Comments on: Cell Phone Health Hazards?

By: valerie

valerie — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:55:25 +0000

I’ve been experiencing pain in my right ear in which I often listen with my cellphone! I have never had this problem until the use of this particular brand!! I am very concerned and will research this further!!

By: DC

DC — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:08:13 +0000

Since the first time I used a cell phone in the early 90′s I could feel pressure in my heard and would get sharp pains in my head on the side I used the cell phone. this pain continues today and I rarely use my cell phone. Everyone else tells me that they never experience what I do. I am beginning to wonder if those of us that experience these symptoms do so because we may have more metal in our bodies

By: louisa

louisa — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:53:34 +0000

I feel hot and pain and lost of hearing as soon as I put my mobile which is Erickson or nokia in my left ear, I try to switch ears but it is now affecting my other ear and I am worried and sometimes unable to answer my call due to this. I am worried as my hearing is deteriorating and i believe it is to do with these mobiles, i have been to the Doctors but he just said “stop using the mobiles then, it does not happen to me when i use main lines. Is anyone been to their GP or to ear specialist for help

By: Lourie

Lourie — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:41:11 +0000

I went to a general doctor in may because I was having dizzy spells and headaches and I had an MRI. The doctor said I had chronic sinusitis and recommended that I see a nose surgeon because I have a deviated septum and this will keep happening to me. I told the doctor about my ear pain and my iPhone, but he shrugged it off. I’ve never had sinus issues before and I never followed up with the surgeon because my bill after insurance for the MRI alone was $1,500 plus my several doctor visits. I know your health is the most valuable thing you have, but it’s getting more and more expensive for healthcare. I still have sinus issues and headaches, which has never been a problem until recently. I still have ear pain while in the phone and afterwards so I try to use speaker as much as possible. I think I’ll end up seeing an ENT and the surgeon and I’ll update u guys with the findings.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:12:40 +0000

As an update, mysteriously I just started getting ear pain using the corded landline as well! It does have an antenna because it also has a corded in the charger across the room.

First the left ear, and today the right. I also have smallish swellings, feel like slightly swollen lymph nodes, right under each ear, that ache sometimes, and the left one is bigger, though both are still quite small. These have been there for months, but at first I just noticed I had swollen glands under my ear (firm, and they don’t move) and waited for it to go away. It hasn’t.

I did screw up my courage and go to the doc, but got asked if I had a fever, had my ears searched for an ear infection. No infection, but did have a little fluid behind one eardrum. They offered me an antihistamine. I said no thanks.

I did have an allergic response to some fragrance this week, but that cannot have been the factor all these months, and still doesn’t explain why my ears hurt ON THE PHONE, even when I don’t hold the phone physically touching my ear.

When I told her about the pain while using first a cell phone, that I have had to give up after relying on them for more than a decade, and then surprisingly, even the landline (which makes no sense at all to me), I know she probably thought I was nuts. She suggested it was pressure from holding the phone to my head.

When I told her I had been holding it physically away from my head since it had first started hurting, I got a nonplussed shrug and dismissal…anyway, I understand the human tendency to outright dismiss that which is not in our own experience, or that which flies in the face of our expectations, but this whole thing is one giant downer, and I try not to dwell on it, since there is apparently not a thing I can do except get rid of that which causes the pain, and hope to heck I don’t follow in the path of some people who have reported online, going on to become unable to do things like use wifi computers, or be near much of anything electrical. Because they are even talking of getting rid of landline phone service altogether. It’s the wave of the future, and I had people who were saying it was bad, firmly in the ‘crazy’ category, until this started happening to me.

Now it’s just frightening, and apparently all we can do is hope those of us affected will be ok, until and unless we find out we have something, and then hope it’s treatable or nonthreatening.

Moot point for me since I can’t use a cell phone anymore, but has anyone else heard that the metal frame of a car acts as a Farraday cage, that makes the cell phone increase its intensity so it can get through that, and therefore talking, even on a speaker, on a cell phone in a car, is bad unless you have it hooked up to an externally-mounted antenna? Any electrical engineers or others out there who have a thought on this?

By: linda

linda — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:33:29 +0000

I have been telling my family that after talking with them on the cell phone, I had to get off my ear was hurting. This has been going on for this past year. Never really thought much at first, but then it started happening more often than not. My husband became very upset with me because I went over the given for texting. This morning we were on the cell phone and told him my ear was starting to hurt and needed to get off phone. I thought, maybe I have an ear infection and should see a specialist. My last visit with my doctor (approx. 4-5 months) did not reveal any abnormalities, otherwise she would have said. I have never even had an ear infection in my life. Maybe only pain related to a sore throat. The pain feels like pressure, then it radiates as a larger area, then the piercing starts. Normally, I use on my left ear. I have tried to use on my right, but it becomes awkward to hold and uncomfortable. After the piercing, then the headache, but it does subside. Headache not full blown enough to need Tylenol. Now the pain (slightly) enters into my right ear, some mild pain, but then I can feel like a slight drainage in both. I decided before making an appt.to check the internet. Yeh! I’m not the only one, thank you for this website. I have contacted those family members that I speak to the most and told them the cell phone will only be used for emergency’s only (when speaking). Only texting. My husband will now be getting us on a plan with unlimited texting, since I found this website. I could see his point however; our plan offered unlimited minutes and to him it seemed like I was blowing money to the wind. Apology was accepted. I do hope this helps. Your comments were so very appreciated and welcomed. Linda

By: Esther

Esther — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:17:23 +0000

I experience ear pain and head pain using handphone since a month plus ago. I just set an appointment with E&T specialist this Wednesday. I know it is not normal coz the pain happen almost everytime i use the handphone directly.

Anyone having this problem went for further medical check before. Please share with us the doctor’s advise/ result. How about you, sharada? I would share mine if doctor can give me her professional oppinion.

By: sharada

sharada — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:09:49 +0000

I have the same problem, I have been using the cell phone mostly my left ear and now it hurts very bad. Of late I even feel numbness in the left side of my head. I am surprised to see so many of you having the same issue. Did any one see a doctor. I am planning on getting an MRI done

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:21:41 +0000

Wow, I didn’t have a clue there were so many people with the same problem! I started getting an ache in the left ear when using a cell phone, just very subtle, thought maybe ear fatigue (from a 15 minute conversation? but still, that was my thought) and then switched to the right…then that one started…still it was mild enough for me to be in denial that maybe it was my imagination, maybe it would go away, maybe it was a fluke.
Now it’s so bad that I feel it almost immediately, upon use, and have to end communication quickly, and then my ears still ache for a long time after. I had a cell phone as my only phone for a few years in the late 90′s/early 2000′s, and in one case, it was a big old thing that must have weighed 2 lbs, (back when most people had beepers instead), and it got so hot when used for a long time, that it was like a hot potato…and I used it for long periods, totally oblivious that there could be any risk to that. Most of us assume that if it were dangerous, there would be regulations preventing exposure, because it sure seems like there are regulations on everything, on every personal choice.

I never would have thought 6 months ago that I would be seriously considering just realizing that 20 years ago, people did without them just fine, and even though they are considered ‘necessities’ today, we could all go on living without them. It’s a little frightening to feel such weight of evidence, in such a visceral way, that it does harm somehow. Maybe we have to go on living without them, to go on living. I hope getting rid of it would not be a case of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:59:07 +0000

Hmm... there seems to be a bit of a buzz around mobile phone precautions lately and that youtube video about the phone radiation managing to pop popcorn probably didn’t help. But to be honest, if it was really that bad I’m sure the relevant authoritative bodies would have cracked down on it. I know what you mean about being cautious though, I used to sleep with my phone on charge very close to me but now it’s all the way on the other end of the room. But trying to wean people of using mobiles is going to be like getting them to pack in cigarettes. It’s an addiction and sooooo many companies are involved from sms for business type of services to companies making apps.