Four years after surgery for a brain bleed I began experiencing horrible migraines.
Why now?
Seemingly unrelated to the arterial rupture clamped with a titanium clip it was a puzzling, if miserable, period of my life.
The pain was not only intense it was unresponsive to any but narcotic strength medication. Since I despised the way those medications made me feel it became a constant study in frustration as to how to relieve pain that drove me to my knees in tears.
While I searched for a non-narcotic solution I demanded the smallest dose of the other.
Cause and Effect: An Unwitting Introduction to EMF Sensitivity
It was while discussing the periodic and debilitatingly painful episodes at a family gathering I got my first look – thanks to a savvy aunt – into what it meant to be EMF Sensitive.
Atmospheric EMFs
My maternal grandmother was carefully questioning me about the headaches in an effort to see if their was any pattern that would help us understand why they’d started out of the blue. Sitting at the table was my Aunt Anne who said, “Your headaches are related to thunderstorms.”
She figured out that approximately 48 hours after I got a migraine, a thunderstorm occurred. She also pointed out the pain resolved once the system moved out of the area.
We spent the next half hour trying to figure out what it was about the storms specifically that instigated the painful headaches and though no real conclusions were drawn my aunt was certain it was the lightning.
Electrical right?
Think Again
If that was the case then why did I feel so good while living in Florida in an area considered the lightning capital of the world?
I feel wonderful whenever I visit the state and it’s not just sunshine because I lived in sunny So Cal and I’ve lived in Phoenix yet did not have this same sense of physical well-being.
I did not get headaches while living in Florida.
They started the spring after my family moved back to Michigan.
It wasn’t until 2011 – after years researching a phenomenon called EHS – what I called EMF Sensitivity – that I learned that atmospheric EMFs associated with storm systems are of the same ultra-low and very low EM frequencies that wreaked havoc with my health.
Which was why I was researching EMFs in the first place.
Understanding is Not a Cure
Knowing why I got horrible migraines 48 hours before a thunderstorm was all good and well but it didn’t offer any solution.
None of the remedies I had for my sensitivity to geologic and technologic EMFs worked for the atmospheric EMFs.
Never Stop Learning
In subsequent years I gained incredible insight into EMF Sensitivity, including coming to understand the root cause and thus a cure. I also discovered numerous remedies at all price points with no need for a doctor’s prescription.
I wanted remedies that were easily affordable and accessible to anyone.
I was thrilled to share my findings with the world through my release of Riding the Waves: Diagnosing, Treating, and Living with EMF Sensitivity.
As well as follow-up books on the subject.
While I’d made incredible progress and was living a relatively normal life, I was still struggling with migraines before thunderstorms.
Which were unfortunately all too common where I was living when I released Riding the Waves.
A Decade Later
It was while living in an area known for rain that I finally had a breakthrough.
Rain Yes But…
Though we had our share of rain thunderstorms were a rarity where I was living. This suggests it was something about atmospheric conditions tied to rain. However…
I remembered living in Sunnyvale, California during a time when local rainfall broke records and not experiencing any migraines. Adding to the argument disputing the migraines being tied to rain was the fact I was getting the migraines during the summer too.
Pressure Drop
Research and a barometer purchase showed the migraines happened approximately 48 hours before a serious pressure drop. That they happened in the summer was due to the fact the pressure dropped as the temperature rose.
I was able to determine the temperature had to rise sharply in a very short time for the pressure drop to induce a migraine.
Yeah, Okay, But…
I still had no way of treating the migraines and I refused to take narcotic medicine.
I’d had some luck with potassium supplements but it was not consistent.
As I document in Ignoring the Rules: An Intriguing Approach to Resolving Calcium Toxicity, I was able, through constant research, to determine the migraines were the result of the scar tissue – made up mostly of calcium – reacting to the atmospheric changes associated with pressure drops.
Like temperature, changes in pressure are a product of EMFs.
Through a lot of trial and error that drew on years of research I was able to discover a cure for the migraines.
Included in the book.
Two days ago as Idalia was making headlines I came upon an article that validated my experience; that it’s possible to sense EM frequencies associated with thunderstorms.
And, as I write in Riding the Waves, EMs associated with tropical storms and hurricanes.
It’s hard to put into words how it felt to see my observations backed up by other researchers; researchers who are going to conduct further study into how these EM frequencies affect behavior in a living organism.
Talk about validation!
It hasn’t been easy writing about a subject that continues to be controversial, to rile emotions, so when I come across this type of information it’s another brick falling off shoulders too often burdened by weighty matters.
Of course I also had to consider it meant I’m a shark.
Kidding, naturally.
To my delight, a day later another EMF article crossed my desk and while this one relates to a different part of my experience it’s every bit as validating. Needless to say I’ll be sharing that information in the near future.
Stay tuned.
Elizabeth Maxim 