Is electro-magnetic field (EMF) hypersensitivity a real thing?

[Dysfunkion]

So I got a Kobo Clara BW and without the wireless turned on (you only need it on first boot) and screen brightness completely off (I can still read fine in natural room light or with a light on in the room) I am ok. The text on the screen is very natural looking and feels like an actual book. The black and white e-ink screen doesn't do anything to me. So if anyone else was considering one, it's likely safe for you to as I'm one of the worst sensitivity cases. The best thing about it is you can drag and drop any epubs directly into it so it doesn't hold you down like the Nook or the Kindle. There is also a bunch of free books on the marketplace on there too. Though I found downloading and converting files from other formats to epub in Caliber at least works but the files converted tends to look really glitchy, so just directly getting the original epubs is your best option for throwing them right into the device.

 

[Wishful]

I've had a Clara for a year or two (or longer?) now. The covid shutdown made it necessary, since that affected library service. I've been happy with it. I miss the ease of flipping back to re-read some section, but I wouldn't buy paper books anymore.

Like you, I keep the wifi off unless I need to download books, and I keep the backlighting off too.

The main glitch I've had with the Clara is it occasionally forgets its charge level, and will drop from full charge to "empty", yet keep working. Rebooting usually fixes that, or else it somehow fixes itself eventually.

After running out of ebooks from the library, I signed up for KoboPlus, which allows free reading of a selection of books for a monthly fee. Worth it for me, but I hate the recommendation system (not enough options for detailing what types of books and authors I don't like), and it's totally broken now, in that it keeps showing books that I've marked "not interested". On top of that, Rakuten clearly doesn't want to hear any feedback from customers. Whew! Rant over. Felt good though.

 

[Dysfunkion]

I've had a Clara for a year or two (or longer?) now. The covid shutdown made it necessary, since that affected library service. I've been happy with it. I miss the ease of flipping back to re-read some section, but I wouldn't buy paper books anymore.

Like you, I keep the wifi off unless I need to download books, and I keep the backlighting off too.

The main glitch I've had with the Clara is it occasionally forgets its charge level, and will drop from full charge to "empty", yet keep working. Rebooting usually fixes that, or else it somehow fixes itself eventually.

After running out of ebooks from the library, I signed up for KoboPlus, which allows free reading of a selection of books for a monthly fee. Worth it for me, but I hate the recommendation system (not enough options for detailing what types of books and authors I don't like), and it's totally broken now, in that it keeps showing books that I've marked "not interested". On top of that, Rakuten clearly doesn't want to hear any feedback from customers. Whew! Rant over. Felt good though.

I wish I could use the library but the mold sensitivity issues are the reason why I need this now as buying new books is way too expensive and takes up more space I don't have. Thanks for the heads up on the battery glitch. The only issue I ran into with is reading PDF files, they're so slow working on it that they're almost unusable. You actually do get a good deal with Koboplus, I might hop on that because it doesn't make sense not to if just a single ebook could cost you over a month's worth of that. Now my issue would be finding specifically where my PEM reading limit is.

 

[Wishful]

The Clara is really slow on opening .rtf files (I have a few old ones in that format) too. Seems okay once it's opened. I haven't tried PDF files, but I expect that it's faster than walking out to turn on my inverter (by my solar panel), waiting for my computer to boot up, then opening a file on it.

Ebooks are especially good for people who expect to need to move at some point. I think my book collection took up two pickup truck loads when I moved to Alberta. Electrons are lighter. No mold or dust either.

 

[Dysfunkion]

I can't believe this but something I added recently has greatly reduced my EMF sensitivity. It had to be either the serrapeptase, papain, or myrhh (or all of the above). I also today got my first laser hair session done so maybe that might be a factor that caused some kind of reset too? I just don't know what happened here. I noticed when using my computer and doing something that had high CPU usage I wasn't getting any reaction. So I then fired up a game that really put this old PC into over drive. Still nothing. Thinking this can't possibly be real life Iafter this went back to what I was doing before until I decided that I was going to fire up my other unshielded computer tower and do a stress test. Plugged it in, ramped up all CPU cored to almost max for an hour, and again just a slight increase in ear ringing. I need to test HDMI and other things but this is crazy!

I have a feeling it's the serrapeptase and papain together though since those made the most difference and myrrh probably just helps with neuro inflammation and brain oxygen levels.

 

[Wayne]

I have a feeling it's the serrapeptase and papain together though since those made the most difference and myrrh probably just helps with neuro inflammation and brain oxygen levels.

Thanks for posting this @Dysfunkion -- This may be a timely piece of information for me. I'm suspecting more and more I'm being affected by EMFs more than I had thought. And I'm starting to strategize how to best address it. This could prove to be useful. -- Thanks!

 

[Dysfunkion]

Thanks for posting this @Dysfunkion -- This may be a timely piece of information for me. I'm suspecting more and more I'm being affected by EMFs more than I had thought. And I'm starting to strategize how to best address it. This could prove to be useful. -- Thanks!

No problem! I'm trying to work out what this means though. My EMF sensitivity started very sharply, I would just turn on my computer and if it close to me I would get with the symptoms, if I moved the tower away early on this got more tolerable until as time went on this got worse and I had to start making adjustments like not using it with anything that ramps the CPU or hard drive use up to tolerate it, when I got a new monitor it made me so sick I had to order that special radiation protection for it and I could only tolerate VGA, then all unshielded screens in general, then I started reacting badly to it all in the main office areas at places I worked, and then to the registers, and after that long story short I became I digital outcast. Never to touch newer technology ever again.

Since it was gradual and seemed to do with a toxic load from when the mold problem in my old house started getting much worse to the point where I couldn't even use the closet anymore and working at that nasty gas station handling all those chemicals, dirty money, and often literal trash. I believe that that toxic load due to being vulnerable to hypoperfusion and liver backup of toxic loads already caused an almost deadly loop. My blood became full of toxic compounds that kept increasing, they started destroying things themselves causing more backup with fibrin clots, viral infections I already had became much more active constantly due to my system not being able to defend itself, and some of what was backed was reactive to radiation.

 

[Dysfunkion]

So I've tested out the HDMI and on Playstation 5, the only shielding being on my monitor which I'm never taking off since it's healthier to have on anyways. I also ethernet wired the ps5 and wire connected the controller disabling bluetooth. I can handle it now!

I have a theory on what's going on here. The only thing that broke through was the enzymes specifically the protein degradation one's first. After a while on them I also stopped experiencing gut burning from eating specific foods, when exposed to EMF levels over my threshold this would trigger with all of the symptoms. I a while back saw a post somewhere else stating that this would also happen to them when they were exposed to EMF radiation over their threshold. Overall I'd get a lot of burning and the symptom cluster the enzymes all hit is the general one the EMF radiation increases, when exposed to mold in the old place like my old closet upon inhaling this specifically would get out of control. This all started as my old home got worse and worse with mold and after I started a very dirty job where I was exposed to a high toxic load daily from change, handling trash, lots of cleaning chemicals, and being in front of registers all day. I think what might have been happening is a protein generation loop where something was causing my microbiome to produce a higher toxic load meanwhile the mold was also doing this same thing creating a mutual feedback loop. This load backed up into my body and these proteins and what also backed up as a result of the protein crowding was sensitive to EMF radiation. Because this got so bad when exposed to levels over a threshold it would almost turn into it's own circuit when exposed to levels high enough and this started causing damage in itself my body could not repair as it was continuing to cause it.

The only other success report with that I know of came from someone on the mold subreddit who brought up that colestyramine was able to get rid of theirs. Since my success had to do with enzymes and taming my immune system in anyway does just about nothing for it then I wonder if they from the bile bound enough reactive proteins.

Edit - after doing an extended play on my ps5 with the hdmi I noticed I still can't handle it or wireless unfortunately but symptoms are lessened greatly on the enzymes. I'm still installing a game and ill see how playing goes soon. Clearly I still need the shielding, its just less dangerous now, theory still stands. What gets really bad after extended exposure is the facial heating feeling, the raging tinnitus, brain fog, restless feeling, nasal drip, and eyes burn a bit. So I bet what I also did was through what I'm doing reduced the mycotoxin load and a lot of general inflammation. These mycotoxins probably react with the radiation and are stuck in various areas of my head/brain.