{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-6343","name":"Elizabeth Vindenes","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-28T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","body":"I have been hyper electrosensitive since 2018, though symptoms started in 2014 with severe and frequent respiratory infections and finally ending with severe tinnitus and fatigue. Initially I thought it was stress related, but looking back I see that symptoms started when wi-fi was introduced at my work, as well as at home. I changed to a less demanding job, worked out, ate healthily (as I always have tried to), but still my immune system was playing up. When the smart-meter was installed on my bedroom wall, I started waking up with nausea, headaches and rashes, symptoms that tended to subside somewhat some hours later. These acute symptoms made me understand the connection to the RF exposure. I moved my bedroom a floor up, cabled my PC and thought I was safe. However, a few months later I got severe tinnitus, robbing me of my sleep and making it hard to concentrate. I took sick leave from my office job as an IT consultant and bought myself an RF-measuring tool so I could measure the RF exposure at work: I found that it was 100 times worse at work than at home. In the end I had to leave my job and profession. However I started educating myself as a naturopath in 2018, and have since been 'taking my own natural medicine', and have gotten better. \nMy family reacted in disbelief, telling me it was 'nocebo'; my fear of RF signals that was the cause. They still think so. My employer doubted my symptoms and fought with lawyers to give me notice in a legal way. Today I live partially on benefits, and have a small income as a (heavily taxated) naturopath.\nI am a board member of \"Folkets Strålevern\" in Norway (\"The People's Radiation Protection\"), and we work to inform politicians and the community about the negative effects of RF exposure, backing it with the overwhelming amount of studies showing these. To us it is evident that the authorities are hiding behind the international group ICNIRP; their official limits and the cherry-picked studies they use to assure the people that there is no harm: Studies measuring heating injuries are approved but no studies showing other biological effects, such as those on the nervous system, blood and circulation, our cells and oxidative stress etc. We hope that this US initiative will also help people all over the world to protect our children and all citizens.\n","source_hash":"47453d65a9d45c7b52e29c5625b1f944f25519fae43474084552b90044b73051","filing_type":"","proceedings":"","captured_at":"","source_name":"","number":"6343","withheld":false,"attachment_inventory":true,"capture_reviewed":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-6343","slug":"child-development-comment-6343","tags":[],"attachments":[],"attachment_names":[],"classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-6343","body_sha256":"275b0eaf98c8d79ed8ee55b05a4febf3eb75d8c2d196250393610c0b1be725ec","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"ehs","topics":[{"id":"ehs","evidence":"I have been hyper electrosensitive since 2018, though symptoms started in 2014 with severe and freq"},{"id":"smart-meters","evidence":"ll my immune system was playing up. 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