Thread: Harmful wireless mouses (possibly)

Hi all,
I want to post this up to see if anyone else has experienced what I have without knowing the cause?

For the past 5 years I have had a Logitech wireless mouse I purchased and brought over from the States, I loved the freedom and the more precise feel of being wireless but since I purchased it I have spent much more time on my computer as well than ever before..

After several months i developed a very uncomfortable and annoying cracking on the three primary fingers used to operate a mouse and just on the inside of my ring finger at the tip where it also contacts the mouse..

I never gave it much thought in regards to the mouse and had no idea what was causing this at the time and used every kind of cream and lotion possible but could only use them at night as otherwise everything got slimy and was too slippery to use..

I asked several doctors if they had an idea and they all just said "allergy" or "something I touched" which I knew was BS since it was no where else, didn't travel and never went away, but it was becoming almost debilitating as it was very rough, dry and cracked and even opened up and sometimes bled as well as being super sensitive but the skin was thickened and stiff, not pliable at all, almost smooth plastic feel..

I finally found a cracked heel cream that gave me some relief but it never really went away.. I had a job for a short period of time last year where I hardly had time to use the computer at all and it cleared up almost completely. I got my finger prints back (which you have no idea how useful they are until you can't pick up a frigging piece of paper or hold onto a cup or glass) and my primary fingers were so rough previously it felt like sand paper...

approximately a week or so ago I was thinking about this again and after looking more closely it dawned on me that the pattern of skin damage virtually outlined my finger position on my wireless mouse! I thought back to my time off the computer and it was too much coincidence so I decided to install a connected mouse to see what happens and now my fingers have shown great improvement and have nearly healed entirely with my finger prints returning too...

After thinking more about this as I thought before this mouse operates on radio waves and my fingers are in virtually constant contact so that can't be good even at low doses given the amount of exposure and I'm now certain it was the problem all along..it makes one question even more so the heavy use of mobile phones....I hope it hasn't done something else even more harmful I don't know about in my future...