I Don’t Trust my Cell Phone: One Users Fear of Cell Phone Dangers

Cell phones are everywhere! Walk down the street and you’d be hard-pressed to not spot someone either carrying a cell phone or talking on one. In fact, in my own personal relationships, I don’t think I know a single soul who doesn’t have a cell phone. After all, cell phones are convenient little devices. They make life so much easier. No more waiting until you get home to make that important call, and no worries about ever being stranded on the side of some lonely highway hoping that you’ll be noticed. With a cell phone, the world is indeed at your fingertips! And of course I own a cell phone as well. But, unlike the vast majority of cell phone users – folks who talk for hours and hours each month on theirs – I try to keep my cell phone use to an absolute minimum. And here’s why.

Ever since owning my first cell phone, I noticed some strange happenings to my physical person after a period of prolonged cell phone usage. First off, I noticed that my ear and the side of my head that I placed the phone against would get hot and start to tingle. Apparently, the radio frequencies that emit from cell phones have a tendency to heat up whatever they come into contact with. Ok, fair enough. I could live with that! A slight warming sensation is nothing to worry about. But it was the other effects that I experienced that did worry me.

The most disconcerting were the feelings of dizziness and light headedness that I would routinely experience after talking on my cell phone for more than a few minutes at a time. It was strange. In fact, as soon as I placed the phone to my head, I would start to feel the neurological effects of the radio frequencies penetrating my head. And I didn’t like how it felt! And the longer that I talked on my cell phone, the more intense these feelings became.

To take things a step further, I would also experience some difficulty with thought processing and my mental sharpness seemed to be a bit dulled. I would often feel as if I were a bit drunk or tipsy, and even though I don’t drink and have never been drunk, I would imagine that that’s what it would feel like! So, as you can imagine, I never became a chronic cell phone user. In fact, the cell phone that I have currently is only the second cell phone that I have ever had. And, for the most part, I only use it when I absolutely have to – in an emergency or when I just have to make a call right away – or when somebody calls me and leaves a voice mail that I retrieve.

And, complicating matters is the fact that there have been countless scientific and medical studies performed in order to test the “safety” or “danger” of prolonged cell phone use, and no study as of yet has been entirely conclusive one way or the other. Some studies seem to point to regular cell phone use as being hazardous – most notably an increased risk of brain cancer and acoustic neuroma – while other studies seem to show no such risk. Wonderful! Leave it to science to arrive at a perfectly good inconclusive result!

However, my own personal cell phone “study” tells me that there is definitely an effect – at least on me – of the radio frequency waves that are emitted from the cell phone antenna and directed right into the side of the head. My gut feeling is that it can’t be a healthy thing to constantly place a cell phone to the side of head. And don’t mention the cell phone earpieces that are supposed to shield you from the cell phone emissions. I tried an earpiece, and my neurological symptoms were exactly the same. In fact, I read a few studies that seemed to imply that using an earpiece – with a wire – might make things worse. A little thing about the wire itself acting as a conduit for the radio frequencies and funneling them directly into your ear canal!

Bottom line: I will continue to use my cell phone as sparingly as possible. When something as seemingly innocuous as a cellular phone causes me to experience dizziness, nausea, and light headedness after prolonged use, I tend to believe that its effects on the brain and all of its sensitive internal workings is not so innocuous!