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I need a new washer/dryer and have had a bad experience with the high-efficiency model. Am considering a speed queen but has stainless steel drum. I get jittery/rapid heart rate around metal and electricity.
do you think a stainless steel drum will give me problems?
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- I assume you are not using typical laundry detergent or any kind of fabric softer or dryer sheets?
Totally unscented with the laundry soap?
Otherwise, are you also sensitive to scents? Why I ask makes sense but I can't verbalize why exactly. Other than that scents can also just clobber sensitive neurology & adrenal dysfunction.
The issues you raise are not something I'm familiar with however, one major consideration is that I sure would not want any plastic / petroleum parts in a machine that got hot.
Even if it did not get hot, in typical household temperatures, plastics off-gas nearly forever and ever. Add hot water or dryer heat to that and the air could very well become toxic.
Same with any kinds of Teflon coatings.
And the electricity coming in would be the same source, same voltage.
I wonder if the reason you have heart issues is not more about the electricity METER ? Is it a "SMART" meter?
. . . or maybe you might have GAS and some of the gas is escaping.
There may be other variables here beside the actual metal.
I wonder if your electrolyte body balance might be off, though?
I would go with stainless steel for many reasons over just about any other materials in a washer, dryer or dishwasher. It's the best of the best regarding solid material that will last.
Stainless steel will not rust. There are varying grades of this, though, so be sure it would be the best.
Also consider that - unlike other electrical appliances, you hardly have to be next to a washer or dryer other than when putting clothes in or taking out. Sorting / folding could be done in another room.
Any kinds of plastics or any lesser metals will rust and plastics and lesser metals will also have pressure & heat fatigue - the materials will break - before too many months / years.
Bolts hold "lesser" materials also just cannot be as solid over time with such heavy treatment as in a washer or dryer.
years ago, my very first Qigong class (similar to Tai Chi) . . . the instructor had us do a muscle challenge test first.
easy, just have someone else try to push down on of your outheld arms.
Then we all held a hair dryer that was turned on.
muscle test again. No one had the same strength.
Do some Qigong and muscle strength returned.
So, if our bodies are "short circuited" so to speak by exposure to electrical circuits . . .
do some simple exercise to realign our neuro system may be of help. -
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- While EMF and all are quite a deep topic to explore, I'm also wondering if when you have episodes of
"jittery/rapid heart rate around metal and electricity"
if that may be around equipment which requires you to turn around, turn your head or bend and dip?
If so, all kinds of things connected to lyme could be the trigger rather than the piece of equipment or even electrical stuff.
Do look to see how close your power transformer is to your house, though. Those would always make my hair stand on end - once when apt. hunting, one was right outside the kitchen window and before I even saw that (or new it could do that) it so clobbered me.
As for my questions on movement around machines:
low blood pressure when standing / POTS / NMH
inner ear fluctuations
heart circulation
hypoglycemia can also trigger heart rhythm irregularities due to the adrenal hormones that can flood the body and trigger the electrical system in body.
I just learned that last bit from a PBS Masterpiece Endeavor episode. Really.
hands are so done now. can't elaborate -
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- My notes from the program just mentioned above.
I imagine there are varying degrees of adrenal distress / shock regarding blood insulin stability -- and Lyme really can upset the adrenal functions & various nervous systems in so many ways, too.
Of course, more study on this yet as a simple note, set back in time decades, but it really caught my attention & it is certainly worth checking out with one's LLMD or LL ND.
It caught my attention so much, in part, because I had to learn years ago from an ambulance paramedic that my crashed blood glucose was likely connected to a string of seizures one evening.
He said that seizures can really crash blood sugar. Now, I wonder if it might not be the other way around as well. Seizures are out of bounds electrical boomerangs, so to speak.
Point is: blood glucose stability has a ton to do with heart rhythm stability, too.
Character Dr. Max DeBryn, Home Office Pathologist / coroner states:
[paraphrasing] year set: 1967 " . . . not fully understood, but the latest thought is that hypoglycemia causing death is likley due to falling glucose levels as
the falling glucose level causes massive release of adrenaline which trigers electrical disturbances in the heart. Hypoglycemic Shock " declares the doctor.
Spoiler alert: The case involves a series of murders by insulin injection -
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- It took my brain a night to find another way to turn off power to W//D when not in use - but as they are huge machines and the plugs usually behind them, that would not be practical.
If they are on their own circuit breaker, you could switch that off when they are not in use.
Whatever the model / style of washer, though, be sure to wipe down and leave door / top open to air for a few hours after use to prevent stale water sitting around door seal. -
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