Housing, work & access barriers

I had a well paying temp job at warehouse that I had to quit just recently because of a heart condition that I know is brought on by ambient EMF in the air. I chenched my chest as I left this job, only to yet again go to the ER and get no answers. I'm sick of this life.

3A) Smart Meters, WIFI, 5G Wireless Towers 3B) My townhouse was a 4 unit building. ComEd installed 4 Smart Meters on the outside of my bedroom wall at the level of my heart & head. When they transmitted it felt like electricity going thru my chest and ears, hurting, pulsing with high pitched whistling. I noticed a sound of water rushing thru all my heating units (dirty electricity) was happening at 4 hr intervals. 3C-3D-3E) I would get a high-pitched whistling that got louder and louder. My health was really getting worse. I went to an ENT doctor to have my ears checked. Also to an Audiologist to check what I thought was a very vast difference in my tinnitus. It started from just the whistling noise getting louder, then to extremely increased very loud pulsing pain going from ear to ear thru my brain. Both specialists basically ignored what I was describing, making me believe that I was just imagining it. Every MD that I discuss this issue with seems to have no clue what EMF/RF sensitivity or poisoning even is. I ended up suffering a Progressive Stroke that has left me with an Involuntary Movement Disorder. It took 3 Neurology Specialists to determine what was happening to me. 3F) I had electricians and HVAC people out so many times they thought I was crazy and imagining it all. They could find nothing wrong. It happened usually at night, so I was not getting proper sleep. I moved to my 2nd bedroom in the townhouse to sleep hoping that would help. Only slightly better but I still couldn't sleep while there was any transmission from the Smart Meters, local 5G Towers or other's WIFI. I had to SELL my townhouse because my health was deteriorating every day. I moved to an apartment unit that was as far away from the Smart Meters in the building. I was doing ok until the 5G rolled out from the local Towers. Then I was also experiencing more problems with my neighbor's WIFI. I know my neighbor's schedules because of their WIFI usage! When the WIFI turns on, I wake up. During the day is a little easier. I have to limit my phone usage or suffer a headache and vertigo. I personally have no WIFI. I use an Ethernet cord for my personal computer, and my TV is also non-WIFI. I do not keep any devices in my bedroom. I have found some shielding from the WIFI of my neighbors with types of EMF prevention items. I sleep with a blanket, scarf, and T-shirt that have silver threading. I can tolerate small doses with my cell phone (that is never kept in my bedroom). Most nights I sleep with the scarf around my head to cover my ears & brain, and the T-shirt for my heart and internal organs. 3M) Please limit the wireless infrastructure to below whatever is happening with the 5G. Measuring and surveilling the current infrastructure and stopping the industry from going any higher with their advancements would be beneficial to the general public. Really, how fast does Internet need to be?

In 2012 I noticed symptoms related to emf exposure. Sleeping disorders, heart palpitations, confusion, memory loss. My son, 5 years old at the time, started to act different, running around, making noise and stopped talking. Later on he got diagnosed with autism. My symptoms has now exacerbated with dizziness, headaches, breathing difficulties, muscle aches that comes and goes without any connection to activity. My house is 200 meters from a cellphone tower, I noticed it 15 years ago. I worked in a huge hospital for 20 years and was exposed to Wi-Fi and wireless computers and other equipment plus other peoples cellphones. As people complained about bad connection the hospital put up more and more Wi-Fi range extenders. I stopped working there 5 years ago, I am better but as soon as I go into the city, travel by public transport or go to a sports arena or something similar my symptoms increase and I can’t manage to do anything in the coming days. If I have cold coming on, my emf symptoms multiply tenfold.

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 someone who is sensitive to EMF, experiencing tinnitus, headaches, brain fog, and fatigue. It is incredibly frustrating that this is not more widely understood, as I know many people who suffer and it is getting harder & harder to find spaces that provide relief. It is unfathomable that we are already moving into 6G without a scientific understanding of the health effects of all the previous G's. Our children are experiencing neurological & mental health issues at alarming & increasing levels. To not investigate how the effects of the ubiquitous EMF could be contributing to this is gross neglect of a huge public health concern. Please do the right thing & conduct rigorous research that cannot be tainted by stakeholders in wireless communication before allowing it to go any further. Thank you.

Greetings, 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 person. Wireless radiation has affected me in a way that changed my life. For 5 years, between 2007 and 2012, i was in close proximity to a modem/router, working remotely for my employer. At approximately the 4-1/2 year point, I had a lot a symptoms, including fatigue, temporary paralysis (not being able to move or speak), full body jerks, hissing sound in my head (not tinnitus), etc. After many conventional medical tests were done, they found nothing physically wrong and suggested counseling therapy. Although the counseling helped, it wasn't everything. I learned that it is not healthy to be close to a modem/router because of electro-magnetic frequencies, etc. I wish I would have known 5 years earlier! Anyway, I had to give up my good-paying job, which led to having to sell our house, which led to renting, and eventually moving closer to family in another state for support. Reducing exposure to EMF's has helped me to avoid having so many debilitating symptoms. All people need to avoid wireless radiation, and I believe HHS should address this issue for the health & safety of every person in this country. 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 individual persons and families with an opportunity to be heard!

I moved to a house within 300m of a cell tower approximately 10 years ago and I've never been able to lose weight since. After finding Dr Jack Kruse and his work I have begun to understand what damage this cell tower has been doing to me slowly over time and while I can mitigate some of it, I cannot move for financial reasons and I cannot plant enough trees to block it in my neighborhood. Please stop the ceaseless barrage of nnEMF into my house!

Madame, Monsieur, Je me permets de vous adresser la présente afin de consigner de manière formelle le calvaire quotidien dans lequel je suis plongée et où chaque instant est une lutte pour la survie physique et psychique. Cela a commencé avec la pose d’un compteur communicant à mon domicile en 2019. Dès l’installation de cet appareil, j’ai immédiatement ressenti des sons puissants et stridents à l’intérieur de mon cerveau. Ces derniers m’interdisent l’accès au repos le plus élémentaire, annihilent toute capacité de concentration, me coupent de mon activité professionnelle et me plongent dans un brouillard mental. J'ai donc pris conscience d'une cause électromagnétique. À ce jour, un médecin spécialiste en pathologie environnementale, ainsi que quatre autres praticiens de médecine générale et spécialisée, ont formellement diagnostiqué mon état et reconnu l’impact direct de ce facteur électromagnétique sur mon organisme, ainsi que la chimico-sensibilité. Mon domicile est par ailleurs entouré par plusieurs antennes-relais de téléphonie mobile et de Wi-fi des voisins. À cette agression invisible s’ajoute une nuisance mécanique et acoustique : juste au-dessus de ma tête, dans les combles de mon immeuble, est installée une imposante ventilation mécanique contrôlée (VMC) collective. Cette machinerie lourde fonctionne en continu et génère des infrasons permanents qui traversent les structures. Ces basses fréquences inaudibles mais hautement perceptibles par le système nerveux finissent littéralement par me « gangrener ». Lorsque je m’éloigne de mon domicile pendant plusieurs jours, l'impact direct du son de la VMC s'estompe après plusieurs jours. Pour autant, les autres perturbations cérébrales persistent, comparable à une radio brouillée. Ce phénomène ne me quitte jamais. Ma sensibilité est devenue telle que lorsque je me trouve à proximité de lignes électriques extérieures, je l’entends circuler. Les champs électromagnétiques de basse et haute fréquence sont devenus pour moi des agressions physiques, qui dérèglent mon système neurologique, mon rythme cardiaque, mon système digestif, m’épuisent. Cette hypersensibilité s’inscrit dans un tableau clinique évolutif. Depuis l'an 2000, je vis avec des douleurs diffuses, paralysantes et handicapantes, sans cause connue. Au cours des années 2022 et 2023, mon corps a franchi un nouveau seuil de rupture en développant des réactions cutanées matérialisant l'inflammation interne permanente de mon organisme face aux agressions de mon environnement. Cela ne s'arrête jamais. Si cinq médecins attestent la composante électromagnétique, les institutions officielles, la médecine française et l'ANSES (Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail) refusent le lien de causalité direct entre l'exposition aux ondes, aux champs électromagnétiques, aux infrasons, et mes symptômes lourdement handicapants. Ce refus de reconnaissance institutionnelle est une double peine. Ce déni condamne les malades à l'isolement, à l'errance et à l'absence de droits ou de solutions. La violence de ces symptômes, combinée à l'indifférence systémique des autorités sanitaires, crée une détresse psychique si profonde qu'elle pousse aux idées les plus sombres (2 tentatives de suicide). Chaque seconde passée chez soi est une TORTURE insoutenable... mais pour autant, je ne sais pas où est la vérité et je suis confrontée à une impasse médicale concernant mes symptômes. « Celui qui ne doute pas ne risque pas de progresser vers la connaissance et la vérité ». Je vous prie d’agréer, Madame, Monsieur, l’expression de mes salutations distinguées. P.S.: je m'oppose formellement à toute utilisation de mes données et de mes déclarations en dehors du strict cadre de cette enquête

I am submitting my comments as an individual consumer. I first experienced physical symptoms of nausea when the agency I worked for installed several desk top computers for the secretarial staff in 1990. I was in Barnes and Noble and a staff person showed me how to operate a Nook. My reaction was immediate and I felt faint and almost collapsed. As more devices that use wifi and radio frequencies have come into use I have physical reactions to cell phones, tablets, smart meters, my husband's hearing aids, Wi-Fi signals within businesses, desk top computers in groupings such as in libraries or retail electronics businesses and singly in my husband's in-home office, electric grids in floor heated concrete slabs, underground electric service feeds to residences, high tension power lines, cell phone towers, routers that broadcast Wi-Fi to multiple devices within a home or business, security systems that use Wi-Fi, ungrounded knob and tube wiring in residences, electric and hybrid vehicles that have storage batteries, and in vehicles that use Sirius radio, Bluetooth, backup cameras, and other warning devices dependent on radar and radio frequencies. The most frequent and consistent physical reaction I have to EMFs and RFs is burning sensation that first begins in my hands and feet and then migrates to the skin surface of my entire body. More extreme reactions include nausea and disorientation and shortness of breath. These symptoms will occur within 3 to 10 minutes from the time of exposure. Removing myself from the physical presence of the source does not immediately lessen the painful sensations which can persist for 30 minutes or more from the time of exposure. Grounding my body by standing barefooted on the earth or in water will help the sensations diminish within 30 to 60 minutes. My most used method of avoiding the painful effects of being in the presence of EMF, RF, and wireless radiation is to avoid the physical locations in which those forms of radiation are present. I do not fly on airplanes. I have stopped going to entertainment venues in which the audience's use of cell phones is not prohibited. I do not visit certain friends who have smart houses wired with WiFi. I cannot drive a car any newer than 2011. My husband uses cell phone outside of house and uses computer when I am not home. We had our house rewired in 2019, removing the knob and tube and replacing it with metal wrapped cable and all grounded outlets. We have shielded one side of our house from a neighbor who has a smart wifi connected house. My strategy is to avoid, put distance between my body and the source, remove myself as quickly as possible from any environment with these forms of radiation, use a copper wired land line, depend on my husband to use the computer for internet connections and communication. He is the one writing these comments for me. For many years (1990 to 2019) I did not connect the occurence of these physical symptoms with radiation sources. In 2019 we had our house evaluated by an electrian and found that I had been exposed to high levels of electromagnetic radiation due to the knob and tube wiring. Since then I have been able to correlate symptoms with sources of radiation. The steps we have taken have reduced the frequency of symptoms within our home. I have asked for neurological examinations from Kaiser Permanente and clinicians there do not subscribe to the correlation between my experience of symptoms and exposure to radiation. I am writing this in the hope that my experience will add validity to the experiences of others like me.

After buying my first smartphone, I noticed that every time I used it, I would experience brain fog for several hours. I began to suspect that wireless radiation was harmful, and I connected this with the overwhelming physical and mental exhaustion I experienced whenever I went into cities, and the memory loss I had been experiencing since I started working in a new place next to a Wi Fi router. It was even worse during group meetings. I continued to be exposed for some time because I did not know what to do. During this period, my mental abilities deteriorated further. I had problems with concentration and memory, as well as brain fog. My fatigue, digestive problems and muscle pain got worse. Today, I have learned how to protect myself from radiation. I have shielded my apartment because of my neighbours’ Wi Fi, and I hardly ever go out anymore because I know I will feel unwell for several days afterwards. I can no longer work. I no longer visit my friends either. Some do not take my request to turn off their devices into account. Others tell me they have turned everything off, but then I start to feel unwell. So I dare to be impolite: I take out my measuring device, only to discover that the TV, the remote control or some other device is emitting radiation continuously without their knowledge. Even talking to someone in my small hamlet has become a danger to me, because nobody goes out anymore without their highly connected smartphone. Then, some time ago, a 5G antenna was installed, which also means I can no longer go for walks in nature. I cannot consider moving, because even if, by some miracle, I managed to find somewhere with low levels of radiation, an antenna could be installed at any time. And shielding an apartment takes a great deal of money and energy. I try not to think about the future and to find enjoyment even in my isolated and confined daily life.

I am very sensitive to EMF, RF and wireless towers. People like myself are constantly dealing with a severe intolerance and face significant disruption to our daily lives. I am unable to hold a cell phone for more than a few minutes, cannot drive a modern car packed with complex computer telemetry, or standing near an operating microwave. These this trigger immediate distressing symptoms such as physical distress, including intense headaches, extreme fatigue, skin tingling or burning, dizziness, and cognitive fog. A cell tower was erected around a half mile from my house in 2016 and I have had to change where I sleep and my work space do to the distressing symptoms it has caused. Please do not allow these cell towers on school properties or near housing developments. Other countries don't allow it. When will the US start taking care of their citizens and not big business?