Motorists Vestibular Disorientation Syndrome: The good news (and the bad news...)

In case anybody stumbles across this blog who is experiencing severe disorientation when driving, I thought that it might be useful to give an update on my own situation - as my last post was back in 2011!

As you'll see from my previous posts, I experience severe problems when driving, which it was suggested to me was Motorists Vestibular Disorientation Syndrome.

I spent fruitless months and years, searching for some mythical way of dealing with this - some treatment that would resolve this crazy problem, and an explanation of what was happening to me.

The good news is that I eventually found my answer, but the bad news is that my dizziness and disorientation when driving turned out to be just part of a much larger problem.

Along with the disorientation, vertigo and dizziness, I'd also suffered from chronic headaches from around 2007 onwards.

In 2010, things became so bad that I had to stop working, and haven't been able to return to work since.

I then spent 2 or 3 years looking in vain for answers from the health service, but was badly let down - as nobody could really say what was wrong (other than being told that it was a psychological problem...).

To be fair, the tests that I had didn't really show anything significant (although later tests that I paid for did).

The answer, or at any rate the source of the problem, was so bizarre that I didn't believe it for some time.

I'd read a lot of books while I was trying to understand the source of my symptoms, which had progressed beyond chronic headaches, dizziness, vertigo, and the driving problems, to include gastrointestinal problems and chronic pain.

By accident, I saw a book on Amazon called Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn't Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution, by Ann Louise Gittleman.

I bought this book in 2012, as I was intrigued (and as I did used to use my phone as an alarm, with it positioned right by my head when I was sleeping).

I read the book, which was talking about the health dangers of the electromagnetic radiation from electrical devices, and especially the microwave transmissions from wireless devices (cell/mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters, cell towers/mobile masts, DECT cordless phones, wearables etc.

I was fairly sceptical, but buying that book was the moment when the pieces of the jigsaw finally started to fall into place, and I realised that my problems went much further and deeper than "Motorists Vestibular Disorientation Syndrome"; I realised that in fact I was highly sensitised to electromagnetic fields and radiation. In other words, I was "electrosensitive".

Once realisation dawned, and with the benefit of hindsight, so many inexplicable episodes in my past, relating to driving and much else besides, started to make sense.

One of my most important breakthroughs was when I bought a meter to measure this radiation in my house, and was able to see that the areas of the house where I'd always felt worst actually had the highest radiation levels.

This led to further discoveries: that I was affected by a cell tower / mobile mast which was in direct line of sight of my bedroom. That my electricity meter was constantly emitting pulsed microwave radiation throughout my house. That I was being badly affected by my neighbour's DECT cordless phone. That my own DECT phone was emitting astonishing levels of electromagnetic radiation.

As for particular areas that I felt really dizzy in when driving: there were cell towers / mobile masts in the vicinity.

Once you crack a puzzle, it's amazing how easily things fall into place.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, if you do read this, and if you are suffering inexplicable dizziness, vertigo, headaches, problems driving, and many symptoms besides, please at least consider the possibility that you too may be highly sensitised to electromagnetic radiation from electrical (and especially wireless) devices.

Electrosensitivity is hard to diagnose, and most health professionals have never even heard of it (though this is starting to change now, thankfully).

It doesn't help either that the tech and telecoms industry would very much prefer it if people didn't know that wireless technologies are inherently harmful. Who, for example, even knows that the radiation is officially classified as a Group 2B Possible Carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organisation?

I certainly didn't.

Here are a few links, if you would like to look further into this "crazy" suggestion that your symptoms could actually be linked to your favourite wireless devices, as well as other sources of electrical fields and radiation.

Who knows. This could be the answer that you've been searching for.

Good luck,

Dave


Being Electrosensitive (my "new" blog)

https://beingelectrosensitive.blogspot.co.uk/


Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn't Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution, Ann Louise Gittleman

https://www.amazon.com/Zapped-Shouldnt-Outsmart-Electronic-Pollution/dp/0061864285/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1470048864&sr=8-9&keywords=Ann+Louise+Gittleman


Electric Sense (Lloyd Burrell)

http://www.electricsense.com/


International EMF Scientist Appeal

https://www.emfscientist.org/


Environmental Health Trust

http://ehtrust.org/


Electrosensitivity UK (charity)

http://www.es-uk.info/


Powerwatch

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/


PHIRE (Physicians Health Initiative for Radiation and Environment)

http://phiremedical.org/


UK Electrosensitives (Facebook support group)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/675328022574090/


EMF and EHS Law (Facebook support group)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/761128677314944/