Headache from iPad

[Hugh Mility O'Kelly]

I have found I get headaches from the iPad when I fall asleep. The reason for this is the lithium battery and your resistance is lower when you're asleep . I have also proved that this is the case .

 

[Hugh Mility O'Kelly]

Have you had this problem with lithium batteries?

 

[giradman]

I have found I get headaches from the iPad when I fall asleep. The reason for this is the lithium battery and your resistance is lower when you're asleep . I have also proved that this is the case .

Hello Hugh - welcome to the forum! Unfortunately, you've responded to nearly a 5 year-old thread which will not receive the attention deserved and likely will be closed. I could make a few comments but post(s) may disappear w/ closure - I would suggest that you start a new thread in an appropriate forum and elaborate more on your headache issue; also, tell us which iPad you own and the iOS installed - on recent devices/iOS, a new feature called Night Shift can be activated which might help w/ eyestrain and sleep issues. Dave

 

[J. A.]

@Hugh Mility O'Kelly
I've moved your posts and replies to them to an own thread, where your problem will receive more attention.

Do you have the iPad close to you when you're sleeping?

 

[Hugh Mility O'Kelly]

When i get the headaches I usually fall asleep with the iPad in my hand. I had another device with lithium batteries and I put it in the bin in three days it was so bad. I then went to a specialist and told her what was wrong,she did not believe me until she tested me. Lithium in the back left of my head.Left side. Its an iPad 2 air 64 latest software

 

[giradman]

When i get the headaches I usually fall asleep with the iPad in my hand. I had another device with lithium batteries and I put it in the bin in three days it was so bad. I then went to a specialist and told her what was wrong,she did not believe me until she tested me. Lithium in the back left of my head.Left side. Its an iPad 2 air 64 latest software

Hi again Hugh - looks like you have a thread created - good! Now, I cannot address the 'lithium' issue; just seems difficult to imagine the light metal leaching from an iPad, if that is the implication from the above?

Now, reading an iDevice in bed and falling asleep w/ your iPad in an odd position of your head/neck could certainly contribute to the headaches/neck aches - plenty of hits on the web for this issue over the years - but just for one check HERE. Of course, a test would be not to read the iPad in bed for a few days or so to see if the problem(s) improves or disappears. If you must read in the bed, then google 'iPad reading bed holders' - dozens of hits - did a screen capture of just a page of many below - let us know your thoughts. Good luck - Dave
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[Thomas1977]

Technically you should not be using electronics right before you fall a sleep I often hear people say.

 

[giradman]

Thomas has a point on a debated topic over the years; previously, I gave a link to one of Apple's newer technologies called Night Shift which changes the color tone of the display from a bluer 'daylight' color to a warmer yellow one - check the additional link, if interested; it is available on my Apple computers and iDevices, but have not given it a try yet. Dave

 

[scifan57]

When i get the headaches I usually fall asleep with the iPad in my hand. I had another device with lithium batteries and I put it in the bin in three days it was so bad. I then went to a specialist and told her what was wrong,she did not believe me until she tested me. Lithium in the back left of my head.Left side. Its an iPad 2 air 64 latest software

Lithium-ion batteries contain very little lithium which is not in a metallic form. the health risks are considered quite minor although you shouldn't handle leaking or damaged batteries without taking proper precautions.

 

[brixtonboy]

Just read through the link from giradman post 7 must admit it had me sitting up straight away.
We seem to forget that when the iPad is on the low table and you sit on the sofa,how you can slouch over within about 15 minutes. Got backache now, thanks for that

 

[Brian 244]

Tinfoil may help block the effects of the Lithium.

 

[Hugh Mility O'Kelly]

I love my iPad. I use it much too much. What I do like is to have my favourite radio station on when I'm drifting off to sleep. As long as my wife catches me within the first 15 minutes then I won't wake up with a headache but if it's allowed to run for an hour and she comes to bed late I always get a headache in the exactly the same place in the morning. So with this I had it tested and it was found I had an overdose of lithium. Conventional doctors are not remotely interested and look at your very strangely when you report this . But I know for a fact it is Lithium and I have had the iPad For over a year now so I've had lots of opportunity to test when I do when I don't get these headaches . No..... it's not eye strain nor is it where I have my pillows etc

 

[Hugh Mility O'Kelly]

Tinfoil may help block the effects of the Lithium.

Thanks, I'll try it.

 

[giradman]

I love my iPad. I use it much too much. What I do like is to have my favourite radio station on when I'm drifting off to sleep. As long as my wife catches me within the first 15 minutes then I won't wake up with a headache but if it's allowed to run for an hour and she comes to bed late I always get a headache in the exactly the same place in the morning. So with this I had it tested and it was found I had an overdose of lithium..... But I know for a fact it is Lithium and I have had the iPad For over a year now so I've had lots of opportunity to test when I do when I don't get these headaches . No..... it's not eye strain nor is it where I have my pillows etc

Hi again Hugh - let me just be a 'devil's advocate' (also a retired physician and have a relative on 'lithium carbonate' for a mild bipolar disorder) - from your posts, the scenario you are presenting is that the lithium ion battery from your iPad is leaching ionic lithium that your body is absorbing, and by this cutaneous process, your tested blood lithium levels are elevated - is that correct or am I misinterpreting your comments? I can take this further if desired but will await your response - just trying to understand exactly what you're thinking.

As a potential solution, do you really need to sleep w/ your iPad to listen to the radio station? I've listen to music on my iPad and also music streamed to the device from Spotify or Amazon via a BT speaker, BT headphones, and also cabled to my bedroom radio through the AUX port; thus no close body contact w/ the iPad. Dave

 

[Hugh Mility O'Kelly]

I will do my best to tell you the whole story.
It began when I got a very serious headache from gas. It took me 11 months to find out exactly what it was.
It was the vanadium in the gas which caused the problem. According to the National Grid there is no vanadium in gas. Except that they clean the methane with vanadium brushes or something like that.
I got no joy at all from the local doctors. But the consultant said that I knew a great deal more than he did, The reason being is that I spent a long time looking it up. You will find little or no information on vanadium in the net. The interesting thing is the pain in my head was always exactly in the in the same place.

Much later I bought a speaker ,cheap one, Bluetooth and within a very short time I had a bad headache, surprisingly the same place . So I place a bit further away, and no headache . I guessed it was the lithium battery for there is not much more than that in the speaker and hence the same with the iPad .

Fortunately I know someone who can cure most things and cured my wife with severe contact dermatitis which conventional medicine couldn't do . I also had a problem for 25 years which she managed to solve in 20 minutes. Even though I am very sceptical on alternative medicine with everything we had wrong with this she simply fix it. I was highly impressed. It is called bio resonance .

The problem I find is that conventional medicine is not yet at the stage where it recognises these problems . You may not be aware yet but 'smart meters' are a particular danger . Sorry for going on so long but that is the whole story .

When your body is asleep your resistance is lower and hence more susceptible to radio frequencies etc.