Hey Mags,
Sorry to hear about your experience with this. I went thru a lot of this about 7 years ago, so I feel for you. I have always been energetically sensitive, but things got really bad after I burned myself out at work with extra projects under extreme stress. I seemed to become more sensitive to these energies the more exhausted and stressed I became. If someone in the next aisle over in the grocery store got a cell phone call, my ears would start to ache, and I'd get a pressure in my chest. Nowadays, I get the pressure in my chest if I get close to a cell tower. Usually, I feel the pressure, and will tell my wife in the car, "there must be a cell tower nearby." Sure enough, we come around a bend or over a hill and there it is. I find being in a car with a cell phone user or bus affects me strongly. It makes sense - the car/bus acts like a Faraday cage, and the cell phone puts out more microwave radiation to get its signal thru the shell of the vehicle and to the nearest tower.
Here are some of the things that helped me:
Getting good information:http://dirtyelectricity.ca/This is one of the better info websites out there. The author of many of the articles is Dr. Magda Havas, an internationally recognized expert on harmful effects of EM fields.
USB Keyboard With Laptop At that time, I had to get a USB keyboard to use at a distance from my laptop, because my hands would start to feel like they were burning/cooking from the laptop's RF output.
Getting my Heavy Metals DownI ended up getting hair tissue mineral testing done, and I had high levels of lead, aluminum and cadmium in my tissues. I took mineral supplements in high dosages to push these out of my body. Turns out the body will grab onto whatever metals are at hand if it cannot get the right ones for its needs. It'll hold onto them until the right ones are available. My feeling is that the higher our heavy metal levels, the more we are going to be like walking antennas for stray EMFs. A good green smoothie will chelate out a lot of these heavy metals - much cheaper than the approach I took. I eat green smoothies almost every day for breakfast now, and they've helped me quite a lot, and would say they keep my heavy metals down. That's the path I'd recommend. Here's a the basic recipe I follow:
http://realfoodrebel.com/super-healthy-green-smoothie/Getting Graham Stetzer Filters for my Home:I found out about dirty electricity (disturbances on the household sine wave) and its negative effects on human health. I bought a set of 20 Graham Stetzer filters (and a tester) for our home (cost me about $800 CDN, I think). My wife and I noticed our home felt much calmer after that.
You can find info on dirty electricity and GS filters here as well:
http://www.electricsense.com/1825/dirty-electricity-gs-filter/Here's where I got mine - pays to shop around.
http://www.stetzerizer-us.com/Changed from Metal Frame to Wooden Frame BedI discovered that bed frames pick up stray EMFs, and this disturbs the kind of rest we need, interferes with body repair during sleep. We scrapped our metal frame bed and picked up a wood frame bed at Ikea. Helped quite a bit.
Use Cell Phone only on Speaker ModeMy inner ear will physically ache if I use a cell phone more than a couple of minutes. I always try to use the cell on speaker mode.
Get Wireless Router Away from Sleeping Area, Turn off at NightIf you have wireless internet in your house, it will be important to put the wireless router at a point far from where you sleep. It's also helpful to turn off the wireless router at night. Probably the best is to just use a switch and run your internet plugged in with a cat5 cable. This might not be possible, especially if there are multiple users in the house. But at least moving the wireless unit further from where you sleep is pretty important. It shouldn't be in the same room where you sleep or in the basement right under where you sleep. Also, if you have an electric alarm clock on a night stand beside where you sleep, this will create problems. I only use a battery powered little alarm clock, and have learned to get used to the ticking at night (don't notice it any more).
You mentioned other things like the smart meters. I'd also say pay attention to where wireless units are at work - maybe try to have your workstation on the other side of a room from it. Some places put in industrial strength wireless to penetrate concrete walls (e.g., hospitals and schools). Some stores or bars crank the wireless quite high and I can feel the difference when I walk into t hese places, and I generally stay in them as short a time as I can.
Hope this helps Mags.
Glad to share any other info or experience I have.