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Emfs, Rfs, and wireless radiation are ruining my life. They make it so I am unable to breathe, constricting my lungs capacity and not allowing me to take a deep breath. This makes all forms of exercise and work difficult since I am constantly fighting for air. I might sound dramatic, but that's the truth and that's how emfs have impacted my life. We don't need higher number of Gs. They're hurting every living organism on our planet. Please keep earth the way it was intended and stop harming others with emfs, rfs, and wireless radiation.

Two members of my family suffer so much from EMF's that they are basically house bound-----in our shielded home with RF meters to test. There are thousands of of peer reviewed studies that show damage to our bodies, to birds, to bees and to all wildlife. My family members get flu symptoms, heart palpitations, painful swelling of glands, tinnitus, blurry vision and brain fog. It is terrible for them to live in the current environment.

Good evening, in reference to EMFs, RF and Wireless Radiation Exposure I have a friend who is effected to the point where they virtually can't live a normal life. Actually I believe everyone is effected but in different ways and to different degrees so I hope these concerns, especially for those who are suffering more seriously, are investigated thoroughly before any more loose federal regulations are put into law. Thank you for your time and God Bless.

HHS RFI — Reported Health Effects and Research Gaps I request that HHS investigate potential biophysical interactions between RF exposure and passive metallic implants. I have two titanium neck implants measuring approximately 6 cm and 7 cm, work in direct line of sight of a telecommunications tower, and have developed new cardiovascular and neurological symptoms. Kranold et al. (2025) identify implant-related electromagnetic dosimetry as a neglected safety issue, raising concerns about whether current exposure guidelines adequately protect people with implants. I have been unable to locate a physician qualified to evaluate this specific concern. I urge HHS to identify this as a clinical and research gap and facilitate independent scientific investigation under real-world RF exposure conditions. Reference: Kranold L, Xi J, Goren T, Kuster N. “Dosimetric Electromagnetic Safety of People With Implants: A Neglected Population?” _Bioelectromagnetics_. 2025;46(6):e70023. https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.70023

I have a family member who is tragically affected by EMFs. She is unable to travel or be a part of society where radiation affects her life. I have a family member whose life has been adversely affected by EMFs. She is unable to travel, interact in public or cope with serious physical problems. This is a serious problem that must be addressed.

In response to: "Public Experiences and Reported Potential Adverse Health Effects" 10/14/26 To Secretary Kennedy and HHS Staff, Thank you for this opportunity. I am writing as an "individual consumer" who has been electro-sensitive most, if not all, of my life. When I was 6 years old, I notice that the fluorescent lights in my first grade classroom made me feel unwell, and that they made it difficult for me to concentrate. Over time, I noticed other things that bothered me, including TVs and computers. Nonetheless, up through young adulthood, I managed to avoid or endure what I needed to most for the time, and was able to live a more or less normal life. A big turning point for me came in 1998, when I was 41 years old. At that time, I began to feel ill most of the time, and became unable to function normally or even to 'fake' doing so. In the end, I had no choice but to give up my career, friends and home. I found out later that less than a year before I "crashed" (and moved to a rural area), cell towers had been installed in my old community. As wireless technology has proliferated (cell phones, cell towers, wi-fi, smart-phones, smart-meters, smart watches, etc.), my life has become more painful, challenging and restricted. I now live in near-isolation as an environmental refugee. Exposures to microwaves beyond my threshold of tolerance leave me with headaches, malaise and, worst of all, whole-body "crashing sensations". These episodes last between 2 1/2 and 3 hrs. For me, avoidance is imperative and constitutes a near-full-time job. To survive in today's high microwave environment, I had "low-E" windows installed in my home, wear metalized clothing when outdoors and avoid all contact with humans, unless they have agreed to accommodate me ahead of time, such as "no cell phones". These measures have worked well at preventing my worst symptoms, most of the time, but of course they only reduce exposures, they don't eliminate them. I am one of many who struggle with EMFs, but you will not hear from most of us. Many of use can't use computers or smart phones. I had to arrange for help getting this to you and nearly gave up on doing so. It is also a fact that a large percentage of people with severe EMF sensitivity do take their own lives. A majority of my sensitive friends already have. Now that you have my perspective, I'd like to leave you with several points and some questions to ponder: * To clear up the oft-mentioned "inconsistencies" in the results from research on the health effects of EMFs, findings from research done by or paid for by profit-driven industries of individuals must be removed from the database. Until then, our data will remain skewed in favor of industry interests. * Safety standards in the United States (and many other countries) are woefully inadequate and need to align with reality. Nothing is more dangerous than a false sense of security. If anyone tells a consumer that one of their beloved "toys" is "safe", that consumer will not dig deeper to get more information or even take simple steps that could significantly reduce their exposures. * The burden of proof for the alleged "safety" of wireless technology should be on the corporations that produce it. Currently, all the corporations need to do to maintain the extremely profitable (for them) status quo is to perpetuate the perception of doubt. Easy enough, given the amount of money at their disposal! And they even have a pre-made playbook, thanks to the master deceivers of the 20th century, the tobacco industry. * What gives anyone the right to send microwaves into the public sphere? Into private homes? Into the bodies and cells of every living thing -- plant or animal -- on the face of the Earth? * And finally, what about the rights of those being affected? After all, microwaves are nearly impossible to avoid, even for those of us who choose not to use the emitting devices. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness?! Thank you for your consideration.

I had a friend who suffered from strange symptoms for quite a few years. She couldn't think straight had trouble sleeping her heart, flattered, and occasionally had cramps and was tired all the time. After deep investigation and testing many different things and seeing doctors, a research conclusively found out that she was hypersensitive to electric magnetic frequencies. A strange as that sounds, she found that when she isolated herself out in the woods away from the devices that emit these frequencies, her symptoms abated. The last year we met a neighbor that moved in to the neighborhood, and after some canceled discussion found out that he too suffered from the similar malady. He even asked if he could sleep in my tool shed way in the back of my yard. That's desperation! It would be good if there could be some type of control on this electromagnetic frequency being admitted by these devices, in addition to having warnings on them for people who are not able to research and find out what's causing their symptoms.

My sister’s life has been severely impacted from exposure to radiation. She suffers from many negative side effects, including heart palpitations, cramping in her feet and hands, brain fog, sleeplessness, cramping in her legs and fatigue. She is forced to isolate to survive in this world.

I am a 57-year-old European citizen (Norway) documenting how current thermal safety guidelines (ICNIRP) fail to protect individuals with compromised or hypersensitive central nervous systems due to underlying physical vulnerabilities. 1. Case History and Suspected Physical Causes Since my 20s, I suffered from frequent headaches. My family has long owned a cabin in one of the heaviest tick-infested coastal regions in Telemark, Norway, and I strongly suspect that the root cause of my broken "nerve filter" is chronic, untreated Neuroborreliosis (Lyme disease). While a hospital record from 2021 documents positive Borrelia IgG antibodies, an official neurological diagnosis is pending. I also have structural nerve vulnerability originating from a childhood fall that left my nasal bone crooked, followed by three complex sinus surgeries with substantial scar tissue. This structural trauma likely affects my right ear, which suffers from chronic pain and significant hearing loss. Because of these suspected infections and physical traumas, my nerve pathways have lost their structural insulation, creating severe central sensitization. 2. Environmental Impact and Technical Mapping In autumn 2018, a smart meter was installed in my small rented home, causing my symptoms to escalate violently overnight. This drove me to search for answers; some of the first experts I listened to were Dr. Devra Davis and Jeromy Johnson in their TED Talks, and since then, I have studied many independent researchers. Today, my body registers ambient RF/EMF microwave fields as immediate, excruciating physical pain waves. To avoid pain, I must constantly navigate life to completely bypass locations with the strongest wireless signals. I cannot hold a mobile phone without immediate, shooting nerve pain. My pain fluctuates heavily based on external signals: • The 5G Impact: The rollout of 5G signals inflicts noticeably more intense pain, and it takes several days of total isolation for my nerve tissue inflammation to recover. • Objective Technical Mapping: To verify my environment, my father—a telecommunications civil engineer—provided me with a TES-92 Electrosmog Meter and helped me systematically cable my home. Using this meter, I have measured radiation levels exceeding 1 million microwatts per square meter (1 W/m²) in ordinary public spaces, including a ferry quay, a small town center, and the waiting room at the Vestfold Hospital (SiV). This is extremely high—representing more than 10% of the maximum ICNIRP safety guidelines (which are set at 10 million microwatts/m²). Exposure to levels like this inflicts immediate, unbearable pain upon my sensitized nerves. To survive, I must continuously avoid high-radiation areas, paying a heavy "pain cost" every time I enter society. 3. Official Dismissal by Health Authorities Despite submitting extensive independent research to Norwegian health bodies, I have been systematically disbelieved and forced to survive on minimal social security benefits. To prove how national governments use thermal limits to deny medical accommodation, I submit these translated quotes from an official response I received from the Norwegian Ministry of Health (HOD), dated October 12, 2026 (Ref: 20/2972-): • "...no scientific basis for introducing special requirements for 'radiation-free' examination rooms..." • "The overall professional conclusion remains that it is not documented that non-ionizing radiation below current limits causes adverse health effects." • "On this basis, there is no ground for establishing special requirements for radiation-free examination rooms..." Because of this institutional blindness, on December 8, 2025, my essential hearing aid fitting was aborted after just one minute because the audiologist activated wireless programming (NIR), striking me with neuropathic pain. Clinicians are never taught that RF-EMF can inflict physical pain on compromised nerves. Specialized hospital psychosis clinics have fully evaluated me and explicitly ruled out any mental or psychosomatic illness, proving my pain is entirely physical. 4. A Verified Biological Example The only place my nervous system finds peace is in my wired, low-EMF home. I think my radiation-free environment benefits my rescue cat, who is between 16 and 20 years old. He surprises veterinarians with his exceptionally good blood values. His health is a living testament to what a clean, low-EMF environment does for a living body, allowing it to rest and heal. Recommendations to HHS: 1. Acknowledge that a damaged, hypersensitive nervous system responds to ambient RF/EMF as an immediate physical stressor, independent of thermal heating. 2. De-couple EMF sensitivity from psychosomatics and investigate underlying organic vulnerabilities. 3. Mandate analogue, radiation-free examination spaces and wired medical device programming options. Regards, Tove Kristine Jensen, Norway

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 a person who has experienced and continues to experience problems with EMFs, RF Radiation, and WI-FI. I discovered these as the source of my headaches about eighteen years ago and I have had to take numerous steps in my life to avoid these things. When I lived in a city surrounded by towers, I lived with headaches every day and night. So I had to move to a place in a tiny village where I had no cell phone service in the house. When I moved here, there was only one cell tower within half a mile of my house, now there are three. I have hard cabled computer and Internet, not WI-FI, and I have hard wired phones, no walk-around phones. I also have no microwave. I do own a cell phone but I only use it when I am away from home, and then I use it with a shield covering it. I had to pay thousands of dollars to remove the smart meter from the side of my home (the utility company refused my request to replace it with an analog meter), have it mounted on a power pole away from the house and bury the lines from the meter to the house, because whenever I was in the room where the smart meter was mounted on the outside, I could not stay more than several minutes before I got a headache and had to leave the room. When driving across the country, I can point out the location of cell towers and commercial broadcast towers because of the location of the pain drilling into my head (left side, right side, front or back). When I am somewhere that has WI-FI, I get a headache (and almost everyplace has WI-FI!). When traveling, I have to request a motel room as far away from the WI-FI router as possible, and even then I have sometimes had to leave in the middle of the night because of a severe headache. I’ve even had to leave some stores because of the headache I get from their WI-FI. When these things are strong, I sometimes also get nauseous. When I get away from the sources of EMFs and RFs, I feel fine. I am not the only person I know who is affected in this way. One of my cousins has now taken to wearing a hat lined with EMF/RF-blocking material because of the severe headaches he experiences. He even has to wear this in the office where he works. 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, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.