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Reports improvement in anxiety after reducing RF/EMF exposure, with recurring anxiety, cognitive difficulties and headaches around wiring, smart meters, Wi-Fi and phones. Describes household exposure experiments and practical restrictions on phone use.
- Neurological symptoms & sleep: “increased brain fog, memory trouble, concentration trouble, obsessive/repetitive thoughts, and general malaise”
- Power lines, wiring & solar: “We recently discovered that dirty electricity may also cause me problems.”
- Wi-Fi & indoor exposure: “bluetooth and wi-fi at distances exceeding 10'”
- Smart meters: “when exposed to smart meters up to about 30' away”
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In 2017, I was diagnosed with GAD due to strong feelings of stress/panic, muscle tension (especially in jaw), and trouble breathing. I was given fluoxetine and took magnesium and a B-vitamin complex, which all seemed to help. Since my marriage in 2020, my family has sought to decrease our RF/EMF exposure because of health issues my husband was experiencing (he has submitted his own comment). By then, I had stopped taking fluoxetine because I hoped to get pregnant. My anxiety improved over the first few years of our marriage, so that I now no longer consider myself to have GAD. I suspect that my anxiety symptoms improved because of my family's efforts to reduce RF/EMF exposure; my symptoms reappear at times that correlate with RF/EMF exposure. I first realized this when my favorite armchair was positioned over an ungrounded extension cord running to a nearby lamp: whenever I had been sitting in the chair for a while, I would feel extremely anxious and tense and have trouble breathing, even if nothing stressful was going on. When my husband wrapped the cord in aluminum foil and attached a grounding wire to it, the problem went away. I have noticed similar recurrences of my anxiety symptoms, as well as increased brain fog, memory trouble, concentration trouble, obsessive/repetitive thoughts, and general malaise when exposed to smart meters up to about 30' away, a smart garage door opener about 20' away, and bluetooth and wi-fi at distances exceeding 10'. I usually notice the feeling before I realize what's causing it, and when the source is turned off, the symptoms go away, sometimes instantly and sometimes fading more slowly. We recently discovered that dirty electricity may also cause me problems. We were living in a house where I was having all of the symptoms I've already mentioned stronger than normal, and my husband asked me to sit on a couch where I had felt those symptoms particularly strongly before while he systematically turned the circuits in the house on and off until we isolated the circuit that the garage freezer was on. I felt fine when the circuit was on and the freezer was not running, but once the freezer kicked on, even though it was halfway across the house from me, I felt like a wave of something hit me: I was aware of everything happening around me, but I felt zombie-like, and it took massive effort to think or respond to anything. I also felt this sensation recently in a hotel with wi-fi routers on a shared grid, but it improved when we were moved to a room without a router. Additionally, I notice a dull headache if I put my iPhone 6 to my head to talk on a call, so I usually use speakerphone. I have not been able to upgrade my phone despite increasing compatibility issues because anything newer causes sharper headaches, even on speakerphone. The headache lasts for at least 15 minutes after the call ends. Taking magnesium and B-vitamin supplements still tends to reduce but not eliminate my symptoms when I am exposed to something.
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