I live in a 79-year old cabin on 300 acres of wilderness. There are two cabins nearby, same age. I have chronic headaches and vertigo. I have removed everything I can think of that would be toxic. Still the headache persists. Suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi Karen,

Welcome to the EIR forums!

Headaches and vertigo are common symptoms that have a wide range of causes. Have you had medical testing to rule everything else out?

Assuming you have. What do you use for heating, cooking etc? Have you tested for carbon monoxide?

Maff

I live in a hot desert so I use a swamp cooler. No more woodburning stove in winter--just warm wool clothing. No carpets, no car. Have dogs and cats. I have given up on doctors--they just prescribe more tests, and more CARSICKENING drives to city for tests. My husband has been giving me supplements for two months, so I have now stopped all those, thinking they may be too concentrated. I am also limiting computer use now. I have basically been bedridden for ten days with these blinding, excruciating frontal headaches and dizziness. My husband has been giving me coconut oil every six hours, and also magnesium--I have stopped this also today, getting back to ground zero. I have only been married five months, so thinking it is due to ADAPTATION I have decided to spend more time in my own cabin (100 yards away) with complete simplicity and not adapting to his time schedules, etc. Life has become too complex for me adapting to another person, after being totally alone in the desert for 20 years. I am certain this has added to TOTAL LOAD, but maybe not.

Sorry that you're in such a bad way at the moment. If you're feeling stressed by the change in circumstances, which is substantial if you have been living alone so long, then that could certainly be a trigger for the headaches.

I'm not a counsellor or psychologist but have you talked things through with your husband? I'm sure if you can come to some arrangement that suits you both and perhaps slowly adapt your lives to each other's then things will eventually resolve themselves.

It sounds like you have pretty much removed all the toxic chemicals from your life so not sure what else to suggest there without knowing more about your home and the area you live in.

The seriousness of your current symptoms has me worried so hopefully they are easing off a bit now. If not I really think you ought to see a doctor again.....and trust me, that's not something I have been fond of doing for a lot of my life either.

Best wishes and please let us know how you are getting on.

Thank you so much for your kind answer. It is so heart-wrenching I can't tell whether its reactions or psychology. I feel better in my own cabin tho' heartbroken. When someone raises his voice to me I hear tornadoes--it is multiplied a thousand fold. It makes me want to run away and never look back--I have enough to deal with every day. Headaches, nausea, sadness = that is from \"social\" psychology.