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Subject: Public complaint about electrosmog in Italy and personal testimony on electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) I am writing to denounce the abandonment of Italian citizens in the face of exposure to electromagnetic fields and the lack of protection for people suffering from symptoms attributed to electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). In April 2024, national exposure limits were raised from 6 to 15 V/m. There are also no uniform minimum safety distances from homes, schools, and sensitive sites. I call for greater public attention, transparency, and precautionary measures to protect health. My story began in July 2024, one month after a mobile phone antenna was installed directly in front of my home. Other installations are located about 250 metres from my home and 200 metres from my workplace, where I have worked for 18 years. I began experiencing severe pain in my left epididymis and big toes. For months, my nails stopped growing. Medical examinations and treatments did not resolve the problems. Antibiotic and anti-inflammatory treatments only made my symptoms worse. I also noticed a strong stinging sensation in my face whenever I approached my mobile phone. That was when I understood the link between my symptoms and the new antenna. When I tried to explain my suspicions and the scientific evidence I had found to doctors, my concerns were met with scepticism and ridicule. In desperation, I contacted the Italian Electrosensitive Association, which gave me guidance on investigating the situation. My home was already partly protected: during renovations in 2012, I removed all wireless devices and fully wired my internet network and alarm system. To see whether leaving my usual environment might help, I spent several days in an isolated country house in the hills, keeping my mobile phone switched off. My symptoms eased and disappeared; within two days of returning home, they came back. This experience strengthened my conviction that the possible environmental causes of my symptoms needed to be investigated more seriously. By late 2024, convinced that the new antenna in front of my home was responsible for the onset of my electromagnetic hypersensitivity, I was forced to leave my apartment and move into a small ground-floor flat in an attempt to reduce my exposure. In 2026, the antenna was upgraded to accommodate two operators. Despite environmental shielding and protective clothing, I continue to feel unwell, even at field levels I measure below 0.1 V/m. My workplace is also a source of distress because of Wi-Fi devices, wireless equipment, and a nearby antenna. I currently suffer from chronic pain, including pain in my left epididymis, severe insomnia, tinnitus, difficulties with concentration and speech, night-time cramps, photophobia, episodes of migraine, nausea, and dizziness. I also experience debilitating fatigue, intestinal problems, food intolerances, and significant weight loss. I am paying for numerous medical tests myself in an attempt to find answers and treatment. This condition has profoundly affected my life. I am a divorced father of two young children and can no longer share many everyday activities, holidays, school events, or sports events with them. I have had to give up my social life and many essential activities. The only place where I have experienced a marked improvement is the country house in the hills, far from sources of electrosmog, but moving there permanently is incompatible with my family responsibilities and work commitments. I asked the local council to halt new installations, adopt a municipal antenna plan, and prevent further expansion in areas that are already saturated, but my efforts have not achieved the desired results. For all these reasons, this is not merely a testimony of suffering but a firm call for legislative action. It is essential and urgent that the authorities introduce concrete laws to protect public health: national emission limits must be drastically lowered, well below current levels, and strict, non-negotiable minimum safety distances must be established from residential areas, schools, and sensitive sites. It is also essential to encourage and promote wired connections in public and private spaces, guaranteeing every citizen the fundamental right to live and work in safe environments that are protected and free from electromagnetic impacts. Finally, public healthcare must urgently provide appropriate scientific and medical training so that healthcare professionals are prepared to take people experiencing these complex problems seriously, putting an end to an unacceptable culture of ridicule and scepticism. We cannot continue sacrificing people's health at the altar of technological profit, leaving people with EHS invisible and without rights.

I have always worked in an office using PC's and then Laptops. I think my intolerance/symptoms to RF/EMF began when a Mobile phone signal booster was installed a few feet above my desk in an open plan office, but I didn't realise until a few years later. Around the same time, we had high power Fibre Optic Wi-Fi installed at home (we previously had no Wi-Fi at home). We also had boosters around the house using the electric wiring. Within weeks of the Wi-Fi installation I noticed I had Tinnitus (when at home only). I also noticed all my family seemed vaguely unwell, nothing serious just like a low-level virus that never cleared up, I didn't relate this to the Wi-Fi until my mother had the same system installed at her house a year or so later. She started getting horrible headaches and felt constantly under the weather. We both started to feel a burning/ringing on the left side of our head (around the ear). I began to notice if I worked in an office with 20/30 people in it and various Wi-Fi routers my head started to tingle (like little electric shocks across it) and these carried on after I went home, then would go away overnight. During this time, I started to suffer with bouts of uncontrollable anxiety (I had never had anxiety before) and feelings of impending doom. I had 3 miscarriages and irregular painful periods. I developed IBS, now if I turn my mobile phone on to Data or my laptop on in the morning, I suddenly need to go to the toilet, this doesn't happen on days I don't use my phone/laptop. I can still use my laptop for work but use plastic fibre optic connectors, I cannot just use ethernet cables. I still get tingly fingers where I hold the mouse and if I work for too long or watch videos, I start to feel nausea (like motion sickness). We no longer have Wi-Fi at home and have been able to convince my employers that I need to work from home. If I spend too long in the shops or in a pub, I start to feel very uneasy, with a tight chest and palpitations, my skin starts to go very red and feels like it's on fire. When home I unable to sleep for hours no matter how tired I am and my legs won't stop jumping. Sometimes I then vomit the next morning. It’s a pretty grim existence for both me and my family, very few people believe it’s real. But I’m not the sort of person who enjoys being ill or wants attention, I just want to be normal again. To go out and to go on holiday's again. Thanks for reading.

I am very sensitive when exposed to all wierless tecnical gadgets, mobilephones, WiFi, Routers and similar things. I can only use wired technology for my dayly use of technology. These problems I have had for twelve years now and I have had to rearrange everything in our house without wireless technology. ee Visiting official areas like healthcare institutions is troublesome and takes several days to get back to a stable situation again. The symptoms are lack of centration, trembling, distant, mild headace and less sleep per night. The problems are constant, without meauserable variasions. These problems constrains my social life and are annoying. My contact with the Swedish Healthcare has not been able to give me the help I need to change my situation.

I am responding as an individual: 3a. Type of wireless or RF/EMF sources involved (e.g., mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters…) Mobile phones, cordless phones, WiFi, cell towers 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years): For at least the past 30 years. 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced: Brain tumour (acoustic neuroma), hearing loss, severe insomnia, functional impairment, neurological issues. 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: The effects are immediate but it took years for me to make the connection. I've been sensitive to all EMFs since I was a teenager, and things got progressively worse as WiFi and cell towers were rolled out. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis? Yes, although largely ineffective, with it being attributed to 'nervous anxiety' and other psychosomatic issues. Ultimately diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma when things came to a head (mine!). 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects? Yes. When I discovered the tumour in 2009, I immediately gave up all wireless devices and moved to the countryside. This helped a lot, but a lot of damage had been done and it has taken many years for that to be repaired, although some aspects (eg deafness in right ear due to surgery) may never recover. 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information: MRI showing acoustic neuroma, meter readings that always backed up my physical sensations after the fact, and letters from doctors attesting to my intolerance. 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 EMFs: I instantly feel wireless radiation as an intense pressure in my head, as well as dizziness, brain fog, disorientation... B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects: WiFi, cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, magnetic fields B1b. Sources you can sense, but don't seem to harm you: All those I feel have an effect B1c. Sources you can use without sensing or being harmed: None B1d. Sources that seem to provide benefit (i.e., electrotherapy):None, other than following a low-oxalate diet, which has helped hugely with sleep and general resilience. This is a common feature for many EMF-affected individuals as oxalate increases sensitivity to wireless radiation. Oxalate binds with minerals, pulling calcium out of bones and depositing in tissue, which greatly impacts EMF sensitivity. Vegetarians are increasingly affected, since only animal products have low/zero oxalate. B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless: I am generally sensitive to things, although I don't consider this a health condition, merely an enhanced awareness of things. B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant: Dietary issues (mostly relating to oxalate, which affects electrolytes, as mentioned above). 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: Biggest improvement is from drastically reducing oxalate intake and following an almost-carnivore diet. Nothing else has helped in a measurable way. Meditation and neural reprogramming. B3b. That you recommend, but you’re not positive that they help: None B3c. That helped you but you don’t recommend. (e.g., the benefit did not last long or the side effects were too harmful): Almost everything I tried (countless therapies, supplements and remedies) before staring the low-oxalate diet. B3d. Treatments that had no effect: acupuncture, homeopathy, supplements B3e. Treatments that made your sensitivity worse: PEMF therapy B4. What is your age range? 65-74 B5. What year did you become aware of your sensitivity to wireless radiation or electromagnetic fields? 2009, although I had issues long before this; I just hadn't made the connection. B6. What country, state, province, or major city were you living in when you first noticed your sensitivity to wireless or electromagnetic fields? Canada

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…)wifi, mobile phones, smart meters, cell towers 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):I have reacted for 24 years, and had to move house because if it. 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:chronic fatigue, memory loss, headaches, twitchy and cramping muscles, eye focus, pressure in my head, sleep problems, unable to concentrate at times, heart palpitations, dizziness, burning sensation, tinitus, tingling on my skin, bladder problems as if I have cystitis, lower immune system, weakness 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:Almost immediately. I very close to the university where they were developing the technology. The top of the building was suddenly covered with the emitters they put on the towers. Immediately when a wifi box was put into the house and cordless phone was also bought. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis?Yes, the diagnosis was it was all in my head. Then I finally met a doctor who took my blood and looked at it under a microscope in his office and my blood cells were clumping together, not flowing freely as has been seen by many scientists studying exposure to EMF's. My blood look just like those discovered. by the scientists. 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects?Yes, moved house. Put ethernet cables throughout the house and corded phones. Don't use a mobile phone. It made a big difference to how I felt. 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information:Health risk from wireless? The debate is over. by Associate Prof. Olle Johansson and Associate Adj. Professor Einar Flydal 25 April 2014 The debate on health risks from mobiles, wireless LANs, baby calls and other wireless equipment based on microwaves, is, in fact, over – at least from a professional health and biophysics perspective. 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:Digestive and gut problems, sensitivity to food, problems socializing with friends. travelling, staying in hotels, walking around cities, eating in restaurants. It has effected my life severly. I am very isolated now, where as I used to be a very much an extravert, visiting museums, art galleries etc but now I have to be very careful where I go, how long I can tolerate the environment before I need to return home and retreat to under my protective net. This has caused a lose of friends, and a lot of contact with people. Because it is invisible people don't believe that I am struggling to stay normal and lead a normal life. When I am somewhere that has no EMF's I am my oldself. But that is rare these days as they are determined to cover the whole world. B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects:cell towers, wifi, cordless and mobile phones, smart meters, electric cars B1b. Sources you can sense, but don't seem to harm you:Non B1c. Sources you can use without sensing or being harmed:Non B1d. Sources that seem to provide benefit (i.e., electrotherapy):grounding on the earth, bednet B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless:I had no health conditions when I became sensitive to EMFs. B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant: 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:I have found nothing other than trying to live with it as best I can. Removing all exposure when in the house, so stronger for the times I do go out of the house. B3b. That you recommend, but you’re not positive that they help:Non B3c. That helped you but you don’t recommend. (e.g., the benefit did not last long or the side effects were too harmful):taking supplements, acupuncture, cleanses, B3d. Treatments that had no effect:Any exposure has made it worse. B3e. Treatments that made your sensitivity worse:65-74 B4. What is your age range?65-74 B5. What year did you become aware of your sensitivity to wireless radiation or electromagnetic fields?2002 B6. What country, state, province, or major city were you living in when you first noticed your sensitivity to wireless or electromagnetic fields?Edinburgh, Scotland

My severe health effects from exposure to manmade RF/EMFs Wireless microwave radiation began in Jan. 2016 when a lg. Cell tower was built half a block from my much loved home. It was 4G then. Immediately I began to have sleep issues, couldnt sleep deep, was restless, my hands would stretch over my head all night from stress and my leg would twist inward, I woke up many times and I could hear loud frequencies in my ears and head. I would have heart issues, racing heart , then high blood pressure, I got anxiety then depression as the months went by, then exhausted all the time, I was so tired I couldnt work like before 2016 and I would have blood pressure and heart chest pain disorders. By 2017 I had to go to urgent care and then to the hospital for chest pains. I noticed all WIFI infrastructure and devices, smart meters, etc. were emiting radiation that was causing me to be anxious and irritable. I would get brain fog and memory issues, When 5G was being implemented in March 2020 all over our neighborhoods in eastern WA. I was instantly experiencing so much high frequencies noise in my ears and head It was unbearable!, I got severe inflammation , my head was going to explode, I got angry from the pain and just wanted to escape the city and go to nature to find peace and calm to get away from such intense 5G (5000 hz/sec) manmade destructive RF. I was getting hot , inflammed daily from 5G cell towers, cell antennas, and all sorts of powerlines with 5G going up in the city from 2020. for the last 6 yrs. my life has been turned upside down and I have become a EM refugee; moving alot trying to find places to rent in the country and more remote (and very lonely and I cant work) to be away from cell towers cell infrastructure wifi internet routers in homes and neighbors.... which is almost impossible to find. from so much 5G infrastructure in all cities, towns, powerlines, homes, rentals, schools, public buildings, spaces, parks, etc. Its impossible for me to live in cities since 2020 due to 5G , am gaining weight from so much 5G wifi interference and i hardly eat, am vegetarian. As the whole USA cities and towns and even countrysides are full of wireless radiation, RF's , even satellites are all emititng tons of microwave radiation and its cooking the planet severely , all living things with a brain are getting fried by 5G , I am struggling daily to function, sleep, try to work if possible. the rf"s make me tired , heart issues, blood pressure issues, hair loss, mood swings, feel dried out, feeling v. tired and the 5G RF frequencies are so loud nightly after 1am to 6am daily. (I can hear them) .... i cant sleep. constantly turn and rotate into weird positions nightly. Now struggling with WIreless Rf's since 2016 I cant work hardly, had to close my office in 2020, sell my dearly loved home last yr. after being there for 20 yrs.... It has been beyond crazy hard to live isolated and always having some wifi issue and having to move. . I am forced to live away from people, I cant live in any towns with 5G infrastructure or other types of WIFI. I have to live in the country, in woods etc. as I got very sick from 4G and 5G wireless microwaves. have so many chronic health disorders from wifi. Living away from wifi and cell towers min. 2 miles etc. is the only way I can survive this mass EMR Wifi radiated society.

I am 54 and have experienced symptoms from emf’s since smart touch screen phones came out. Years ago, I returned my first touch screen phone because it made my face burn, my ear hurt and turn bright red and it made me super aggitated within a minute. Since then, I feel stinging and pain in my hands if holding a phone and my teeth ache is a cell phone is too close to my face for even a short period of time. People used to think I was crazy but I now know there are millions of others who notice detrimental and debilitating health consequences as well. Please do whatever you can to stop poisoning people and ruining lives with emf radiation. It has made it difficult for me to be in many spaces as I can even feel wifi now, it makes my legs buzz and I believe is a factor in the neurological issues I now have (neuropathy).

The 1st time I typed a paper on a computer was the annotated bibliography for my Master's degree. I couldn't figure out why I was ssoo irritable and unreasonable. My head pounded every time I worked on it. I couldn't see clearly. I couldn't. think. The next issue was when I got a satellite phone. My face would get red and hot, and my teeth started blowing up. Headaches again. Soon while commuting for work an hour each way in wide open desert land. Invariably at the same areas both ways, I would get hot and sweaty, no matter the weather; my shoulders and head would ache and feel prickly. The only variable in these areas were high cell towers. After that, things escalated very fast. I entered into a classroom which, although I was unaware of it at the time, had recently acquired wifi. Immediately, I was dizzy and ran out and barfed. There are some buildings that every time I enter, I run to the restroom with sudden violent diarrhea. Being attacked by harmful EMF's have. at times squeezed my life into the tiniest box. Every new invention complicates my life. I had to stop using a cell phone when 4 G came in. The pain and numbness in my fingers was unbearable. Talking on the cell was ridiculous as my brain could not decipher what was being said. Answering wasn't much better, as the frequencies made me stutter. Additionally, things like baby monitors, key fobs, motion sensor camera and lights, garage door openers, smart meters, electronics in cars, digital anything, radar, LED and fluorescent lighting, many medical devises, xrays, weather manipulation, laser, TV, tablets make me miserable, and, depending on how many devises are nearby, and the length of time exposed, more complications appear: vision loss, extreme high blood pressure, coughing, Parkinson's type symptoms, insomnia, trouble getting a breath, irregular heartbeats, lack of joy, lack of energy, joint pain, skin rashes, apprehension, restlessness, feeling the need to escape, memory loss, muscle pain, stabbing pain as cell phones pass by. Flying is impossible. Any injury or sickness when complicated with harmful EMF's is magnified times 10. The only way I've been able to function at all has been to live without electricity, away from people, in a shipping container with aluminum screening-basically a faraday cage. If I get 12-14 hours inside, I can recover and go out a bit. (work and other daily living on a moderate basis). Also, being an acupuncturist I can fix the damages in my own body daily if needs be. While observing patients for 20 years, I have noticed many have symptoms related to harmful EMF's. Some have figured the cause, but still choose their devices over giving them up for health sake. Some patients come at their very wits end because they couldn't figure out what was happening to them, and MD's pronounced it psychiatric which made them all the more terrified about their futures and desperate to be heard. Some patients have had to withdraw into a tiny, tiny life because they can't handle the affects of the harmful EMF's. It seems these devises could be manufactured with healing frequencies rather than debilitating.

As a science teacher in a middle school building, my body was continuously bombarded by RF (microwave) radiation from the 25 lap tops, wifi router, all the cell phones, blue tooth, and other wireless devices for many hours daily. No one was checking the cumulative amounts of the radiation over long periods of time. No one tells you about the harm; the non-thermal effects of the radiation. I would get blurry vision, headaches, body aches, heart palipatations... the wireless printer was directly behind my desk chair. When I sat at my computer my head and neck were only one foot away. In 2014 my carotid artery dissected and I was diagnosed with some rare connective tissue disorder. Maybe the radiation contributed to or exacerbated the condition. I left my job because I can not control the amount of radiation I am exposed to in the school building environment. In my house, I can choose to use hard wired connections, turn off wifi and other sources. Unfortunately, our government does not protect its citizens from the toxic bombardment of RF radiation. We are forced to have smart meters on our homes, and you allow tech companies to install cell towers and 5G antennas in our right-of-ways. I can also pick up the wi-fi routers of all of my neighbors and have no control over that. We need setbacks of at least 500 meters. We need to be able to opt out of smart meters and have analog meters re-installed. Companies need to use the lowest possible amount of radiation, not pump out massive dosages for better service. Please put better protective regulations in place! Sincerely, Margaret Lynch

Health Impacts from Poorly Regulated RFR and the Studies Documenting Harm By Kelly Marcotulli I suffer from a physiological response to wireless technologies. This happens when I am in a strong wifi environment and if I stay too long near electromagnetic frequencies from standard electrical pulsations. I didn’t want to believe that my symptoms and suffering would be so clearly caused by such ubiquitous daily technologies but the facts have remained- I feel the intensity of pulsed electromagnetic waves. My symptoms are: insomnia, headache, increased and heightened tinnitus (ringing becomes more shrill), and an overall increase in anxiety. This study, Risks to Health and Well-Being From Radio-Frequency Radiation Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices, demonstrates the clear connection between RFR and my body’s reactions to those frequencies. “extensive review of numerous published studies confirms non-thermally induced biological effects or damage (e.g., oxidative stress, damaged DNA, gene and protein expression, breakdown of the blood-brain barrier) from exposure to RFR (63), as well as adverse (chronic) health effects from long-term exposure (64). Biological effects of typical population exposures to RFR are largely attributed to fluctuating electrical and magnetic fields (65–67). https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00223/full Furthermore, this study out of Spain provides a causative relationship between my symptoms (cellular decay) and the RF frequencies my body was exposed to in the LAUSD schools I worked in. https://www.emfdata.org/en/studies/detail?id=949 “Irradiation affected selection of the death mode: apoptosis decreased or remained unchanged in cells subjected to any of the treatments, while necrosis increased in cells treated with CPS, LPS, or both for 48 h. The combination of RF-EMF and infectious agents reprogrammed the interaction between mitochondria/lysosomes/nitric oxide (NO)/cell death in macrophages in a time- and stimulus-dependent manner.” Radiofrequency fields at 2.45 GHz reprogram mitochondria–lysosome crosstalk and modulate the survival/death of macrophages exposed to LPS and/or the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein. To alleviate my reactions/illness, I have learned to prepare for a specific environment. For example, when I enter a restaurant, I use an EMF meter to find the areas of least radiation. My house is hard-wired with ethernet cables providing my internet connections and I use a landline to communicate. I do own a cell phone but it is kept in airplane mode or off most of the time. My friends and family know about my condition and they do not keep their phones on around me. I can’t attend stadium concerts, games and events where I know all phones will be pulsing their signals so, I don’t go. Luckily, I own my home and I am not subject to others’ wifi signals that would occur were I living in an apartment building. What about those who can’t afford a home and are forced to live in an unsafe environment? Sadly, I have come to believe that our government does not care about people like me. They care about the profits made by Telecom and they continue to deny that my sub-group has validity. Despite the studies that show harm, the FCC has just continued to allow more transmitters at higher frequencies to be developed. These higher frequencies (4G, 5G, 6G, 10G) are currently causing damage to plants and wildlife while the Federal government just looks the other way. I urge the FCC and HHS to take me and the thousands of us (could be millions, with symptoms blamed on the wrong cause), seriously. We are disabled and are often unable to participate in general society. Today, it is hard to find a safe place where there are no EMFs. This is why many escape into a forest, living off grid and on the edge. The small cell antennas now being deployed in every conceivable location- schools, office buildings, churches (shouldn’t they be sacred and safe places?), and on people’s homes make life impossible for those suffering from EMR-S (Electro Magnetic Syndrome). Please, take action now and prevent more suffering. Thank you, Kelly Marcotulli