Is using cell phone safe?

I get headaches while using a cell phone?

• I have had a cell phone for a few years; I am 13. I am THE opposite of a heavy user. I text moderately but always keep it away from my head. I NEVER talk more than a few minutes on my cell phone; I think the most I have ever talked is 15 minutes. However, while talking with the cell phone next to my ear, I get a faint headache, just barely noticeable to be annoying. It goes away a few minutes after using the cell phone. I am a worry wort, it's my personality, I have worried about having every disease under the sun when I had only one symptom. Sometimes there was NO way I could have gotten the disease but I still thought I had it. Right now I'm worrying that I have a brain tumor or brain cancer. I haven't gotten the cell phone induced headaches in awhile, mostly because I heard from a reliable source that they DO NOT cause cancer. That's not what I'm asking though. I don't want to know if I have an increased risk of cancer because of heavy cell use( because I don't use it heavily), I want to know if I already have a brain tumor/brain cancer and the headaches I get while using it is a sign. Also, whenever I talked on a phone, I kept thinking," Oh gosh I'm probably getting cancer as I speak" and then I would get a headache. Do you think it could be the placebo effect? I'm really freaking out about this, please help!! Thanks to everyone who answered!

• Answer:

  No, nearly all scientists, and I as well, believe that cell phones do NOT cause cancer. The reason is because cell phones do not have enough energy to damage your DNA. They are a form of non-ionizing radiation. At the end of the day, things happen in life, such that we can't always control life. Accidents happen, and that's just how life is. Oh yes, and the feeling that you're feeling is like a placebo. If I were to tell you that the hamburger you ate at McDonald's was actually rat meat, you'd probably start feeling sick, even though, it was just based on your own thoughts. You see how you can trick your mind into feeling icky about somethign? That's exactly how it is. The funny thing is, that non-ionized radiation CAN be felt by us, through heat and warmthness (light, cell phones, computer monitors). Ionizing radiation like X-rays, and CT Scans CANNOT be felt at all. You should be more concerned of the things you can't feel! You shouldn't be a hypochondriac (believing you're sick when you're not), because then you will grow up and be one of those adults that gets exposed to a lot of treatment, when you don't really need it. It'll do you more harm than good. Learn to accept life. The people who live to be 90 didn't do anything special to reach that age. Perhaps you need to re-evaluate how you view life. You know, I know you're concerned about life and it's all a mystery, but remember that you could die at any moment and everyone will leave this earth. Sometimes unexpected thing happen and you can't control it, so don't worry about it, so just learn to live life and make the best of it.