Anecdotes about headache-inducing cell phone towers have been circulating for decades.

This is how we got this request about the cell phone towers:

“Well, you often hear the following story, often with changing locations. Was there really ever a case like this? Telekom has set up a new radio mast in a village. Residents then complained to Telekomm that suddenly everyone was suffering from headaches, insomnia, etc. Telekom's answer: How bad will it get when we switch the system on?"

You read this anecdote again and again on social media:

Telekom is said to have replied to a customer who had filed a lawsuit against a cell phone mast because it was making her sick: “How sick will you have to get when we put the mast into operation NEXT MONTH.”

You hear and read these and similar stories again and again, and many a technician will be able to tell similar stories about experiences with customers. This isn't really a new phenomenon, even if the introduction of 5G has made it more common now, because this phenomenon actually seems to have been around since the first cell phone masts were set up.

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What's causing a headache?

Such a story is
already in 2002 In the race for the best network coverage, cell phone masts from the four providers at the time sprouted like mushrooms all over the country.
The mayor of a town complained directly to the cell phone provider, who had set up a large cell tower there, that half of the citizens had since then suffered from nausea and headaches. But the problem: The cell phone tower wasn't even connected yet.

In August 2009, many residents of the Northern Irish town of Craigavon ​​complained of headaches, nausea, tinnitus, dry, burning, itchy skin, upset stomachs and completely disturbed sleeping habits since a transmission tower was erected there.
Citizens protested and distributed flyers, and a task force was even set up to study medical conditions and the health effects of the tower, which residents say emits dangerous microwaves. The operator assured that the transmission power was only relatively weak and no stronger than the radiation already present, but this did not reassure the residents.
In mid-November there was finally a citizens' meeting in which the operator promised to shut down the tower again. The health problems then decreased. What the residents didn't know: Due to the investigations, the radio tower had been switched off since the beginning of October, which the mobile phone operator was also able to prove.

In 2010, the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité Berlin conducted an experiment in 10 towns in Germany where there was no cell phone reception.
Transmission masts were set up in these towns and 397 residents voluntarily had their sleeping habits examined. Many residents complained about sleep disorders since the transmission towers were installed, and this was also objectively confirmed.
However, on five out of ten nights of the study, the transmission towers were not switched on at all.

The nocebo effect

In medical double vision studies, one group of patients receives an effective medication and the other group receives a so-called placebo, i.e. a dummy medication that has no effect whatsoever. This is done to ensure that patients don't just feel better because they expect it, but that the effect actually comes from the drug, i.e. objectively healing.

But there is also the nocebo effect: complaints that occur even though there is no objective cause. One example is side effects even though the patient only received a placebo drug, other examples are the cases of unconnected cell towers mentioned above: residents complain of headaches and nausea for no objective reason.

In medicine and psychology, this effect is not simply laughed at , but rather taken seriously, since some of the complaints can be objectively measured, meaning that some people actually become ill even though the cause of the illness does not exist.

The effects of cell phone masts were also in 2006 as part of a study on electrical sensitivity. It was also found that many people who claimed to be electrosensitive complained of health problems without any source being available.

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Conclusion

Stories like the one in the tweet above, for example, are not just urban legends, but actually happen again and again: people complain about health problems caused by a transmission tower, even though it is not activated. the psychological effect that something could make you sick can, in extreme cases, also have physical effects.

It is therefore all the more important to find out about things that you do not understand, such as electromagnetic fields , before you panic, because the word “radiation” alone scares many people.

Because fear alone, even if there is no objective reason for it, can actually make you sick!


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