Electromagnetic sensitivity

1. Anonymous. I live in Rhode Island. The website www.RI4SafeTech.org effectively educates the public and decision-makers about EMF/RF: “We envision a world with safe technology. Choosing safer, faster, wired tech avoids wireless harm.” 2. Responding as an individual, patient, and caregiver. 3. I was a stay-at-home dad. In 2009, when we moved to a new home, I checked with my wife, who was amenable to the idea, and installed an Ethernet-only modem for our internet connection, just in case RF radiation could be a health problem for our young children. This connection used ethernet cords and didn’t allow Wi-Fi. We also had to turn off Wi-Fi on our computers to stop the RF radiation. Moreover, we continued to taper off cellphone use, eventually turning them off altogether except for emergencies or to do the occasional inconvenient tasks demanded in a world increasingly commandeered by wireless technology adherents. Additionally, for our landline phone connection, we removed our cordless handset phones and replaced them with corded phones. In 2016, when I had returned to work outside of the home, I began to get health problems which were directly related to Wi-Fi exposure. I could tell the difference between my home environment, without a Wi-Fi modem, and the library, which had a Wi-Fi modem. Here’s what happened. These were not “potential” effects, they were real. I began working at my public library, for 20 hours a week, and started getting many symptoms, including flushing, red ears and hands, heart palpitations, brain fog, dyslexia, headaches (which would build as the day progressed), short-term memory loss, irritability, anger, anxiety, and depression. When I went home, I’d feel much better, except that now I had terrible insomnia even though I was so tired. I’d collapse in sleep for 2 hours, then wake up, unable to sleep. At my wits end at work, I finally realized that what I thought was a smoke detector on the ceiling was the whole-library Wi-Fi access point, just ten feet from where I worked at the Circulation Desk. I could tell the difference between environments highly polluted with radiofrequency radiation and those with less radiation. After doing a deep dive into the topic, and after wrestling with the cognitive dissonance of some sources telling me it was no problem and just my imagination, and visits to many doctors who had no medical framework or education regarding what I was experiencing, I finally quit my job and began to recuperate. Now I know I get Electromagnetic Radiation-Syndrome (EMR-S) from exposure to what the telecom industry calls low levels of RF radiation and other EMFs. I do my best to avoid RF radiation and EMFs, but it is impossible to function in American society without some exposure to it. It is an ongoing ordeal to stave off the attack of RF/EMFs on my person and my family. It is not just people who are “sensitive” to it that the radiation affects. If you have cells, you are affected. All living things are affected by EMF Radiation, which includes: Radio Frequency (RF), Magnetic Fields (MF), Electric Fields (EF), and Dirty Electricity (DE). (Thanks to Nicolas Pineault, and his book: The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs.) The problems I was having were compounded by several factors related to the medical and government systems under which our lives operate. By chance, I finally visited a Nurse Practitioner who had been trained in Russia, where they teach about neurasthenia and how electricity and electromagnetism can cause symptoms. Wikipedia and other sources co-opted by medical industry capture, mischaracterize symptoms from EMFs as psychological disorders. This condescending and incorrect view of patients, supported by industry but not by science, harms people who are already hurting. In Russia, they listen. Writer Arthur Firstenberg catalogues this mistake in his informative book, The Invisible Rainbow, where he demonstrates that electricity as well as Wi-Fi (which is pulse modulated electricity shot through the air) have an effect on our cells. Martin Pall, PhD, elaborates on the mechanism for cellular change in his work at Washington State. Samual Milham, MD shows, in his book, Dirty Electricity, how Washington state and other US states have epidemiological data supporting the reality that the introduction of electricity to homes caused health problems. Firstenberg also shows how these findings—such as an increase in diabetes—are independent of diet for these groups. Paul Brodeur, a staff writer for The New Yorker, wrote The Zapping of America (1977), which can be read at archive.org, and chronicles the U.S. military’s medical trials and coverup of radar and other EMF damage. https://archive.org/details/zappingofamerica00brod/mode/2up A book useful regarding educating both patients and doctors is: The Sensitive Patient’s Healing Guide by Neil Nathan, MD.

I am commenting on the request for public comment on EMF, RF and Wireless radiation exposure. I would like to see transparency of industry detailing the frequencies being emitted from their equipment. I became hypersensitive to electromagnetic exposure after smart meters were installed by the electric company. At first I was dizzy queazy. I started vibrating indoors and out in 2012. There was a cell tower nearby and also a digital over the air fee tv signal coming into my house. No cable or wifi in this house. After some research I thought the low frequency 3-4 hz vibration could be from the smart meter modem motor. The electric company denied any connection between their equipment and my symptoms. I also have tinnitus which I have always known was RF. I was hit and felt attacked by a low frequency pulse for three hours at a time that was definitely a beating and I cried the entire time. When I laid down at night I felt like I was on top of a running truck engine and broke out in shingles. I had crawling sensations all over my body. I visited a grocery store and felt like my internal organs were being knocked around. It was extremely frightening. I experienced static in my head that felt like bacon sizzling in a pan. My body’s electrical system has been altered. I feel wifi and when 5G came online I got hit with frequency bullets that caused my brain to vibrate. So the known science about RF affecting our physical chemistry and our body’s electrical sytem is being ignored. Why do we have no rights to question and protest our inescapable exposure to RF and why isn’t there a database where we can register our personal testimonies. I feel tortured and the doctors can only prescribe drugs to help keep me calm. And what about the SINE Wave? Is it being distorted and emitting harmonics that are affecting us? Who is measuring these affects with instruments that would inform us? I have fatigue, brain fog and random pains all over my body. I hear a high pitched whine. The vibrating I experience is more pronounced since my cable company installed all new equipment in my apartment. I can see my neighbors WIFI ID on my phone so I’m exposed to that too. I forgot to mention I had heart palpitations in the beginning and went to the ER fearing a heart attack. When trying to rest at night I am helped by prescription drugs for a few hours. Why can’t we sign up to a registry with such accounts. And shame on the Government telling doctors they may not diagnose Havana Syndrome for civilians!

Our son suffers with Electromagnetic hypersensitivity. He is 43, married with two teenage children and has been unable to work for the past five years. His symptoms increased dramatically with the introduction of phone towers and masts around the area he was living and the increase of the number of people using phones in his working life and social life as well as family members. His employers were unable to provide him with suitable working conditions so he had to give up a job he loved. The family moved home to an area they thought was safer but soon phone towers and masts were erected in the surrounding area and the readings coming through the wall of his neighbouring house were very high in his kitchen so he is unable to cook or help with family chores. We helped him financially to have a shielded garden room erected where he can exercise and meditate. His mental health would have suffered severely without it. The effects of electromagnetic frequencies were taking such a toll on his body that he suffered with continual ectopic beats of the heart and would often pass out. He only leaves the home to have respite with friends whose homes have been adapted or our home which has had all WiFi removed. He has very little contact with friends and is unable to attend family functions and social gatherings. The condition has caused a form of grief for him, his wife and children and all his surrounding family, especially his father and myself. Getting help and understanding from professionals has been difficult at best and upsetting and infuriating at it's worse. Our country seems to be way behind other countries in understanding the physical dangers of these frequencies. Good luck with your work on this subject and our best wishes go out to you. Teresa and Jeff Bence

I have a friend who has EMR Syndrome who I work on a farm with who has EMR Syndrome (www.emrsyndrome.org). She gets arrhythmias from cell phones, WiFi, etc. She also has trouble walking and when around a lot of wireless but is able to function well on the farm in the fields planting vegetables, harvesting, etc. where there is little or no wireless. We keep our cell phones off when we are with her. When she is not around wireless, she is able to work. Please work to provide safer guidelines to prevent people from developing this very disabling condition and help those who have it. Thank you!

With the arrival of 3G in 2008, and the purchase of a 3G phone, symptoms quickly appeared: troubled vision in the morning as if in fog that was gradually dissipating; others became permanent, headaches, sleep disorders, tingling in the limbs when I worked on computers. I aligned these symptoms in an online search and discovered that these symptoms are due to intolerance to electromagnetic waves. I had to transform all the equipment in my house with specific solutions, with the help of a habitat biologist specialized in this case: shielded cables, grounded and insulated the bedroom walls. The symptoms decreased as long as I stay out of the wifi zone and call with the fixed line, the mobile only for emergencies and no more than 5 minutes away from my head. I could no longer frequent places with wifi and fixed wireless phones (DECT), or exposed to cell towers. With the proliferation of connected devices, the widespread use of connected objects via WiFi, and then the free WiFi in all public places, everything for me was getting worse: headaches, tingling sensations on the body, skin burns on the wrists, ankles, and face, digestive disorders, poor sleep, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, weight loss, tinnitus, zooms in on the head, ear warming even without calling, and when I started to experience loss of time reference and orientation, I informed my employer that I will no longer be able to keep this position, which is too exposed. This disability no longer allows me to work or even live in our house surrounded by wifi, so running away is my only salvation. I survive only thanks to an off-the-air location in the forest or in the basement of my parents' house, which is protected from the antennas by a good concrete screed, while waiting to find a place in a white zone and sell our house. I finally found a small village where there are no smart meters in operation, no cell towers nearby, no electrical cables above the house (since I have also become intolerant of 50 Hz), and the possibility of high-performance wired communication. (internet and telephone). To slowly regain health – even though my prolonged exposure has caused irreversible symptoms and permanent disability – I sleep every night in an isolated yurt in a faraday cage, That is, zero waves, but I can only expose myself in polluted places covered with three protective fabrics and limit exposure to a maximum of one or two hours. Regarding my trips, they are restricted (on average once every two or three weeks). I am dependent on my husband for all the groceries.

Hello, I'm glad that something is finally moving, although I am sure that nothing will be done. There is too much money to be made by the telecom industry, in connivance with Big Pharma, to stop microwaving the global population. I'm here to tell my story nonetheless, so maybe other people like me can learn from my experience. Everyone is whining about cell towers while happily scrolling to their graves on their smartphones. It's like advocating for the banning of tobacco with a cigarette hanging between one's lips. But this is not just about cell towers. I've been injured by synthetic RF radiation in my own home, from my own Wi-Fi, DECT phone, and smartphone. For more than a decade, I've suffered from a terrible dry eye syndrome so painful that it nearly drove me to suicide. I was even sensitive to sunlight, since that is electromagnetic radiation too. I could not even open the blinds during the day. I had to go out for groceries only after dusk. I was like a vampire, only living at night, although I did not feed on virgins' blood but on chocolate ice cream. I can't explain those sugar cravings, but many EHS people have confirmed that they, too, were addicted to chocolate or sugar in general. I also experienced a multitude of symptoms within a short time of installing my first Wi-Fi router and DECT phone at home. I suffered from severe insomnia, dizziness, nervousness, ringing in my ears, headaches, high blood pressure and heart arrhythmias, high blood sugar and cholesterol, articular pains, constant fatigue, urinary urgency, bladder stones, excess stomach acid, and GERD. Eventually, after more than a decade of torture, I discovered the root of all my problems: the EMFs in my home. I was diagnosed with EHS and MCS and was told there was no cure; only avoidance of wireless technology could bring me relief. So I started making drastic changes in my life. I switched off all wireless connections, hardwired any devices I could, and gave up those that did not have an Ethernet connection. I gave up my beloved smartphone and replaced it with a landline and social media on my wired PC. I've also fully shielded my home against RF radiation from outside cell towers and my neighbours' wireless crap. I've spent a small fortune on shielding. I've painted all my walls and ceilings with conductive paint. I used metallic mesh under my floorboards and on the windows. I've shielded even my front door. Within a few weeks, my health issues started fading away. Within one year, I was as good as new. I even lost 20 kg of body weight that I had put on earlier. No need for a diet. By eliminating EMFs, my sugar cravings were gone within 6–8 months. I'm as healthy now as I was in my twenties, despite being 60. Even the wrinkles on my face and age spots on my hands are gone. But my sensitivity to EMFs has got worse. It's like an alcoholic who has been sober for a few months and gets drunk after just one can of beer if they ever drink again. So now I must wear a full Faraday suit outdoors if I want to avoid dizziness, brain fog, and nausea. I am attaching images of myself to prove that I'm not joking. Anyway, my life is not what it used to be. Due to the ubiquitous presence of wireless devices and cell towers, I can't work anywhere, can't go out with friends, can't visit family, and can't go on vacation to the beach or anywhere else where there are people, because every single one of them carries their smartphone, iPod, smartwatch, etc. I can't travel, go to see a doctor or a dentist, and I'm terrified of having to be hospitalised one day. Everyone is sick from these microwaves. Nine people out of ten will say they have all or many of my past symptoms. Most of them have chronic fatigue and insomnia. Children have ADHD. Nature is suffering too. Just have a look at all the dying trees, and you'll know where the 5G antennas are located in the cities. In the parks, there are no bees or any insects left. No birds singing and no crickets chirping in the evening. Only a post-apocalyptic-like silence accompanies me during my walks. If I drive my car outside the city, the windscreen is clean when I return. No smashed insects that I need to wash off anymore. They keep blaming this on pesticides or climate change. Just get rid of wireless technology, and everything will go back to normal. I'm not a doctor, and I don't mean to give any medical advice. My only proof is my own miraculous healing after giving up wireless technology altogether. Try abstaining from wireless devices if everything else fails. I don't expect Mr Kennedy to succeed in this fight, but God bless him for trying... Anyone who needs help with protection against EMFs can visit my YouTube channel, "Soluciones 5G de Torito": https://www.youtube.com/@Torito1774/videos I also give free advice to anyone injured by synthetic radiation. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with me by email at torito1774@proton.me.

In 1999, I moved close to a pylon whose role I completely ignored. From the very first night, I didn’t sleep a wink. Then it persisted and other debilitating and painful symptoms arrived. I ended up finding out what this pylon was used for and I learned that it was a variety of transmitters: France television, the beginning of mobile telephony in France, microwave links and FM radio. At the time, I was working as a computer scientist at the CNES in Toulouse and a neighboring colleague who specialized in satellites and therefore their protection against electromagnetic fields alerted me to leave in order to preserve my health. That’s what she was doing on her end by selling her house to flee the neighborhood. Despite his advice and the discovery of many patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s in the environment of transmitters, I had lost all discernment and ability to react. It must be said that these were pollution emitters in Toulouse (France) for which professional measures requested by sick residents had revealed levels of high frequencies up to 20 volts at the foot of homes. Finally, after years of fighting, these emitters were dismantled due to extreme emissions. The neighborhood was a cluster of neurodegenerative diseases and others...? Following my years under the pylon, I first lost sleep, felt permanent agitation, and developed fluctuating symptoms like multiple sclerosis, such as blurred vision, paraesthesia, temporary loss of motor skills after heavy exposure, headaches, oppressions, nausea, chronic fatigue, concentration problems with confusion, pins and needles, loss of perception of body sensations and obstacles etc. I am passing on this whole long and painful period where my whole world has collapsed. It took me a long time (years) to realize that I had to mourn a normal life. I was able to regain better condition thanks to anti-wave canopies for sleeping and protecting my living space, where I am the most permeable and vulnerable to waves. To limit my exposure, in order to best maintain my intellectual and physical faculties, I must drastically limit my exposures. I can no longer work, so my income and social life are significantly altered. For these reasons, I receive a small disability pension related to the consequences of my intolerance to almost all electromagnetic fields. I am particularly affected by WIFI frequencies, all types of high frequencies, and power lines that disrupt the 50 Hertz network (all boxes, Enédis smart meters in France). Currently, it is complicated, even with the best protections, to avoid the multiplicity of connected objects in the neighborhood that fit everywhere, including under two layers of canopy for certain technologies such as Wi-Fi boxes and CPL in France, which sometimes use the earth from the electrical network to connect to the earthing system, I don’t understand why these connected tools do not remain within the framework of their home or professional network by using two-way wireless instead of constantly watering several meters away. There would also be the possibility of mapping one’s environment and limiting oneself to it. Today I no longer have access to much, and I am concerned about the proliferation of these antennas and devices connected via WiFi and Bluetooth, which for some no longer offer the option of deactivation. Accessing healthcare in a hospital setting is very complicated for people with my disability. For important care, it is torture that adds to an already difficult situation. I am doing my best today to survive with resilience, hoping to find myself a healthy and low-exposed place. I have been searching for years because the equation is very complicated. In the meantime, I want to avoid suffering too much as much as possible so that I can stay at peace regardless of the outcome.

My comments to potential adverse health and environmental effects of RF radiation I live in Sweden and am posting this comment because I suffer from the disability known as electrohypersensitivity (EHS), which is well documented in the form of medical certificates, confirmed in a double-blind scientific test in Germany and, not least, through the constant ‘blind tests’ that occur in everyday life. My reactions to a wireless wifi router have been documented in a scientific double-blind stress test in which heart rhythm (HRV) was clearly disrupted at a level as low as one millionth (0.000001) of the Swedish limit value of 10,000,000 μW/m² established by the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority. Many of my friends here in Sweden, like me, feel very unwell and are struggling to escape the radiation from wireless technology. In 2015, the general public in Sweden were asked by the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) whether various environmental factors affect health. 5.2 per cent of respondents said that they were bothered by car exhaust fumes more than once a week. In large cities, 10–12.2 per cent reported being very or extremely disturbed by traffic noise. Questions about “electromagnetic fields from, for example, mobile phones and antennas” and “electromagnetic fields from, for example, electrical appliances and power lines” had also been asked. 4 However, the results were not published in the same way as those for noise and car exhaust fumes. Following a request, the results were provided to the Swedish Association for the Electrohypersensitive. 35.2 per cent of respondents said that their health is negatively affected and 10.6 per cent said that their health is significantly affected by mobile phones and masts. Overall, 45.8 per cent reported a negative or significantly negative impact.5 This shows that the problem of ill health caused by radiation from wireless technology needs to be taken seriously and is considerably greater than many other serious environment-related health problems. I am also deeply concerned about the growing number of research reports finding that the artificial radio waves used for wireless communication – which are extremely much stronger than natural background radiation – harm plants, insects and other animals. This fact in itself poses a serious threat to human survival on this wonderful planet. Is radiation from wireless technology harmful? I believe the question is misguided and should instead be phrased as follows: How is it possible that humans and other forms of biological life could tolerate these environmentally alien radio waves, which have never before existed in the course of evolution? After all, a prerequisite for the life and health of biological beings is that we function and communicate internally using electric fields that are so incredibly much weaker than those from wireless communication. Brain waves can be measured externally using an EEG. Naturally, the electromagnetic fields from wireless technology also penetrate the body, interfere with our own signals and cause disruption. Thank you for your initiative in looking more closely at this issue; it gives me a glimmer of hope in the darkness! Ann Rosenqvist Attachments My Very Restricted Life as Someone Sensitive to Wireless Technology My symptoms related to electromagnetic fields and radio waves Scientific Testing for Wireless Wi-Fi in Germany Long-term EMF studies on humans Do the EMF exposure limits work? Here is the European public’s verdict Research into how EMFs affect insects

My family is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and are unfortunately exposed to more and more EMR every time we go to town. 5G cell towers are popping up everywhere and the march of smart gadgets are hard to avoid. I personally get severe headaches when I’m near WIFI for any length of time. We have to pay our electric company extra every month to avoid having a smart meter placed outside our bedroom. The corporate push to use EMR in all aspects of our daily lives is literally killing us and needs to be regulated through new independent scientific studies overseen by reputable non-profits like the Environmental Health Trust. Why has HHS not conducted regular safety studies on new cell phones using 5G and 6G? We know that 2G-4G negatively impacted rat health in laboratory studies. The evidence is there but the public continues to be misled and unprotected by irresponsible corporate greed. Lawsuits are overdue on the subject of human EMR exposure! We trust HSS will serve the public good and do the right thing in regulating EMR in the near future. Thank you

Thank you for participating! Please note that CPTF safeguards the confidentiality of your data. 1. & 2. Responding as: an individual 3a. Type of sources: Injured by: Mobile phones; Wi-Fi; Smart Meters, Dirty Electricity; High Tension Powerline Fields, all have detrimental effects on my system 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, timing: Started in May, 2012, (so 14-years) with the installation of a non UL approved, constant transmitting smart meter on my home. Smart meter came from China. I was COMPLETELY healthy prior to that time. The results from the injury still persists. 3c. Adverse health effects: Welting, itching, burning, peeling of the skin on my face, neck and upper and elbow creases of both arms; heart palpitations, headaches, dizziness. 3d. Time from exposure to appearance of adverse effects; did a change coincide with onset: Time from first exposure to appearance of adverse health effect: 1-week. Yes, change in exposure did/does coincide with onset of adverse effects. I had none of the adverse effects prior to first exposure. 3e. Medical evaluation sought? Diagnosis? YES. Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity currently renamed to Electromagnetic Spectrum Syndrome; my term is Electromagnetic Spectrum Injury. 3f. Steps taken to reduce exposure; subsequent changes in effects: Yes. I requested that the smart meter be removed from my home and I was told by the utility company I'd have to pay $50/mo. to "opt out". I told them I never "opted in" and that I wanted the meter off my house. The utility company complied approximately 14-months later. I keep my cellphone on airplane mode and ask others to do the same when I'm with them; I have a hard-wired computer; I limit visiting homes of family and friends who don't understand the effects of electromagnetic field/electromagnetic radiation overexposure; I limit flying because of the massive amount of EMF/EMR in the airport and on a plane when cellphones are active; I drive a 2005 vehicle which has low EMR, removing all metals from my mouth, which is an extremely slow and expensive process. My symptoms are more quiet presently through my efforts to minimize exposure. However, symptoms will flare within hours of overexposure. Unfortunately, limiting exposure also means limiting contact with family and friends. 3g. Supporting documentation: https://greenmedinfo.com/content/how-emfs-disturb-your-immune-system2 20 New Papers on Electromagnetic Fields and Biology or Health Electromagnetic Radiation Safety December 9, 2024 Joel M has been circulating abstracts of newly-published scientific papers on radio frequency and other non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF) monthly since 2016. The complete collection of these papers contains more than 2,000 abstracts with links to the papers. Several hundred EMF scientists around the world receive these updates. To see abstracts for the most recent papers or to download volumes 1 to 3 of this collection go to: https://www.saferemr.com/2022/06/recent-research-on-wireless-radiation.html Recent Research on Wireless Radiation and Electromagnetic Fields Additional Details: It has been and continues to be a nightmare!! B1a. Sources experienced as causing Adverse Effects: The electromagnetic fields; electromagnetic spectrum radiation; continuous transmitting smart meters; active cellphones; WiFi; dirty electricity; high tension powerline fields. B1b. Sources can sense, but don't harm: None!! B1c. Can use without sensing: None!! B1d. That provide benefit: I've tried electrotherapy, it was not useful. B2a. Health conditions that may contribute: Metal/Mercury crowns and fillings, which are scientifically shown to create a galvanic condition in the mouth, which is exacerbated throughout the body. B2b. Other health conditions: None. B3. Drugs, therapies, remedies, or practices: B3a. Can recommend: Being outside gardening; being in Nature; exercising daily; eating organic/Nature grown food, massage therapy. B3b. Can recommend, but not positive they help: None B3c. Helped but don’t recommend: None B3d. Treatments having no effect: None B3e. That made sensitivity worse: 65-74 B4. Age range: 65-74 B5. Year you became aware of your sensitivity to RF/EMFs: 2012 B6. Country, state, province, or city lived in when first noticed sensitivity: Arizona