. She and her team wanted to see whether electrosensitive people could tell if a hidden cell phone antenna was turned on or off, using 50-minute exposure tests.

“What we found, overall, was actually that people couldn’t tell above chance, so they were really … just guessing, in terms of whether it was on or off,” Fox told TODAY.

But some experts, like neuroscientist Olle Johansson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, contend that people like the Fredburgs aren’t imagining their condition. Johansson investigates the health effects of electromagnetic fields on the body, and he told TODAY that he believes the long-term effects of exposure to electromagnetic radiation is worrisome.

“The long-term effects points to an association to things like brain cancer, leukemia, neurological diseases,” Johansson says.

Back in the secluded Swedish forest, the monthly book bus provides a link to the outside world, and a chance for the electrosensitive to socialize with each other before retreating to their homes, where forests and frozen lakes serve as a stunning backdrop.

As Bo Fredburg describes their isolated existence, “It is a prison, but a beautiful prison.”

For more stories like this one, “like” TODAY Health on Facebook, and follow Melissa Dahl on Twitter @melissadahl.

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EHS Wins discrimination case in Sweden

A woman who suffers from EHS (electrohypersensitivity) was granted a financial award after an inquiry by HSAN, the Swedish medical disciplinary board.  The physician’s employer, the Health Authority of Kalmar County, was fined 60,000 SKR (about 9,000 dollars).  Subsequently, the Health Authority terminated the physician’s contract, which had been procured through VikTeam professional employment services.

It was the woman’s sister-in-law who advised her to report the physician to the authorities after hearing about the demeaning consultation.  Consequently, the woman wrote down a comprehensive report of her appointment and phoned the Office of the Discrimination Ombudsman for support. The reception she received from the staff was very encouraging throughout the ordeal. They reassured her that if necessary, the case would go all the way to the District Court.

The disciplinary hearing revealed the doctor’s notes, which in part read: …this is a super neurotic person…she says she has electrohypersensitivity.

 

The woman had been hoping for some form of restitution for the discrimination she had experienced, but did not anticipate she would receive a financial reward.

Sources: Kallelistan. Tf-bladet. 2/2011. Info. no. 11-25, May 20, 2011 [email protected]

Translation summary: Anna Jonsson. July 2011 [email protected]

For more background on severe EHS in Sweden, the breach to Human Rights and personal appeals for change,

read Forced to Disconnect by Gunilla Ladberg, PhD. English version 2010 (Swedish version 2007).

http://www.vagbrytaren.org/Forced%20to%20Disconnect%20-%20Electrohypersensitive%20fugitives%20(3).pdf

or https://emrabc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Forced_To_Disconnect.pdf

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EHS Videos from C4ST.org

Woman from Guelph Ontario – July 2014 (english)

Woman from Quebec – July 2014 (english)

Woman from Quebec – July 2014 (French)

Woman from Quebec – July 2014 (French)

Man from Quebec – July 2014 (French)

Man from Quebec – July 2014 (English)

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Gatineau, Quebec woman with EHS talks to CTV News (2014)

http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=395628

http://www.c4st.org/images/documents/hc-resolutions/medical-doctors-submission-to-health-canada-english.pdf

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/wireless-radiation-exposure-code-fails-to-protect-canadians-1.1906165

 

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What It’s Like to Be Allergic to Wi-Fi

By   March 29, 20158:30 p.m.

On the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul, the character Chuck McGill, a lawyer played by Michael McKean, has a rather memorable condition. He frequently wraps himself in a space blanket to protect his body from cell phones or wireless internet, claiming the electromagnetic fields emitted by these devices sicken him. He has — or thinks he has — a case of what’s known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS.

This is not a condition most doctors recognize. The Guardian was quick to debunk the supposed science behind EHS, claiming that the condition is overhyped by the media, and that while the symptoms sufferers report may indeed be real, it’s psychological rather than physiological. That sentiment was echoed by George Johnson in the Times, who wrote, “From the perspective of science, the likelihood of the rays somehow causing harm is about as strong as the evidence for ESP.”

While EHS is acknowledged by the World Health Organization, the group notes that its associated symptoms (like dizziness, nausea, heart palpitations, and redness, tingling, and burning sensations on the skin) are not part of any single recognized syndrome. It estimates that EHS affects a few individuals per million, and, drawing on data from self-help groups – states that about 10 percent of cases are deemed “severe.” The WHO is firm in its position that “EHS can be a disabling problem for the affected individual” but it “has no clear diagnostic criteria and there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF exposure.”

But those who suffer from acute symptoms would beg to differ. There are support groups across the world and communities of electromagnetism refugees gathering in places like Green Bank, West Virginia – a town where most forms of electromagnetic radiation are banned. EHS activists cite the work of scientists like Andrew Marino, who, in a case reportpublished in a 2011 edition of the International Journal of Neuroscience, used double blind tests to show that EHS “can occur as abona fide environmentally inducible neurological syndrome.” Setting aside stereotypes of pasty recluses living in aluminum-insulated houses reading library books by organic candle light, what is it actually like to experience extreme physical symptoms seemingly brought on by electromagnetic fields?

Dafna Tachover, a 42-year-old attorney who lives in Jerusalem and New York, has been experiencing what she refers to as electro-sensitivity for the last five years. She spoke with Science of Us about her experiences.

So what technology can you use?
Anything that is not wireless. I can use a computer, and dial-up internet, a landline (but not cordless phone – they are like small cell towers). I use a screen over my computer monitor to reduce the electric fields. My keyboard and mouse have wires. And I put the cable transformers in a metal bin because it reduces the magnetic fields. The Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on my computer are disabled. I don’t have a cell phone, not even for emergencies. I’ve never used a smartphone. I’m sensitive to Wi-Fi, not technology in general.

When did your symptoms start?
July 2009. I was so excited to go buy a new laptop, because I love computers. But when I opened it, something didn’t feel right. The left side of the mouse pad was vibrating. It made my fingers tingle. I’ve been working with computers forever so I knew there was a technical problem – maybe too much static electricity. I exchanged it, and the store confirmed it was defective.

But when I turned on the replacement computer the screen was jumping, and I felt pressure in my heart. I felt hot when I was by the computer, but it calmed down when I moved away. I took that second laptop back and got a different model from a new store. Then everything got weird. At one point I was talking to my ex-husband and I didn’t understand what he was telling me, it was like a brain disconnect. And my heart was jumping. My face felt like it was on fire. I was nauseated. All this would start when I was near the computer.

Did you think it was the computer that was causing it?
I really had no idea. I did an internet search: “heart jumps when using laptop,” and I saw so many complaints. I’ll never forget one from a pregnant woman saying that when she was using the laptop the fetus would kick. I decided to go to the actual Apple Store to confirm that there was something wrong with the third computer because this was just too odd.

The woman said, maybe your body doesn’t like Apple computers? They checked the laptop and confirmed it was defective. I went back home and then same thing happened – this was the fourth laptop. I returned the computer. My ex-husband, an MD & PhD in molecular biology who worked as a scientist at Princeton University when I got sick, talked to a professor from his department who suggested that maybe my body got overwhelmed, as new computers emit high levels of chemicals. He said to just take a break. Now, me taking a break from my computer, bad idea!

Did you use computers a lot before that?
Nonstop. My computer is my best friend. There’s nothing I love more.

So what did a break entail?
At the time I didn’t have a landline, so I used my cell phone. But it started to give me pains, like someone was drilling in my brain. After a few weeks I really needed a computer so I thought I’d try a desktop. I got one of those big iMacs. I went to call family in Israel on the computer, but I just could not stand by it. I was about four meters away. It felt like a strong pressure was pushing me back – really intense all over my body.

What did you do next?
The most scary symptom was my jumping heart, so I went to visit a cardiologist. I was fit and active — I swam and did two or three spin classes each day – so why would I have chest pains? There’s no heart disease in my family.

You didn’t go to see a family doctor first?
No, I didn’t even have a doctor — and I was married to one! I hardly ever got sick. The last time I took antibiotics was twentysomething years ago.

What happened when you saw the cardiologist?
I brought a laptop along so she could test me with it and without it. She said she knew my symptoms are real because every time she uses her laptop she feels nausea. So we did the testing. But I didn’t know the Wi-Fi was causing my symptoms and when she tested me the Wi-Fi was off, so it’s not surprising that they didn’t find anything wrong. She called NYU’s occupational clinic to get their opinion. They said they’d heard people say they feel sick from using the computer but there’s no scientific evidence to support it.

So you grew up in Israel? How’d you end up in New York?
I get bored easily. I did my law degree in London, took the bar in Israel, and worked for the D.A. in Jerusalem. Then I worked in advertising and PR and did an MBA. It was a really bad economic time, so I left for the States and I ended up in Manhattan, met my husband, and got a job at an investment company. When the market collapsed I lost my job and we moved to Princeton. I was going to open a law practice. I got that laptop for the office in my new law firm. We wanted to have children so we decided it was a good time. We tried for a while without luck.

Was your inability to get pregnant stressful? Or was there any other stress in your life when this sensitivity developed?
I was very apathetic. I wasn’t ready to start running to specialists. And I mean, my husband was working every day until 3 a.m. – maybe that’s why it was hard to get pregnant! I was starting a new career … is that stressful? Yeah, but everyone has stress. I loved my life. I’d go to lectures and meet the most interesting people in the world. I saw shows and concerts and opera.

Where did you meet your husband?
On JDate. I was sitting in Starbucks stealing their Wi-Fi.

So you were something of an early adopter?
I was always into gadgets and electronics and computers – well, maybe not always. Both of my parents are computer people — they met at a computer course. I started learning computers at school in ninth grade, but I didn’t really like it and all my parents did was talk about computers. So, back then, I actually hated computers. When I joined the army, I thought it was a bad joke when they put me on the computer track. I ended up commanding the computer center for the army’s headquarter and for the operation center, serving more than 600 users with computers networks including the prime minister and chief of staff. So I spent two years sleeping in a room that had dozens of wired routers and monitors and computers – but this was not wireless. It was one of those jobs where you don’t want to remember everything. When I finished it was almost like I did a control-ALT-delete to my brain. I forgot everything I’d learned about radio frequencies, antennas, and all that.

So how did the illness progress after you first started experiencing symptoms?
Weird things continued to happen. For example, I was on one side of the bed in my apartment and I would get this really sharp pain in my head. When I moved to the other side, it stopped. I noticed there was an electric socket there and I asked the maintenance guy to disconnect its electricity. I didn’t really want to use the computer so it was difficult for me to research what was going on.

I contacted a neurologist, and even though I’m very independent I took my husband so they wouldn’t disregard me. The doctor said, You know I have never heard of anything like this before. If I couldn’t see you I might think that you have some sort of mental issue, but you seem sane. I took two tests — an EEG, which detects electrical activity in the brain, and an EMG, which sees how your nerves respond to electric currents.

Did they find anything wrong?
No, because there is nothing wrong with my body unless it’s exposed to wireless. When I live in a radiation-free environment I do not have symptoms. My heart is fine and my nervous system is fine.

What was that like, not really knowing what was wrong at the time?
I hoped it was a bad dream, that I’d wake up and the symptoms would have vanished. But it got worse and worse. In the end, I called a family doctor my husband knew in Manhattan. The secretary said I have electro-sensitivity and gave me names of two websites.

I couldn’t use the computer so I waited for my husband to come home and on these websites we saw they sell pendants to protect you and we started laughing. We were like, Oh my God, we are in deep shit! These websites are selling all this, which means there are people suffering and nobody can do anything for them they are so desperate. And whoever wrote the science sections on these sites really didn’t know what they were talking about. So, that was how I got introduced to electro-sensitivity. Then a friend told me about an article in Prevention magazine all about how electromagnetic fields make people ill.

Were you able to function and go on with your everyday life?
I couldn’t be anywhere and I couldn’t sleep. I decided I’d go back to Israel for a while maybe things would be better. The first day I arrived we were driving along and suddenly my head felt like it was exploding. I see a shopping mall with a white strip on the roof. I asked my mother what it was, as I could feel the pain was coming from there, and she told me they were cell-phone antennas. I started crying. That’s when everything collapsed. I was just laying on the floor. We went to buy radiation shielding materials for the windows. I couldn’t stand up in the house.

What happened next?
I came back from Israel and I couldn’t sleep. The pain was intolerable — I couldn’t think properly. I went for a month without any sleep. Someone wrote me that there’s a place in Green Bank, West Virginia, where nobody is allowed to use wireless signals. I contacted her and she said I should go stay. I drove nine hours there that same day. But I felt really ill in her house because I was so sick at the time I was reacting to any electricity, not just wireless.

Soon after I got there I met a very intelligent pilot from California who had gone there with his mother because he was so ill. These were my first encounters with other people like me. I put a tent out on her porch and I was flooded with clarity. It was freezing cold, but it was like my head was finally quiet. I had the cry of my life.

Why were you so sad?
I met these people who were so sensitive and most of them had been in that state for years. I didn’t identify as electro-sensitive, I just felt like I was having a short-term problem. But that night I knew I was in a different reality, this wasn’t a bad dream. I could not return to society. I worked on a farm and looked after 15 horses, five goats, two llamas, and a sheep. And I felt better. I remember I called home and my 12-year-old niece told her mom that Dafna was talking “normal” again. I enrolled to take the West Virginia bar, I tried so hard to be there. But I’d lost everything. Culturally, Green Bank is so different to what I knew. I felt so disconnected because I couldn’t use technology and this unfamiliarity was just another layer of disconnection. I didn’t know how I was going to survive in the world, but I knew I couldn’t do it there.

Were you still with your husband at the time?
Yeah. After three months I decided to try to find a house where we could live together in some sort of normality. But when I went back to Princeton to do the search I couldn’t sleep in our apartment, so I had to sleep in my car for seven months. And sleeping’s not the right word because the pain would never stop.

Where did you sleep? Were you scared?
In a parking lot, it was horrible. I put clothes on the windows so people wouldn’t see me. I was afraid whenever someone came by. My husband couldn’t really help me, because he needed to work. There was a lot of tension.

Did he try to stop you from sleeping in the car?
There was really very little he could do. I really felt sorry for him. The worst day, perhaps, we’d arranged to meet at his work. I was driving around the parking lot trying to find a spot where I didn’t feel sick. I was sweating like hell. I see him and his face went blank and sad, and as he was making his way toward me he encountered a woman he knew. His face lit up and he was congratulating her on her new job. I wanted to commit suicide. I could see him make the comparison between us. He was going through his own nightmare. He married a vibrant, normal, healthy person and that all collapsed.

What did you do during the day?
Desperately searched for spots where there was no radiation. I borrowed books from the library and I’d sit and read in the car by a park. Every time someone came near I had to leave if they had a cell phone. I wondered if this would be the rest of my life … the world felt so hostile. I heard of a conference about electromagnetic sensitivity and I found a list of speakers and called one who was electro-sensitive herself. We really connected. We’re around the same age and both used to be really successful career women. She lived in an isolated place in South Carolina. She said, Why don’t you come here? I packed my bags again.

What was it like when you got there?
It took time for my body to calm down, but I do think I started sleeping after about the fourth week and it was great. After six weeks, I went back to Princeton. I still wanted to find a house I could live in with my husband. Eventually I found a farmhouse about 40 minutes from his work. It was a duplex, so I asked the neighbors if they could turn off their Wi-Fi.

That must have taken courage. How did you ask?
I just knocked on their door and told them that I’ve looked at over 200 houses and this is the only one that works but I can’t live here if they use Wi-Fi, because I have a problem, so could they turn it off? When I moved in I realized I didn’t want this to destroy my husband’s life as well as my own. It was too far for him to drive because he was working crazy hours, so we split up. I was still feeling sick as there was still radiation in the area because of cell towers, so I decided to move again.

So it wasn’t just Wi-Fi that was making you sick at this point?
No, my theory is that once you become affected by the radiation, something happens to the nervous system and it recognizes the radiation as a threat and then reacts to warn the body that something is wrong. So while the first reaction was to wireless, I then started to react to anything with vibrations, anything that the nervous system detected, so I started to be affected by electricity, then light and sound.

So, back then, what was the criteria for a place you could live?
The house had to have a gas stove and I could not tolerate a fridge, lights, a dishwasher, microwave, washing machine. I was still reacting to all electricity because my electro-sensitivity was so bad. Mountains block radiation and I couldn’t have neighbors so I decided on the Catskills. I think we found 500 potential houses, only 60 of which we went to see and only one of which fit. For a few months I just lay in bed sleeping and even then I was still feeling the electricity. I’d leave the house and go into the woods when I did the laundry. My divorce was finalized about five months after I arrived.

Did you keep in touch with people?
Even a regular phone hurt my ear so I used a speakerphone. The future didn’t look so exciting. I had to create a life there. I’m from a sunny, desert country and here I’m in the freezing mountains where I didn’t know anyone. I met a woman who became my best friend and then I started a book club. I missed getting dressed in the morning, feeling beautiful, and going to work. When I could make it to the supermarket I’d chat away to the cashier just to have some interaction. I created a pretty interesting life there: I grew vegetables and I had beehives, but I just couldn’t live like that.

Did you tell people that they had to leave their cell phones behind when they visited?
There was a sign on my door. Nobody was allowed in my house with a cell phone.

How did you keep warm?
I couldn’t use electric heat, just a wood stove. I’d sit under lots of coats and wear snow pants.

Did you feel better there?
After a few months my body started to recuperate. I could tolerate electricity again so I could work on the computer. I began to dedicate my time to expose the harmful effects of wireless signals and work towards the recognition of electro-sensitivity. Around that time, my sister told me that they put Wi-Fi in my niece’s school in Israel and I was surprised to learn this because I knew of an earlier decision by the government that schools should prefer the use of wired internet. I decided to fight the government — I just couldn’t think of children going through what I’d been through.

Did you go back to Israel?
I managed the lawsuit from the U.S. I was 6,000 miles away and I had a dial-up internet connection, but I just decided I was going to do it. I could hardly use email – sometimes it worked, sometimes it did not – and it took an hour to attach a file. We were able to get a conditional injunction against the government, which was huge because very few cases get to that level and it meant the court was substantially convinced by our claims. They would still have to decide if this injunction would become permanent – which would require a hearing. We are still waiting for a decision.

Meanwhile, I had decided I would move to Santa Fe. Everything was packed and then just before I left I decided to go to a symposium on Wi-Fi. Even though I didn’t go to public places, it had become my specialty so I felt I had to. I spoke when there were questions for the public, and I realized that people need to hear me talk about it, to understand it. The next day I put my stuff in storage and bought a ticket to Israel. I went even though you are exposed to so much Wi-Fi on a plane and you are trapped. I was really terrified and I felt so sick for the first three hours, I had to ask the man sitting next to me to stop using his iPad. I could not speak. In the end I drugged myself with Melatonin and hoped for the best. I planned to come back from Israel but when I got here I had my family and the weather was so beautiful, I stayed.

What’s your life like now?
Israel is very high-tech – there are huge cell towers every 400 yards and there’s open Wi-Fi on the streets, so finding a house is mission impossible. I cannot drive for two hours on the roads here and not feel like fainting — I fall asleep and I become very weak. For five years I was dreaming of the Mediterranean Sea and I can’t even go to the beach because it makes me sick. I can only be in town for a few minutes. I don’t go anywhere. It’s like being in a prison cell. I haven’t been to the movies for five years.

How do you spend your days?
Working on my computer, sometimes for 14 hours a day.

Do you have much of a social life? 
I have friends but I haven’t been in a relationship since my ex (keep in mind, I lived in the mountains where there were more bears than men!). I’d be the cheapest date ever, though, because we wouldn’t be able to go anywhere.

Do you have a theory about what exactly started this?
Yes, but it is a theory. Something in the first computer caused the appearance of the symptoms. I think something was defective and probably created a strong electromagnetic shock to my body. It may be that the accumulated use of wireless technology and the fact that at the time I was sleeping three feet from a circuit breaker weakened my body, and then that laptop may have been the “last straw.” I will never know the definitive answer to this.

Do you think your friends and your family take you seriously? Have they ever doubted your condition?
I’m articulate and I can explain the science behind everything, so I haven’t encountered that much doubt. And I think I had an advantage because my ex-husband is a doctor and a scientist. I do remember once when I went to get blood tests and I told the doctor the story of what happened. She said, “You know, maybe you have a phobia of computers.” I explained that my computer has always been my best friend and I managed the computer operations for the Israeli army, so I didn’t think so. She said maybe I should see a psychiatrist. I made a big scene. I’m very intolerant when people deny it.

I was once outside my house in N.J. with my friend who is a journalist. I could tell he was skeptical, and I said a few seconds there will be a plane coming from that direction. And there was. And then I said now there will be another one, and there was. That proved it for him and then he didn’t doubt me. I could feel the radars from the plane.

It takes a lot of energy to not get depressed by it. People say that the electro-sensitive are crazy. I know very few people who could live in such an absurd situation and keep their sanity. I just don’t think about the future. If I consider all the new Wi-Fi towers I go insane — how can I live in a wireless world if it makes me so sick?

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/03/what-its-like-to-be-allergic-to-wi-fi.html

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A Talk about Electrosensitivity

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23 APRIL 2015

Allergic to TV and mobile phones: Is ‘electromagnetic hypersensitivity’ real?

A growing number of people are blaming their health problems on mobile phones and television, saying they are allergic to electromagnetic fields. But is it all in their heads?
By Abbie O’Brien  Airdate: Thursday, April 23, 2015 – 19:30  Channel: SBS TWO

“Every single aspect of my life has been destroyed. Every single aspect.”

Bruce Evans has been living with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) since 2007. While there is no medical diagnosis for the condition, it is characterised by a range of symptoms which sufferers attribute to exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF), particularly those caused by broadcasting devices.  The most common symptoms include dermatological symptoms, nausea, headaches, and tinnitus.

“No one understands our condition or the situation we’re in,” he said. “It’s an invisible sort of thing. You can’t see what’s happening to us – you can only see our reaction to it.”

“People just don’t understand and that leaves you very much on your own.”

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Bruce has suffered from EHS symptoms since 2007

As societies industrialise and the technological revolution continues, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number and diversity of electromagnetic field sources, and a corresponding increase in concern about possible health risks.

While the World Health Organisation recognises that the symptoms experienced are certainly real, “there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF exposure”.

Bruce first felt symptoms when he was living in Collingwood, Melbourne, after he started using an iPhone. “It was like someone stuck an ice pick in the side of my head,” he says.

He was slow to accept the label of EHS, but the connection became too strong to ignore. “Things just gradually got worse and there was always a correlation between exposure and symptoms… You try to explain it to people and they just think you’re a lunatic, but it’s very real,” he says.

“I might be in a pub. And because everyone would be on their phones texting all of that kind of stuff, I’d start getting a headache. If it is a low level frequency radiation, I sort of feel heaviness all over my body like someone has poured cold water on my brain, like my brain’s got hyperthermia or something. If it’s a high frequency it’s a very sort of sharp pain.”

“I couldn’t go anywhere or do anything…I was a prisoner in my room for about two years.”

Australia does not recognise EHS as a condition or disability. “I went to every type of therapy you could imagine and all of them started from the premise that I had some sort of psychological problem or an emotional issue – it’s just absolute bulls–t. I’m not an emotionally weak person.  I don’t suffer from depression.”

Olle Johansson is the Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the Karolinka Institute in Sweden

In 2002, Sweden became the first country to formally recognise EHS as a physical impairment, largely because of the efforts of Olle Johansson, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the Karolinska. He has long warned about the health impact of exposure to electromagnetic fields, and places the number of electrosensitive people in Sweden at about 250,000.

“There is no evidence that the radiation from electromagnetic sources such as mobile phones computers don’t harm us. There are studies that have lacked to show an effect but that’s not the same as proving safety.”

Rodney Croft, Director of the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research, has been coordinating studies in to radiofrequency effects on brain function. “There are certainly people around the world who are convinced that this is a big problem,” he said. But he is unequivocal that no connection between the described symptoms and exposure to EMF has been found.

“So far we’ve not been able to find an effect of electromagnetic radiation on the kind of symptoms that people report, and this is very much consistent with what’s been found around the world. We don’t have any reason to think that there is any relationship between the symptoms and radiation.”

He recognises that being unable to locate effects of EMF does not equate to proof of safety. “It’s important to remember that science can never demonstrate that anything is safe. Be it orange juice or air, we are never going to be in a position to show that anything is safe and thus we cannot conclude that there is no relationship between electromagnetic radiation and peoples health.”

“If there was even very weak evidence suggesting it was a problem, then we’d be a lot more concerned. But so far there has been lots of research conducted, looking at very different health effects, and we don’t see any evidence that it might be an issue. That doesn’t mean we should stop researching, but it certainly means at the moment we don’t have anything to be concerned about.”

Rodney Croft is the Director at the Australian Centre for Bioeffects Research

Johannson said that those affected may be the “classical canary in a coal mine; they react with biological alternation when the rest of the population does not. That could very well be true, and it has been that case very many times in human history.”

Without further evidence, the best option for sufferers is alleviating symptons. “Treatment of their impairment is of course only through making their environment accessible,” said Johannson. “They do not have a disease, they do not have an overall diagnosis, and they’re not patients. They are normal healthy people from that point of view.  But in inferior environment they function less well.”

Bruce relocated to his father’s farm in Benalla in regional Victoria, where he is able to function, but he believes the respite is temporary. “They’re closing every black spot, they’re eliminating every piece of refuge in the world,” he says.

However, there is a region in the United States to which many sufferers of EHS are flocking. Green Bank West Virginia is home to one of the world’s largest telescopes. In order for it to operate without interference, the use of wireless communication devices is prohibited. Its inhabitants don’t have television or radio antennae, mobile phones, or wifi, and it’s become a haven for people with EHS.

 

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Diane and Bert Schou moved to Green Bank in 2002 after she began suffering symptoms

“It’s a place you can be with people,” said Diane Schou. “You don’t have to live in an isolated commune. I can go to the local restaurant. I can go and buy groceries.”

Diane Schou has a PhD industrial technology and biology. She describes herself as electrosensitive. She moved to Green Bank in 2002 after experiencing severe headaches.  Both she and her husband Bert believe these were triggered by emissions from a mobile phone tower near her home in Iowa.

“It was about two or three in the morning. I told my husband that I had a headache and I just couldn’t sleep and he said ‘Well, we’re leaving’. Twenty minutes later we were out the door and I haven’t been back since,” she says.

Diane travelled through Iowa and neighboring states Wisconsin and Minnesota. Her search for relief led her through most of the United States. “I was looking for absolutely no pain, no headache, no symptoms… In searching for a place without cellphones or cell towers, a park ranger told me about Green Bank.”

Diane’s symptoms lessened in the six-month period after moving to Green Bank. “People in Iowa who knew how ill I was are amazed by how much better I am,” she says.

She admitted that it is difficult for visitors to accept life in the small town. “They go through a culture shock. We don’t have a Starbucks, we don’t have shopping malls, we don’t have many restaurants.” Diane also doesn’t have central heating or a microwave.

“They go through a culture shock. We don’t have a Starbucks, we don’t have shopping malls, we don’t have many restaurants.”

Diane estimates that about a third of the population in Green Bank are electrosensitive, having heard about the community as a place where they might live without their symptoms. “These are professional people who have come here to find a way to survive.”

“We have something in common…this identification of electrosensitivity. We may not have the same symptoms, we may not react to the same things, but we understand and that is very important.  To be able to talk with someone who understands instead of someone saying, ‘I don’t believe you, you’re just making it up’.”

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Bruce remains living in regional Victoria where he is further from fields that trigger his symptoms

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/thefeed/story/allergic-tv-and-mobile-phones-electromagnetic-hypersensitivity-real

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EHS from Smart Meters!

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“No Where to Hide” National Geographic : Taboo EHS High Frequency electromagnetic filed sensitive people – WiFi GSM

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Musician – Ricky Gardiner talks about EHS

https://rickygardiner.com/electrosensitivity/

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UK – Britain – England – Europe

Electrosensitivity ‘Wifi Refugees’

BBC ‘Inside Out South’ – 25/02/2013

 

Electrosensitive: Outliers in a Wireless World (2013)

photoworks.org.uk/outliers-in-a-wireless-world

 

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Allergic to Wifi? Meet a group of people who say they absolutely are

POSTED 6:53 PM, MAY 8, 2017,   BY  

WEST VIRGINIA – There is a group of people in West Virginia who are living off the grid. They say it’s a matter of their health.

Rashes, seizures, headaches and blisters are some of the symptoms of a condition called electro hypersensitivity.

But Green Bank, a small town in Pocohantas County, West Virginia is one of the least populated counties in America. The residents live without cell towers, very little wifi and nearly digitally-free in what’s called a “radio quiet zone.”

And many of them like it that way, because they say that being anywhere near wireless technology makes them sick.

Fox 8’s Todd Meany spent some time in Green Bank with them and he has their story, above.

http://fox8.com/2017/05/08/allergic-to-wifi-meet-a-group-of-people-who-say-they-absolutely-are/

featured in the documentary “WIFI Refugees” July 2017

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Australian Telecommunications Technician with EHS demolished Cell Towers 

After serving time for damage to cell towers, he now measures the radiation levels of cell towers and educates the public

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Could Wifi be harming YOUR health? That’s what a growing number of people believe is triggering their headaches, nausea and crippling pain

  • The list of places off-limits to Mary Coales is extensive 
  • The 63-year-old can’t go to theatres, restaurants, airports, or parks
  • Mary has electromagnetic hypersensitivity intolerance syndrome (EHS)
  • More than 3 million people think they have electro-sensitivity

By Polly Dunbar For The Daily Mail

23 November 2014

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2846494/Could-Wifi-harming-health-Thats-growing-number-people-believe-triggering-headaches-nausea-crippling-pain.html

Mary believes she has reduced her symptoms, but her life is very difficult. She measures the waves around her to monitor their effect

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Nic explains in this video interview that he suspects his cell phone caused the brain tumour.

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Electro-Sensitivity Complaints Increasing In Britain And WiFi Could Be Responsible

Nov 24, 2014

http://www.hngn.com/articles/50625/20141124/electro-sensitivity-complaints-increasing-in-britain-and-wifi-could-be-responsible.htm

 

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“Over 800,000 Israelis are EHS at different levels of sensitivity”

How We Are Killing Ourselves – Wireless Radiation

posted April 2016, with Translation

 

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Jolie Jones, Daughter of legendary Quincy Jones,  experienced Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity 

https://www.jolietalks.com/#.WSOhIi2D90I

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Published on Dec 22, 2012

Electrical hypersensitivity is estimated to affect up to 10% of the population and is recognised as a functional disorder in Sweden, Spain and Canada. Nicole investigates the symptoms, discusses who is likely to be susceptible and explores the sources in the average home.

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Michigan family settles in Alaska to reduce EHS

by Nicholas Colin KDLG 670am Radio, July 6, 2017

“Yost and his family recently moved to Egegik from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan–part of a search to find an environment agreeable with the oldest daughter of the family’s health. Eighteen year old Sarah Yost suffers from a rare condition called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, which gives her symptoms similar to Fibromyalgia brought on by wireless radiation. She feels ill in areas concentrated with wireless internet, cell phones and cell phone towers.The Yost family traveled the country for the better part of the last two years, searching for a place far enough removed from modern technologies, where Sara could feel healthy.

“You could say we were refugees in our own country for a while,” said Sara Yost. “It seems like, oh yeah, it’s really easy to find some place out in the middle of nowhere, but really with the way that our society is progressing so quickly with all this modern technology, it’s getting very difficult to find any sort of safe zone.’

http://kdlg.org/post/egegik-has-new-city-administrator#stream/0

 

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Electromagnetic waves have made this Chard woman unable to leave the house

Signals coming from our mobile phones and Wi-Fi make her ill

BY JOSH FORDHAM   20 DEC 2016   UPDATED  25 APR 2017

A woman has told of her “heart-breaking” medical condition that means she has been made housebound by the electromagnetic waves in our atmosphere.

Kim De’Atta suffers from electromagnetic sensitivity meaning the signals coming from our mobile phones and Wi-Fi make her ill.

She can rarely leave her home in Chard and has to go to places where there is little mobile phone signal to stop her suffering symptoms.

As a result of Kim’s illness she can rarely see friends and family because travelling is too difficult.

She said: “Most of the time people think I am mad. It is so difficult because people are not feeling it themselves.

“I have not seen friends and family for so long. I have had two visitors for half a day each this year. It’s heart-breaking really.

“The only place I can go is Crewkerne or Lyme Regis as if I go anywhere else I get some serious symptoms.

“I had not seen my closest aunt for ten years and she didn’t really understand why. We were so close before.

“I could not bare it anymore and she was 91 at the time. I had to wear my shielded bed net over my head and you can imagine I got some funny looks on the bus.

“It was so tough for me but I’m pleased I did it because she died the next year and if I hadn’t seen her I would never have forgiven myself.”

The electromagnetic waves emitted from mobile phones, televisions, Wi-Fi and other electronic devices give Kim debilitating symptoms.

She can suffer with migraines, fatigue, infections, pins and needles and allergies, as well as problems with her nervous system.

To try and protect herself at home she wears a shielded head net and sleeps under a shielded net.

Kim said: “I found out about Electrosensitivy UK (ESUK). A chap phoned me and he was so helpful and said I needed to get shielding.

“I wear a shielded head net, which gives me 50 decibels of protection. He said I had to stay away from all electromagnetic fields and live in a place where there was nothing at all.”

The condition has been brought into the mainstream over the last few years because of the Netflix series Better Call Saul.

One of the main characters, Chuck, suffers from the condition and has to wear a jacket lined with foil if he wants to go out. Whenever he makes a trip to the law office at which he works people have to handover their mobile phones because of the signals they omit.

There are parallels that can be draw between Kim’s symptoms and those of the character on the show.

Her problems started at the age of 16 when she was living in South London and found modern advances in technologies would cause her increased health problems.

She said: “It started when I was 16. After I had left home I realised what was happening was I was becoming more and more sensitive to TVs. If I stayed away I didn’t have any problems at all.

“When I started working as a staff nurse that’s when the serious problems began. I worked a lot in intensive and it was just when mobile phones were coming in. I thought I would buy one so they could call me if there was an emergency.

“The first time I put it up to my head it was like a laser going into my brain. Every time I put it up to my head I got the pain. After that I was finding I was getting more and more fatigued and my immune system was getting knocked meaning I was getting infections.”

Her symptoms were getting too serious so she had to move to the South West to escape the electromagnetic waves.

She said: “Aged 30 I decided to live in Glastonbury where I was going to teach meditation and Eastern philosophy. Everything was going really well for a couple of years and then they put a mobile phone mast in the middle of Glastonbury.

“I now realise my health started to deteriorate from that point and I started to experience migraines, fatigue and infections.

“At first the doctors thought I had a slipped disc in my back but that wasn’t the case. When I saw another doctor he said it was something in the environment and could be to do with the electromagnetic fields.

“I was in the library on the computer and got these pins and needles in my arms and my face felt like it was burning. I thought I would just have to cope with it.”

Kim had to leave Glastonbury because of the advances in mobile phone technology that gave her serious symptoms affecting her health.

She said: “When the 3G went on my health went into serious problems. My nervous system started going into overdrive. My head felt like it was going to implode and explode at the same time.

“I was also getting breathlessness, heart palpitations and lower back pain. I had started to suffer from serious ear aches and was becoming really sensitive to light.

“I had to ask a friend to pick me up because the pain was so tough and that was it, I could not live in Glastonbury any more.

 

“My aunt sadly died and after that my cousin gave me some money. With that money I booked a world trip to go to places where I could escape the signals but everywhere you go they started to put up mobile phone masts.”

Since returning from her world trip she has moved to a property near Chard where there are not too many mobile phone signals.

She wants to highlight her plight and try and force the government to take her condition seriously. Kim has had to perform her own research on the topic and discovered more than 20,000 papers have been written across the world about the effects of electromagnetic waves on the public.

http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/electromagnetic-waves-made-chard-woman-35007

 

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Velma Lyrae – UK

Published on Aug 29, 2009

Velma Lyrae believes that Wifi is a threat to the well being of some people. She discusses her viewpoint at Climate Camp 2009.

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Woman forced to live in ‘cage’ by intolerance to mobiles, wifi and satnav

By FRAN WETZEL
21st November 2012, 3:08 pm

MEET the woman who lives in a protective cage — because her system can’t cope with pulsed microwave technology.

When Velma, 51, gets close to mobile phones, satnav or wifi or other pulsed microwave signals, she is badly affected and has to spend hours in her home-made Faraday-style chamber.

Velma, who has electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome, passes the time reading, doing artwork and writing letters instead.

To protect herself from pulsed microwave signals from industrial WIFI she will sometimes wear a special scarf when going into shops. Her condition emerged when 3G mobiles were introduced.

Though it is believed previous electric shocks make people more susceptible.  As a teenager Velma suffered a shock when she touched the switch of an electric fire in her bathroom.  At first the symptoms were barely noticeable but they have become progressively worse over time.

Read more at  https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/1054709/woman-forced-to-live-in-cage-by-intolerance-to-mobiles-wifi-and-satnav/

 

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WIFI REFUGEES

Published on July 19, 2017

Although these people are sick, their illness is difficult to diagnose, and it’s even harder to convince others that it actually exists. Their symptoms include cluster headaches, nausea, chronic fatigue, a burning sensation on the skin, and a metallic taste in the mouth. Sufferers claim the cause is wireless technology. There’s no known cure, and the only way to alleviate the symptoms seems to be to distance themselves from electronic devices and the influence of omnipresent wireless networks.

Electrosensitive people insist that Wi-Fi and cell phones are inflicting constant harm on humans, animals, and nature. Their testimonies are not the only evidence that non-ionising radiation may not be as harmless as we have been led to believe. Scientific studies that have been conducted on plants, insects, and mice suggest these electromagnetic waves may be damaging living organisms. Scientists from around the world have appealed to the UN, warning of the negative, long-term effects that electromagnetic fields could be having on animal and plant life.

At the moment, electrosensitive people have no choice but to flee to the woods or distant rural areas that wireless technology hasn’t yet reached. This often means leaving their families behind. Such sanctuaries are not easy to find, however, and they are becoming scarcer by the day. Sufferers warn that they are just the first to have detected the problem, which they expect to get worse and affect more and more people. Their message is not to stop progress, but to proceed with caution, making sure new technology is really safe before it is made widely available.

 

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Published on Apr 19, 2017

One of the podcast hosts from Emf Warriors explains his EHS Story

Main Site: emfwarriors.com   Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/emfwarriors

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Therapist, 44, who’s ‘allergic to Wi-Fi’ claims she’s had to quit her job and move 230 miles from home to live in a SHED – because of her ‘electromagnetic hypersensitivity’

  • Rachel Hinks claims she suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity 
  • Says Wi-Fi signals from internet hubs and phone masts cause severe pain
  • she moved from Chichester, West Sussex to the Welsh Valleys to escape

By Charlie Moore For Mailonline

PUBLISHED: 18:02 BST, 19 October 2017

A therapist who believes she is allergic to Wi-Fi has quit her job and moved 230 miles from home to live in a shed.

Rachel Hinks claims she suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, with Wi-Fi signals from internet hubs and phone masts causing her severe pain.

The 44-year-old first suffered sharp pains in her head, dizziness and heart palpitations in 2015.

Rachel Hinks claims she suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, with Wi-Fi signals from internet hubs and phone masts causing her severe pain

The 44-year-old first suffered sharp pains in her head, dizziness and heart palpitations in 2015

Miss Hinks, who worked as a children’s play therapist before quitting ten years ago, moved from Chichester, West Sussex to the Welsh Valleys to escape Wi-Fi signals.

She said: ‘In Chichester there are at least 15 masts within a two mile radius of my house.

What is electromagnetic sensitivity?  

Electromagnetic Sensitivity, also known as Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) is a condition in which an individual experiences symptoms like headaches, dizziness, unusual heart palpitations, or insomnia, around wireless technologies or electrical devices such as smart meters, cell towers or WiFi boxes.

EHS has no scientific basis and is not a recognised medical diagnosis.

‘In the past six months I have had to sleep in my car, pitch a tent in random bits of woodland or fields and even slept in a shed to try and escape the electromagnetic fields.

‘I’m utterly exhausted, both physically and emotionally, with trying to find places I can stay and be well.

‘My life now compared to ten years ago is unrecognisable – I have little social life or access to people I knew.

‘To try and recover a little and stop the pain I feel, I have been forced to temporarily come to rural Wales to get away from electromagnetic fields.

‘There are far fewer people here and fewer masts, and so it is easier to get away from things.

‘I have been staying in a cottage that a friend has up for sale, but I am having to move out of there and so I have no idea where I can go to next.

‘So far, the only offer I have is an old caravan but that has a broken gas heater and a bucket for a toilet.

Miss Hinks, who worked as a children’s play therapist before quitting ten years ago, moved from Chichester, West Sussex to the Welsh Valleys to escape Wi-Fi signals

She said: ‘In Chichester there are at least 15 masts within a two mile radius of my house’

Pictured: Rachel Hinks’ Electrosmog Detector which tells her how much electricity is in the air

‘I am in crisis right now and haven’t found a way of dealing with this alone, so I am trying to raise some money to allow me to buy possibly a camper van.

‘I can then get away from Wi-Fi signals when I am feeling ill.’

Miss Hinks has so far raised over £1,600 through Go Fund Me, which a friend helps her manage, and is hoping to raise £15,000 to try and secure a more rural home.

The self-diagnosed illness has been recognised as a disability in Canada, Sweden and the USA, however there is no treatment available for it on the NHS at the moment.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4997906/A-viral-concern-Therapist-44-allergic-Wi-Fi.html#ixzz4w1IdivVk 

 

 

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Functional brain MRI in patients complaining of electrohypersensitivity after long term exposure to electromagnetic fields

Gunnar Heuser / Sylvia A. Heuser
Published Online: 2017-07-05 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2017-0014

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/reveh.ahead-of-print/reveh-2017-0014/reveh-2017-0014.xml

 

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Electromagnetic waves: “I feel in danger everywhere”

by Mathilde Belin, www.europe1.fr ,   March 28, 2018

© Jeff Pachoud / AFP

“It’s like living in a microwave oven permanently”: Christiane Esteve, 73, has been suffering from electrohypersensitivity for over twenty years. Faced with the exposure of electromagnetic waves produced by a mobile phone or a microwave oven, she developed disabling symptoms. “I have constant headaches and now that Wi-Fi is everywhere, I have balance problems and nausea,” says the retired saleswoman at Europe1.fr.

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ALLERGIC TO MODERN LIFE : This Cancer-Survivor Can’t Stand Near Cell Phones, TVs And Other Electromagnetic Devices

ROBERT JOHNSON

Photo: Daily Mail

After receiving chemotherapy for bowel cancer three years ago, Janice Tunnicliffe developed a condition making it painful to be near any man-made electromagnetic waves. Television, radio, microwave, cell phones, an electric kettle — according to the Daily Mail, they all cause Tunnicliffe constant headaches, chest pains and nausea.

Immediately home from the hospital, she started to notice the pain and its connection to electronics.

It wasn’t until afterwards that I considered it might have been because of all the ‘electrosmog’ we were experiencing at home.

Since then, she and her husband have removed most every modern convenience from their home and asked their neighbours to give up wifi to go back to direct cable connections.

Despite ridding themselves of all electro-emitting devices and purchasing thousands of dollars in signal-blocking devices, Tunnicliffe’s suffering continues.

Graham Lamburn, from campaigning organisation Powerwatch, said so far the medical profession has been slow to recognise electrosensitivity as an illness as its causes are as yet unknown.

He said: ‘This kind of case is rare, but certainly there have been some people who have had to give up their houses and jobs because of ES.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/janice-tunnicliffe-electric-devices-2011-5

 

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Taboo EHS High Frequency electromagnetic filed sensitive people – WiFi GSM

Tue Oct 01 2013 – National Geographic

 

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Other EHS Websites

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/eSens/

www.mast-victims.org

www.next-up.org

www.cellphonetaskforce.org

Electrosensitivity Forum (Facebook )

Electrosensitivity.co 

weepinitiative.org/Living with EHS 

Emf Warriors

ehtrust.org – cell-phone-survivors

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Electromagnetic pollution

The concept of electromagnetic pollution, also known as electropollution, refers to the alleged existence of excessive exposure to electromagnetic spectrum (or electromagnetic fields ) generated by electronic equipment or other elements of human activity.

The term “pollution” is used since it is suspected that certain electromagnetic fields could be a disturbing factor for living species, and may affect their health or reproductive habits. These issues are the subject of social and media controversy, and also of intense academic study, but to date there has been scientific evidence of adverse effects.

Some electromagnetic fields at very high intensities can have harmful effects, mainly due to the thermal effect they can cause (such as the electromagnetic field inside a microwave oven ).

However, the World Health Organization estimates that, at the average levels of intensity to which an adult is subjected in developed countries, there are no adverse health effects.  1  WHO also considers that there is no correlation between the high levels of electromagnetic field and the symptoms of so-called electromagnetic hypersensitivity , the causes of which are not yet known.  2 

A controversial aspect refers to the hypothetical harmful effects that could produce, in the long term, the emissions of electromagnetic radiation. Some specific cases of alleged increases in the likelihood of cancer in people living in areas near high voltagetowers, as well as the recent concern about the use of cellular telephony , and the cellular antennas and WiMAX Have contributed to awakening some degree of “social alarm”.  3 

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