{"id":3876,"date":"2009-08-31T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2012-02-02T07:14:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T12:14:38","slug":"gwen-burkhardt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2009\/gwen-burkhardt\/","title":{"rendered":""I couldn\u2019t understand why I was suddenly feeling very unwell." (United Kingdom)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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—Gwen\u00a0Burkhardt, UK (reprinted from <\/span>WalesOnline.co.uk<\/span><\/a>, with appreciation)
\n<\/span>6\/6\/05<\/p>\n

There seems to be a great deal of controversy about the effect of wind turbine noises on human health.\u00a0 I can assure everyone who needs to know, that some people like myself have found it impossible to live near them.<\/p>\n

I had lived on our family farm for 27 years. I was living in the community where I grew up and where some of my family still live.\u00a0 We had invested a great deal of our time into our home, and had even built a retirement home for ourselves, the place where I wished to spend the rest of my life.<\/p>\n

However, in 2001, three massive wind turbines were erected within a mile of our home.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t very concerned about them, at the start.\u00a0 Having been in the best of health, thankfully, for most of my life, I couldn\u2019t understand why I was suddenly feeling very unwell for no apparent reason.\u00a0 Racing pulse, heart palpitations, a strange churning in my head, a feeling of nausea, a terrible unease and a need to escape. Sleep became difficult too.\u00a0 I visited my doctor on several occasions, but she found nothing.<\/p>\n

It took me about ten months to realise that there was a connection between my illness and the low-frequency noise emitting from the wind turbines.\u00a0 At first I realised that, when I was away from home, I suddenly felt \u201cnormal\u201d again, which was a wonderful feeling, believe me.<\/p>\n

I had suffered from tinnitus before this time and had been examined by a consultant at Glangwili Hospital. He gave me hearing tests and declared that I could hear very well, indeed especially in the low frequency range. Then I realised that when the turbines had their back towards me was when I felt most unwell.\u00a0 I kept a diary of my illness, and I wrote to my MP.<\/p>\n

I did not want to leave my home, but eventually, after talking to another woman who had suffered the same symptoms as me, living near other turbines, I eventually had to face the fact the wretched things were there to stay and that we would have to move.<\/p>\n

Now, 18 months later, after the trauma of leaving my home, I am again, thankfully, in the best of health.<\/p>\n

Low-frequency sound sufferers exist. I also suffer from the low sound emitted by aeroplanes.\u00a0 Before I can actually hear them I “feel” them approaching, then I hear them and then I “feel” them retreating.\u00a0 Like everyone else I spoke to living near wind turbines, I could not hear any noise at all in the conventional way, not any sound at all.<\/p>\n

I have no axe to grind in this argument, I simply left.\u00a0 But these wind turbines should not be built so near to people\u2019s homes.
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