Cell phone = headache, nausea & bizarre sensations. Yay!

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I just got a Nokia 6010 today because T-Mobile is so frickin' cheap and it's a tax write-off.

I was never that concerned about radio waves before because I used my previous phones so little. I think I remembered some weird sensations, but my experience today clinches it for me: cell phones just GOTS TO BE deadly.

I was on that fuckin' thing for just a few seconds to check my messages at home. Then, I attempted to call a few more times. My total minutes was 2:56 according to the phone, which sounds about right according to my memory.

After the first call, I instantly felt weird pain in my right ear. So, I made the next call attempts on my left ear because I wanted to see if the phone caused the pain. Sure enough, within seconds, that ear developed the same strange piercing sensation. I put the phone in my coat pocket and walked 6 blocks. During that time, I swear I felt a strange sensation in my chest, like a heart murmur with a similar sort of strange pain. I stopped for a moment on the sidewalk and thought, "holy shit, am I imagining this?" I certainly wasn't expecting it, so it seems weird if I was imagining it. I turned the phone off and stuck the charger in it. This was about an hour and a half ago. Now, I feel tweaked out (like a caffeine rush), cold shivery feelings, subtle pain in both ears, vague nauseau and I have a mild headache.

I'm wondering if my perpetually sick and perpetually cell-phoned coworker is suffering from radiation now rather than hypochondria.

The phone did come with a SAR Certification slip. When tested at the ear, it is either 1.07W/kg or 1.19 W/kg, both of which are pretty high according to a cursory Google search. I had briefly thought about getting a phone with an antenna because it's supposed to be "better," but I laughed it off in my head thinking what good a little nub of wire is going to do me with radiowaves blasting to my head and so decided to save myself a lot of money and get the $49 phone.

How many of you people feel oddly ill like this from cell phones? It's the kind of subtle pain that might make you think you just need more sleep or need to eat better or something if you got used to feeling this way.

Being that I never feel like this, I am 100% sure it was from the cell. I know at least a few of you won't believe that and that's fine. I won't try to prove it to you and you don't need to post a dozen links to scientific studies that prove cell phones are perfectly healthy.

Ouchy McCellsick, Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

PS. This is the first time I've used a cell phone in 3 years. Maybe my "tolerance" is just low now! Yeesh.

Ouchy McCellsick, Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

dude, your name is ouchy mccellsick. what did you expect.

s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

dude, your name is ouchy mccellsick. what did you expect.

Hm, good point. I have made the appropriate adjustments and will fill you in regarding any new developments.

Happy O'Cellebraten, Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Too late, Fainty McPukenick, you're typecast.

truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Well, at least I got a good deal on minutes for $150 (1060!). I will probably never run out of them over the next year because I don't even want to use the thing. What a bargain!

Fainty McPukenick, Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

IT'S 2008, WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE A WATERPROOF CELL PHONE ;_;

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:16 (seventeen years ago)

or a waterless toilet bowl?

StanM, Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:34 (seventeen years ago)

there are waterproof cell phones. They are ugly and heavy though.

there are also waterless toilet bowls, BTW.

Super Cub, Sunday, 14 December 2008 08:36 (seventeen years ago)


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