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I am submitting my experience with EMFS. I have become sensitive to EMF, RF and wireless radiation after my then husband bought an electric car. The more and more I was in this car the worse headaches I got. I also began to struggle to find the words when speaking and felt heart palpitations. However I soon also began to experience headache when on my mobile phone. I couldn't speak to anyone for more than 5 mins or the side of my face and head felt burning and the headache was intense. I also now also get tingling feeling in my fingers if I use a touchscreen on wifi. I have had to change my home to ethernet connection as I can no longer tolerate the symptoms. I have to avoid busy places both inside and outside due to the amount of mobile phones around me. I cannot go and enjoy life, see friends etc. This has really hampered my ability to live and normal life. I cannot go into an electric vechical. My local authority has replaced the public buses with EV buses which I cannot access. This is a disability and should be seen as such. There are thousands of studies showing non-thermal effects of radiation. You need to stop putting the money and lobbying from telecoms before the actual evidence.

Laptop power supply EMF exceeds regulatory limits. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22315933/ "Exposure to electromagnetic fields from laptop use of "laptop" computers" "Abstract Portable computers are often used at tight contact with the body and therefore are called "laptop." The authors measured electromagnetic fields (EMFs) laptop computers produce and estimated the induced currents in the body, to assess the safety of laptop computers. The authors evaluated 5 commonly used laptop of different brands. They measured EMF exposure produced and, using validated computerized models, the authors exploited the data of one of the laptop computers (LTCs) to estimate the magnetic flux exposure of the user and of the fetus in the womb, when the laptop is used at close contact with the woman's womb. In the LTCs analyzed, EMF values (range 1.8-6 μT) are within International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation (NIR) Protection (ICNIRP) guidelines, but are considerably higher than the values recommended by 2 recent guidelines for computer monitors magnetic field emissions, MPR II (Swedish Board for Technical Accreditation) and TCO (Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees), and those considered risky for tumor development. When close to the body, the laptop induces currents that are within 34.2% to 49.8% ICNIRP recommendations, but not negligible, to the adult's body and to the fetus (in pregnant women). On the contrary, the power supply induces strong intracorporal electric current densities in the fetus and in the adult subject, which are respectively 182-263% and 71-483% higher than ICNIRP 98 basic restriction recommended to prevent adverse health effects. Laptop is paradoxically an improper site for the use of a LTC, which consequently should be renamed to not induce customers towards an improper use"

1. & 2. I am responding as: an individual 3a. Type of wireless or RF/EMF sources involved (e.g., mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters…)Mobile phone; Wi-fi; Bluetooth. 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):Sensitivity to RF/EMF started about 10 years ago. 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:Headache; heart palpitation; raised blood pressure; just generally unwell suddenly. 3d. Time from first exposure to first appearance of adverse health effects; and did a change in exposure coincide with the onset of adverse effects:I bought a loud speaker UE in 2017 to listen to You tube music in a confined room. During 2017 I experienced a few episodes of vomiting of unknown reasons. Early 2018 I was very ill, had to resign from my day job. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis?After about 10 weeks, I recovered from my illness and that was when I started to experience the EMF symptoms but no diagnosis from my doctor until I came across the later Arthur Furstenberg's book then I realized the cause. 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects?I have to wear SYB anti-EMF scarf whenever I go in big shopping mall to prevent headache. If I fail to have it on my head, Headache comes on as soon as I step intyo the shopping mall. I use SYB anti-EMF sling bag to carry my mobile and carry the same bag whenever I sit in front of the computer or my mobile to protect my heart. 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information:I did book an expert on EMF to measure inside and outside of the flat where I lived but I cannot recall where I stored his report. Additional Details you would like to share about your experiences of adverse health effects you believe to be associated with exposure to wireless radiation or EMF's:Regardless what other people who fortunate enough not to suffer from the negative effect of EMF, have to say. To me it is real because my body shows its existence. B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects:Mobile phone, any devices use Bluetooth, computer B1b. Sources you can sense, but don't seem to harm you:If I can sense it, the symptoms follow. B1c. Sources you can use without sensing or being harmed:Can't think of any? B1d. Sources that seem to provide benefit (i.e., electrotherapy):Can't think of anything that can provide benefit other than those anti-EMF products? B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless:Headache; heart palpitation; raised blood pressure; just generally unwell suddenly. B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant:Weight gain B3. For each subquestion please list up to 5 drugs or therapies or home remedies (if any) B3a. That you recommend, as they helped you tolerate or recover from EMF exposure:Heavy metal detox especially aluminum. B3b. That you recommend, but you’re not positive that they help:Can't think of any. B3c. That helped you but you don’t recommend. (e.g., the benefit did not last long or the side effects were too harmful):Not treatments but some anti-EMF devices don't work as they claim. B3d. Treatments that had no effect:Didn't have any treatments. B3e. Treatments that made your sensitivity worse:75+ B4. What is your age range?75+ B5. What year did you become aware of your sensitivity to wireless radiation or electromagnetic fields?2018, I think? B6. What country, state, province, or major city were you living in when you first noticed your sensitivity to wireless or electromagnetic fields?Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891061815000952?via%3Dihub "...Young children and skull thickness is very thin. Therefore, EMF absorption rate is higher in children and adolescents compared to the adults (Fig. 9). The radiation penetrates the skull of adult (25%), young (50%) and a 5 year old (75%)."

since 4g started I hear a metallic sound around my ears/head. Before it was completely silent in the forest, but not anymore.

I have had diagnosed ME/CFS since January 2017. Since 1998, I have had idiopathic chronic fatigue. I am writing as a patient to record my experiences of adverse effects resulting from exposure to RF/EMF. 1. CT SINUS -- PERMANENT DISABLEMENT: In September 2015 I was unable to tolerate the chemicals in a newly built Mirvac unit. As a result I was sent for a CT sinus by an immunologist. I believe the scan was performed twice in the one sitting. In the days immediately after the scan, I had a feeling of a burn in a band around my head just above the ears. I got two styes at once, one on each eye. It became hard for me to focus my vision, even though I had never had vision problems previously. I entered deep fatigue for two weeks, then gradually felt better. I had pain in my eyes, which gradually worsened over months. My cognition at first seemed faster, then I had cognitive decline over several months. The pain in my eyes and my cognition gradually worsened over the following year. By month 14, I was making frequent serious errors at work. At month 16, in January 2017, I suddenly became unable to work and then, roughly a week later, unable to walk. I had no doubt then and still have no doubt now that these ongoing, worsening symptoms were related to the scan. After leaving the flat because I could no longer work, over the following two and a half years I gradually re-learnt the ability to walk, then went back to work one day a week. Now I am able to work three days a week. Leaving the flat helped me recover but very serious lifelong damage was caused by the CT scan. I may unusually sensitive to ionising radiation. 2. MOBILE PHONE AND BLUETOOTH -- PAIN: I had my first mobile phone in the year 2000. I noticed in around 2002 that a spot above my left ear would give a sharp pain if I stayed on the phone for too long (differing amounts of time). The pain still recurs sometimes, now on either side, after long phone calls (>1h). I also get this pain intermittently from being close to my phone or laptop while it is connected to Wifi. However, this symptom has significantly reduced in frequency since the replacement of an outdated meter box on the outside wall of the room where I live most of the time, at my mother's place. To avoid this pain, I always have Bluetooth turned off on my phone and laptop. However, I very often use my laptop with wifi and my phone without discomfort. 3. SOLAR PANELS IN A RENTAL -- SLEEP ISSUES, IMMUNE ISSUES, AND COGNITIVE ISSUES: (3a) In 2021 I moved into a rented granny flat/garden studio that had solar panels on the roof. The roof was an unearthed metal roof. From the day I moved in I had trouble sleeping and woke up several times a night. I have never had this problem before or since. I remained living at my mother's place part of the time because of this issue, and I slept fine at my mother's place. In 2023 I purchased a shielding cloth (cloth with silver and copper) and slept under it like a blanket. At that point I was able to sleep enough in order to live in the flat full time, without needing to stay at my mother's place part of the time. (3b) However, in 2024 I had a tick bite while living there, and I was unable to recover from the infection or tolerate treatment. I left my rental to live at my mother's place, where I was able to tolerate treatment and recover from the infection. I believe that the solar panels diminished my ability fight the tick-borne infection. (3c) I found that when I was teaching online in the rental due to Covid, there were certain locations in the flat where my cognitive ability was too poor to run a class online. But when I moved to a different spot in the rental, my cognitive ability was strong enough to run my online class. I believe this was due to different levels of RF/EMF exposure from solar panels in different locations in the flat. 4. HOME WIFI -- TINNITUS AND HEALTH ISSUES: (4a) At my mother's place, my sister previously used wifi on her laptop all night. We had tension because I thought she was making noise. But it turned out that the noise was not acoustic. It was a form of tinnitus caused by RF/EMF, as far as we could work out. There was a precedent for this in 2016, when I was becoming very unwell after the CT scan, living in the Mirvac flat. I thought my upstairs neighbour was playing opera all night at high volume. But I now believe this was tinnitus caused by EF/EMF. (4b) Now, in my mother's house, we have the wifi turn off automatically at 10pm and my sister now uses ethernet during the night. This helps me relax and heal from my daily fatigue due to ME/CFS. If the wifi is on I feel less able to heal. This is consistent over time, but I often wouldn't be able to tell at one given point in time whether the wifi was on or off. It is not an allergy. Having the wifi off overnight has a significant beneficial effect on my health even if I am unable to tell for certain whether it is on or off at any given time.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26708410/ "Morphological and antioxidant impairments in the spinal cord of male offspring rats following exposure to a continuous 900MHz electromagnetic field during early and mid-adolescence" "Abstract The effects of devices emitting electromagnetic field (EMF) on human health have become the subject of intense research among scientists due to the rapid increase in their use. Children and adolescents are particularly attracted to the use of devices emitting EMF, such as mobile phones. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate changes in the spinal cords of male rat pups exposed to the effect of 900MHz EMF. The study began with 24 Sprague-Dawley male rats aged 3 weeks. Three groups containing equal numbers of rats were established-control group (CG), sham group (SG) and EMF group (EMFG). EMFG rats were placed inside an EMF cage every day between postnatal days (PD) 21 and 46 and exposed to the effect of 900MHz EMF for 1h. SG rats were kept in the EMF cage for 1h without being exposed to the effect of EMF. At the end of the study, the spinal cords in the upper thoracic region of all rats were removed. Tissues were collected for biochemistry, light microscopy (LM) and transmission electron microscopic (TEM) examination. Biochemistry results revealed significantly increased malondialdehyde and glutathione levels in EMFG compared to CG and SG, while SG and EMFG catalase and superoxide dismutase levels were significantly higher than those in CG. In EMFG, LM revealed atrophy in the spinal cord, vacuolization, myelin thickening and irregularities in the perikarya. TEM revealed marked loss of myelin sheath integrity and invagination into the axon and broad vacuoles in axoplasm. The study results show that biochemical alterations and pathological changes may occur in the spinal cords of male rats following exposure to 900MHz EMF for 1h a day on PD 21-46."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26708410/ "Morphological and antioxidant impairments in the spinal cord of male offspring rats following exposure to a continuous 900MHz electromagnetic field during early and mid-adolescence" "Abstract The effects of devices emitting electromagnetic field (EMF) on human health have become the subject of intense research among scientists due to the rapid increase in their use. Children and adolescents are particularly attracted to the use of devices emitting EMF, such as mobile phones. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate changes in the spinal cords of male rat pups exposed to the effect of 900MHz EMF. The study began with 24 Sprague-Dawley male rats aged 3 weeks. Three groups containing equal numbers of rats were established-control group (CG), sham group (SG) and EMF group (EMFG). EMFG rats were placed inside an EMF cage every day between postnatal days (PD) 21 and 46 and exposed to the effect of 900MHz EMF for 1h. SG rats were kept in the EMF cage for 1h without being exposed to the effect of EMF. At the end of the study, the spinal cords in the upper thoracic region of all rats were removed. Tissues were collected for biochemistry, light microscopy (LM) and transmission electron microscopic (TEM) examination. Biochemistry results revealed significantly increased malondialdehyde and glutathione levels in EMFG compared to CG and SG, while SG and EMFG catalase and superoxide dismutase levels were significantly higher than those in CG. In EMFG, LM revealed atrophy in the spinal cord, vacuolization, myelin thickening and irregularities in the perikarya. TEM revealed marked loss of myelin sheath integrity and invagination into the axon and broad vacuoles in axoplasm. The study results show that biochemical alterations and pathological changes may occur in the spinal cords of male rats following exposure to 900MHz EMF for 1h a day on PD 21-46."

Massachusetts town north of Boston is allowing a utility to de-colocate from multiple existing distributive antenna systems (DAS), and install multiple new omni directional antennas within a 475 foot radius of the existing DAS units.. FCC reports indicate the utilities service coverage is 5G or 5G+ at all of the DAS units. There are no gaps in coverage. It appears to be a financial maneuver disguised as an up grade from DAS units, that provide optimum coverage as reported by the utility to the FCC coverage maps, The nine new nodes create emission over lap with the existing DAS units. The emission overlap will not be monitored or measured by the town or the utility. At one application location, two DAS units and two omni directional units will all be located within 1/3 of a mile or less from each other. This creates emission overlap of either two or three nodes, none of which will have emission levels monitored/tested by the town or utility. There are cancer clusters around at least one node including lung, prostate, follicular. Residents nearby report unexplained long term symptoms of not feeling well. The town approves the applications under the premiss that they cannot deny or redirect the utility. The residents become victims of the results.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24604340/ "Abstract Some studies have shown that exposure to electromagnetic field (EMF) may result in structural damage to neurons. In this study, we have elucidated the alteration in the hippocampal function of offspring Wistar rats (n = 8 rats in each group) that were chronically exposed to mobile phones during their gestational period by applying behavioral, histological, and electrophysiological tests. Rats in the EMF group were exposed to 900 MHz pulsed-EMF irradiation for 6 h/day. Whole cell recordings in hippocampal pyramidal cells in the mobile phone groups did show a decrease in neuronal excitability. Mobile phone exposure was mostly associated with a decrease in the number of action potentials fired in spontaneous activity and in response to current injection in both male and female groups. There was an increase in the amplitude of the afterhyperpolarization (AHP) in mobile phone rats compared with the control. The results of the passive avoidance and Morris water maze assessment of learning and memory performance showed that phone exposure significantly altered learning acquisition and memory retention in male and female rats compared with the control rats. Light microscopy study of brain sections of the control and mobile phone-exposed rats showed normal morphology.Our results suggest that exposure to mobile phones adversely affects the cognitive performance of both female and male offspring rats using behavioral and electrophysiological techniques"