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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.

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.

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.

i was a manager and adviser to the industry, including communication companies. I was very successful and had very good life. i was also sure the regulation protects our health and didn’t know about hazards from EMR to our health or environment. i was part of the business decision and strategy to start mass marketing of cellular devices to the public in the 80's and continued to participate in developing better phones and services. and i loved my work and my mobile and all technology and my wireless new helpers. I was really excited by all this new developments. during my 40's i began developing MCI - mile cognitive impairment which wasn't mild at all - i was quite demented - forgetting important stuff, confusing data, missing words and I ruin research and processes at work and in my personal life. i was told it's the beginning of Alzheimer’s and that there is “nothing to do about it”. i heard about trials of treating people in my condition with hyperbaric chambers. i paid a lot for joining that, starting with CT, PET SCAN and fMRI checks. The day after i became very weak and strangely sensitive/ allergic to many synthetic chemicals. i couldn't function, my smell sense became extremely sensitive and I discovered many everyday products felt like poison. exposure to any industrialized substances made me very sick. I was healthy and looked very young and fit before and suddenly every exposure started severe headaches which i never had before, palpitations, tinnitus, I lost a lot of weight/ body mass (mainly muscle because i was very thin before) and i couldn't sleep. my body collapsed and my brain couldn't find words, i struggled to speak, couldn't understand simple things (tasks and phrases or simple calculations), couldn't reason or plan things. i was lost, my identity and intelligence was completely lost (and I was really brilliant). i began looking for a clean place to live in and heal (with the environment agencies and maps and measures) but i realized that i suffer severe symptoms in many places that are not polluted (I monitored it carefully with specialists) but not in other places/ I discovered I have symptoms when i approach landlines and wireless infrastructure/ antennas/ routers/ streamers and mobile devices. i thought i was hallucinating because i never heard about such phenomena and my MD's didn't know what it could be. My life changed when i met some persons that suffered the same symptoms - not all the time, only after exposure to EMR and/ or artificial chemicals (and mold) - exactly like me. i had to study what radiation does to our body and found research that the U.S Navy and army made or collected and that Swedish and east European researchers made. i bought EMR measuring devices and discovered that when i have pain and symptoms - the sensors measure RF radiation and usually it is much lower than the regulatory standards. when i felt good with no pain - no radiation was measured at all. BINGO I contacted MD’s and researchers that know what EMR syndrome is and started learning how to handle this nightmare. finding a place to live and heal was very difficult – the environmental radiation is high and raising all the time. But when I found and gave my body the right conditions my health and my ability to function improved dramatically. The MCI / Alzheimer’s condition disappeared and I began activism in this field and helped many suffering confused people. But .. my brain and body function only when I’m in safe low- radiation low-pollution environment. I use a lot of counter technology to protect my living and health. When I go out to shops or visit my old parents (with a lot of Antioxidant and special protection hat with metal mesh) the exposure to regular EMR radiation in the environment cfter several hours makes me suffer and ruin my ability to function, the symptoms return gradually and my brain begin to act poorly. During the 14 years of this ordeal I had to move a lot and spend a fortune to heal and function. I can’t work or study and volunteer as I used to. I live in solitude and I lost all my human rights. People in this condition don’t get any recognition or proper help. life is extremely difficult and many can’t find housing and work/ education and can’t make a living. Many suffer a lot and can’t have meaningful life. Too many kill themselves and considered “depressed” or PTSD without noticing the real environmental reason.

I am Mrs. Wally Verboog, Dutch and age 69 years young. In 2013 we found out that my severe health complaints were only due to the overdose of high frequency EMF's, RF Radiation and wireless radiation. That was also acknowledged in 2015/2016 in the official Dutch research project GESOND by GGD and University of Utrecht and paid by the Dutch Government (ZonMw programm): 50 % of the 63 participants were able to feel the presence of radiation and immediately received (many of the) specific health complaints. As our Government was probably not amused by the results, the complete results were never published, only a summary in which was stated that the survey was not adequate, without any comment. Of course, every scientific research can be done better and that is even the reason why one should do a survey once again with better requirements! No doubt, our ministry of Health will be delighted to give HHS the complete results, which prove that even low levels of radiation affects directly the health of people. Another nice survey to mention is the large-scale study conducted by Kantar in 2019/2020 on behalf of the Dutch government. Main conclusion was that even 6 % of the Dutch population experienced health complaints due to radiation/wireless communication! My main health complaints due to RF radiation, HF EMF and wireless devices are: a) extreme high blood pressure and hearth rythm problems, b) muscle cramps, c) tinnitus, d) headache and sharp pains in the head, e) feelings of fear and disorientation and loss of focus/concentration, f) ongoing dizzyness and after 10 minutes of ongoing high exposure of radiation all my energy literally drains out of me, and I fall to the ground, not even knowing who I am and half-conscious. This all was also verified by medical specialists, who could not find another reason than over exposure to radiation. Yes, we have found an overload of evidence that the current idiot high levels of radiation affects negatively our health, see e.g. the list of the University of Achen Germany of surveys world wide (EMF Portal). No doubt a lot of organisations world wide will send you lots of surveys, so no use of mentioning them here as well (but our 2 special Dutch surveys were very special, so we mentioned them earlier!). I have done a lot of activities to inform people and official organisations as well: in 2016 we launched our website www.stopoverdosisstraling.nu (which means stop overdose radiation now), the top 26 health complaints are well known in Holland and Belgium (https://sosstraling.nl/gezondheidsklachten-top-26/). We also appered in many interviews on Dutch TV, radio and newspapers. In 2023 the Dutch former Minister of Culture, mrs. Mr. Medy van der Laan, gave a presentation about her health problems of radiation (HF EMF/RF radiation/wireless devices) on the Symposium event of the Dutch Kennisplatform EMV (Knowledgeplatform EMF). This Kennisplatform EMV is an initiative of the Dutch Government, paid by 3 ministries and has particpants like Tech institute TNO, ministries, Health organisations like RIVM and GGD GHOR. Unfortunately this all has so far not lead to any positive step in doing something about the (high) levels of radiation in Holland nor informing the public in a good way nor informing the medical specialists/gp's in a proper way about this increasing humanmade environmental issue, which radiation is.Well "humanmade" is in fact "tech companies made" and "supported by governments" abnd unfortunately these parties are not interested in heath issues it seems. But HHS appears to be an exemption as HHS is willing even to mention the problem and do something about it: compliments! I am not insane. I had my own company but had to stop my active roles. I was forced to stay in a protected (shielded) house, drive a shielded special car. I was not able to even be preent at the funeral of my mom due to the radiation in church and graveyard.I had to stop all my oudoor activities and social life as the level of radiation was increasing rapidly everywhere. "I am not insane", I mention this because in Holland lots of (stupid) people think that when you say you have health complaints of radiation, you must be insane. Of course they are not willing to read the facts....I even had to consult 2 psychiatrists to try to convince these stupid people that I am just as insane as the most of the Dutch (which means I am normal). You notice, I am still positive, but be aware that my life has changed in a terrible way. Due to ongoing rising high levels of radiation and the fact that all actions of shielding and protecting were not sufficient, I was forced to leave Holland and move ( “refugee” is the better word) to France where my husband and I found a house in a low radiation area. Now I can do my gardening and stay in my house without fear of radiation and without health issues. I published an article: https://stralingsbewust.info/2026/06/23/wij-zijn-gevlucht-grote-verbetering-gezondheid/

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 an individual with a chronic health conditions. I have Dysautonomia and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome among other health concerns. When I am exposed to EMF, RF and wireless radiation, my body has a hard time coping with this input. It creates a sort of agitation in the body that is unpleasant at best and very pronounced and troubling at other times. A general sense of feeling unwell. I am learning as best I can how to improve exposure in my home own home in order to create a safer space where I am less symptomatic. This has been helpful, but there are some aspects that are out of my control. I purchased a home recently and was very cognizant of where the closest cell phone tower was located. But there is open farmland near me and always the opportunity for another exposure depending on how that open land may be developed at a later time in a rapidly developing suburb. I find there are certain places I must avoid because it increases my symptoms. I worry about future developments in automobiles and in our communities that might make me more confined to my home. I am not working at this time due to my health, but wonder how I could function in the workplace due to EMF & RF exposure. I am hopeful that HHS will take action on this issue as research, rules and regulation could only be effective coming from the highest levels of our government. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations such as the chronically ill and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you.

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. My 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. I 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.

As a cell tower refugee I survived overdosing on wireless waves sickness and I juries after they placed a cell tower in a ditch near my home up on a hill,1,809 feet away in the direct path of the emissions, I have evidence and wittnesses to the effects . However the evidence was on my old profile of 6 years ago and my old lost phone but was saved and recorded on my old profile of my old phone. I do not know how to send you the files from my old profile thru my new phone. But if you click on my old profile and go to wireless loo, you can see for yourself the documented history of my sickness and injuries from the cell tower waves placed by my home that's in the directs path of the emissions but I was hurt two miles below the tower due to environmental effects on solar panel farms and rocks, have video evidence of 8 volt rock that absorb waves n wittnesses of sound wave frequency's caused by bouncing and absorbing waves, my body absorbed too much and I was overdosed and I had inflammation around my skull for 3 years, as a cell tower refugee I had to use natural antidotes and remedy's to survive cell tower radiation, much more detailed story but can't say it all here.... Estella Miller in Lucerne Valley old profile picture is faith without fear painting, Documented under Wireless Loo....

I am a 71-year-old woman who has been affected by computers, cell phones & fluorescent lights for most of my life. In the 90's, when I first learned to operate a desktop computer in a class that caused my memory to go blank, the instructor informed me of my condition when she said, “I've heard about people affected like you of electro-magnectic frequency. “ Then she said I will write you a medical excuse for dropping this class. After becoming aware of this disability, I observed a series of difficulties in my everyday life, too numerous to mention. I would forget under fluorescent lights. I got a debilitating headache for days after the person who sat next to me on a plane turned on their cell phone & talked next to my head when our plane landed. When a smart meter was installed on my house, I called & complained to Alliant Energy in Wisconsin. I can't approach heavy electrical stations or voltage without intense uncomfortable sensations so that I feel like quickly leaving. The effects are very hard to describe how it makes me feel because often it is very subtle & just under my awareness until I leave the location. I am always searching for remedies to help me adapt, but I really don't want to live in an environment that could make me sicker. Thank you for considering my situation. Sondra Olson

My family and I need our copper landlines in New York State, and Verizon is threatening to cut us off from our lifeline: our copper landlines. My elderly loved ones need their copper landlines because it is their only contact with the outside world since they are not able to use other technology. I suffer from electromagnetic sensitivity, so I have a landline to reduce my exposure to wireless radiation. We all need the copper landlines for safety during power outages. Preserve the copper landlines and place people's needs above Verizon's profits.