I have expereinced this, nearly exactly where the phone normally is in my pocket.

I never thought anything of it. Wow, seriously.


I have hardly used a cell phone, but I definitely don't agree with the "muscle memory theory" all in my head stuff.

I lean more towards high frequency nerve damage in my leg, causing the muscle to randomly twitch when my phone isn't in my pocket, it might happen 10 times in one day, and then not happen for a month.

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It's psychological. Just like when I reach back and feel my back right pocket whether my wallet is there or not...it feels like it's there. If you carried your phone in your shirt pocket, then you would likely begin to feel the vibrating on your chest...It's all in the mind.

Just my 2-cents

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I think that you may be suffering early stages of sciatica.
A typical symptom of this condition is a buzzing sensation running down the right thigh,due to the sciatic nerve becoming trapped or pinched.

Careful, There is no limit to what "Big Phona" will do to keep this quiet.

I experience this phenomenon on a regular basis.

In the interest of science and the furtherance of human understanding, I am going to fashion for myself an unprecedented sort of 'front-pocket', whereby I will suspend my phone from the part of my pants where the legs are sewn together, toward the top.

I shall do this in hopes of eventually re-locating these phantom vibrations to a place where they will seem less intrusive, or perhaps even enjoyable.

anyone interested in purchasing one of my prototype pockets, please send ten pounds to my home address. i will post the results of my experimentation, and perhaps a series of instructive photographs, when sufficient data is available.

happens to me all the time even when my phone isnt on my person....i thought i was crazy

I've had this exact thing too. I keep my cell phone in my left pocket, always, and only get it in my left leg. I have to say it's very realistic.

Happens to me as well, all this time I just thought it was all the nerve damage from the military. I've noticed it happens no matter where I had the phone, same with others around me. From what I've seen it doesn't matter if you live on your cell phone or barley use it. I haven't had a active cell phone for close to 4 months and I'll still get the sensation once or twice a week.

Originally posted by GobbledokTChipeater
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD!

As soon as you check your phone and realise it isn't ringing (or even in your pocket) then the vibrating stops, right?

It's like when you think you hear your phone ringing so you concentrate and listen harder for a bit and realise it isn't. And no that isn't caused by EMI.

Sorry no.
I had a Motorola flip phone that I would keep in my breast pocket. I would get these vibrations in my chest even while just wearing a t-shirt while looking at my phone on a table next to me (that was not ringing). The "buzzing" didn't stop until it was ready.

Have since gotten another phone and have not had the problem for a while.

It is strange to say the least, but I am inclined to think it has something to do with muscle memory and the strength of the phone.

Then again, what do I know.

Originally posted by Doc Holiday
The 50 or so of us @ work talk of this often and we call it the phantom phone...

Lol, that's a great name for it!

Ramachandran should look into this!

I usually only get it a few moments before my phone goes off if it's not on my person.

I just chalked it up to being cancer starting up.

I believe this is a cellular anomaly! lol on many levels...

I know that my leg started vibrating like that where I keep my phone about 5-6 years after I first started using a cell. I almost always use the vibrate feature on my phone, even when the sound is on, just in case I can't hear it. So I think that the vibration cause the cells in my leg (muscle cells) are vibrating through training.

This is pretty amazing. All five of us in my nuclear family experience this, or did for a time this summer. It has stopped for me, but not for the rest. I've decided to get rid of my mobile - not because of this though, although I'm happy to include it as yet another good reason to do so!

Things are getting weird, aren't they? I think we need to get rid of some of our tech. It's too invasive. We're losing our lives to it.

In 2000 I had a Motorola cell fone, and was coordinating an event for a few days where I was using it a great deal, at the end of the first day (using it in my left hand as usual) I had a headache behind by left ear.

I mentioned it to my friends and wondered if it could be the cell phone...they laughed at me.

The next day I used it with my right hand.

And damned if I did not get a headache behind my right ear!

I now rarely use them at all, and when I need to use them a bit, i use a blue tooth headset (very low RF strength) and keep the handset away from my head.
I have experienced no symptoms with the bluetooth. I now consider cell fones toxic...I have been in electronics field my whole life so perhaps I have grown allergic...






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yes I have experienced this, I thought I was going crazy, kinda glad to hear other people are experiencing this too.

On a related subject, I've also noticed, sometimes I can hear my girlfriend nagging at me, even when my phone is on the desk.

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Yep... I have had 'phantom phone calls' to my upper left leg plenty of times, never had it before I used a cell phone.

Might be something like phantom limb pain?

Yes!
and i thought i was going nuts! top right of the thigh...