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They put a new cell tower up by my office. I’ve noticed I’ve started getting headaches and brain fog more and more. Something I use to never get. I’ve also noticed arthritis in my hands, especially when I use my cell phone. Unfortunately my office does have a WiFi box right under my desk so that does not help matters. Everyday I can’t wait to clock out just so I can go home turn all the lights out and lay down. I know it’s the insane amount of emf I’m exploded to while working because on weekends and when I’m on vacation I do not experience this.

Thank you for seeking public input on RF/EMF exposure and human health. I support a transparent, independent review of the scientific evidence, with particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations. I encourage HHS to prioritize the following: - Clearly distinguish established health effects from preliminary findings, inconsistent results, and unanswered questions. - Evaluate long-term exposure and realistic exposure patterns in homes, schools, workplaces, and communities. - Assess whether current safety standards adequately address children’s exposure and identify the evidence supporting any recommended changes. - Compare U.S. and international standards, explaining the scientific reasons for differences. - Support high-quality research with transparent methods, disclosure of funding sources, and independent replication. - Provide practical, affordable guidance for families and schools, including whether exposure-reduction measures offer demonstrated health benefits. Public guidance should explain both what the evidence shows and its limitations. It should avoid overstating either harm or safety and help people make informed decisions without unnecessary fear. The goal should be clear, accessible recommendations grounded in the strongest available evidence, alongside a concrete plan to address remaining research gaps.

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I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of my own experience as well as 2 of my children. For myself I suffered for almost 4 years before finally making the correlation of my symptoms with cell phone towers and boosters cities have put up. I noticed every time I drove through certain areas of our city I'd get what felt like an electric jolt go through my arms and I'd be left with relentless fatigue. I now have to avoid areas of my city where cell signals are boosted as my body immediately feels the unpleasant jolts. I live in constant paranoia driving around town and especially to other cities knowing I may get these electric jolts going through my arms and then left with horrible fatigue. Doctors do not know what to do with me, I was told by one physician to "just move out to the country" which is easier said than done especially when I'm dealing with 2 special needs kids at home who need services. Both of my special needs kids struggle with EMF's, it's very clear when they have had way too much exposure via at school, malls, city parks w/cell towers etc... My son gets extremely agitated very easily and becomes self-injurious as well as depressed. When my daughter is exposed to everyday EMF exposures her POTS/MCAS and Ehlers-Danlos all collide into a nightmare. She sweats horribly, she is overly stimulated and can't get her words out her energy goes way down to the point she can't stand, she has to sit and her dizzy spells leave her crying on the floor. She too also gets really depressed when EMF's are too high like her brother. We have had to spend so much money trying different devices and clothing that claims to repel EMF's but when it's a constant bombardment life is never enjoyable, we are just trying to survive each day. I am fearful for 6G being rolled out as I fear its may land one of my children in the hospital which is riddled with EMF's and what that could do to either of them and their already weakened bodies. We have no help, no support and nothing is regulated which HAS to change and not years from now, TODAY, PLEASE!!!

I have the worst digestive issues and I have exponential exposure to emf through the phone, hotspot, and through the electric towers on the powerline that I'm only 100 ft from. I generally don't have stomach issues when I'm out and about so much unless it's something really bad, but when I'm anywhere with high emf, my digestive symptoms are increased. I also had a infectious step bacteria in a building that had ungrounded/faulty outlets I could feel something funky in the building like it was buzzing. The strep became resistant to all antibiotics. Also was right next to several businesses and police precinct that most likely was using radio waves and advanced wifi. I can note that my symptoms are much less when I am away from everything out in the woods or away from a bunch of electronics, and when I leave my phone in the other room I do seem to have better stomach and digestive ability. I would like to know more about the possibility of the emf contribu to my quite disabling digestive disease, and what could actually block or limit the exposure if it is contributing to destroying my biota and enhancing bad bacteria?!

I came down with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) in October 2008, at the age of 61. It was sudden: I was moving into HUD elder housing in Cambridge, MA, between Harvard and MIT, into an apartment on the ninth floor. At the time, I knew nothing about EHS. But I have since learned that high floors, including the ninth, are generally more exposed to cell tower and urban repeater antenna wireless radiation than are lower floors. I have also learned that the tipping point, from not having EHS to having EHS, is often sudden, as it was in my case. I was sitting at the large window of my new apartment, looking at the view, and after about 20 minute I noticed that I felt like I had been on my cell phone for over an hour. So I moved away from the window. I didn't think much of it, until I tried to use my cell phone, and it felt like one side of my head went higher and the other half went lower, like my head had become a split-level. And it felt like my brain was in the grip of an iron fist, and I could barely think or see straight. I waited for some hours and tried my cell phone again, with the same result. Then I waited a few days and tried again: same result. I soon became sensitive to computers as well. Now, 18 years later, I can use a fully wired (no wi-fi) computer, for two to three hours per week, but still cannot use a cell phone. I am also sensitive to smart meters. I have lived in rural Arizona since 2012. This has helped, but cell towers, smart meters, etc. have been closing in at an accelerating pace, even here, and at ever-higher frequencies (5G plus) And so new symptoms have been appearing, such as "surges" that mimic going in and out of overstimulated parasympathetic nervous system. I have discussed this with an MD, who confirms that this is what it sounds like. I feel affected by cell tower radiation a good deal of the time, with symptoms ranging from skin and eye irritation, burning, and even redness of skin and eyes, to "brain fog", dizziness, and a feeling like a spike is going up my spine. I became ill with EHS at a later age than most. I know people whose productive lives were brought to a halt by this illness when they were in their 30s and 40s, mid-career. Other EHS-afflicted acquaintances have committed suicide. I have letters from my doctor in Cambridge, Christina C. Wee, MD, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, in my support reporting my self-reported symptoms, and from doctors in Arizona. One of these MDs, Kristi Mattson, has confirmed my EHS disability at a functional level. But there is no way for a doctor to officially diagnose this illness or even test for it at an official level, because there has been virtually no funding of any serious research that takes into account that different people are sensitive to different wavelengths, and examination rooms must be fully shielded and devoid of wavelengths that can confuse the issue. (For example, I am much more sensitive to kilohertz than to FM radio megahertz.) Thus, establishments of all kinds have preferred to call this illness "idiopathic", a dog-whistle word for "all in the head". They used to say this about other illnesses, such as epilepsy, lupus, etc. I hope this comment period signals a change in attitude, and serious consideration of this emerging illness. Thank you very much.

We turn our WiFi off at night because it impacts my husbands sleep. If we sit in the couch that is near the WiFi router when it is on we both get head aches and just feel off . We choose to keep it off unless we really need to use it because it impacts how we feel immediately if we are too close to.

Dear Secretary Kennedy, Thank you for the opportunity to address this issue. After receiving a letter from Google that all my internet activity for the past 5 years had been sent to the government, I noticed other happenings such as break-ins, trackers on my car, surveillance, a "hot" cell phone, clicking on the telephone line and the same people following me out of state. I was poisoned, my dog was aggressively poisoned and killed. I was then doxed as well as my elderly father and family; with a smear campaign online. It was horrific. After death threats I was grazed on the forehead by a bullet from a rifle. ( I saw him, know of him and the police ignored my witness too). I believe this was all due to becoming an accidental witness to corporate and governmental fraud. Soon, I began to notice a vibration going through my entire body which made me ill with vomiting and spontaneous nose bleeds. Often I was dizzy. Once I flew out of bed after being hit with what I believe was an LRAD, due to my response to it. Now, the assaults are different than that and frequent. All that started in 2016. I am omitting a great deal of details; but I believe this is sufficient. Today I still suffer these assaults. Relocating does not stop it. I am unsteady walking now and have blurred vision. Often I experience a "head swell" like pressure accompanied by a sharp, painful ring to my ear. My sleep is disrupted and very poor; I am forgetting descriptive words and names. Unless you are able to stop this activity; I assume I will continue to deal with this the rest of my life and eventually go blind or die early of cancer. Thank you again for helping Americans.

As a private citizen with a Master of Science dual major in Analytical Chemistry and Biochemistry and a BS with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Biology. I am continually seeking ways to minimize my family’s exposure to environmental RF/EMFs. Following is a brief history of RF/EMF in my life, Followed by a simple request that can aid the informed in their efforts to mitigate the dangers. After 76 years of exposure to RF/EMF ranging from the workplace (i.e., ZMT operator in an early summer job to full room computers as a research scientist at the National Bureau of Standards) to the purchase of a 100+year retirement home with knob and tube wiring and magnetic field readings (prior to mitigation) exceeding 90 nanotesla. After a lifetime of over exposure to electromagnetic fields, I am now hypersensitive to excess RF/EMFs. With shielding and RF mitigation in my house and particularly my bedroom, I can get a full nights restorative sleep. All around me I see evidence that our memories and thinking are being short circuited My elderly neighbour had a mandated RF water meter installed underneath his bedroom; it has been less than a month and now he is complaining about memory lapses - coincidence? Maybe? However one of the know effects of radio-waves is sleep and thinking disruption. On the way home today I saw two young school aged children just getting out of school both were sitting on the sidewalk; the first one was hanging his head and staring at their hands and the second one was a couple of blocks away staring blankly into space. REQUEST: I cannot change my world when it is so far out of kilter from normal, but I can ask for one thing that will make life safer for those of us who can take steps to protect themselves: Please change the National electric codes so that I can purchase and install Shielded 110 wire in my home’s 110 Volt circuits. I have heard that shielded wire may be available in Europe? However, my electrician in North Dakota cannot purchase/install 110 Volt wire that will not emanate electric and magnetic fields into my personal home. Note: HHS should provide advice to the public so that they may take steps to reduce RF/EMFs in their homes. For example, Edward Leeper ’s “Silencing The Fields, A practical guide to reducing AC magnetic fields. (2001).

I'm an individual and commenting on my experience with wireless and 5G. I have fiber optic wireless in my home and shut the router off at night. I cannot sleep at night with it on because my chest constricts, my breathing becomes labored, I toss and turn, I'm tired, but wired, I feel like I'm having an anxiety attack. I found that out the hard way staying over night at my Mom's and after telling her I didn't sleep at all she said my closet is where the wifi router is located. My thinking is more aggitated and less clear in a 5G environment which is hard not to be in these days - even in nature!! Some things I've used to cope is Biogeometry L90 penant. Extremely useful. I tested it at a house that had 5G and didn't get any of the anxiety type symptoms. I recommend looking into Dr. Ibrahim Karim who developed Biogeometry and used it successfully in a Swiss town that was having mental and physical health issues including the animals: https://www.biogeometry.ca/electrosmog-the-miracle-of-hemberg. He could retrofit all cell towers, smart homes, electric cars, and so forth with his technology to not only harmonize it but make it beneficial to all forms of life. The other thing I use is called a Rest Shield developed by Ken Rohla. His technology works and would be an excellent resource to enlist for help. He may be hesitant because his life gets threatened every time he brings technology forward that is healing to life.