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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 have EMF sensitivity, particularly to 5G and WiFi. When 5G was turned on in my neighborhood, I couldn't sleep for several days. I purchased a special bed cover to reduce its effect which helped but didn't eliminate it. I only travel if I can be assured of not being in WiFi exposure - which limits me greatly because WiFi is so prevalent. WiFi's effect on me has worsened over recent years because WiFi manufacturers have increased the power/range of their WiFi equipment. Please re-consider the testing and limits allowed for wireless equipment.

Ive been electro sensitive for almost 20 yrs ...I was super sensitive in 2013 when a ham radio guy moved in ...He his all his antennas in his attic n flagpole.. I ended up in hospital with a SED rate of 94 two months after he moved in then 3 weeks later back in hospital my adrenals completely crashed I almost died running out of cortisol ..I tried harmonizers to no avail then luckily I found one that worked ..I was fine for almost 10 yrs then the ham radio guy increased his power dramatically in Sept 2024, he was lying n saying he didn't but I found on a ham radio site in Sept 2024 just when I said something got really bad here he got new high tech long distance equipment ...I never felt any wireless device this strong..He leaves it on all day sometimes overnight on those days i leave my own house n sleeping my car in a parking lot somewhere.Others on other side both died after he increased his power so much.. My other neighbor across the street went from mild arthritis to severe arthritis 3 months after he increased his power,,,,He is not a responsible user cause its on 24/7 now most of the time,,Wee all obviously getting over exposed and for me it is pure torture..I cannot believe some ho hum citizen can possess that kind of power,,I didn't realize ham radio operators can possess 1500 watts of power whereas a cell tower is limited to 100watts in suburban areas ,,,There is no way a citizen with zero knowledge on health consequences shpould posses that type of power in a residential area ...I know it's effecting many here within a couple hundred ft of him Foe me its debilitating I cannot evebn be at my house more then a few hrs when its on and again he don't care he leaves it on continuosly most days its rare it's off Thanks Derek

Public Comment on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Docket: HHS-OASH-2026-0397 I am submitting this comment as someone who has experienced significant symptoms that I associate with electromagnetic field (EMF) and radiofrequency (RF) exposure. I have a history of concussion, and my electromagnetic sensitivity began after my concussion in 2018. My symptoms include intense head pressure, heat and burning or tingling in my head and face, ear pressure, rapid heart rate, and chest fluttering. Symptoms have occurred in environments such as airports, train and bus stations, hybrid vehicles, and anywhere where wifi is present. Traveling on highways is difficult because cell towers create symptoms while in the car. I cannot have wifi or streaming in my home, and must drive a car without updated electronic/wireless systems. Symptoms can take three to four days to subside. These experiences have affected my daily life. I recognize that my experiences alone cannot establish causation. However, I believe that people experiencing these symptoms deserve compassionate medical evaluation and rigorous scientific investigation. I respectfully ask HHS to: Fund independent research into electromagnetic hypersensitivity, including possible neurological, autonomic, and other physiological mechanisms. Investigate whether people with a history of concussion or other neurological conditions may experience different symptom patterns upon exposure. Conduct a transparent review of the scientific evidence underlying current RF exposure standards, including uncertainties and potential health effects that remain insufficiently understood. Develop clinical guidance to help healthcare professionals evaluate and treat people reporting electromagnetic sensitivity without dismissing their symptoms or assuming an unproven cause. Include affected individuals in setting research priorities and evaluating practical approaches to improving their quality of life. The cause of my symptoms remains uncertain, but their impact is real. I urge HHS to take these experiences seriously, support rigorous research, and ensure that people reporting electromagnetic sensitivity receive appropriate medical attention. Thank you for considering my comments.

I'm an individual that retired from the federal government and was also in the military. I have been exposed to RF/EMF and auditory harassment on a regular basis for the last 5-6 months and possibly covert for even longer. I believe the exposure to have come from energy directed weapons. The reason I say energy directed weapons is because in one instance there was so much energy pushed down onto me that my ceiling fan slowed down while I was sitting in my living room. The energy followed me from my house to the airport parking lot, on the airport shuttle bus, and inside the airport. This particular attack caused me to be disoriented (foggy brain, to include an increased ringing like tinnitus) and also caused a loss of memory. The exposure was so intense I had to cancel my flight and I also forgot where I parked my car. They have also used fans and cars to push music and sounds to me as well. I routinely have had pin pricks, increased heat and pressure on my body for the last 6 months to include an increased pressure on vital areas to include organs and testicles. They've also used the energy combined with auditory effects (voice to skull). The steps I've taken to attempt to reduce any exposure is to use some type of metal or aluminum on the affected area though that has minimal effect at stopping these transmissions on my person. The harassment continues throughout the day and started back in June of this year when I was on a trip in Oregon and they have followed me wherever I go. I've used a magnetic frequency detector on my phone to measure exposure to RF and that routinely reads 850 nanoTesla. Though I do not know if that reading is accurate. I was also exposed to what I assume was psychological warfare though the "voice to skull/frey effect" as they can capture all of our thoughts and use them to harass and alter our moods in combination with the directed energy weapons. The care providers did not provide any additional guidance to measure any of the issues so guidance for the health care industry would be critical in helping people. Homeland security should be monitoring the RF and energy exposure to peoples homes when events like these are reported so that the satellites can be tracked down and turned off. Maybe an RF defense system can be created and put in place so that Americans can be protected, just like we have in the ballistic missile defense system. I've also reported this to local law enforcement in two states as well as the FBI and none of them are provided any assistance in helping with the issue, which I understand considering there has been any federal research conducted in these areas. With the advent of bone induction, research on the use of the Frey effect and voice to skull technologies need to be revisited on a larger and more in depth scale. Findings of this research and existing programs should be communicated on a large scale and instructions for law enforcement/health providers should be established, to include a database that tracks the events to include where and when.

I gradually developed EHS after being exposed to many EMF sources, especially low frequencies, for a long time without knowing that they would harm me. In early 2010, I became more sensitive and started to learn about EMF and EHS. I later received a diagnosis confirming my EHS and realised that I had to avoid exposure and reduce oxidative stress by taking daily antioxidants. I have learned to survive in an electropolluted world, but this has meant making severe lifestyle changes. I can no longer go to meetings, the cinema, the theatre or concerts because of the emissions from smartphones, Wi-Fi and antennas. I cannot use public transport either, and it is difficult for me to access healthcare facilities for the same reasons. I actually have to stay in lockdown to avoid suffering. Is this a life?

I began developing physical symptoms including dizziness, pain in my skull, a sense of passing out, after taking advanced courses at the University of minnesota. I was supposed to be a computer software trainer. But the more I was exposed to high-end computers as they got stronger and stronger, the more my body started reacting. I developed in ovarian cyst for the first time after using a keyboard on my lap because of physical disabilities I couldn't sit up right and I had to sit sideways..... My first experience with a wireless mouse that worked on several gigabytes versus a wired mouse that I'd used for several years, my first experience with a wireless mouse is that it actually caused scarring on the right upper part of my arm. I stopped using it. Eventually with help from a friend and assistance from techies in the disabled community, we were able to put together a computer system that I was able to sit several feet back from. Using a wired mouse. But this was just the beginning of increasing problems. Remember, I was supposed to be a computer software trainer and I ended up with a bachelor in science from the University of Minnesota but wasn't able to do the work with a combination of multiple physical disabilities increased including increasing sensitivity to the technology as it got stronger. As I found myself nearer to cell phones that were becoming prolific (I was still using a landline telephone), and were being used by people in my life, I found that I could physically feel the energy from them that felt very uncomfortable and actually painful, within 15 to 20 feet of their use. When I found myself in a nursing home at the beginning of the pandemic after I lost my apartment due to multiple disabilities and a lack of PCA help, I was inundated by technology all over the place. Large flat screen TVs in public areas that I found myself not being able to be around, I didn't put a TV in my room at all, (when I was in my apartment I still was watching a small cathode ray tube TV, 6 ft away from it)... Anyway, people had cell phones all over the damn place, laptops, large TV screens, every single patient seemed to have some kind of large TV in their rooms, and if my room was next to a person's where the flat screen TV was up against my wall, I physically felt the electricity and I couldn't sleep. Exposure to all of this technology became more and more problematic. Eventually I started actually collapsing near the nurses station where there was so much technology in use and which was right near one of the gigantic large flat screen TVs used by the public community here. I actually started collapsing. I do have a history of autoimmune and inflammation diseases for several decades, and a history of brain damage going back several decades as well. But never collapsing. I got tested for epilepsy. I do not have epilepsy. However the electricity they used in the room to do the testing was so intense, I actually collapsed outside of the room before we could even do the testing. The problem is that I had become so ultra-sensitive to a combination of radio frequencies, EMF fields, RA's, electricity leaking through walls of this old nursing home that couldn't handle high-end technology, or proliferation of cell phones, and I just became sicker and sicker. My functional medicine doctor knew that this was a real physical ailment and diagnosed me with what is being called electromagnetic hypersensitivities. She knows it is real. It was terrible when some of the staff here started believing that I was acting out emotionally by collapsing on the floor. No, my brain and nervous system and all the cells in my body were reacting to the excessive exposure to all these different kinds of energy fields that were pummeling my body. So she gave me the diagnosis. And hold the staff unequivocally that this is real. So they stop pretending this is emotional. This is a real physical ailment. Unfortunately I've been forced to use a cell phone because there are no landlines in this nursing home except for staff. Which puts me in an exceptionally dangerous situation. I'm also concerned that there's talk about ending landlines in the united states. Which I believe would be a really dangerous as more and more people are realizing that excessive cell phone technology is dangerous. We are destroying ourselves, our bodies, probably other things in nature. When I don't absolutely have to use my cell phone as I am now to dictate this, I will put my cell phone on airplane mode and turn it off. And I have become concerned about the proliferation of cell phone towers and that cell phone companies are trying to keep increasing their power. Right now I am on a 4G cellphone and I don't want it to get any stronger. You need to do something to stop this danger that is being caused to all of us. Like cigarette companies making money off of our health problems 50 years ago, you need to stop these technology companies from doing the same.

My Name is Craig Gammel. 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 have watched my wife slowly be shut out of almost all social affairs because of EMF's. This started in 2019. My wife would be nauseated and exhausted by noon everyday. None of the doctors could tell us what was wrong. Eventually I recalled a STUDY DONE BY THE UNITED STATES MILITARY in the mid 1970's.They found that EMF's had a biologically adverse effect on living cells. lnformation was obtained that we had eighty cell, and sixty antennas within a three miles. We moved to a low coverage area and all symptoms ceased. With the advent of 5G my wife can no longer go to a city, restaurant, movie ,concert, or church. She is the equivalent of a shut in at fourty eight years old. She is a college educated woman whom would love to work but cannot because of this technology. I ask you to consider this: When you were a child/teenager outside at night,remember how many nats and bugs were flying in your face. There aren't even a quarter of that amount now. Same effect if happening with birds. I acknowledge some habitat has been lost. Habitat loss cannot account for the steep reduction in all flying insects and birds.I believe we are killing ourselves with this tec After prolonged low exposure I can now feel the effects when driving into the city. I beg you all to consider turning EMF frequencies down to a level that is adequate. People can live with Five minute movie downloads. We don't need five second downloads.

Since 2014, I've had RF sensitivity. Not EMF so much, but I cannot stay near cell phones, walk talkies, wifi or even cordless phones without strong symptoms if exposed for too long. We do not have wifi in our house and have opted out of smart meters. For me, RF exposure feels a lot like motion sickness and causes strong brain fog with nausea and light headedness. I've been using neural re-programming to try to undo this issue as the sensitivity affects my life badly due to having to avoid these situations. I have to drive older cars that have less technology in them. How much longer can I do that for? The neural reprogramming helps. In my case, I have autonomic nervous system disorder. I get migraines. I believe the ANS disorder is the cause of the RF sensitivity.

Hello, I would like to very quickly and briefly mention my experience of being electrosensitive. I might not get another chance to do so. Below is a short summary history of my ES / EHS and please see attached a copy of a slightly extended version. Please ignore the sentence on medical reports, thank you. My experience over the years has a lot of similarities to other people when it comes to ES: stigma, isolation, ridicule, scepticism, disbelief… and so on. The most frustrating is a wide belief that it is my mental health and only an imaginary problem. I lost my home of 24½ years at Cove, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK due to the lack of help and understanding of my electro-sensitivity. In 2008 new neighbours brought wireless technology to the building (a block of 4 properties, 2 upper and 2 ground floor maisonettes). This was the first time that such technology was brought to the building and their impact on me was immediate and devastating. The worst main debilitating effect on me is very severe burning pain to my head and scalp that penetrates deep into it (blanket cover). Other burning pain is clusters of very hot burning needles shooting through me at phenomenal lightening speeds with – again – my scalp being the most sensitive area. The very first symptom to appear in June 2008 was a high-pitched whine / whistling emanating from across the central area of my brain. It is very loud, still there, can and does become elevated and it is not tinnitus. I also have other effects on me that I still suffer from. Over the years I have always noticed that whenever there are descriptions of symptoms of electro-sensitivity, only headaches are listed. Not once have I seen listed and described what I’ve mentioned above. Due to the unbearable suffering that I have had to endure (2008 – 2017), I did suffer from headaches from time-to-time because of insomnia with the lack of sleep, brought on by the continuous radiation exposure. To cut a long story short, it all became very messy with conflicts with the neighbours, all areas of my life in free fall and spiralling downwards, me being institutionalised for 7 consecutive weeks without my consent and it was against my will, having to fight off being forced to take toxic medications (anti-psychotic drugs for at least six months), 3 sinister court cases, constant potential homelessness… to name and list just a fraction of it all. My professional career was also completely ruined early on. I enjoyed the work that I did and devastated that it was cruelly taken away from me - and the lost income. Had my finances permitted, I would have attempted to sue the government. The two local politicians that I went to see at different times regarding my plight and suffering, just simply did not want to know about it. Over the years, I have compiled a more detailed summary of my ES and suffering and I’m also putting together a more detailed break down of each area and stages of what happened (separate from the summary). This includes spending £10,000.00 on shielding the property from the neighbours wireless devices' (wi-fi, DECT phones etc) radiation between October 2009 and February 2010. I also have available a number of official medical reports from the hospital professionals (including psychiatrists) that oversaw my case while I was institutionalised. Ever since this happened to me in 2008 it has been like living in a nightmare dream world, except that I am fully awake – and my nightmare journey continues relentlessly with no end in sight. Thank you. Best regards, Raymond Adams Update: I have now been homeless for over a year (1st Oct 2025) as I cannot get suitable accommodation / property. With the lack of help and understanding, it was inevitable that this would happen to me, and it has.

Since 2005 when Wi-Fi became available in my local area, I have suffered radiation sickness whenever I enter a building infested with WI-Fi antennas. This includes ALL businesses, ALL federal, state and county buildings plus ALL medical buildings. My worst symptoms are painful headaches and severe tinnitus that does not resolve for hours. Both of these conditions develop immediately upon my entering Wi-Fi polluted buildings. Of course I cannot avoid this misery since as a human being, I am forced to enter highly-polluted buildings in order to meet my needs including groceries, medical/dental consultation etc. At the same time, the latest science confirms what is making me sick is a carcinogen. Because my neighbors send their Wi-Fi into my home, I am forced to screen my home with protective materials that keep trespassing Wi-Fi out of my living space. This effort is very expensive and alienating. We need a national effort to develop fiber to communities and to all buildings so that the human environment becomes less miserable and potentially deadly for all of us. My personal Wi-Fi is cabled and I have all Internet amenities I need without Wi-Fi. Public buildings and homes CAN be made safe without loss of connectivity. HHS PLEASE HELP clean up our radiation-toxic environment for public health and safety !!!!