13 years Lyme & Co.; Small Fiber Neuropathy; Myasthenia Gravis, Adrenal Insufficiency. On chemo for 2 1/2 years as experimental treatment for MG. Posts: 4480 | From Northeastern Connecticut | Registered: Jun 2005
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ugghhhh not more of this nonsense. We have SOOO much else to be worried about.... Posts: 183 | From Craley, PA | Registered: Jul 2004
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Tracy9
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I know, but it was on the evening news; otherwise I would never have paid attention to it. It did make me feel concerned about my children's health.
13 years Lyme & Co.; Small Fiber Neuropathy; Myasthenia Gravis, Adrenal Insufficiency. On chemo for 2 1/2 years as experimental treatment for MG. Posts: 4480 | From Northeastern Connecticut | Registered: Jun 2005
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charlie
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I know! I know! I've talked on my cell phone to you guys till it smoked sometimes.....
but Corona's a good detox.
Charlie Posts: 2804 | From Texas | Registered: Oct 2000
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Regardless of which side of the fence you happen to be on with regards to this, here are a few facts
Bluetooth transmitters, like those in cell phones, laptops, and video game controllers, are very very low powered. Finding a nice Bluetooth wireless headset allows you to put your cell down a few feet away from you. Besides saving the fatigue of holding the thing up to your ear while you multitask, it means that the signal right next to your head is going to be much weaker.
Bluetooth headsets vary from $30-150 or so, and I've found mine a worthy investment.
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You know, even though I've had Lyme way before there was such a thing as cell phones, I do notice that on days I have Lyme symptoms, talking on the cell phone will give me a headache on the side I'm holding the phone to. I can tell the source of the pain is the phone, because when I remove it, the pain goes away.
Then I switch it to speaker .... perhaps I should be doing that anyway.
I only let my kids carry around cell phones when they're out of the house. We only have one for them to share. My college student rarely talks on hers, she usually is texting.
I've always thought they were bad ..... but not that they cause Lyme.
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cottonbrain
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I learned a lot about how cell phones can affect the brain while i did neurofeedback training for two years.
I noticed that whenever i spoke on the cellphone, i got an INSTANT migraine. so, while i was hooked up to electrodes during a regular neurodfeedback session
I talked on the cellphone and watched my brainwaves. In my case, the high-end beta waves(normally present during times of anxiety-, fight-or-flight-- , and which can cause insomnia) went through the roof.
It typically took my brain about twenty minutes to stabilize after only talking on the cellphone for a couple of minutes. Even after I was able to slow the brainwaves down to "normal," the migraine persisted.
Now, imagine that you are a ten-year-old and you talk on the phone during school hours. You may have ADD-like symptoms for the rest of the school day and be rendered incapable of learning.
I actually saw a tv documentary about how cellphones can cause ADD-like symptoms in kids. And, since the frontal lobe is not fully-developed even in teenagers, it may be a good idea not to allow your teens to talk on cells either.
Not to mention the dangers of living under the waves of a cell phone tower (which, btw, do not fall heaviest directly under the tower but are projected in a sort of outward ring).
I, for one, do verifiably feel the consequences of speeded-up brainwaves from cellphone use. For me this is just as real as MCS or Lyme Disease and is a very real health hazard.
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tailz
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I was waiting for this post - my former mother-in-law saw it on Fox news, called my daughter, who then called her dad, and my daughter later called me. All I can say is - finally.
I don't think there is any safe substitute for this technology though. We're fooling ourselves if we think that we can just distance ourselves from the phone or that our adult brains can somehow handle the excess radiation. Nope. I don't buy it.
I drove to a tree nursery yesterday, but by the time I got there, I was unable to think and plan - I was also sweating through my jeans, so I just drove home. I tried driving there again today - I actually drove past the nursery because I couldn't concentrate - had to turn around and drive back.
But by driving too far, I discovered the reason for my sweaty jeans - there was a cell phone tower maybe a quarter of a mile down the road. If you don't want to be sweating through denim in another couple of years, better stop using your cell phone now.
And if everybody hangs onto his or her cell phone for that once in a lifetime 'emergency', that isn't going to change the number of towers that irradiate us non-stop. I'm not the exception - I'm the rule. I'm not being affected any more or less than most of you - I'm just aware of it.
And if mobile phone emissions can increase worm fertilty, why should I doubt that they have the same effect on Lyme and spirochetes?
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