experience stomach inflammation/pain every time I use a laptop (even at a distance)

One more thought that occurred to me recently: try reducing the brightness of your Mac's display, if you haven't done that already.

Why? I notice nearly everyone watching me use a Mac immediately pokes at the keyboard to increase its brightness to the point it causes me discomfort. Although in my case it's strictly visual, if I were to use a display at brightness levels that high without sunglasses, who knows what other physiological effects it might cause.

They probably don't understand how I can use a screen that dim any more than I can understand how they could stare into something so bright.

This is not to diminish your concerns about EMF or other possible reasons for your discomfort. It's just a thought.

Hi, I understand, i did go to doctor but they could not find any issues and told me to reduce laptop exposure if that resolves the issues, ...

You: "It hurts when I do this."

Doctor: "Don't do that."

These days I have grown to have about as much confidence in "medical professionals" as I do "IT professionals". All the good ones I used to know have given up for being unwilling to play along with the status quo. Simply put your concerns will not be worth their time to address, which is usually allocated to them by non-medical authorities beyond their control.

Unfortunately you will need to become your own expert in these matters. It may seem like a waste of time, but you might want to contact Apple and report your experience, subjective as it may be. I did that a number of years ago with a MacBook Air whose display became visually uncomfortable after a software update. Whatever the anomaly may have been was not quantifiable, other than a sense of discomfort after using the Mac for maybe a half hour or more. Somewhat surprisingly they took an active interest in my report. It was addressed in a subsequent macOS update. Shortly thereafter Apple contacted me to ask if the changes they implemented were effective, and I reported they were. Case closed.

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I experience stomach inflammation, characterized by a prickly/burning pain, whenever I use most laptops, especially the newer models.

Thank you for any insights you can provide.

This would be a medical issue— consult a qualified doctor.

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What else are you doing while using your laptop? Conversely, when you refrain from using it, what are you doing instead?

I am not attempting to minimize or dismiss your concerns, but you appear to be seeking electromagnetic reasons for the symptoms you are experiencing, while the cause may be something else. It could be your posture while using the laptop, or something else you are doing (or not doing) while using it. You might be drinking too much coffee, or perhaps not enough. Whatever you're doing, you're doing for long periods of time — you wrote the symptoms appear within a few hours of computer use in one sitting, and that strikes me as way too much time. After all, if you're using a Mac, you're not outside enjoying some fresh air and sunshine. Everyone needs to get up and walk around for a while. Maybe that's every twenty minutes or a half hour, but in my admittedly inexpert opinion, even one hour of uninterrupted attention is too much.

These are admittedly simplistic and bad examples and I want to reiterate they probably do not describe your circumstances, which I have no way of knowing. All electronic appliances radiate some amount of energy. There is no escaping that fact. I merely want to draw your attention away from computers themselves as the sole source of your discomfort. Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't. There is no way for any of us to even speculate.

Perhaps this will help you to seek other possible causes for the discomfort you perceive.

You really need to make an appointment with a medical professional rather than seeking medical advice from anonymous users in an online forum.

lately, when any medical issues like this arise, the community support specialists will chime in with,

"be sure to contact Apple support about this issue!"

Official Apple Support

<< my intention was simply to bring the matter to their attention so they could conduct their own research with my input as necessary. >>

I expect they already have conducted reasonable resect, and concluded there is no threat to human health and well-being in any way.

Yours is the first and only instance of any such complaint seen here. So the next research to be done revolves around YOU, in a very central way.

Apple has just become fearful, typical of all large organizations that have attained such a high profile. Perhaps they will take your concerns to heart, or perhaps they will do exactly nothing unless you were to get a Certified Medical Professional to put his or her credibility on the line, which Apple would presumably attack. I know that's disappointing but it's hardly surprising.

Regarding those aforementioned Medical Professionals, they're not going to do a thing without plenty of prohibitively expensive diagnostic testing, all of which is certain to come up negative. Even if they do, they're not going to administer anything that cannot be put in a pill bottle or in a syringe.

A good, kind and experienced physician friend of mine explained that you can literally spend a million dollars on various tests and diagnostics, and they won't help. Two million dollars. Doesn't matter. Western medicine is beyond fixing at this point. He gave up on it a while ago.

Me too everytime I’m on my iPhone I get this pain in my stomach goes away when not using my phone but soon as I’m on it pain is back it’s been happening for about year now and when I charge it and use it then it gets worse burning tingling stabbing pains I am researching into this what ever I find I will get back to you.

Last night but not the first night I was laying on my back the couch playing on the phone . So the phone I have it propped on my chest right by my rib cage and my stomach going through the phone watching movies doing whatever I do and then the paging start getting hot or I can feel radiation or some type of heat coming through the bottom of the phone where the charger goes and the speakers are at. I move the phone off my body cause I feel burning sensation but now my chest/stomach is in so much pain it lasted for about 2hrs. Then I went to sleep and this morning I still feel it very very slightly but I seem ok but that’s crazy and weird