Heart symptoms & implanted devices

I am an individual whose life and health have been dramatically affected by EMF sensitivity. After exposure to a water damaged building, I became more sensitive to all forms of radiation. Symptoms have been: Insomnia, sensitivity to the sun, neurological and balance issues, numbness and tingling, nervous system dysregulation, heart palpitations, heat flushing, extreme brain fog, inability to be on my phone or laptop for long periods of time, and resulting loss of relationships and loved ones who didn’t believe because there is no mainstream credible education to support this reality. I was unable to work for two years and had to leave my home, largely relying on being outdoors as that was the only environment my body could tolerate. Riding in vehicles also became impossible. My hope is that this issue will be taken seriously and more medical education and regulation will exist. Sincerely, a person who has lost everything due to this issue.

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 as an individual with part of my experience with EMF damaging my health. I noticed over 20 years ago with my flip phone that when I put it up to my head, I got a headache, my head felt hot on the side of the phone and my arm and hand tingled and would sometimes go numb using it. Those feelings only got worse each time I got a new phone. I was told that it was my imagination, but it was not. This only happened when using a cell phone, and eventually a cordless phone, not when using a landline phone. My health issues increased over the years impacted by increased exposure to wifi, cell phones, cordless phones, 5G, Bluetooth and smart meters. Around 8 years ago when a smart meter was placed on my home without our permission my health deteriorated rapidly. I began having headaches, I would feel dizzy, nauseous and felt like I would faint when I was in the room closest to the meter. It was on the wall closest to my bedroom and I could not sleep there anymore. I had to move to the bedroom in the basement as far away as possible. I had heart palpitations, became nauseous in the house but would feel better outside away from the meter, wifi and phones. I became extra sensitive to any type of electric system. I couldn’t watch a movie, go to restaurants or use cordless phones. These are just a few of the symptoms I had. It affected nearly every system in my body including my memory and moods. We had to pay to get the smart meter moved. We should have had a choice to get it removed completely and replaced with the old analog meter because of the severe effect it had on my health. That was refused. Exposure to EMF has changed my life and health forever as I have not been able to fully recover. I can’t travel very many places because there’s no place for me to stay that doesn’t have wifi, cell phones, cell towers, 5G and smart meters. We removed wifi from our home, got rid of any cordless phones, turned off cell phones and paid to move the smart meter to a pole out by the road since they refused to put the old one back on. By doing these things I was able to recover enough to be in my home and go out to other areas like the store and to church. But when people come into my home or I am surrounded in the store and at church by wifi and cell phones I start to feel sicker again with headaches, eye problems, pain, fatigue, etc. When I am able to get out of that environment those symptoms are greatly diminished. It’s difficult to get completely away from these because we are surrounded by EMF by no choice of our own. I feel best outside away from any type of EMF but unfortunately finding space where there is none is getting more difficult all the time. I may soon be searching for another place to live because there is possibly going to be a neighborhood put in on the land close to my home. I will not be able to survive being completely surrounded by all the EMF that will bring. As I have been researching this issue, I find there are hundreds, if not thousands of studies that show the harmful effect of EMF. Please take these studies and concerns seriously before even more people are harmed with their health and lives altered forever.

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 as an individual with part of my experience with EMF damaging my health. I noticed over 20 years ago with my flip phone that when I put it up to my head, I got a headache, my head felt hot on the side of the phone and my arm and hand tingled and would sometimes go numb using it. Those feelings only got worse each time I got a new phone. I was told that it was my imagination, but it was not. This only happened when using a cell phone, and eventually a cordless phone, not when using a landline phone. My health issues increased over the years impacted by increased exposure to wifi, cell phones, cordless phones, 5G, Bluetooth and smart meters. Around 8 years ago when a smart meter was placed on my home without our permission my health deteriorated rapidly. I began having headaches, I would feel dizzy, nauseous and felt like I would faint when I was in the room closest to the meter. It was on the wall closest to my bedroom and I could not sleep there anymore. I had to move to the bedroom in the basement as far away as possible. I had heart palpitations, became nauseous in the house but would feel better outside away from the meter, wifi and phones. I became extra sensitive to any type of electric system. I couldn’t watch a movie, go to restaurants or use cordless phones. These are just a few of the symptoms I had. It affected nearly every system in my body including my memory and moods. We had to pay to get the smart meter moved. We should have had a choice to get it removed completely and replaced with the old analog meter because of the severe effect it had on my health. That was refused. Exposure to EMF has changed my life and health forever as I have not been able to fully recover. I can’t travel very many places because there’s no place for me to stay that doesn’t have wifi, cell phones, cell towers, 5G and smart meters. We removed wifi from our home, got rid of any cordless phones, turned off cell phones and paid to move the smart meter to a pole out by the road since they refused to put the old one back on. By doing these things I was able to recover enough to be in my home and go out to other areas like the store and to church. But when people come into my home or I am surrounded in the store and at church by wifi and cell phones I start to feel sicker again with headaches, eye problems, pain, fatigue, etc. When I am able to get out of that environment those symptoms are greatly diminished. It’s difficult to get completely away from these because we are surrounded by EMF by no choice of our own. I feel best outside away from any type of EMF but unfortunately finding space where there is none is getting more difficult all the time. I may soon be searching for another place to live because there is possibly going to be a neighborhood put in on the land close to my home. I will not be able to survive being completely surrounded by all the EMF that will bring. As I have been researching this issue, I find there are hundreds, if not thousands of studies that show the harmful effect of EMF. Please take these studies and concerns seriously before even more people are harmed with their health and lives altered forever.

Within 24 hours of smart meters being installed at my apartment complex, I began noticing the following adverse health effects: a constant headache, chest pain, heart palpitations and arrythmias, bizarre and frightening brain sensations, and insomnia. A friend brought over an EMF meter and it detected high-powered pulses of microwave radiation every three seconds inside my apartment all along the wall the bank of smart meters was on. I tried to reduce my exposure by moving my sofa and bed away from that wall, shutting off my Wi-Fi, and wearing a supposedly EMF-shielding beanie hat whenever I was at home (even in bed), and staying away from my apartment as much as possible. These actions did not bring about any changes in the adverse health effects I was experiencing, so three months after the smart meters were installed I gave up my apartment and move to a different state where smart meters hadn’t yet arrived. Within days of arriving at my new residence (which was a guest bedroom in my parents’ house), I could actually feel their Wi-Fi in my head. The sensations were physically uncomfortable, bordering on painful, in my brain and in my ears. I had visited my parents earlier that year, and stayed for an entire month, and their Wi-Fi hadn’t been a problem then. It was only after I’d been exposed to smart-meter radiation for three months that I experienced adverse health effects from Wi-Fi. My parents agreed to shut off their Wi-Fi for me, and only then did my symptoms from Wi-Fi and smart meter exposure slowly begin to resolve. Six months later I was mostly symptom free. After my recovery, I thought that as long as I didn’t have Wi-Fi at home I might be able to tolerate spending a few hours once a week in a Wi-Fi environment out in the world. So I resumed going to church, and for many weeks everything seemed fine. It wasn’t until the twelfth Sunday that adverse health effects from cumulative exposure began to manifest what began as a low-grade headache quickly grew in intensity and constancy, accompanied by wholly unpleasant and downright frightening brain sensations. My ears ached, and rang, and popped – just like what occurs with changes in altitude. Except my altitude wasn’t changing, and only my right ear popped, often in quick succession: pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. In addition, my face burned, my chest ached, and I was extremely fatigued. I felt so exceptionally unwell I truly did not know whether I would even survive, let alone recover. Immediately after the onset of these adverse health effects, using my computer and cell phone became unbearable, causing an immediate worsening of the constant headache and uncomfortable brain sensations. Even being within twenty feet of where my parents were using their cell phones was highly problematic, and I only found relief by going outside so I could get farther away. It took six months of scrupulously avoiding all Wi-Fi, computer, and cell phone exposure for the worst of my symptoms to subside, leaving me with only a mild headache, a popping right ear, and uncomfortable brain sensations that are less frequent and less alarming. Two months later, shortly before smart meters were to be installed in my parents; town, I moved yet again, this time to a different state with a milder climate. I took up residence in a friend’s barn out in the country where I wouldn’t be exposed to smart meters, Wi-Fi, or cell phones. Even so, being in close proximity to basic electricity causes headaches and uncomfortable brain sensations, so I’ve had to find creative ways to prepare meals, provided lighting, and stay warm in winter. Even using a landline telephone was impossible until I got one that had a special radiation-free headset that delivers the sound to my ear via an air tube. I’ve lived in the barn for more than four years now, and my attempts to seek medical evaluation and treatment resulted in healthcare providers thinking I was crazy and wanting to do a psychiatric evaluation. The adverse health effects I experience rom various sources of EMF radiation has rendered me unable to earn any kind of income for over five years. Yet, I have been told I do not qualify for Social Security because they do not recognize EMF sensitivity as a disabling condition. It is only because I finally reached the age of 62 a few months ago and could start drawing my Social Security retirement benefits that I am not completely destitute. That and the generosity and kindness of friends (including the one who entered my response to this EMF RFI).

I am an individual who has moderate to strong sensitivity to electromagnetic field radiation being emitted by cell phones, 5 g towers, and any large electrical fields. I experience heart irregular rhythms, skin rashes, generalized anxiety and sleep disruption. I ask for immediate research by HHS for short and long term safety studies to be conducted for humans and ecosystem. I ask for new public health policies that control location and installations to be implemented, based on the independent research findings.

I am 66 years old and have been quadriplegic for 50 years. My RF symptoms encompass all systems in the body: neurological, respiratory, urinary, digestive, and cardiovascular. I was diagnosed by a very well-read medical doctor in 2007 after almost dying from a 900 MHz DECT phone that I was exposed to. Respiratory failure, kidney failure, heart failure, bleeding, inability to even sit up. It's truly a miracle that I survived. I started becoming reactive to wireless frequencies in 2007 when I had a DECT phone installed in my place of business. It took me a long time to figure it out but I finally figured it out. I got rid of the phone and recovered. In 2009 my husband got a wireless Router for his laptop. We didn't know that it was utilizing RF, just like the DECT phone until I started having all my symptoms again. We removed the router and I recovered once again. In 2011 they put a smart meter on my house. Again I had no idea it was the same thing until I got sick with the exact same weird symptoms. We tried to get the meter uninstalled. They wouldn't uninstall it so I joined a class action suit against Oncor in Texas. I was able to have it removed after 2.5 years of litigation but by then I was very ill. I no longer am able to work because of the extreme sensitivity to wireless frequencies. I don't have a cell phone. I don't have wireless routers or wireless anything in my house and I have two shielded rooms: my bedroom and my office. I have to do this because I live in a suburb where everybody has wireless everything and I'm sick if I don't stay secluded. I'm glad to see that RFK Jr. is taking the telecoms on because this is very serious for some of us. What's sad is that Oncor knew in 2011 that this was making people sick. A short story to illustrate how I know this is factually true: After I discovered that the smart meter was what was making me sick again, I thought it was going to be a simple call to my electric company and tell them that I have a diagnosis of EHS, that RF makes me terribly ill, and that I need my analog meter back. They told me no, that they can't do that because it's part of a mesh network, but they would send somebody up from Dallas that "does this sort of thing." When I heard that I thought, "Well they know what's going on with me and they're going to take care of it." What happened couldn't have been further from the truth. My local guy showed up with the guy from Dallas and his technician. The first thing he did was ask where my meter was and he went out there with his laptop, which had a little antenna on it. When he came back in, he asked, "What's on the other side of that wall from the meter?" and I told him, "A bathroom." He said, "Can I go look?" and I said, "Yeah." He took his laptop in there, came back out, and I said, "Is everything okay?" He said, "Yeah. I'm just glad it's not a bedroom." Anyway we were talking and he asked me, "Do you have allergies?" I told him yes, that I had a lot of allergies, and he said, "Yeah we find people that have trouble with radio frequency also have a lot of allergies." He said, "I know this stuff is real." He said "we have people all over Dallas having problems with the smart meters." As they were leaving the Dallas guy said that they would "turn it down" and I was thinking, "Oh that's great, that'll probably help." Unfortunately it did not help, not even a little. In fact I don't even think they did anything at all because their mesh network needed to work. Anyways as they were walking out the door my local guy says, "Well don't we need to go back out there and turn it down?" The technician laughed and he said, "No we can do that from Dallas." Needless to say I suffered unnecessarily for 2.5 years until I was able to get my analog meter back after the lawsuit settled. By that time I had lost my business, my marriage, and my faith in humanity. I believe the telecoms have known this for many, many years and they chose to do it anyways for a buck. Truly despicable.

I am writing to make you aware of the following effects that Electromagnetic and Radio frequency radiations have on me. - Continuous operation of a Wi-fi router in my home disrupts my sleep and it has to be shut off before retiring at night to have a full night's sleep. - I have developed MS since 5 g rollout and cannot hold onto a powered cell phone for 15 seconds without having hand and arm shooting pains that will eventually shoot into my head (temple) on the side I am holding the phone, if I hold the phone longer than 15 seconds. - my blood pressure, body tremors and dizziness symptoms are increased in public buildings like hospitals and clinics, and stores where wi-fi is in use. - since 5g phones came out, I can only use my 5g cellphone on airplane mode with blue tooth and wi-fi both shut off. I text and use speaker phone with it sitting on a table to avoid severe head, hand and arm pains. - while riding in a car, I have shooting head pain when passing by an area where there is a cellphone tower within 1/8 of a mile from my path. - I cannot sleep in hotels. - I stopped using a portable phone due to the severe headache I would get while holding it to my head. Thank you for your attention to this matter. The WHO had already recognized that cell phone use may be carcinogenic, many many years ago.

Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the serious health impacts of EMF radiation on the human body. EMF is negatively impactful to children and adults in the following categories: NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS CARCENEGETIC EFFECTS INFLAMATORY EFFECTS (OXIDATIVE STRESS) I am a physician with over 40 years of clinical experience. Please consult the scientific articles referenced below for clear evidence of these effects. The best background paper of all of these is: Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health Environmental Research Published July 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355 I will also comment that EMF radiation is widespread in hospital settings with the extensive use of WiFi enabled instruments. By permitting these signals to remain in hospitals, students, providers, teachers, patients, and the care team will all be detrimentally impacted. While it is very disappointing that HHS and the FCC have been slow to recognize the volume of evidence corroborating these serious health impacts----it is never too late to enact rules that will better protect the public going forward. Thank you for your consideration of this important scientific evidence of the harmful impacts of EMF radiation on the human body. REFERENCES 1. THE IMPACT OF EMF ON THE NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN i. Health effects of electromagnetic fields on children Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics 2020;63(11):422-428. Published online: May 26, 2020 https://www.e-cep.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.3345/cep.2019.01494 ii. Environmental and auto-induced RF-EMF adult and children far-field exposure simulations between 450 MHz and 26 GHz Physics in Medicine & Biology, Volume 71, Number 17 Published 2 September 2026 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/ae97ac/pdf 2. CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS OF EMF i. The interplay of heart rate variability and ventricular repolarization parameters in the obese state: a review Cardiovascular Endocrinology & Metabolism Published March 2025. https://www.ovid.com/jnls/cardiovascularendocrinology/fulltext/10.1097/xce.0000000000000323~the-interplay-of-heart-rate-variability-and-ventricular?context=latestarticles ii. Exposure to cell phones reduces heart rate variability in both normal-weight and obese normotensive medical students Explore (NY) Published Jul-Aug 2020 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32249199/ 3. CARCENEGETIC EFFECTS OF EMF i. Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health Environmental Research Published July 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355 II. Risks to Health and Well-Being From Radio-Frequency Radiation Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices Sec. Radiation and Health Volume 7 - 2019 Published 12 August 2019 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00223/full 4. INFLAMATORY EFFECTS (OXIDATIVE STRESS) OF EMF i. Thermal and non-thermal health effects of low intensity non-ionizing radiation: An international perspective Environ Pollution Published Nov. 2018 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30025338/ ii. Oxidative mechanisms of biological activity of low-intensity radiofrequency radiation Electromagnetic Biology Medicine Published July 2016 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26151230/

I had an electric smart meter installed against my will and I got really bad after this two days after that my head started beeping for another 3 days I got pressure on my chest had to go to the hospital in an ambulance and nothing was found and after another 3 days I got it again and then had heart fibrillation which went away by itself in the middle of the night and I have always had these problems before I am physically active I run and cycle I am 60 years old I still have beeping in my head but this goes away if I leave home after a few days I have sued the electricity company but the court announced the case and no one believes me and it is completely crazy that it is allowed to happen like this there are EU rules 2019 /944 art 22 which gives me the right to use a traditional electricity meter but all the authorities turn a blind eye to this Tomas Nilsson Sweden

I am writing as an individual consumer/patient and am hypersensitive to electromagnetic radiation. I had lived in NYC for several decades but had to move out (to a small town in a rural area) when wifi was installed on the subways in NYC, and many were using their cell phones on the subway. (People get around in NYC primarily by public transportation so the subways are generally crowded.) I moved out in September 2019. My symptoms when exposed to RF/EMF are cardiac and tingling in my hands and feet. An additional likely symptom, based on an overnight EEG which showed a “blip of a partial seizure,” is that my brain becomes “irritable.” I develop a weird sensation in my heart when exposed to cell phones. If the exposure is strong enough and long enough, the sensation flips into an arrhythmia. It is much worse in a confined space where the cell phone puts out a stronger signal. The worst incident of this happened when a friend drove me from NYC to Hudson, the small town where I now live. She used GPS on her cell phone for the entire trip which was maybe 1 to 1 1/2 hours even though I asked her to turn it off. I developed a severe arrhythmia which continued for 6 to 8 months after the exposure on the drive. I saw a cardiologist to evaluate same, but it took months to get the appointment since the provider came to Hudson from Albany only occasionally. By the time I saw her, the arrhythmia had stopped. After testing, she said that my heart was “strong” and that the prolonged arrhythmia was the result of exposure to a “stress”—obviously the cell phone radiation in a confined space. If I walk down the one main street in the little town where I now live on a sunny day—when lots of people are always out walking many looking at their cell phones, I develop the “weird sensation” in my heart so I can only walk on the lovely main street at night or on a rainy day when few people are out and so there is little cell phone exposure. Neurological symptoms include tingling in my hands and feet even when exposed to even relatively minor amount of RF/EMF. The other likely neurological symptom started when cell phone towers first went up. I saw a neurologist for another symptom, and he ordered an overnight EEG. He said that on the overnight EEG, I had a “blip of a partial seizure.” He said that I did not have a seizure disorder but rather that my brain was “irritable.” I then told him about recent experiences of being a block or two away from my apartment building, where everything looked familiar, but for a minute, I could not figure out how to get back to my apartment building. Then I would know how to get back. In a similar manner, when I changed subway trains, I sometimes would have a minute in which I could not figure out how to get from one train to another even though I had changed trains in the same place hundreds of times. Then it would come back. The neurologist said that this was the “blip of a partial seizure.” I started taking two capsules of magnesium taurate 3X per day, and this stopped these episodes. When I tried to stop early on, these episodes would return so I have been taking the magnesium taurate ever since. I do not know for sure that my brain being “irritable” was caused by RF/EMF, but it seems likely.