numbness in left hand after holding phone

And as my mentor says, the only dumb question is the one not asked.

modular747 wrote:

There's a negative placebo also, and this is what you're experiencing...

Nocebo response.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

I got numbness and tingling from my ipad. You are not crazy. The EMFs are screwing with your body. I use a Q-neclace to prevent the RF. It helps for external electricity but with the ipad and iphone you have to touch it to get it to work and since your body is electric, this added electricity is causing problems for you and for me and for thousands. Apple is well aware of it and let me return the ipad. It was so bad that it was waking me up at night.

BertieS wrote:

Has anyone experienced any numbness in their hand after holding the phone?

Don't waste it,

I'm sure there's a good use for a Numb Hand 😉

I think your tin-foil hat is a little too tight...

I have definitely been plagued by numbness, and pain in my left hand palm and middle finger, and my right hand palm and ring finger. The fingers lock into trigger finger position, and it is severely painful to have to straighten them out with the other hand. This has been going on for about 4 months, and I have visited both my regular internal medicine physician, and a bone specialist. They both referred me to a hand surgeon. This condition has been defined as trigger fingers and iPhone3g Tendonitis (a well known hand problem), the surgery is very painful, and the recovery time quite long (about 4 months). Right now I am sleeping in wrist braces, and I take Ibuprophen about 3 or 4 times per day, 800 mg. Don't really know if it is Apple's to fix, but they do encourage that we build our lives around our iPhones and iPads. I hate what this is doing to our society, especially our young people whose iPhone and computer time needs to be severely limited. I have noticed young people using their iPhones in restaurants while with their dates or families. Sometimes they are texting each other! My Granddaughters have been sending and receiving approximately 3,000 texts per month. No more though, their parents have put their footsdown! Face-to-face conversations are almost non-existent. Sign of the times, I hope not. There is nothing like a group of people talking about facinating subjects.

I experience this problem, tingling/numbness from just holding the phone after a few minutes. Most of my usage is reading the phone while holding in my left hand and the tingling is in my hand just below my little finger. I had the problem with my iphone 4, but it is worse with my iphone 5. More powerul radiation perhaps? I'm trying to put the phone on a table to read it now but thats not always possible. I do notice my ipad 2 does this as well but not as bad. It often feels numb tingling for a day or so after if i have held the phone for a while, so as you can inagine, unless I rake an intentional break from the phone, i get it a lot. Why are there so many people who say we are imagining this? Just because it hasn't affected you doesn't mean it isn't happening. It's a known fact mobile phones emit microwave radiation. So why is it such a stretch to think it migjt be affecting our hand?

I just got an iPad mini about a month ago, and I have noticed some uncomfortable sensations in my arms while using it. It's really humming away on the LTE netowrk, and you can feel it.

I am surprised how many people are using this forum to condescend to 'tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists' and spread misinformation. We are just people, asking a question. Is anyone else out there experiencing what I am experiencing? It appears that the answer is yes. Living in denial is unproductive.

I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how to reduce these numbness/tingling sensations when loading content? For example, any specific case designs you have used that helped? I really like my iPad, but I find it painful to enjoy the best content at high speeds!