The commenter describes ME/CFS and disability attributed to a CT scan, later symptoms around phones and s…

I have had diagnosed ME/CFS since January 2017. Since 1998, I have had idiopathic chronic fatigue. I am writing as a patient to record my experiences of adverse effects resulting from exposure to RF/EMF. 1. CT SINUS -- PERMANENT DISABLEMENT: In September 2015 I was unable to tolerate the chemicals in a newly built Mirvac unit. As a result I was sent for a CT sinus by an immunologist. I believe the scan was performed twice in the one sitting. In the days immediately after the scan, I had a feeling of a burn in a band around my head just above the ears. I got two styes at once, one on each eye. It became hard for me to focus my vision, even though I had never had vision problems previously. I entered deep fatigue for two weeks, then gradually felt better. I had pain in my eyes, which gradually worsened over months. My cognition at first seemed faster, then I had cognitive decline over several months. The pain in my eyes and my cognition gradually worsened over the following year. By month 14, I was making frequent serious errors at work. At month 16, in January 2017, I suddenly became unable to work and then, roughly a week later, unable to walk. I had no doubt then and still have no doubt now that these ongoing, worsening symptoms were related to the scan. After leaving the flat because I could no longer work, over the following two and a half years I gradually re-learnt the ability to walk, then went back to work one day a week. Now I am able to work three days a week. Leaving the flat helped me recover but very serious lifelong damage was caused by the CT scan. I may unusually sensitive to ionising radiation. 2. MOBILE PHONE AND BLUETOOTH -- PAIN: I had my first mobile phone in the year 2000. I noticed in around 2002 that a spot above my left ear would give a sharp pain if I stayed on the phone for too long (differing amounts of time). The pain still recurs sometimes, now on either side, after long phone calls (>1h). I also get this pain intermittently from being close to my phone or laptop while it is connected to Wifi. However, this symptom has significantly reduced in frequency since the replacement of an outdated meter box on the outside wall of the room where I live most of the time, at my mother's place. To avoid this pain, I always have Bluetooth turned off on my phone and laptop. However, I very often use my laptop with wifi and my phone without discomfort. 3. SOLAR PANELS IN A RENTAL -- SLEEP ISSUES, IMMUNE ISSUES, AND COGNITIVE ISSUES: (3a) In 2021 I moved into a rented granny flat/garden studio that had solar panels on the roof. The roof was an unearthed metal roof. From the day I moved in I had trouble sleeping and woke up several times a night. I have never had this problem before or since. I remained living at my mother's place part of the time because of this issue, and I slept fine at my mother's place. In 2023 I purchased a shielding cloth (cloth with silver and copper) and slept under it like a blanket. At that point I was able to sleep enough in order to live in the flat full time, without needing to stay at my mother's place part of the time. (3b) However, in 2024 I had a tick bite while living there, and I was unable to recover from the infection or tolerate treatment. I left my rental to live at my mother's place, where I was able to tolerate treatment and recover from the infection. I believe that the solar panels diminished my ability fight the tick-borne infection. (3c) I found that when I was teaching online in the rental due to Covid, there were certain locations in the flat where my cognitive ability was too poor to run a class online. But when I moved to a different spot in the rental, my cognitive ability was strong enough to run my online class. I believe this was due to different levels of RF/EMF exposure from solar panels in different locations in the flat. 4. HOME WIFI -- TINNITUS AND HEALTH ISSUES: (4a) At my mother's place, my sister previously used wifi on her laptop all night. We had tension because I thought she was making noise. But it turned out that the noise was not acoustic. It was a form of tinnitus caused by RF/EMF, as far as we could work out. There was a precedent for this in 2016, when I was becoming very unwell after the CT scan, living in the Mirvac flat. I thought my upstairs neighbour was playing opera all night at high volume. But I now believe this was tinnitus caused by EF/EMF. (4b) Now, in my mother's house, we have the wifi turn off automatically at 10pm and my sister now uses ethernet during the night. This helps me relax and heal from my daily fatigue due to ME/CFS. If the wifi is on I feel less able to heal. This is consistent over time, but I often wouldn't be able to tell at one given point in time whether the wifi was on or off. It is not an allergy. Having the wifi off overnight has a significant beneficial effect on my health even if I am unable to tell for certain whether it is on or off at any given time.