EHS FROM PASSIVE AND TARGETED EXPOSURES
I've just finished putting these excerpts together, moving from the most recent backwards to 1996, based on my experiences of passive and targeted EMF exposure. You are welcome to post it online. I am sure many of our fellow activists have had similar experiences.
Best, Imelda, Cork.
SEPTEMBER, 2006
UPDATE ON MY EHS (electrohypersensitive) CONDITION SUBMITTED TO MY DOCTOR
HANDWRITTEN SUBMISSION: MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006
TYPED SUBMISSION: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2006
o SLEEP DISTURBANCE: WHILE GETTING TO SLEEP/WHEN DROWSY EXPERIENCE BRAIN SEIZURES/ELECTRIC DISTURBANCES/ELECTRIC SHORTCIRCUITING OF MY BRAIN. SOMETIMES AWAKEN SUDDENLY AT ANY HOUR DURING THE NIGHT AND AM FULLY ALERT AND AWAKE THEN AS IF IT WERE DAYTIME. MIGHT FALL OFF TO SLEEP AGAIN DURING THE NIGHT BUT COULD EXPERIENCE ABNORMAL BRAIN ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCES. THIS ABNORMAL BRAIN ACTIVITY HAPPENED AS RECENTLY AS EARLY MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22. SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE A DULL THUD OR BLOW WITHIN MY BRAIN. OTHERTIMES IT FEELS LIKE A FUSE BLOWING IN MY BRAIN OR AS IF IT IS BEING TOTALLY ELECTRIFIED. BUT IT DOESN’T SEEM TO AFFECT MY THINKING—AT LEAST AT A CONSCIOUS LEVEL.
N.B. DO NOT EXPERIENCE THESE BRAIN SEIZURES DURING THE DAY WHEN VERTICAL OR SEATED, EXCEPTION: IN THE PAST, HAVE EXPERIENCED THEM OCCASSIONALLY DURING THE DAY WHEN I DOZED OFF IN A CHAIR WHILE READING.
o NUMBNESS: USUALLY AT NIGHT, WHEN LYING DOWN, AND DROWSY OR WHILE ASLEEP. THIS NUMBNESS USUALLY AFFECTS MY FINGERS AND ESPECIALLY MY LITTLE FINGERS. ONCE I BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE NUMBNESS OF MY FINGERS/FOCUS ON THEM AND THEIR NUMBNESS, THE NUMBESS RECEDES QUICKLY AND I REGAIN FULL FEELING IN THEM. WHEN AMBIENT EMR LEVELS ARE STRONG (AND I CAN GUAGE EMR AMBIENT LEVELS FROM THE LEVEL OF SEVERITY OF MY TINNITUS) THEN THE NUMBNESS IN MY FINGERS BECOMES MORE EXTENSIVE.
o TINNITUS/MICROWAVE/EMR HEARING: WORSE IN THE EVENINGS FROM C. 7.00-8.00 PM ONWARDS AND PROGRESSING STRONGER TO C. MIDNIGHT. ALSO SEEMS STRONGER IN THE WINTER WHEN STREET LIGHTS, ETC COME ON EARLIER AND MORE DOMESTIC USE OF ELECTRICITY. SOMETIMES I HEAR FREQUENCIES COMING THROUGH AND THEN FADING AWAY/MOVING AWAY AGAIN. OTHERTIMES I FEEL PULSED FREQUENCIES COMING THROUGH MY AURAL TRACT AND SENSE/FEEL THESE ESPECIALLY DURING NIGHTS AND EARLY MORNINGS. THESE AT TIMES, WHEN SEVERE, HAVE FELT LIKE METAL PING-PONG BALLS BOUNCING OFF THE INSIDE OF MY HEAD
o INTERMITTENT JABS OF PAIN IN MY THYROID AREA WHERE I HAD SURGERY C. 1992 WHILE LIVING IN PASADENA, CA. FEEL SIMILAR SHARP INTERMITTENT PAIN IN VARIOUS PARTS OF MY BODY, ESPECIALLY MY FEET AND HANDS.
o LEG CRAMPS: THIS IS A FAIRLY RECENT SYMPTOM. EARLY FRIDAY MORNING, AROUND 2.00 AM OF AUGUST 25, I WAS ASLEEP ON AN UPPER BUNK BED IN A BELFAST HOSTEL. THE WOMAN BELOW ME AND THE OTHER OCCUPANT IN THE LOWER BUNK NEARBY DID HAVE ACTIVE CELLPHONES. THE FRAMES AND SPRINGS OF THE BUNK BEDS WERE METAL. I AWOKE AND SHIFTED IN MY UPPER BUNK BED. WHEN I SHIFTED MY LEGS I FELT THE MOST EXCRUCIATING AND MOVEMENT-DETERRING CRAMPS IN EXACTLY THE SAME POSITION IN THE CALVES OF BOTH LEGS. I WAS LOCKED INTO THAT POSITION/COULDN’T MOVE FOR PERHAPS 30 SECONDS. THEN I MOVED MY LEGS AND IMMEDIATELY THE CRAMPS DISAPPEARED. THIS HASN’T RECURRED. I HAD OFTEN SLEPT IN SIMILAR BUNK BEDS, BOTH UPPER AND LOWER, IN THE SAME HOSTEL AND THIS HAD NEVER OCCURRED BEFORE. HOWEVER, I FELT THE EMR LEVELS WERE ALSO VERY HIGH THAT EVE AND NIGHT AND FELT SOME ANOMALOUS BRAIN ACTIVITY/FREQUENCY DISTURBANCES.
o DIFFICULTY BREATHING AT TIMES: IT FEELS AS IS I HAVE TO SIGH DEEPLY AND CONSCIOUSLY FORCE AIR INTO MY LUNGS. THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW OCCASSIONS OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS OR SO WHEN SUDDENLY I JUST STOPPED BREATHING FOR A FEW SECONDS.
o HEART STRAIN: ON A FEW OCCASSIONS RECENTLY FELT PAIN ACROSS MY CHEST. ALSO CAN GET HEART FLUTTERING
(FRIBULATION) AT TIMES, ESPECIALLY WHEN EMR
(ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION) LEVELS ARE STRONG OR/AND THERE ARE A LOT OF CELLPHONES AROUND.
EXCERPTS FROM MY 2006 DIARY NOTING PARTICULARLY SEVERE SYMPTOMS
o DURING NIGHT OF 9-10 JUNE: THERE WAS A SUBSTANTIAL STORM WITH THUNDER AND LIGHTNING ON THURSDAY NIGHT HAD VERY SEVERE STRONG SEIZURE AROUND MIDNIGHT AND AGAIN AT C. 3.00 AM.
o AFTERNOON OF SUNDAY, JULY 2: WHILE LYING ON MY BED, READING, DURING AFTERNOON, FELT VERY DROWSY. DOZED, BUT THEN SHOT AWAKE BY SHARP, STRONG, “LASER” STYLE BEAM RACING/CUTTING/ SWEEPING THROUGH MY BRAIN.
o DURING NIGHT OF SUNDAY, JULY 2 TO EARLY MORNING OF MONDAY, JULY 3: LOTS OF BRAIN FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE. VERY STRONG TINNITUS/EMR NOISE THROUGH EARS. HAD TO WEAR ALUMINIUM TURBAN FOR SOME PROTECTION.
o DURING NIGHT OF JULY 21-22 SEVERE ELECTRICAL BRAIN DISTURBANCES/INTERFERENCES. FELT VERY STRONG EMR/TINNITUS. AT ONE STAGE FELT AS IF IT WERE A HUGE “THUD” OR “BLOW” INSIDE/WITHIN MY BRAIN, AS IF ALL THE E-CIRCUITS IN MY BRAIN WERE BEING AFFECTED. WORE ALUMINIUM HELMET.
o DURING EARLY MORNING C. 200 AM OF AUGUST 25, IN BELFAST. I HAVE NOTED THIS ABOVE UNDER CRAMPS
2002
E-HARRASSMENT
The below is posted online at "Citizens Initiative Omega" (via Google) with date 15/02/2003. (Posted c. half way down but obscured for some reason due to my heading being deleted and beginning of my text pushed up toward end of entry immediately above.)
Yesterday, under the heading "Occupational Exposure to RF/MW and Microwave Sickness" you posted Kathy Hawk's account of the Doe family's adverse experiences with RF/MWs. I noticed with particular interest Kathy's observation that it was most likely during the time the "'independent'" measurements were taking place that "the facility appeared not operating at full capacity" and cellphone users found their phones wouldn't work within a radius of some miles. In other words, the power source appeared deliberately to be turned down to ensure desired results.
I would like to share my experiences with what would appear to be the opposite: the strength being deliberately turned up and used as a form of harassment. This occured just about a year ago.
And I bet my experience is not an isolated one!
Best, Imelda, Cork, Ireland
My journal entries on a severe EHS week
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 to c. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2002
FRIDAY (FEB. 1). Yesterday, I engaged in a certain action online that resulted in our EHS condition being brought directly to the attention of an unnamed Irish telecom network. [Addendum May 2007: I opened an email address with Eircom and named it ESISREAL @eircom. Admittedly, what I did was a bit cheeky. Among my first emails was one to Trevor Sargent, leader of the Irish Green Party, about the proposed parliamentary questions on what various governmental ministers intended doing to help Irish electrosensitives.]
Below is an account of its [Eicom's] e-response. Or perhaps it was just a co-incidence that the below started within 24 hours of my confrontation with it on our EHS issue.
Today, Friday, February 1, ushered in unusually high/severe radiation levels in my place of residence a housing estate) in a town, c. ten miles from Cork. It was the worst for c. two years. Especially strong after 8.00 P.M. Had a number of brain short circuits/seizures as I lay in bed before eventually dropping off to sleep.
SATURDAY NIGHT, FEBR. 2 was similar. I'd rate the ambient radiation pretty strong (c. 8/10) from 9.00 P.M. Had to wear aluminium helmet again in bed and still had a series of brain seizures.
On MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4 returned from Cork c. 5.00 P.M. and the radiation levels in the house here seemed unusually high, even at that early hour. Cork had been just fine. The levels got progressively more severe during the eve. Lots of inward airwave suction (most probably, the usual microwaves/radio frequencies) through my ears throughout the eve. Tried to read in bed with the tinfoil helmet firmly in place but each time I started falling off to sleep I'd get a sharp short-circuiting of my brain/brain seizures. A bad night's sleep again. Very broken and many quick seizures.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBR. 6: Radiation levels fairly low as they usually are in the mornings here. But when I returned from Cork (where again levels were very tolerable) to the house here, c. 4.45 P.M., the ambient radiation levels were already very forceful and uncomfortable and felt lots of inward airwave suction (MW/RFs) through my ears.
TUESDAY NIGHT, FEBR. 5 TO WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBR. 6: A terrible night--hideously awful. Felt as if I were under some kind of microwave siege right through the night with no letting up. Signals kept moving swiftly inwards through my aural tract and felt as if they were going ping, like metal balls, off the centre of my brain and then resonating throughout my brain. Just as one would fade out another would come through and each time it really hurt deep inside my brain. Then I also had brain seizures right throughout the night. Of course, I wore the aluminium helmet throughout. Felt wrecked in the morning and my eyelids were all puffy and violet. The upper contour of my left eyelid looked very odd--it had become twisted in shape like a very crooked line. It returned to normal by later in the day. The other occupant of this small house, said that she didn't sleep all through Tuesday night to Wednesday morning but she put it down to being wound up after a supervisor monitored her work. She also remarked, though, that one of her eye's appeared as if it were developing a sty. She had never had this ailment before and was unsure what she should do. She thought that this might be due to laptop screen distress but wasn't sure. I didn't mention my violet and puffy eyelids and odd contour of left eye lid. (My housemate adamantly refuses to consider anyone could possibly be affected by radiation or electricicy). On Thursday she mentioned that her "sty" had disappeared.
On Wednesday morning I telephoned the Southern Health Board and asked for an appointment with the person in charge of GMS contracts. (That means General Medical Services--the GPs who treat public patients). I relayed that I had had a really quite dangerous night of continuous brain seizures from high radiative levels and MW/RFs bombarding me throughout the night. When I turned up for the appointment in Cork was told she had a meeting and couldn't see me. Met another S. Health Board employee instead but it was most unsatisfacory. Didn't get past the door. My most urgent query, I said to her, was trying to locate a G.P. who would take my brain seizures and what is causing them seriously and help me attain an early appointment with a neurologist who specialises in seizures, either within Ireland or in another EU country. As THE IRISH TIMES had reported (in profile article on EU commissioner, David Byrne whose brief includes health that appeared in Friday, Febr. 1, p. 13) ". . . patients are entitled to treatment in another EU country, at the expense of their own health authority, if they face undue delays at home." Felt really dejected and depleted in energy as I headed back to where I live. Felt I could die any night from severe brain seizures and this Irish Southern Health Service couldn't careless.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, FEBR. 6 TO THURS. FEBR. 7: High levels again throughout Thursday night. Fully awake from c. 2.00 A.M. to 4.30 A.M. Then drowsed off and shot awake shortly afterwards by signals coming through my aural tract. The first of these came through very clearly at exactly 5.00 A.M. I became alert and checked the time. Then was drifting off to sleep again when I was shot awake by a new batch of signals. Again checked time and it was exactly 5.30 A.M. The third time I was awoken by strong signals coming through ws precisely at 6.00 A.M. Each time the signals comae through my aural tract I got a brain seizure/a short circuiting of my brain.
Tel. the Dublin Head Office of BRAINWAVE--THE IRISH EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION and spoke to the Information Officer there. She had never heard of electrosensitivity so said I'd send her a packet of info. She was unsure what the medical convention is for validation that a patient is really getting seizures. It's easier to determine this when it's epilepsy and there are witnesses to the epileptic episode.
Need to get a neurologist urgently and get EEG tests done. No brain could stand up to the punishment that I have outlined above, without getting irreparably damaged.
SUNDAY MORNING, FEBR. 10: Not as severe a night as earlier ones this past week, although radiative levels did shoot up c. 9.00 P.M. Woke to signals coming through just after 5.00 A.M. Not so severe right now. It's 1.55 P.M. Yesterday, had to stop using my laptop after ten minutes in the afternoon because the radiation was too strong. Now, it's somewhat more tolerable. But physically I look wrecked from ordeal of last week.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBR. 11 It was a surprisingly OK night but wore the tinfoil helmet just in case. Woke a few times but got back to sleep. Woke to some signals coming through after 5.00 A.M. Feel OK and have been able to use the laptop for a longer period than I could throughout all of last week.
2001
I wrote up the following account of my EHS symptoms c.
2001. The particularities of my adverse reactions have not changed significantly since then. The statement doesn't include all my adverse bio-reactions to EMR.
First, as I am now aware of what aggravates my condition, I take reasonable steps to avoid these situations and e-equipment excitants. For instance, I have eliminated all T.V. viewing for over a year (although the radiation from a turned on T.V. in another room, can still affect me); I confine use of my laptop to early mornings and when I use computers in other libraries, I restrict my time and take long walks after use. Generally, being outdoors and walking help a lot. I know the level of my bio-reactions to all electronic and electromagnetic types of equipment from that "sizzling" (tinnitus)in my aural tract. The strength of that sound corresponds to the strength of the radiative levels that I am exposed to and also lets me know how much my body has absorbed. It acts as a valuable guage for me because if I just sit and read after such radiative exposure or lie down and read prior to drifting off to sleep,I get seizures/electric short circuits through my brain. And some of these brain short-circuits/seizures are so strong I wonder how much damage they are doing to my brain. So far, however, they appear not to adversely affect my thinking--in fact, I wake up very sharply focused/clear thinking with an increase in intellectual vigour more than anything else. But still, they--the "seizures"--are so abnormal I can't but wonder how my brain can keep taking all of this.
A few times it has felt as if my entire cerebral grey matter was being gelled and then shot through with electricity. I'll return to writing on these brainshort circuits later in this update.
Tinnitus (metallic "sizzling" through my aural tract)is the symptom I experience without fail when near or using some electric/electronic equipment. For instance, when at my laptop, as this is the only equipment that I use consistently c. 5 mornings a week. (I rarely if ever can use it here at weekends because the ambient levels in this housing estate are so strong it would dangerously increase my overload. The synergistic effects of manmade radiation can not be emphasised strongly enough. That is what causes the ambient levels here to surge right through from Friday night. They also surge every evening from c. 6-7.00 P.M. getting progressively stronger by the hour.)
So, what exactly are my bio-effects, other than that uncomfortable sizzling through the aural tract, when I am at my laptop for more than a half hour or so? I'll preface my entry on these by remarking that many of the symptoms need not be consistently so, but occur often enough to make them noteworthy.
1. Pins-and-needles sensation which can lead to numbness. This can occur in my fingers which are using the keyboard and sometimes in my feet. The finger that most consistently goes numb is the little finger of my right hand. Occasionally, I have felt muscle pain in my hands when at the keyboard.
2. I experiece sharp pain, at times, in the thyroid area where I had surgery to have a benign lump/goitar removed c. 1993, while living in Pasadena, CA, (I have read that thyroid malfunction, either hyper or hypo, can indicate a disposition to electrosensitivity. My condition of hypo-thyroidism was diagnosed c. 1985.) Before dental treatment, last year, when I had a small gum infection that had loosened a molar and amalgam fillings (these have now been removed) I felt pain in those areas.
Once I had appropriate dental care, I no longer experienced this pain while using a computer. However, at times, my gums can still feel a bit swollen after use--but this is very mild to what it was before dental treatment.
Generally, I would say that the radiation adversely interacts with what appear to be weak or damaged areas of my body and this effect is consistent.
3. Sometimes I get palpitations and small darts of electric shocks. These occur in my head--usually in the crown area--but I have also felt mild shocks in other parts of my body. I can also feel jabbing pains in my outer ears. This symptom also occurs near active cellphones and other strong active e-equipment. Recently, I've felt nauseous sometimes when using computers.
4. When I have finished using a computer the tinnitus continues at this increased strength for some time. (This is similar, in a way, to how the radiation effect kicks in and causes electric disturbances in the brain during the first half hour or so of sleep AFTER having been exposed to radiation prior to sleep.)
5. When I finish using a computer, often I involuntarily yawn a lot, and can feel drained.
THE SEIZURES/SHORT CIRCUITS THROUGH MY BRAIN:
This is a consistent effect that I am quite sure I would come out at 100% accuracy in any blind tests to validate what I am saying. (That radiation strength guage--my aural sizzling--would also get a very high score in any blind tests. I can say this with total confidence.)
The brain short circuits I experience are directly related to the levels of radiation I have been exposed to. Again, I know just how strong these are from the strength of that metallic-sounding sizzling. Usually, I experience these short circuits when lying down reading prior to sleep. I go to bed quite early around 9.00 P.M. As I have said above, the ambient radiative levels where I live get progressively stronger in the evenings. After 9.00 P.M. they are usually pretty strong. While lying in bed with my head slightly propped and reading, I can feel an induced drowsiness from these radiative levels. Then I experience the equivalent of a light bulb or a fuse blowing right inside and stretching across my head, in the cortex region. It's just like a short circuit right inside it. During the actual short circuit I feel as if my brain is lifting up--a lightness or momentary partial unconsciousness--until it passes. Some nights when the radiation levels are strong, I can experience a whole series of these short circuits. They occur too when I am in a light sleep. Last Friday night, March 30, [2001] was pretty severe. I had about four hours during the night of my brain being short circuited from the strong levels of radiation. I also feel a mild inward air suction through my ears when the radiation levels are high. Sometimes I hear a metallic/electronic type click-click (something like a watch's tick-tick)in my outer ear, especially the right ear. I put on an ear hugging aluminium helmet I keep beside the bed and this stops that inward air effect and seems to dull the intensity of the short circuits. But it doesn't ever stop them nor alleviate the numb feeling I can experience right at crown and back of my head. Occasionally, I feel an alarmingly strong electric short circuit that feels as if the entire grey matter of my brain is being shot through with an electric volt. I should mention that I can discern signals as well and some of these seem to momentarily change my own brain waves. There is a strangeness, a lightness, a feeling as if the interior of my head is lifting up, when some of those signals come through my aural tract. Sometimes, it is the signals that wake me in the early morning c. 5.00 A.M. or earlier.
On Wednesday evening, April 4, I foolishly used my laptop for c. 30 minutes. I walked to the local store after this, to reduce the sizzling. But I suffered when I lay down to sleep. I was just drifting off when my sister switched on the light in her bedroom next door to the small room where I sleep. That action--that is the sudden surge of energy--shot right through my head and in fact, this time, I could see and experience the white light right inside my head. It bolted me fully awake and alert.
There have been occasions, during the day, but far less frequent than at night while lying in bed, when I would also experience an induced dozing effect with subsequent brain short-circuits. These would take Place while seated and usually while reading. This happened last Tuesday afternoon, April 3, right here in my sister's house. I had returned from Cork city earlier than usual. It was c. 3.00 P.M. and immediately I felt the radiative levels in this neighbourhood and then in the house were far higher than in Cork. Uncomfortably so. I decided to read in the front livingroom for a while. Before long (c. 10 minutes) I felt an induced drowsiness and then mild short circuits started racing through my brain. Also, I could clearly hear various signals coming through. So, I got up and ran a shower to try and reduce my saturation. Then I soaked in a bath with sea salt. It kind of helped.
ABOUT WIRELESS FORMS SUCH AS MOBILE PHONES:
The bio-effects I feel from these are inconsistent. I use buses as transport and most of the kids on these now have mobiles. Sometimes they effect me a lot. When they do, I experience them as random darts hitting just about any part of my body. I have felt these jabs in my ankles, my back, my neck, my thighs, my butt, my head, and more frequently right in my eyeballs. Body parts that I have never felt before can be electrified into consciousness! Then palpitations may accompany these. There have been some occasions when on a train and beside passengers with active cell phones that I felt an induced drowsiness, and on occasion I just could not stop yawning and felt drained. (Similar to one of the effects I have noted above on how computers affect me.)
2001
SUBJECT: Part of info sent in response to an enquiry
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:04:22 +0000
IN THE STATEMENT BELOW I POINT UP HOW COMMON IT IS TO MISDIAGNOSE EHS (ELECTROHYPERSENSITIVITY)
Of course governments are in no hurry to correct this appaling diagnostic situation for EHS victims! The lucre from the same source that causes EHS comes first. Too bad for some of us that our health is compromised!
How extensive is such medical misdiagnosis of electrosensitives as psychotics/schizophrenics? Well, it's not that I have wonderful statistics on this with me today, but I do have beside me a response letter I received from what could be a typical Irish psychologist (his credentials are: M.B. B.A., M.R.C. Psch.) who is professionaly treating schizophrenia and mental illnesses at one of Ireland's best known Dublin hospitals. I had sent him lots of information on ES together with my own experiences of the condition. This psychologist qualified in the 1970's, that is prior to the advent of ES. (Our illness, with some exceptions, is essentially a post 1990's phenomenon.) He was one of the many top ranking mental health specialisits that I wrote to to present my ES case history and petition independent evaluations (that is of my mental health) from them in support of my legal case. No one would even give me an interview to meet with him/her! The usual excuses were: no space in schedule or/and do not know anything about electrosensitivity, so can't give a professional opinion. But this psychologist went even further in his response to my request. This is exactly what he wrote after letting me know he was too busy to see me:
". . . I have however read your enclosed account of the onset of your difficulties and subsequent events as you have experienced them. Obviously what you have been through has been quite difficult and no doubt distressing for you. Professionally of course I have no expertise in the effects of ElectroMagnetic radiation. I would however in all honesty have to reflect back to you that your account of events as experienced in your home in Pasadena in 1996 would be in keeping with some what similar accounts reported to me by patients of mine whom I would diagnose as suffering from schizophrenia, paranoid type.
I understand that this of course is not what you may wish to hear me saying. In addition of course I have not met with you nor studied your medical or psychiatric case notes, but in all honesty I think it appropriate to offer you my clinical impression and hope that this may be in your long term interest."
Now, what do you think of that for a professional psychologist? The worthiness of a life is to be tossed aside with a flippant diagnosis? And just how many may this "professional" have misdiagnosed in that leading Dublin hospital?
Related to this, I came across in a book entitled, HUMAN RIGHTS: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE (1994)an article by Tom Cooney on Human Rights challenges to Psychiatry and Law. In this he states that "many studies show that the validity and reliability of psychiatric diagnoses or formulations are poor. Reliabilty refers to the degree to which two or more psychiatrists will agree about a conclusion given a certain set of facts. Validity is the degree to which psychiatrists' conclusions match reality. Psychiatrists often disagree on broad diagnostic judgments and even on specific diagnoses." (p 131)
You asked how many have brought legal actions similar to mine. Probably I am the first with a case of this nature--at least in Ireland. As I said to you yesterday, even Professor Brice Dickson, Chief Commissioner of N. Ireland HR Commission, let me know how impossible it was for some persons who felt they were also misdiagnosed as being mentally ill to even get lawyers to take on their cases. That is why psychiatry and related mental health professions are the most dangerous of all within the medical profession when it comes to misdiagnosis and putting a patient on the wrong diagnostic conveyor belt. I just happen to be a tremendous fighter who never gives in. I've been a strong outspoken Human Rights advocate on many issues for many years and I just never give up, it doesn't matter how intimidating or near-to-hopeless a situation seems.
Here is what I wrote to an Irish Court Registrar about my fruitless petitions for legal help, in my medical negligence case.
"Due to the nature of my case . . . I have to self-represent in court. It is my understanding of Irish law that I have a right to a fair trial and to access to justice. Judgment in the AIREY v IRELAND case upheld this right and subsequently civil Legal Aid was introduced in Ireland, to ensure there was access to justice.
But I have been refused Irish legal aid and also refused it on appeal. I have spent almost two years appealing desperately to ALL legal agencies, in Ireland, for help on bringing my grievance to court. And I have been refused, right up to closing time on the Friday evening (Dec. 8, 1999) that preceded my court appearance on Dec. 11 for petitioning an extension of time for serving papers on my defendants. My penultimate telephone call, on that Friday, was to the Department of Justice to ask for a solicitor being put at my disposal to seek the extension. I was refused on the grounds that the Dep. of Justice does not interfere with court proceedings. My final call was to the Irish Human Rights Legal Council. I was refused help. I asked straight out: Have I petitioned every legal agency available to an Irish citizen to help her to see justice when her constitutional rights have been grieviously violated. Yes, indeed, was the reply, there is no legal protection/help for you forthcoming!"
Before I leave this subject of my medical misdiagnosis I will let you know that when I read my medical notes (which, by the way, I had to fight another battle on paper to be given these by the new Irish Freedom of Information medical board, est. 1998, as they considered my diagnosis suggested that I might be an emotionally fragile type!) I discovered to my horror that the doctor who wrote the lengthiest review of me and stated unequivocally that it was her professional opinion that I was a paranoid schizophrenic was not even qualified to make such judgments. She was a twenty five year old medical tyro, who had just got her basic M.D. and was doing a six month internship stint at the psychiatric wing of Cork University Hospital. She hadn't even looked me in the eye, nor spoke more than a few sentences,during my sole session with her! The other doctors kept my diagosis to psychoses, if I remember properly. [I have excluded from my court documents any mention of the very perplexing and humiliating physical examination I was subjected to by the attending admissions male doctor straight after he finished consulting with my sister and got me to hastily sign some document, which years later I found out was the form for voluntary admissions! Even though there was absolutely no mention of me having any lump in my breast he insisted on a protracted hand examination of my naked breasts while looking steadily into my eyes. There was a female nurse present but she stationed herself further away beside the window in the narrow dark examination room and he had his back to her and she could not see what was going on! I found his lengthy touching/fondling of my breasts extremely odd and humiliating, something I had not felt before when being examined by male physicians. The essential reason that this male admissions doctor was omitted from my list of medical defendants was because when I telephoned the hospital to check his identity/name I was told no such male doctor by that name had worked there! And I was up against time for getting my papers registered in court, so I couldn't pursue the facts of his identity further.]
To turn to other electrosensitives. Have they also been misdiagnosed as having basically psychological or psychiatric illnesses? Yes--an unqualified yes! And I have written proof of what I am saying from the many completed questionaires I sent to major ES support groups internationally. The response was in unison: electrosensitivity is not recognised as a distinct illness, neither by the government nor the official medical organisation of that particular country. The illness is regarded as psychological/psychiatric. I'll quote for you below a relevant excerpt from a briefing paper I gave an Irish journalist some months ago:
. . . In Germany, for instance, electrosensitivity is conveniently categorised as essentially a mental health problem. Recently, I was forwarded a German article on this issue, with an accompanying English summary: "In Germany, in general, illness resulting from exposure to electromagnetic fields and other environmental hazards is not officially recognised and there is a growing trend in Germany to classify and diagnose persons suffering from electrosensitivity and unable to work as a result as psychiatric patients which has now been officially embraced by the law (recent health reforms). According to the article, persons suffering from environmental illnesses have three options:
1. The illness is not recognised and the patient has to undergo regular checks to see if he/she is able to return to work.
2. If the person admits to imagining the symptoms and suffering from psychiatric disturbances, he/she may be entitled to a small pension.
3. The person asserts that the illness is related to his/her occupation and gets compensation pension.
The economic interests of pharmaceutical industry is given as the main motive behind all of this."
To turn to the U.S.A. where the illness, electrosensitivity, is again not recognised by mainstream medicine. An author of a number of books on electrosensitivity and who is herself quite severely electrosensitive in a letter of 3/2/00 stated: " Because it[electrosensitivity] is not formally recognised as an illness, disability benefits can be difficult . . . I have recommended to some ES [electrosensitives] that if they have symptoms which would allow a disability status, to apply for it without indicating under what conditions the symptoms occur (electromagnetic exposure.) It seems that if a person did not know they were ES and applied for disability they could get the benefits if they had significant symptoms. That we know why should not count against us, but often does. (Focus on symptoms rather than cause.)"
In Japan it is sadly not much different from the others. An electrosensitive long time resident there, states in a recent letter that she has met with a leader of one of the largest ES support netowrks, in Japan, and he has informed her that ". . . many ERVs [electromagnetic radiation victims] come to him for help because doctors treat their condition as a mental illness. Most will not talk about their condition. They are ashamed. The culture considers victimization a sign of bad karma."
1999
Below is the text of my reply to an ES sufferer, living in southern Ireland who requested information on ES, following my published letter on this topic, in the Irish national broadsheet, THE EXAMINER, on June 12, 1999.
First I'll transcribe my letter, as it appeared in THE EXAMINER [now called the IRISH EXAMINER], June 12, 1999.)
"BRIGHT FUTURE MAY BE BLINDING
Ennis is a town I visit frequently, as close family members live there. Loving the place, I felt very happy to read (THE EXAMINER, June 8) how well it has adapted to its new electronic life style. There is just one cautionary point I wish to make. Some people may suffer ill effects from prolonged exposure to electromagnetic radiation, and there is no specialist in the town to diagnose and treat these people. I have developed sensitivity to EMR in recent years and my relatives in Ennis have witnessed how severely it can effect me in their home. When I requested a Green Party MEP for a referral to a medical specialist on EMR in Ireland, the person to whom I was referred resides outside our state. It would appear vital that Ennis, wired to the hilt as it is, should seek out a specialist in EMR as soon as possible, to avoid the horrors of misdiagnosis of EMR symptoms. Also information on precautions residents can take to avoid excessive exposure to EMR should be issued to each household. The following analogy may serve to point out that while a discovery may enhance the quality of life of the majority, it may have adverse effects on others. Penicillin was a discovery that benefits the lives of innumerable people lbut for others it is lethal.
I.R. O'Connor
29, Castle Hill The Rock
Carrigaline Co.
Cork
Following, is my response to the Irish ES person where I describe my severe ES symptoms, at that time
Dear ____________
You asked me to explain the bio-effects we experience from electromagnetic radiation. I think the enclosed sheets will give you a good idea what electromagnetic objects could affect you, and how you would feel their
ill-effects. Some people may never get affected, in the same way many never getallergies. But some of us are electromagnetic sensitives, and we react badly to a number of electrically generated types of equipment. For instance, florescent lights, within seconds, activate a buzzing/metallic/sizzling sound in my aural tract. I can only sit in libraries for less than half an hour, before taking a break outside, because of these lights. Now, I rarely, if ever watch T.V., because of similar metallic type sound, sizzling ever more loudly, in my head, the longer I'd watch. Even my beloved laptop on which I am writing this to you must not be overdone. I have the window fully open behind it, but must stop after a half hour or so, or I will be affected.
And so it goes with other electrical/electromagnetic objects; I have to be very cautious and curtail use. Sometimes being near cell phoines (this has happened to me many times on public transport--especially, long distance journeys) cn cause me heart arrythmia, darting or stabbing random pains, and that sizzling sensation in my head. If I am over-exposed to electromagnetic radiation and I start going to sleep, I can feel electric currents going off in my head and these are quite alarming. My hands or/and feet can also get saturated with radiation while I'm asleep, and I wake up to them being numb, lifeless as twigs. So, I wrap them, in an aluminium blanket,to counteract the radiation. And it kind of works. I also make a thick turban of kitchen tinfoil, to protect my headand especially my ears--because radio frequencies and especially microwave/radio frequencies (MW/RF) were going right through my aural tract--and I wear this turban throughout the night, to protect myself from MW/RF during my sleeping hours. I also wear earplugs connected to Walkman radio-tape frequencies and leave it playing through my sleepiong hours. I find a water tape especially soothing. And these two--the earplugs and the tinfoil/aluminium turban--have been in use for over three months now, although they only partially block out the piercing noise of the signals/frequencies.
Before I came up with these responses, I was being bombarded through my ears, almost every night, for an hour or so, and electric currents could startle me from sleep. Tinfoil, as anyone knowledgeable in this area will tell you, helps block radiation.
I still, though, get heart palpitations that wake me up, and I know then a radiation "assault" is under way. When this happens, I quickly cover myself from waist to chin, in an aluminium survival blanket. Last night, I experienced heart arrythmia--unlike the thudding-heart sensation activated by fright, I experience the radiation sourced arrythmia as a wave-like, back-and-forth movement of my heart--and tingling type sensations through my body for c. two hours during the night. That is what I call a radiation "assault." And, I hasten to add, that I know some other sufferers who have to take exactly similar precautions, and who are affected in similar ways.
So, you can see that the ill-effects I experience from manmade radiative forms are pretty severe--in fact dangerous. Since Ennis became a full electronic town (and Ireland's first) I really suffer when I visit there. Last summer, it was so distressful that I had to ensure I had a good stock of tranquillisers, each time I stayed in Ennis, to make it bearable. I could only stay in the house for very brief times and could sleep just a couple of hours a night, because the buzzing/sizzling in my head, from the strong rdiation, was so vigorous. I could feel my entire body tingling with electricity, and Ennis is so packed with overhead wires and pylons, there was no relief anyplace. Of course, the hot, fairly dry summer didn't help. A number of us who have become sensitive to such manmade radiative equipment as cell phones, T.V.s, computers, radios, kitchen electrical equipment, electric lawnmowers, etc., also develop sensitivity to other radiative sources, terrestrial, cosmic, etc.
A significant number of people, in Ireland, are sensitive to electrosmagnetic radiation, but Irish doctors have not, as yet, been trained in medical schools, to deal with this newly emerging illness. There is, however, quite a lot of literature on ES on the internet, so doctors don't have an excuse of not being aware. Just three of the many websites that provide information on electrosensitivty are: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk http://www.feb.se/ (the Swedish ES support site emfacts@trump.net.au .
Then you have all the cell phone companies in heavy denial because it threatens their capacity to make mega bucks. The wireless types of radiation, such as cell phone microwaves, are the worst for us, because we just can't get away from them--they zap right through us, even in our own bedrooms.
Hope the enclosed proves a little enlightening for you.
Regards,
Imelda
NOV., 1996
It--my severe EHS reactions to EMFs-- started for me in earnest on the night of November 20th, 1996, in my former condo, in Pasadena, CA. I am convinced that what I experienced at 11.30 PM that night as I lay in my bed adjacent to the partitioning wall separating me from my recently installed and newly qualified young aeronautic engineer tenant was an energy weapon targeted directly at my brain/head. I was shot awake and pinned to my timber-framed futon bed while frequencies were revved through my aural tract and my head seemed to be set on fire. It felt like a burning MW oven but I couldn't move because my body was in shock, unmovable, pinned into position. When the power was turned down and off (it was a power source; I could hear the frequencies being revved up to max and levelled at me; I had been very outspoken in the immediate weeks preceding this event about military and civilian RF weapons abuse) then I was able to move my limbs and entire body and get up.
When I returned to Ireland a few weeks later (mid-December) for treatment for my now extreme EHS condition that followed this assault (I had to sleep beside running water to somehow muffle the frequencies that were being revved through my aural tract right through the night) my account of that energy weapon assault of November 20th was not believed by attending doctors. So, I was tricked into the psychiatric section of Cork University Hospital and locked up for three weeks. Of course my EHS symtpoms continued throughout but I was mocked when I tried to explain that "electric shocks were going through my head." A dreadful/appaling patient experience made even more dangerous by the attendant psychiatrists insisting I take anti-psychotic medication (Serenace) and their not bothering to inform me of its side-effects nor seek my prior consent to the medication. I finished up with dangerous side-effects and had to seek private help from a physiotherapist for my badly frozen shoulders--caused directly by the inappropriate administration of that medication.
Then in 1999 I decided to bring my own EHS circumstances and the whole issue of the proliferation of MW weapons being used to target victims out into the public and into EU Brussels committees. Got a local Irish MEP to get my accounts plus evidence to Brussels. Wrote it up on a non e-typewriter so my statements could not be picked up remotely before I could get it lodged. Just about when my file got into the right hands in Brussels (via my local MEP) I experienced very-close-to-being-killed attacks during the following nights. On the first night I was shot awake by a huge e-volt slicing through my entire brain. I thought I was going to be killed. This volt was accompanied by a distinct thud sound. Then some four hours later (c. 3.00 a.m.) I was abruptly awakened again with another lightning volt being shot through my head and this time it ran down the entire right side of my body. A hospital radiologist I approached next day for advise on how I could protect myself suggested I make a very thick turban of tinfoil/aluminium foil. And so I did and slept in this. However, it did not keep out the EMF assaults. I was assaulted with piercing acoustic frequencies for a few hours every night and my body was being charged like a battery. I'd find the crown of my head going numb when in bed and I'd wake up with my hands numb up to and sometimes above my elbows and my feet going numb as well. Then as this battering progressed over the next weeks nightly, it seemed to be aimed also at getting my heart to stop (heart attack). My heart would sway alarmingly like a pendulum of it sown volition back and forth as if a wave were levelled on/at it.
So, I know at first hand that EHS can be developed from passive or coverty targeted exposure to EMR (esp. MW/RF) energies. Tim Rifat in his book REMOTE VIEWING (1999) includes a large appendix of declassified Russian research on MW bioeffects. Well worth reading.
Imelda O'Connor
29 Castle Hill
Carrigaline, Co.
Cork
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=electrohypersensitive
http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Victims/
Best, Imelda, Cork.
SEPTEMBER, 2006
UPDATE ON MY EHS (electrohypersensitive) CONDITION SUBMITTED TO MY DOCTOR
HANDWRITTEN SUBMISSION: MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006
TYPED SUBMISSION: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2006
o SLEEP DISTURBANCE: WHILE GETTING TO SLEEP/WHEN DROWSY EXPERIENCE BRAIN SEIZURES/ELECTRIC DISTURBANCES/ELECTRIC SHORTCIRCUITING OF MY BRAIN. SOMETIMES AWAKEN SUDDENLY AT ANY HOUR DURING THE NIGHT AND AM FULLY ALERT AND AWAKE THEN AS IF IT WERE DAYTIME. MIGHT FALL OFF TO SLEEP AGAIN DURING THE NIGHT BUT COULD EXPERIENCE ABNORMAL BRAIN ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCES. THIS ABNORMAL BRAIN ACTIVITY HAPPENED AS RECENTLY AS EARLY MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22. SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE A DULL THUD OR BLOW WITHIN MY BRAIN. OTHERTIMES IT FEELS LIKE A FUSE BLOWING IN MY BRAIN OR AS IF IT IS BEING TOTALLY ELECTRIFIED. BUT IT DOESN’T SEEM TO AFFECT MY THINKING—AT LEAST AT A CONSCIOUS LEVEL.
N.B. DO NOT EXPERIENCE THESE BRAIN SEIZURES DURING THE DAY WHEN VERTICAL OR SEATED, EXCEPTION: IN THE PAST, HAVE EXPERIENCED THEM OCCASSIONALLY DURING THE DAY WHEN I DOZED OFF IN A CHAIR WHILE READING.
o NUMBNESS: USUALLY AT NIGHT, WHEN LYING DOWN, AND DROWSY OR WHILE ASLEEP. THIS NUMBNESS USUALLY AFFECTS MY FINGERS AND ESPECIALLY MY LITTLE FINGERS. ONCE I BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE NUMBNESS OF MY FINGERS/FOCUS ON THEM AND THEIR NUMBNESS, THE NUMBESS RECEDES QUICKLY AND I REGAIN FULL FEELING IN THEM. WHEN AMBIENT EMR LEVELS ARE STRONG (AND I CAN GUAGE EMR AMBIENT LEVELS FROM THE LEVEL OF SEVERITY OF MY TINNITUS) THEN THE NUMBNESS IN MY FINGERS BECOMES MORE EXTENSIVE.
o TINNITUS/MICROWAVE/EMR HEARING: WORSE IN THE EVENINGS FROM C. 7.00-8.00 PM ONWARDS AND PROGRESSING STRONGER TO C. MIDNIGHT. ALSO SEEMS STRONGER IN THE WINTER WHEN STREET LIGHTS, ETC COME ON EARLIER AND MORE DOMESTIC USE OF ELECTRICITY. SOMETIMES I HEAR FREQUENCIES COMING THROUGH AND THEN FADING AWAY/MOVING AWAY AGAIN. OTHERTIMES I FEEL PULSED FREQUENCIES COMING THROUGH MY AURAL TRACT AND SENSE/FEEL THESE ESPECIALLY DURING NIGHTS AND EARLY MORNINGS. THESE AT TIMES, WHEN SEVERE, HAVE FELT LIKE METAL PING-PONG BALLS BOUNCING OFF THE INSIDE OF MY HEAD
o INTERMITTENT JABS OF PAIN IN MY THYROID AREA WHERE I HAD SURGERY C. 1992 WHILE LIVING IN PASADENA, CA. FEEL SIMILAR SHARP INTERMITTENT PAIN IN VARIOUS PARTS OF MY BODY, ESPECIALLY MY FEET AND HANDS.
o LEG CRAMPS: THIS IS A FAIRLY RECENT SYMPTOM. EARLY FRIDAY MORNING, AROUND 2.00 AM OF AUGUST 25, I WAS ASLEEP ON AN UPPER BUNK BED IN A BELFAST HOSTEL. THE WOMAN BELOW ME AND THE OTHER OCCUPANT IN THE LOWER BUNK NEARBY DID HAVE ACTIVE CELLPHONES. THE FRAMES AND SPRINGS OF THE BUNK BEDS WERE METAL. I AWOKE AND SHIFTED IN MY UPPER BUNK BED. WHEN I SHIFTED MY LEGS I FELT THE MOST EXCRUCIATING AND MOVEMENT-DETERRING CRAMPS IN EXACTLY THE SAME POSITION IN THE CALVES OF BOTH LEGS. I WAS LOCKED INTO THAT POSITION/COULDN’T MOVE FOR PERHAPS 30 SECONDS. THEN I MOVED MY LEGS AND IMMEDIATELY THE CRAMPS DISAPPEARED. THIS HASN’T RECURRED. I HAD OFTEN SLEPT IN SIMILAR BUNK BEDS, BOTH UPPER AND LOWER, IN THE SAME HOSTEL AND THIS HAD NEVER OCCURRED BEFORE. HOWEVER, I FELT THE EMR LEVELS WERE ALSO VERY HIGH THAT EVE AND NIGHT AND FELT SOME ANOMALOUS BRAIN ACTIVITY/FREQUENCY DISTURBANCES.
o DIFFICULTY BREATHING AT TIMES: IT FEELS AS IS I HAVE TO SIGH DEEPLY AND CONSCIOUSLY FORCE AIR INTO MY LUNGS. THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW OCCASSIONS OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS OR SO WHEN SUDDENLY I JUST STOPPED BREATHING FOR A FEW SECONDS.
o HEART STRAIN: ON A FEW OCCASSIONS RECENTLY FELT PAIN ACROSS MY CHEST. ALSO CAN GET HEART FLUTTERING
(FRIBULATION) AT TIMES, ESPECIALLY WHEN EMR
(ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION) LEVELS ARE STRONG OR/AND THERE ARE A LOT OF CELLPHONES AROUND.
EXCERPTS FROM MY 2006 DIARY NOTING PARTICULARLY SEVERE SYMPTOMS
o DURING NIGHT OF 9-10 JUNE: THERE WAS A SUBSTANTIAL STORM WITH THUNDER AND LIGHTNING ON THURSDAY NIGHT HAD VERY SEVERE STRONG SEIZURE AROUND MIDNIGHT AND AGAIN AT C. 3.00 AM.
o AFTERNOON OF SUNDAY, JULY 2: WHILE LYING ON MY BED, READING, DURING AFTERNOON, FELT VERY DROWSY. DOZED, BUT THEN SHOT AWAKE BY SHARP, STRONG, “LASER” STYLE BEAM RACING/CUTTING/ SWEEPING THROUGH MY BRAIN.
o DURING NIGHT OF SUNDAY, JULY 2 TO EARLY MORNING OF MONDAY, JULY 3: LOTS OF BRAIN FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE. VERY STRONG TINNITUS/EMR NOISE THROUGH EARS. HAD TO WEAR ALUMINIUM TURBAN FOR SOME PROTECTION.
o DURING NIGHT OF JULY 21-22 SEVERE ELECTRICAL BRAIN DISTURBANCES/INTERFERENCES. FELT VERY STRONG EMR/TINNITUS. AT ONE STAGE FELT AS IF IT WERE A HUGE “THUD” OR “BLOW” INSIDE/WITHIN MY BRAIN, AS IF ALL THE E-CIRCUITS IN MY BRAIN WERE BEING AFFECTED. WORE ALUMINIUM HELMET.
o DURING EARLY MORNING C. 200 AM OF AUGUST 25, IN BELFAST. I HAVE NOTED THIS ABOVE UNDER CRAMPS
2002
E-HARRASSMENT
The below is posted online at "Citizens Initiative Omega" (via Google) with date 15/02/2003. (Posted c. half way down but obscured for some reason due to my heading being deleted and beginning of my text pushed up toward end of entry immediately above.)
Yesterday, under the heading "Occupational Exposure to RF/MW and Microwave Sickness" you posted Kathy Hawk's account of the Doe family's adverse experiences with RF/MWs. I noticed with particular interest Kathy's observation that it was most likely during the time the "'independent'" measurements were taking place that "the facility appeared not operating at full capacity" and cellphone users found their phones wouldn't work within a radius of some miles. In other words, the power source appeared deliberately to be turned down to ensure desired results.
I would like to share my experiences with what would appear to be the opposite: the strength being deliberately turned up and used as a form of harassment. This occured just about a year ago.
And I bet my experience is not an isolated one!
Best, Imelda, Cork, Ireland
My journal entries on a severe EHS week
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 to c. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2002
FRIDAY (FEB. 1). Yesterday, I engaged in a certain action online that resulted in our EHS condition being brought directly to the attention of an unnamed Irish telecom network. [Addendum May 2007: I opened an email address with Eircom and named it ESISREAL @eircom. Admittedly, what I did was a bit cheeky. Among my first emails was one to Trevor Sargent, leader of the Irish Green Party, about the proposed parliamentary questions on what various governmental ministers intended doing to help Irish electrosensitives.]
Below is an account of its [Eicom's] e-response. Or perhaps it was just a co-incidence that the below started within 24 hours of my confrontation with it on our EHS issue.
Today, Friday, February 1, ushered in unusually high/severe radiation levels in my place of residence a housing estate) in a town, c. ten miles from Cork. It was the worst for c. two years. Especially strong after 8.00 P.M. Had a number of brain short circuits/seizures as I lay in bed before eventually dropping off to sleep.
SATURDAY NIGHT, FEBR. 2 was similar. I'd rate the ambient radiation pretty strong (c. 8/10) from 9.00 P.M. Had to wear aluminium helmet again in bed and still had a series of brain seizures.
On MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4 returned from Cork c. 5.00 P.M. and the radiation levels in the house here seemed unusually high, even at that early hour. Cork had been just fine. The levels got progressively more severe during the eve. Lots of inward airwave suction (most probably, the usual microwaves/radio frequencies) through my ears throughout the eve. Tried to read in bed with the tinfoil helmet firmly in place but each time I started falling off to sleep I'd get a sharp short-circuiting of my brain/brain seizures. A bad night's sleep again. Very broken and many quick seizures.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBR. 6: Radiation levels fairly low as they usually are in the mornings here. But when I returned from Cork (where again levels were very tolerable) to the house here, c. 4.45 P.M., the ambient radiation levels were already very forceful and uncomfortable and felt lots of inward airwave suction (MW/RFs) through my ears.
TUESDAY NIGHT, FEBR. 5 TO WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBR. 6: A terrible night--hideously awful. Felt as if I were under some kind of microwave siege right through the night with no letting up. Signals kept moving swiftly inwards through my aural tract and felt as if they were going ping, like metal balls, off the centre of my brain and then resonating throughout my brain. Just as one would fade out another would come through and each time it really hurt deep inside my brain. Then I also had brain seizures right throughout the night. Of course, I wore the aluminium helmet throughout. Felt wrecked in the morning and my eyelids were all puffy and violet. The upper contour of my left eyelid looked very odd--it had become twisted in shape like a very crooked line. It returned to normal by later in the day. The other occupant of this small house, said that she didn't sleep all through Tuesday night to Wednesday morning but she put it down to being wound up after a supervisor monitored her work. She also remarked, though, that one of her eye's appeared as if it were developing a sty. She had never had this ailment before and was unsure what she should do. She thought that this might be due to laptop screen distress but wasn't sure. I didn't mention my violet and puffy eyelids and odd contour of left eye lid. (My housemate adamantly refuses to consider anyone could possibly be affected by radiation or electricicy). On Thursday she mentioned that her "sty" had disappeared.
On Wednesday morning I telephoned the Southern Health Board and asked for an appointment with the person in charge of GMS contracts. (That means General Medical Services--the GPs who treat public patients). I relayed that I had had a really quite dangerous night of continuous brain seizures from high radiative levels and MW/RFs bombarding me throughout the night. When I turned up for the appointment in Cork was told she had a meeting and couldn't see me. Met another S. Health Board employee instead but it was most unsatisfacory. Didn't get past the door. My most urgent query, I said to her, was trying to locate a G.P. who would take my brain seizures and what is causing them seriously and help me attain an early appointment with a neurologist who specialises in seizures, either within Ireland or in another EU country. As THE IRISH TIMES had reported (in profile article on EU commissioner, David Byrne whose brief includes health that appeared in Friday, Febr. 1, p. 13) ". . . patients are entitled to treatment in another EU country, at the expense of their own health authority, if they face undue delays at home." Felt really dejected and depleted in energy as I headed back to where I live. Felt I could die any night from severe brain seizures and this Irish Southern Health Service couldn't careless.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, FEBR. 6 TO THURS. FEBR. 7: High levels again throughout Thursday night. Fully awake from c. 2.00 A.M. to 4.30 A.M. Then drowsed off and shot awake shortly afterwards by signals coming through my aural tract. The first of these came through very clearly at exactly 5.00 A.M. I became alert and checked the time. Then was drifting off to sleep again when I was shot awake by a new batch of signals. Again checked time and it was exactly 5.30 A.M. The third time I was awoken by strong signals coming through ws precisely at 6.00 A.M. Each time the signals comae through my aural tract I got a brain seizure/a short circuiting of my brain.
Tel. the Dublin Head Office of BRAINWAVE--THE IRISH EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION and spoke to the Information Officer there. She had never heard of electrosensitivity so said I'd send her a packet of info. She was unsure what the medical convention is for validation that a patient is really getting seizures. It's easier to determine this when it's epilepsy and there are witnesses to the epileptic episode.
Need to get a neurologist urgently and get EEG tests done. No brain could stand up to the punishment that I have outlined above, without getting irreparably damaged.
SUNDAY MORNING, FEBR. 10: Not as severe a night as earlier ones this past week, although radiative levels did shoot up c. 9.00 P.M. Woke to signals coming through just after 5.00 A.M. Not so severe right now. It's 1.55 P.M. Yesterday, had to stop using my laptop after ten minutes in the afternoon because the radiation was too strong. Now, it's somewhat more tolerable. But physically I look wrecked from ordeal of last week.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBR. 11 It was a surprisingly OK night but wore the tinfoil helmet just in case. Woke a few times but got back to sleep. Woke to some signals coming through after 5.00 A.M. Feel OK and have been able to use the laptop for a longer period than I could throughout all of last week.
2001
I wrote up the following account of my EHS symptoms c.
2001. The particularities of my adverse reactions have not changed significantly since then. The statement doesn't include all my adverse bio-reactions to EMR.
First, as I am now aware of what aggravates my condition, I take reasonable steps to avoid these situations and e-equipment excitants. For instance, I have eliminated all T.V. viewing for over a year (although the radiation from a turned on T.V. in another room, can still affect me); I confine use of my laptop to early mornings and when I use computers in other libraries, I restrict my time and take long walks after use. Generally, being outdoors and walking help a lot. I know the level of my bio-reactions to all electronic and electromagnetic types of equipment from that "sizzling" (tinnitus)in my aural tract. The strength of that sound corresponds to the strength of the radiative levels that I am exposed to and also lets me know how much my body has absorbed. It acts as a valuable guage for me because if I just sit and read after such radiative exposure or lie down and read prior to drifting off to sleep,I get seizures/electric short circuits through my brain. And some of these brain short-circuits/seizures are so strong I wonder how much damage they are doing to my brain. So far, however, they appear not to adversely affect my thinking--in fact, I wake up very sharply focused/clear thinking with an increase in intellectual vigour more than anything else. But still, they--the "seizures"--are so abnormal I can't but wonder how my brain can keep taking all of this.
A few times it has felt as if my entire cerebral grey matter was being gelled and then shot through with electricity. I'll return to writing on these brainshort circuits later in this update.
Tinnitus (metallic "sizzling" through my aural tract)is the symptom I experience without fail when near or using some electric/electronic equipment. For instance, when at my laptop, as this is the only equipment that I use consistently c. 5 mornings a week. (I rarely if ever can use it here at weekends because the ambient levels in this housing estate are so strong it would dangerously increase my overload. The synergistic effects of manmade radiation can not be emphasised strongly enough. That is what causes the ambient levels here to surge right through from Friday night. They also surge every evening from c. 6-7.00 P.M. getting progressively stronger by the hour.)
So, what exactly are my bio-effects, other than that uncomfortable sizzling through the aural tract, when I am at my laptop for more than a half hour or so? I'll preface my entry on these by remarking that many of the symptoms need not be consistently so, but occur often enough to make them noteworthy.
1. Pins-and-needles sensation which can lead to numbness. This can occur in my fingers which are using the keyboard and sometimes in my feet. The finger that most consistently goes numb is the little finger of my right hand. Occasionally, I have felt muscle pain in my hands when at the keyboard.
2. I experiece sharp pain, at times, in the thyroid area where I had surgery to have a benign lump/goitar removed c. 1993, while living in Pasadena, CA, (I have read that thyroid malfunction, either hyper or hypo, can indicate a disposition to electrosensitivity. My condition of hypo-thyroidism was diagnosed c. 1985.) Before dental treatment, last year, when I had a small gum infection that had loosened a molar and amalgam fillings (these have now been removed) I felt pain in those areas.
Once I had appropriate dental care, I no longer experienced this pain while using a computer. However, at times, my gums can still feel a bit swollen after use--but this is very mild to what it was before dental treatment.
Generally, I would say that the radiation adversely interacts with what appear to be weak or damaged areas of my body and this effect is consistent.
3. Sometimes I get palpitations and small darts of electric shocks. These occur in my head--usually in the crown area--but I have also felt mild shocks in other parts of my body. I can also feel jabbing pains in my outer ears. This symptom also occurs near active cellphones and other strong active e-equipment. Recently, I've felt nauseous sometimes when using computers.
4. When I have finished using a computer the tinnitus continues at this increased strength for some time. (This is similar, in a way, to how the radiation effect kicks in and causes electric disturbances in the brain during the first half hour or so of sleep AFTER having been exposed to radiation prior to sleep.)
5. When I finish using a computer, often I involuntarily yawn a lot, and can feel drained.
THE SEIZURES/SHORT CIRCUITS THROUGH MY BRAIN:
This is a consistent effect that I am quite sure I would come out at 100% accuracy in any blind tests to validate what I am saying. (That radiation strength guage--my aural sizzling--would also get a very high score in any blind tests. I can say this with total confidence.)
The brain short circuits I experience are directly related to the levels of radiation I have been exposed to. Again, I know just how strong these are from the strength of that metallic-sounding sizzling. Usually, I experience these short circuits when lying down reading prior to sleep. I go to bed quite early around 9.00 P.M. As I have said above, the ambient radiative levels where I live get progressively stronger in the evenings. After 9.00 P.M. they are usually pretty strong. While lying in bed with my head slightly propped and reading, I can feel an induced drowsiness from these radiative levels. Then I experience the equivalent of a light bulb or a fuse blowing right inside and stretching across my head, in the cortex region. It's just like a short circuit right inside it. During the actual short circuit I feel as if my brain is lifting up--a lightness or momentary partial unconsciousness--until it passes. Some nights when the radiation levels are strong, I can experience a whole series of these short circuits. They occur too when I am in a light sleep. Last Friday night, March 30, [2001] was pretty severe. I had about four hours during the night of my brain being short circuited from the strong levels of radiation. I also feel a mild inward air suction through my ears when the radiation levels are high. Sometimes I hear a metallic/electronic type click-click (something like a watch's tick-tick)in my outer ear, especially the right ear. I put on an ear hugging aluminium helmet I keep beside the bed and this stops that inward air effect and seems to dull the intensity of the short circuits. But it doesn't ever stop them nor alleviate the numb feeling I can experience right at crown and back of my head. Occasionally, I feel an alarmingly strong electric short circuit that feels as if the entire grey matter of my brain is being shot through with an electric volt. I should mention that I can discern signals as well and some of these seem to momentarily change my own brain waves. There is a strangeness, a lightness, a feeling as if the interior of my head is lifting up, when some of those signals come through my aural tract. Sometimes, it is the signals that wake me in the early morning c. 5.00 A.M. or earlier.
On Wednesday evening, April 4, I foolishly used my laptop for c. 30 minutes. I walked to the local store after this, to reduce the sizzling. But I suffered when I lay down to sleep. I was just drifting off when my sister switched on the light in her bedroom next door to the small room where I sleep. That action--that is the sudden surge of energy--shot right through my head and in fact, this time, I could see and experience the white light right inside my head. It bolted me fully awake and alert.
There have been occasions, during the day, but far less frequent than at night while lying in bed, when I would also experience an induced dozing effect with subsequent brain short-circuits. These would take Place while seated and usually while reading. This happened last Tuesday afternoon, April 3, right here in my sister's house. I had returned from Cork city earlier than usual. It was c. 3.00 P.M. and immediately I felt the radiative levels in this neighbourhood and then in the house were far higher than in Cork. Uncomfortably so. I decided to read in the front livingroom for a while. Before long (c. 10 minutes) I felt an induced drowsiness and then mild short circuits started racing through my brain. Also, I could clearly hear various signals coming through. So, I got up and ran a shower to try and reduce my saturation. Then I soaked in a bath with sea salt. It kind of helped.
ABOUT WIRELESS FORMS SUCH AS MOBILE PHONES:
The bio-effects I feel from these are inconsistent. I use buses as transport and most of the kids on these now have mobiles. Sometimes they effect me a lot. When they do, I experience them as random darts hitting just about any part of my body. I have felt these jabs in my ankles, my back, my neck, my thighs, my butt, my head, and more frequently right in my eyeballs. Body parts that I have never felt before can be electrified into consciousness! Then palpitations may accompany these. There have been some occasions when on a train and beside passengers with active cell phones that I felt an induced drowsiness, and on occasion I just could not stop yawning and felt drained. (Similar to one of the effects I have noted above on how computers affect me.)
2001
SUBJECT: Part of info sent in response to an enquiry
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:04:22 +0000
IN THE STATEMENT BELOW I POINT UP HOW COMMON IT IS TO MISDIAGNOSE EHS (ELECTROHYPERSENSITIVITY)
Of course governments are in no hurry to correct this appaling diagnostic situation for EHS victims! The lucre from the same source that causes EHS comes first. Too bad for some of us that our health is compromised!
How extensive is such medical misdiagnosis of electrosensitives as psychotics/schizophrenics? Well, it's not that I have wonderful statistics on this with me today, but I do have beside me a response letter I received from what could be a typical Irish psychologist (his credentials are: M.B. B.A., M.R.C. Psch.) who is professionaly treating schizophrenia and mental illnesses at one of Ireland's best known Dublin hospitals. I had sent him lots of information on ES together with my own experiences of the condition. This psychologist qualified in the 1970's, that is prior to the advent of ES. (Our illness, with some exceptions, is essentially a post 1990's phenomenon.) He was one of the many top ranking mental health specialisits that I wrote to to present my ES case history and petition independent evaluations (that is of my mental health) from them in support of my legal case. No one would even give me an interview to meet with him/her! The usual excuses were: no space in schedule or/and do not know anything about electrosensitivity, so can't give a professional opinion. But this psychologist went even further in his response to my request. This is exactly what he wrote after letting me know he was too busy to see me:
". . . I have however read your enclosed account of the onset of your difficulties and subsequent events as you have experienced them. Obviously what you have been through has been quite difficult and no doubt distressing for you. Professionally of course I have no expertise in the effects of ElectroMagnetic radiation. I would however in all honesty have to reflect back to you that your account of events as experienced in your home in Pasadena in 1996 would be in keeping with some what similar accounts reported to me by patients of mine whom I would diagnose as suffering from schizophrenia, paranoid type.
I understand that this of course is not what you may wish to hear me saying. In addition of course I have not met with you nor studied your medical or psychiatric case notes, but in all honesty I think it appropriate to offer you my clinical impression and hope that this may be in your long term interest."
Now, what do you think of that for a professional psychologist? The worthiness of a life is to be tossed aside with a flippant diagnosis? And just how many may this "professional" have misdiagnosed in that leading Dublin hospital?
Related to this, I came across in a book entitled, HUMAN RIGHTS: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE (1994)an article by Tom Cooney on Human Rights challenges to Psychiatry and Law. In this he states that "many studies show that the validity and reliability of psychiatric diagnoses or formulations are poor. Reliabilty refers to the degree to which two or more psychiatrists will agree about a conclusion given a certain set of facts. Validity is the degree to which psychiatrists' conclusions match reality. Psychiatrists often disagree on broad diagnostic judgments and even on specific diagnoses." (p 131)
You asked how many have brought legal actions similar to mine. Probably I am the first with a case of this nature--at least in Ireland. As I said to you yesterday, even Professor Brice Dickson, Chief Commissioner of N. Ireland HR Commission, let me know how impossible it was for some persons who felt they were also misdiagnosed as being mentally ill to even get lawyers to take on their cases. That is why psychiatry and related mental health professions are the most dangerous of all within the medical profession when it comes to misdiagnosis and putting a patient on the wrong diagnostic conveyor belt. I just happen to be a tremendous fighter who never gives in. I've been a strong outspoken Human Rights advocate on many issues for many years and I just never give up, it doesn't matter how intimidating or near-to-hopeless a situation seems.
Here is what I wrote to an Irish Court Registrar about my fruitless petitions for legal help, in my medical negligence case.
"Due to the nature of my case . . . I have to self-represent in court. It is my understanding of Irish law that I have a right to a fair trial and to access to justice. Judgment in the AIREY v IRELAND case upheld this right and subsequently civil Legal Aid was introduced in Ireland, to ensure there was access to justice.
But I have been refused Irish legal aid and also refused it on appeal. I have spent almost two years appealing desperately to ALL legal agencies, in Ireland, for help on bringing my grievance to court. And I have been refused, right up to closing time on the Friday evening (Dec. 8, 1999) that preceded my court appearance on Dec. 11 for petitioning an extension of time for serving papers on my defendants. My penultimate telephone call, on that Friday, was to the Department of Justice to ask for a solicitor being put at my disposal to seek the extension. I was refused on the grounds that the Dep. of Justice does not interfere with court proceedings. My final call was to the Irish Human Rights Legal Council. I was refused help. I asked straight out: Have I petitioned every legal agency available to an Irish citizen to help her to see justice when her constitutional rights have been grieviously violated. Yes, indeed, was the reply, there is no legal protection/help for you forthcoming!"
Before I leave this subject of my medical misdiagnosis I will let you know that when I read my medical notes (which, by the way, I had to fight another battle on paper to be given these by the new Irish Freedom of Information medical board, est. 1998, as they considered my diagnosis suggested that I might be an emotionally fragile type!) I discovered to my horror that the doctor who wrote the lengthiest review of me and stated unequivocally that it was her professional opinion that I was a paranoid schizophrenic was not even qualified to make such judgments. She was a twenty five year old medical tyro, who had just got her basic M.D. and was doing a six month internship stint at the psychiatric wing of Cork University Hospital. She hadn't even looked me in the eye, nor spoke more than a few sentences,during my sole session with her! The other doctors kept my diagosis to psychoses, if I remember properly. [I have excluded from my court documents any mention of the very perplexing and humiliating physical examination I was subjected to by the attending admissions male doctor straight after he finished consulting with my sister and got me to hastily sign some document, which years later I found out was the form for voluntary admissions! Even though there was absolutely no mention of me having any lump in my breast he insisted on a protracted hand examination of my naked breasts while looking steadily into my eyes. There was a female nurse present but she stationed herself further away beside the window in the narrow dark examination room and he had his back to her and she could not see what was going on! I found his lengthy touching/fondling of my breasts extremely odd and humiliating, something I had not felt before when being examined by male physicians. The essential reason that this male admissions doctor was omitted from my list of medical defendants was because when I telephoned the hospital to check his identity/name I was told no such male doctor by that name had worked there! And I was up against time for getting my papers registered in court, so I couldn't pursue the facts of his identity further.]
To turn to other electrosensitives. Have they also been misdiagnosed as having basically psychological or psychiatric illnesses? Yes--an unqualified yes! And I have written proof of what I am saying from the many completed questionaires I sent to major ES support groups internationally. The response was in unison: electrosensitivity is not recognised as a distinct illness, neither by the government nor the official medical organisation of that particular country. The illness is regarded as psychological/psychiatric. I'll quote for you below a relevant excerpt from a briefing paper I gave an Irish journalist some months ago:
. . . In Germany, for instance, electrosensitivity is conveniently categorised as essentially a mental health problem. Recently, I was forwarded a German article on this issue, with an accompanying English summary: "In Germany, in general, illness resulting from exposure to electromagnetic fields and other environmental hazards is not officially recognised and there is a growing trend in Germany to classify and diagnose persons suffering from electrosensitivity and unable to work as a result as psychiatric patients which has now been officially embraced by the law (recent health reforms). According to the article, persons suffering from environmental illnesses have three options:
1. The illness is not recognised and the patient has to undergo regular checks to see if he/she is able to return to work.
2. If the person admits to imagining the symptoms and suffering from psychiatric disturbances, he/she may be entitled to a small pension.
3. The person asserts that the illness is related to his/her occupation and gets compensation pension.
The economic interests of pharmaceutical industry is given as the main motive behind all of this."
To turn to the U.S.A. where the illness, electrosensitivity, is again not recognised by mainstream medicine. An author of a number of books on electrosensitivity and who is herself quite severely electrosensitive in a letter of 3/2/00 stated: " Because it[electrosensitivity] is not formally recognised as an illness, disability benefits can be difficult . . . I have recommended to some ES [electrosensitives] that if they have symptoms which would allow a disability status, to apply for it without indicating under what conditions the symptoms occur (electromagnetic exposure.) It seems that if a person did not know they were ES and applied for disability they could get the benefits if they had significant symptoms. That we know why should not count against us, but often does. (Focus on symptoms rather than cause.)"
In Japan it is sadly not much different from the others. An electrosensitive long time resident there, states in a recent letter that she has met with a leader of one of the largest ES support netowrks, in Japan, and he has informed her that ". . . many ERVs [electromagnetic radiation victims] come to him for help because doctors treat their condition as a mental illness. Most will not talk about their condition. They are ashamed. The culture considers victimization a sign of bad karma."
1999
Below is the text of my reply to an ES sufferer, living in southern Ireland who requested information on ES, following my published letter on this topic, in the Irish national broadsheet, THE EXAMINER, on June 12, 1999.
First I'll transcribe my letter, as it appeared in THE EXAMINER [now called the IRISH EXAMINER], June 12, 1999.)
"BRIGHT FUTURE MAY BE BLINDING
Ennis is a town I visit frequently, as close family members live there. Loving the place, I felt very happy to read (THE EXAMINER, June 8) how well it has adapted to its new electronic life style. There is just one cautionary point I wish to make. Some people may suffer ill effects from prolonged exposure to electromagnetic radiation, and there is no specialist in the town to diagnose and treat these people. I have developed sensitivity to EMR in recent years and my relatives in Ennis have witnessed how severely it can effect me in their home. When I requested a Green Party MEP for a referral to a medical specialist on EMR in Ireland, the person to whom I was referred resides outside our state. It would appear vital that Ennis, wired to the hilt as it is, should seek out a specialist in EMR as soon as possible, to avoid the horrors of misdiagnosis of EMR symptoms. Also information on precautions residents can take to avoid excessive exposure to EMR should be issued to each household. The following analogy may serve to point out that while a discovery may enhance the quality of life of the majority, it may have adverse effects on others. Penicillin was a discovery that benefits the lives of innumerable people lbut for others it is lethal.
I.R. O'Connor
29, Castle Hill The Rock
Carrigaline Co.
Cork
Following, is my response to the Irish ES person where I describe my severe ES symptoms, at that time
Dear ____________
You asked me to explain the bio-effects we experience from electromagnetic radiation. I think the enclosed sheets will give you a good idea what electromagnetic objects could affect you, and how you would feel their
ill-effects. Some people may never get affected, in the same way many never getallergies. But some of us are electromagnetic sensitives, and we react badly to a number of electrically generated types of equipment. For instance, florescent lights, within seconds, activate a buzzing/metallic/sizzling sound in my aural tract. I can only sit in libraries for less than half an hour, before taking a break outside, because of these lights. Now, I rarely, if ever watch T.V., because of similar metallic type sound, sizzling ever more loudly, in my head, the longer I'd watch. Even my beloved laptop on which I am writing this to you must not be overdone. I have the window fully open behind it, but must stop after a half hour or so, or I will be affected.
And so it goes with other electrical/electromagnetic objects; I have to be very cautious and curtail use. Sometimes being near cell phoines (this has happened to me many times on public transport--especially, long distance journeys) cn cause me heart arrythmia, darting or stabbing random pains, and that sizzling sensation in my head. If I am over-exposed to electromagnetic radiation and I start going to sleep, I can feel electric currents going off in my head and these are quite alarming. My hands or/and feet can also get saturated with radiation while I'm asleep, and I wake up to them being numb, lifeless as twigs. So, I wrap them, in an aluminium blanket,to counteract the radiation. And it kind of works. I also make a thick turban of kitchen tinfoil, to protect my headand especially my ears--because radio frequencies and especially microwave/radio frequencies (MW/RF) were going right through my aural tract--and I wear this turban throughout the night, to protect myself from MW/RF during my sleeping hours. I also wear earplugs connected to Walkman radio-tape frequencies and leave it playing through my sleepiong hours. I find a water tape especially soothing. And these two--the earplugs and the tinfoil/aluminium turban--have been in use for over three months now, although they only partially block out the piercing noise of the signals/frequencies.
Before I came up with these responses, I was being bombarded through my ears, almost every night, for an hour or so, and electric currents could startle me from sleep. Tinfoil, as anyone knowledgeable in this area will tell you, helps block radiation.
I still, though, get heart palpitations that wake me up, and I know then a radiation "assault" is under way. When this happens, I quickly cover myself from waist to chin, in an aluminium survival blanket. Last night, I experienced heart arrythmia--unlike the thudding-heart sensation activated by fright, I experience the radiation sourced arrythmia as a wave-like, back-and-forth movement of my heart--and tingling type sensations through my body for c. two hours during the night. That is what I call a radiation "assault." And, I hasten to add, that I know some other sufferers who have to take exactly similar precautions, and who are affected in similar ways.
So, you can see that the ill-effects I experience from manmade radiative forms are pretty severe--in fact dangerous. Since Ennis became a full electronic town (and Ireland's first) I really suffer when I visit there. Last summer, it was so distressful that I had to ensure I had a good stock of tranquillisers, each time I stayed in Ennis, to make it bearable. I could only stay in the house for very brief times and could sleep just a couple of hours a night, because the buzzing/sizzling in my head, from the strong rdiation, was so vigorous. I could feel my entire body tingling with electricity, and Ennis is so packed with overhead wires and pylons, there was no relief anyplace. Of course, the hot, fairly dry summer didn't help. A number of us who have become sensitive to such manmade radiative equipment as cell phones, T.V.s, computers, radios, kitchen electrical equipment, electric lawnmowers, etc., also develop sensitivity to other radiative sources, terrestrial, cosmic, etc.
A significant number of people, in Ireland, are sensitive to electrosmagnetic radiation, but Irish doctors have not, as yet, been trained in medical schools, to deal with this newly emerging illness. There is, however, quite a lot of literature on ES on the internet, so doctors don't have an excuse of not being aware. Just three of the many websites that provide information on electrosensitivty are: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk http://www.feb.se/ (the Swedish ES support site emfacts@trump.net.au .
Then you have all the cell phone companies in heavy denial because it threatens their capacity to make mega bucks. The wireless types of radiation, such as cell phone microwaves, are the worst for us, because we just can't get away from them--they zap right through us, even in our own bedrooms.
Hope the enclosed proves a little enlightening for you.
Regards,
Imelda
NOV., 1996
It--my severe EHS reactions to EMFs-- started for me in earnest on the night of November 20th, 1996, in my former condo, in Pasadena, CA. I am convinced that what I experienced at 11.30 PM that night as I lay in my bed adjacent to the partitioning wall separating me from my recently installed and newly qualified young aeronautic engineer tenant was an energy weapon targeted directly at my brain/head. I was shot awake and pinned to my timber-framed futon bed while frequencies were revved through my aural tract and my head seemed to be set on fire. It felt like a burning MW oven but I couldn't move because my body was in shock, unmovable, pinned into position. When the power was turned down and off (it was a power source; I could hear the frequencies being revved up to max and levelled at me; I had been very outspoken in the immediate weeks preceding this event about military and civilian RF weapons abuse) then I was able to move my limbs and entire body and get up.
When I returned to Ireland a few weeks later (mid-December) for treatment for my now extreme EHS condition that followed this assault (I had to sleep beside running water to somehow muffle the frequencies that were being revved through my aural tract right through the night) my account of that energy weapon assault of November 20th was not believed by attending doctors. So, I was tricked into the psychiatric section of Cork University Hospital and locked up for three weeks. Of course my EHS symtpoms continued throughout but I was mocked when I tried to explain that "electric shocks were going through my head." A dreadful/appaling patient experience made even more dangerous by the attendant psychiatrists insisting I take anti-psychotic medication (Serenace) and their not bothering to inform me of its side-effects nor seek my prior consent to the medication. I finished up with dangerous side-effects and had to seek private help from a physiotherapist for my badly frozen shoulders--caused directly by the inappropriate administration of that medication.
Then in 1999 I decided to bring my own EHS circumstances and the whole issue of the proliferation of MW weapons being used to target victims out into the public and into EU Brussels committees. Got a local Irish MEP to get my accounts plus evidence to Brussels. Wrote it up on a non e-typewriter so my statements could not be picked up remotely before I could get it lodged. Just about when my file got into the right hands in Brussels (via my local MEP) I experienced very-close-to-being-killed attacks during the following nights. On the first night I was shot awake by a huge e-volt slicing through my entire brain. I thought I was going to be killed. This volt was accompanied by a distinct thud sound. Then some four hours later (c. 3.00 a.m.) I was abruptly awakened again with another lightning volt being shot through my head and this time it ran down the entire right side of my body. A hospital radiologist I approached next day for advise on how I could protect myself suggested I make a very thick turban of tinfoil/aluminium foil. And so I did and slept in this. However, it did not keep out the EMF assaults. I was assaulted with piercing acoustic frequencies for a few hours every night and my body was being charged like a battery. I'd find the crown of my head going numb when in bed and I'd wake up with my hands numb up to and sometimes above my elbows and my feet going numb as well. Then as this battering progressed over the next weeks nightly, it seemed to be aimed also at getting my heart to stop (heart attack). My heart would sway alarmingly like a pendulum of it sown volition back and forth as if a wave were levelled on/at it.
So, I know at first hand that EHS can be developed from passive or coverty targeted exposure to EMR (esp. MW/RF) energies. Tim Rifat in his book REMOTE VIEWING (1999) includes a large appendix of declassified Russian research on MW bioeffects. Well worth reading.
Imelda O'Connor
29 Castle Hill
Carrigaline, Co.
Cork
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