A women posted the following in response to my Blog "Do You Have Microwave Illness?" which was emailed to me. Unfortunately, I cannot read or post to my blog -- prd34.blogspot.com -- here in China because it is blocked by the Chinese government -- as many blogs are! I will have to wait until I leave the country to update it.

At any rate, what this story does seem to tell us is that many more people than are seemingly aware of it are indeed being affected by this insidious technology -- and moreover most doctors out there don't seem to have the slightest clue.

I have microwave illness

The last three years I have had chronic sinus infections/throat infections. I have felt extremely dizzy and tired. I thought it was depression. Then my husband moved the wireless router upstairs so our neighbor could use his laptop and I started to get a terrible skin reaction; it was extremely dry and itchy and it kept cracking and bleeding and water blisters would appear and when they broke they were very painful.

I went to the doctor about it for over a year and they just kept giving me a different type of steroid cream to put on it and nasonex for my sinuses. They would look at me funny when I told them about how dizzy I was feeling. They said my blood work was normal and nothing was wrong with me.

Then we heard of another woman on the radio who was allergic to wireless; so we did some research and shut off our wireless router and the skin problems on my hands cleared up within a week. I was able to do dishes and cut vegetables and fruit without wearing gloves again!

Then my husband decided one night when I had gone to bed to turn on the router again because he wanted to use his laptop upstairs and he forgot to turn it off. The next morning when I woke up my hands were flaming red and in pain again with lots of water blisters.

I now try to stay away from wireless but it is everywhere -- even the church and the arena has it. I can't go anywhere without having a breakout the next day. I feel dizzy and feel like throwing up when I'm around it.

I don't know what to do! I haven't yet told my doctor about what is wrong with me because I suspect they will most likely think it is all in my head; and frankly there is probably nothing they can really do for me anyway.

I have to stay in my home if I am to feel normal. How am I suppose to live in the world we have today with this? I'll never be able to get a job outside of my home. Is there anything that can help us?

Also, I just had a miscarriage in December. I'm wondering if the wireless might have caused that also -- seeing how badly my skin and body reacted to it.

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Paul Raymond Doyon
Yunnan Normal University (China)
Lecturer - English and Japanese
MAT (TESOL), School for International Training
MA Advanced Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
BA Psychology, University of California

"A 'Good Student' answers questions - but does not question answers."