Beware of Phantom Vibration Syndrome, It Could Kill You
This article warns us of the latest possible medical condition that could end life as we know it. Okay that might be going overboard, but what is the next big trauma that we will have to deal with? It’s technical term is Phantom Vibration Syndrome, more commonly called ringxiety. This is when you feel your phone vibrate in your pocket but you either don’t have your cell phone turned on or you not not even have your cell phone. I am not making this shit up. This article appeared above the fold on page one of today’s New Hampshire Union Leader. This is unbelievable, people feel their phones vibrate when they are not on and now we have a name for it. Just check out some excerpts from the article:
“I go to reach for my cell phone and it isn’t there,” said Ben Hastie, 18, of Merrimack, who has a Motorola Razor phone. “It happens all the time.”
Josh Weaver, 22, who works in Merrimack, has done the same thing.
“My cell phone wasn’t even on,” he said.
“I don’t know what it is,” said Andrea Robichaud, 23, a web designer in Merrimack who has checked her cellphone for incoming calls after experiencing a phantom vibration. “I just know that no one was calling.”
The horror. This sounds kind of like when you have been wearing a hat all day and then you take it off and it still feels as though you have it on so you try to adjust it. I will dub that problem removed hat discomfort syndrome. Really, who sits around and thinks this stuff up?
But it gets better/worse depending on your thinking, as a psychiatrist checks in:
Peter Tse, professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College, said phantom vibration rings may happen because cell phone users develop a “template” in their heads.
“I have a template for my baby’s cry in my head, for example, and sometimes just by chance a random set of sounds will match it,” he said. “I will go to check, but the baby wasn’t crying. “
He said the brain is constantly filtering out background information. Tse said sometimes when a person is monitoring or searching for something important to them — such as a cell phone call or the sound of their own name — some of this background information is picked up and matched to a mental template.
It’s called the cocktail party effect.
“When everyone’s talking at a cocktail party, if your name or anything close to your name comes up in the room, you easily pick up on that,” Tse said.
But false vibrations are less easily understood. Some neurologists compare it to the nerve sensations felt by amputees in the place of the missing limb.
It seems we are constantly being bombarded with trumped up dilemmas and disasters that we always have to be on guard of. This is just the latest syndrome in a constant barrage of potential disaster we are forced to listen to every day. Don’t you find it funny that many of these issues are political issues or are used for political reasons?
Here are some of the other issues we are supposed to live in fear of. The bird flu, the worse hurricane season predictions every year, trans fats, restless leg syndrome, global warming, global cooling, ADD, AADD. It seems there is a name for everything nowadays.
It’s hard to include Phantom Vibration Syndrome in the Nanny State world we are living in, this is just stupid, or is this the Nanny State gone awry?. Although when I think about it, reading an article like this makes me realize how absurd the world is becoming. When you have to have a name for thinking your phone is vibrating when it’s not, perhaps we have moved beyond the Nanny State. We have reached the point of having lost all of our common sense, maybe we didn’t lose it. Perhaps it has been taken away by the media and their constant reminders, we no longer have to think for ourselves. When the weather gets cold, the media tells us to bundle up, on the Fourth of July the media runs PSA’s telling us not to hold lighted fireworks, when the weather gets hot the media tell us to drink water. Hell, on the news tonight I was told if I wanted to save money I should leave my credit card at home so that I won’t succumb to impulse buying.
Anyway, I kind of drifted there, we now have a new syndrome and before you know it we will have a new drug. Perhaps it will be called Vibristop or something like that.
So what does Verizon have to say about this (yes, the article did talk to Verizon)?
David Thomson, a spokesman for Verizon Wireless, said phones should not vibrate unless there’s a call coming in.
“There is no reason why it should,” he said.
Thank God he cleared that up for me.
What else can I say? Does anyone else feel this is absurd?
NH Tea Party Coalition
intoxication related to the cell phone; the mucle is very sensitive; the muscle is vibrating; this is not syndrome; an intoxication
Oh, the drug is just around the corner.
Verizon’s response is priceless!
I am an actual person who feels these “vibrations” and I think this is the STUPIDEST thing I have ever heard. I don’t even carry my phone in my pocket. People are idiots! And to Dave, yes…I see a drug coming from this soon, as well.
http://forums.wrongdiagnosis.com/archive/index.php/t-8021.html
ALL these people have the same concern. I CANNOT respect ANYONE who believes this rubbish. I give more credit to the person who cracked that it was “the mothership” calling all it’s victims, than some stupid “cell phone ringing theory”.
It’s JUST a nervous twitch. It comes from sitting on your duff all day and maybe a little bit of stress. I want to punch the person who came up with such a ridiculous theory!
What are you?? a doctor this is not just a joke its a real study and you pretend to know everything yeah and a nervous twitch that only appears at the place were your mobile normally is..
whatever unbelivable that there are people really that stupid!!!
Yeah, and the global warming studies are real too, right? Don’t believe everything that you read.
My, my aren’t you hostile. I am glad that you have not had the experience of phantom vibration, but must you be so agitated that it does happen to others. What have you got to gain by being so negative. Maybe you need drugs to calm you.
Maybe it is the drugs that have me on edge!
well, my vibrations started last night. they have been constant all day long, oh, btw, i stand in surgery ALL day long so my feelings of vibration are def not from sitting on my butt all day……just sayin!
my vibrations started a week ago ..they have been constant with same repetion as my phone vibration..my viration is on the inside of my left foot .it really freaked me out the first night i thought i might have ciculation depletion .this sensation is very real .
I am so glad I read this article. I called my doctor yesterday and set up an appointment for Monday, the 8th of December, because this vibration in my leg was worrying me. I could not figure why I was vibrating. I thought something was really wrong. Now I will have something to share with my doctor. I had never heard of such a thing as Phantom Vibration Syndrome, and being caused by my cell phone. And yes I would check my phone to see if anyone had called. And you are right, no calls. But lately I have not had my cell phone on me, I have been leaving it in my purse at work or on the table, yet I still vibrate and touch my pocket to see if my phone was in it. Thank-you, I feel much better now. The only thing is now I have to figure out how to stop vibrating. Do you think I could think it away? Signed Vibrated.
Omg my birthday is December 8th!
But, yeah, I’ve had that happen to me too.
Like, I feel a little vibration, but nobody texted me.
This has only happened once or twice though.
I’m a premed student and have pretty good explanation of what’s happeneing here.
First off in everyone’s body are touch receptors, The thing with our bodies is that as we become accustomed to certain stimuli we have responses to them. this is how muscle memory works, the amount of energy required to activate nerve cells becomes lower as you use them more frequently.
at a certain point however as you get more accustomed to it, the “vibration sensation” can be set off by something as small as your pants brushing against your thigh. it is not some psych issue, it is medical. it is a learned response.
if you wish to avoid getting Phantom Vibration Syndrome, all you have to do is prevent your body from being conditioned to the vibrations. To do this simply change the pocket that you keep your phone in! i recommend every month change which pocket you keep your phone in. this will prevent the conditioned response.
but. DO NOT ALTERNATE EVERY DAY, this will condition both at the same time, you must do it in long enough time to “uncondition” your leg but short enough to prevent getting the sensations in the first place
I believe this is true, because I have had this going on for several months now and did suspect carrying my cell in my pocket. I switched sides, but because not all my scrubs have a pocket on both sides sometimes I’d carry my phone in my back pocket. Now, I mostly have the vibrations in my right leg,daily, where I carry my cell most, more infrequently in my left, where I carry it least and it has started in my low back (back pocket). I have other musculoskeletal issues and nerve pain and wondered if it was related, but I would tend to believe this cell phone stimulation theory….Sue
50 y/o wm experiencing same vibratory symptoms only in my left leg, days or nights at “its” whim. No pain, and unable to insonnate any movement or spasm in extremity when I feel the vibration !! Going on over a year now. I went to a massage therapist and she said it was blocked energy,…she was able to “stop” symptoms if I went back weekly! It might be worth a try to have others do the same through there massage therapist ! Good Luck….
There’s nothing wrong with making up a catchy name for a current gossip item so when people are referring to it they don’t need to describe it in detail every single time.
But, “Phantom Vibration Syndrome?” I agree, that name sucks. And it’s a mildly amusing non-issue. I blame bored, useless communications interns desperate for something to research so they can get some air time.
On the same argument I don’t see the political connection you’re trying to make. Maybe you too are another bored communication intern, trying to make something out of nothing?
If you read my “about me” page you will see what I do for a living and no I am not “another bored communication intern.”
Nah, he’s not a bored intern, he just really buys the right-vs-left battle.
i have this condition
All of my friends and I get “phantom vibrations” constantly. This shit is real.
All of my friends and I are constantly getting “phantom vibrations”, or ghost texts, all of the time. This shit is real!
it is real. it happens more for texters than it does for people who actually call people.
it happened to me twice. that is because i dont really use my phone. but it happens to my brother all the time
This is a real condition. Therefore the name. If u have never experience the symptoms it may sound silly. When I was younger I thought “Pink Eye” was stupid and caused by make up. I didn’t have a clue. As I am typing this my leg is vibrating. (That’s why I’m researching any info on it and came across this.) It is arrogant to dismiss anything you have not experienced. I have delt with this for years. It has changed my phone habits. I don’t check every vibration. Because of that I miss calls when I really shouldn’t.
I wonder what long term effects of this could be. Can the area effected become tougher like calouses (typo) in the palms of your hands and feet. Will human brain develope some new counter measure. Some peoples left ear noticbly tougher when that’s there phone ear. (Telemarketers) Its natural. People who shoot a lot have a tougher trigger finger compared to the rest of the hand.
I have accepted this contition as a fault of modern man. I want to know what’s the future of this. 10, 15 years out from now. Will this vibration cause extra nerves to grow in the area of my pocket where I keep my phone. (That’s what I thought was happening) Will I eventually become numb to the vibration and not feet it at all? How will the body fix this, or compensate for this? Will this turn to cancer?
Like I said I’ve had this for years. From the first Tmoble SideKick (the black and white screen) I join a bunch of alerts: horiscopes, weather, news, jokes… my phone vibrated all the time. Then when I didn’t have my phone on me I was feeling the vibrations.
Thanx 4 ur time.
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No, pink eye is not caused by make up. It’s cause by fecal material that gets in your eye. A common problem for people with —- for brains.
I’m just really…..high!
Thank God I’m not losing my mind. Here I am googling this sympton of vibrations in hip area….. I’m going to try changing my phone to the my opposite hip and see if this goes away. It is definitely happening to me.
Whoa. Don’t act too fast, Cyndi. I am also here reading this thread because my leg started vibrating on my way to work this morning and is STILL vibrating right now! I couldn’t wait to get home and “Google” it! The sensation can definitely be described as a cell phone ringing, in my buttock. Oh, but it gets better! I keep my cell phone in my RIGHT pocket, and it is clearly only my LEFT leg that is vibrating. Hmmm. Interesting… The vibration is in my buttock and travels down the leg. I am over 40 and I have never had this “syndrome”. Is it caused by a cell phone? I don’t know. I was googling it because I was afraid it was a symptom of a “nearly clogged” artery or something. I’d love to be part of a case study if they want to hook up some electrodes to actually monitor the sensation.
Google sciatica.
Yeah, Since yesterday I have been looking for a hard drive which I accidently left plugged in on the floor, and reaching inside of covers to find my palm phone to find that it is my left leg which is acutally vibrating. Its been ongoing since yesterday. and gotten more frequent, my knee down to my foot. I dont know if my foot is ringin or my phone. wow weird.
I do keep my phone in my back left pocket alot
well…Im a baker and i often keep my cellphone in the left breast pocket of my chefs coat. Within the last couple months my left breast has had that vibrating sensation, its making me crazy. Not only that but could it cause me to develop breast cancer? Im a little nervous.
No.
I agree with Sevenizm, the information you gave was good, but the last paragraph really wasn’t necessary. I don’t see a correlation. I was unable to read the article your referenced, which may have been a bit “out there”. I feel my phone vibrating when it isn’t even in my pocket. I consider myself a pretty sane person and have never experianced anything like this. It is kind of a curious subject i think it is perfectly fine for it to be called a syndrome. Alot of people have the strange vibrating sensation, its alright for researchers to give it a name. “Syndrome” doesn’t mean it is life threatening.
I think people have a lot more to worry about then a vibrating appendage; like cancer, AIDS, high cholesterol, getting hit by a bus, breathing, getting hit by a plane, whether or not Santa is real, whether or not the talking M&M’s are real, what you want to do with your life, what your going to have for diner, what your neighbor is going to have for diner, and pretty much everything else in the world there is to worry about and not worry about. How inconvenient is it honestly to feel the vibration? I’ve had it happen to me and it only lasts not even 2 seconds. I think you can deal with it, and I’m pretty sure you’ll survive. I’d be more concerned with the anxiety about worrying about why my leg was vibrating then the actual feeling. It doesn’t even hurt. Get the sand out of your viginas and deal.
Of course people have a lot more to worry about than a vibrating appendage, and are cognizant of that. Don’t be a fool. People have a lot more to worry about than what kind of food they’d like today. They could all eat rations. ..and people need not worry about athlete’s foot. ..or vitamins that they could survive without. ..or have cars, when there’s public transportation.
..but get a clue.
It’s just something that is a pain in the ass and people want to address it somehow. ..but to assume it doesn’t exist, or that people don’t have magnitudes of symptoms greater than yours is just as idiotic as freaking out about it.
On blowing this off — don’t be a douchebag.
On freaking out about it — People can change the pocket they keep their phones in, or in extreme cases, get an open-air bluetooth earphone, and a phone that will ring to it.
I have a lot of networking experience. I can make you (or the author of this blog) a proxy that changes the word “Syndrome” to “Thing” and “Symptom” to “Effect” if y’all are uncomfortable with.. ..you know.. ..terminology.
From the Article:
“People are experiencing something we call the Phantom Vibration Thing. Effects include feeling vibration when it is not present, or mistaking other sensations for vibration, and pointless terror that this means that one is slowly, slowly slipping off the deep end. It may cause people to cause hype, or to hype the hype that the people who caused hype caused.”
..yeah.
Well said, Mr. Black!
This is simply a scientific study on what the condition is. No one is causing hype about it. No one is complaining. It happens to me. For some reason people feel that it is a problem when scientists give more intelligent names to common feelings or disorders. Yes, I agree fully that these are just fancy technical terms for normal things. Science studies how things work. If everyone just used common terms for everything then science would not be as far as it is. Science is no different then you trying to solve a problem (ex. what to eat today). In brief the people who studied this had become curious. Then, they released their findings so they could educate others. The fact that people become angry with this is stupid.
+1
I love the response from the Verizon spokesman! But in all seriousness, this is definitely believable. I get similar feelings in my hands after I’ve been mowing the lawn for a while. Once I turn the lawn mower off, I still feel the vibration in my hands for a little while afterward.
This has been happening to me for quite awhile but I didn’t discuss it with anyone because I thought it was me losing my mind. I am relieved to know that there are others having the same experience. Won’t take drugs for it, though….I can live with it…
I have had these phantom vibrations for years…got my first pager in 1992, kept it on vibrate…carried it in the same pocket(right side) for about 2 years….I started getting the vibrations prior to carrying my cellphone in my pocket……initially I thought it had something to do with the analog/digital signals sent to my previous device…..made me think I was intercepting messages intended for that device that someone else may be using at this point in time…..yeah……I know…Im crazy………..but….obvously……Im not the only one……..or wait….maybe im normal………anyway……when do i get my perscriptionfor medical marijuana…… for my restless pocket syndrome?
Its 2:30 in the morning and I read this entire artical (or whatever this is) on my phone, not because I “thought” or “felt” my phone vibrate.. It did, I heard it, and it even lit up, right in front of me… But you know what, I didn’t get a text. Or tweet. (And it just vibrated again… I really hope I got something that time.) anyways.. I want to know what in gods name caused my cell phone to vibrate.. I have experienced the phantom vibration before, many times. But this, yeah, this takes the cake. Weird.
This is some crazy shit! Just the other day I was moving some stuff and I swore I felt my phone vibrate but I just thought that I was going nuts… but I was fine with it! I didn’t try to go seek medical treatment… are you seriously telling me people are wasting there time and effort on studying this shit? spend a little time on cancer now! It seems like every girl I date these days has fuckin cancer or has had!
lol! craig ferguson has this!
Yeah I just heard him say it. Thats what made me look the syndrom up. My daughter just said she gets this too. Too many people addicted to the cell phones is what I think. Throw the darn things out the window.
I haven’t had this happen to me; however, I use TweetDeck, and sometimes I find myself “hearing” the tweet/ringing sound while away from my computer, and my speakers are not even on.
Decent article and whatnot, though I have a very hard time taking someone’s blog seriously when they fail to proofread.
Comma splices will kill you far sooner than Phantom Vibrating Cellphone Syndrome.
Also, it’s “weather” not “whether”. Please beat yourself unconscious with a dictionary.
You are 100% correct on my spelling of “weather” and I have corrected it. Thanks for the heads up. It is not often I write about “weather” but I do use the word “whether” on a regular basis, I must have just been carried away by habit and the heat of the moment. I did not properly proof read this post, as you stated, and for that I offer my deepest apology. I will try to learn from this mistake and improve in the future.
Thanks again, and I hope to see you around more in the future. I would also like to apologize to you if I have used to many commas in this reply, it was not my intent to splice together multiple thoughts in one sentence, when it would have been more proper to use separate sentences.
I’ve had a cell phone for 8 years now and this just started happening to me a couple weeks ago. The only thing I can attribute to causing this is frequent text communication that resumed between me and my ex girlfriend a few weeks ago. I accidently cheated on her 6 months ago had not texted much since then. But recently we reaquainted textually, unfortunately not sexually yet. Anyways I think this is a mentle thing because I do believe she is teasing me as a form of punishment. Low and behold her 10 blue ball texts a day give me about 20 phantom text vibrations in my left leg each day even when I don’t have my phone on me. Not going to lie I realy want to bang this chick again, but my FVS has to stop. So I think I will have to ex the ex. I will let you guys know if the phantom vibrating stops.
I think you guys are taking this too medically. I don’t believe Phantom Vibration Syndrome is an actual Medical Condition.
Phantom Vibration is more of a Phenomena than a Syndrome.
And it does happen. I mistakenly thought that my phone was vibrating in my pocket, when it actually was not even in my pocket at all. I thought maybe I had a problem with my leg, until my friend let me know that this phenomena was so common that they actually had a cool term for it, Phantom Ring!!!
It just because we are so used to responding to our phones, that the anticipation can misperceive other sounds or vibration as a call coming in.
Kinda like how you think your name is being called when it is not.
Okay. i think i lost my phone. I can feel it vibrating around my left thigh but its not there. Maybe its in my thigh?
I use to work at a grocery store and always put my phone in my pocket. It would feel like my phone was vibrating in my pocket at least 4 or 5 times during my 8 hour shift. Its a weird feeling when you don’t get a call all day.
Liberty truly died in this once great country in 1980, when an actor was elected. He played the greatest roll in American cinema for centuries to come. He started a “War on Drugs”, arresting large amounts of lower-class citizens, regardless of the color of skin. He was a pawn of the banks, and caused most problems we’re seeing surface in todays economy.
He played the roll of fucking up our country, beyond repair.
God Bless America, but she stole the B from bless.
N yeah. I know I said “roll”, not “Role”. Fuck you. Humans make mistakes.
Why are you swearing at me?
That didn’t really explain anything, other than the fact that the media try to scare us all the time.
How ridiculous, it’s time to regain our power to think for ourselves.
This happens to me, but I really think it might be medical for me. There are medical reasons for this. Bony crepitation is a palpable vibration or an audible crunching sound that results when one bone grates against another. …this can be caused by osteoarthritis, injury etc…. I found your article because the vibration started out as 2-3 seconds every once in a while but now it’s constant, and it’s not easy to ignore now. I have noticed that when I move, it’s magnified. I really don’t think this is caused from my cell phone even though I have mistaken it for my phone many times. Someone mentioned changing your phone from one side to another. I say, take your phone off vibrate and sooner or later, if the vibrations are really linked to your cell phone, they will end. If they continue, it’s medical and you should see a doctor. I plan on seeing my doctor.
I get this vibration in my left leg but only since I ve been using wirless on my laptop?? my cel phone is hardly ever really ringing but I feel it vibrating against my left leg…so weird???
Interesting. Have been trying to learn a new language for a while now so this is extremely relevant! Thank you.
I just started experiencing this sensation last night in my left leg upper pelvis. I do not carry my cell phone in either pocket and even when I use to it was never on vibrate. This sensation is being report A LOT and I think they are way of base with their conclusion. The reason it was related to cell phone in the first place is because its the only way people experiencing this can describe the vibration they are feeling. Yes “it feels like a cell phone is vibrating in my crouch” but I know one isnt there and hasnt been there in years on vibrate.
So come up with a real explanation
Sorry to break it to you – this is not a matter of “nanny-state” effects. I had these symptoms before any of the issues you mentioned were even a concern. Very likely it is more of a matter of growing narcissism – something so prevalent in American society that psychologists no longer consider it a disorder (a reclassification I strongly oppose).
It’s really nothing new – you think someone’s trying to contact you when they’re not. It’s the same as when you think the phone is wringing when it’s not and can probably be linked to compulsive-e-mail checking.
I have the feeling that my phone is vibrating all the time but to consider it a medical issue is absolutely ridiculous. This isnt the only one either….. There’s the epic, P.O.I.S. that’s Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome as well as absurd medical practices such as “transpoosion”. Go ahead look them up . Its past the point of insanity anymore
Honestly, this happens to me all the time. I just never knew the name of the syndrome until I seen it on television. But I don’t think its life threatening though.
I have been experiencing Vibration Syndrome for a few years, and mine is not connected to cell phone, because I don’t use one. It is much milder than the vibrations of cell phones I’ve seen go off on a table. I think a lot of people are mistaking the connection.
It started in one foot, then the other foot, now happens all over my body. It’s just this mild vibration that lasts for minutes, then goes away. Whether sitting, standing, even lying in bed reading a book, it just starts.
Actually, it has been happening for so long, that I don’t even notice it that much anymore. My vibrations have just become the norm. I’ve mentioned to the Dr. and he was clueless.
my vibration started a week ago .the rhythem is constant in repetion with the vibratin of my cell phone ,,it scared me at first i thought i may have circulatory blockag ,mine occurs on the inside of my left foot. this sensation is very real and aggravating to say the least, im glad to know I am not crazyand there are others like me .if anyone finds a cure please keep me informed
I have vibrations in my feet and my ears….I DON’T OWN A CELL PHONE…..I feel the bottom of my feet get hot and then they start to vibrate…With the next day or two there s a major earthquake…Ive noticed that the vibrations in my ear have a pattern almost like in a pattern…Then a few days later small earthquakes happen….I am not crazy but concerned…Im wondering if these vibrations aren’t coming from H.A.R.P. I wonder if anyone has kept track of this like I have.
at least i’m not the only one.
I think this is more an anxiety thing.
It only happens when I put my phone in a pocket where I might not hear it ring or feel it
vibrate…..and subconsciously I worry that it is ringing and that I might miss it.
Thus the slightest vibration of my jacket on something or my keys shifting in a big pocket
will cause me to think my phone was ringing/vibrating.
i do not even have a cell phone and i have this so i wish people would stop sounding like i am crazy … i know the hat thing but not everybody who has this feeling is just missing thier little electric toys!!!!!! so please know that for those of us with real nerve damage and honest pains and unexplained vibrations that some times even wake us up;that when these wacks cry about there imaginary phone vibrations it makes it hard for us to get real help from our drs cause they think we are just part of the latest fad disorder. well i am glad that everybody can find a diagnonese for that fake symptom they have.
hello!,I really like your writing very a lot! proportion we keep up a correspondence more about your article on AOL? I need an expert in this area to unravel my problem. May be that is you! Looking forward to look you.
A friend just sent me this article because i was telling her about this vibration thing in my leg. It happens to me all day long!! Not only does it happen when my phone is off but I’m typing on my iPhone now and I feel like my phone is vibrating in my pocket. It is driving me crazy! Since I have phantom vibration syndrome (self diagnosed ofcourse) can someone write me a prescription to make it go away?!
Not sure i understand how it got political..
I get these phantom vibrations in my left pocket all the time (and i’ll realize my phone is on my desk at work)
Its amusing, not political.. not a trumped up horror to keep us in line, either.. Oh wait *facepalm*… linkbait. Well played
Well I could not force myself to read all the moronic replies that people have put in on this. I have to step in and add a little information from a Medic standpoint… The shit about “ringexity” or what ever is BS. If this is true then those who have that are nut bags (Not the DSM-IV TR diagnosis but close enough). The problem with these types of articles is that they make a joke out of real problems. The vibrating or buzzing sensation that is spoke of is actually common. It can be in the leg where some wear thier cell phones but it can also be in other parts of the body. It can be in young to old alike, and even those who have never had a damn cell phone. If anyone is having this and thier Dr suggests they have cell phone anxiety or any other mental health issue they should do two things:
First – fire your doctor, he is a dipshit
Second – be screened by a real medical health professional to rule out
M.S., Chrons Disease, B12 dificiency, nerve damage or inclussion secondary to buldging or herniated discs, and lastly liver function test. IF you have any of these DX’s already your doctor should be able to figure out if they are connected. If all of these are ruled out and you are addicted to your cell phone so badly that you always think its ringing, then throw the damn thing away and use land lines from now on your moron.
OH and just a note. I broke my neck in the line of duty and now have a titanium plate and 6 screws keeping my c-spine in line. My nerves from the C4, C5,and C6 vertibrae are damaged and will not recover. I also herniated my T7/L1 disc which has not been repaired. My leg vibrates all the time, and I often think its my cell phone. It is doing it right now and has been for about two hours. I am smart enough to know there is a real physical event occuring and would punch any doctor right in the pie hole if he said I was having symptoms related to my cell phone (then I would fire him).
I am happy, I am not the only one who feels his phone vibrating in his pocket, when it is not there.
I don’t understand why you’re anger about this issue. I read your about me and honestly agree with you on most of your opinions, but this seems like you’re trying to make it something it’s not. The government isn’t forcing this upon us. No one is saying it is lethal. It is something that exists and so people want to know what more about it. That’s what science is. The name is catchy, that’s why it was chosen. It sounds like a terrible Scooby-Doo villain, but I won’t forget it now. We have names for everything now because medical science has advanced to the place where we can accurately diagnose just about everything. I have this issue. It’s not ruining my life or keeping me awake at night. I simply wanted to verify that I’m not the only crazy who thinks his phone is vibrating when it isn’t there. You shouldn’t turn everything into a political rant for rant’s sake
I actually agree with you on this now. I wrote this post in 2007 and since that time I have decided to focus on issues which are more important than those such as this. It is ironic that this post and one other which I am actually embarrassed about seem to gain the most consitent following day in and day out. My time is better spent (I think) today on more important issues then it was when I wrote this post.