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Posted 2026-10-28#5984 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter describes chronic illness while working in satellite communications and possible heightened…

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Victoria Marshall Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health Re: Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure Docket #.: HHS-OASH-2026-0397; Federal Register Notice: 91 FR 59792 (Sept. 21, 2026) Dear Ms. Marshall and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health: This is an abridged version. The full version is attached as a PDF. I worked in satellite communications in the late 1980s. The field was new; we transmitted live sports via audio then video within 18 months. The company grew from ~23–24 to ~350 employees in five years. I worked under the executive VP overseeing engineering. Safety was taken seriously—rigid line and transmission equipment were tested and kept within then-applicable exposure margins. Despite this, I was chronically ill the entire time. I have had multiple RF, wireless, and magnetic exposures (satellite RF, extreme magnetic fields exceeding accepted standards, ordinary/not ordinary wireless). I may be more sensitive than average. One can literally feel the low-level “noise” of these emanations as continuous low-level stress on the body, separate from any bio-field or optogenetic-type effects. RF/wireless/magnetic safety limits have not been meaningfully updated in ~30–40 years. FCC limits adopted in August 1996 (based on ANSI/IEEE C95.1-1992 and NCRP) remain essentially unchanged (reaffirmed 2019). They rest on a ~4 W/kg whole-body SAR threshold linked to roughly a 1 °C core temperature rise, with large safety factors yielding a public limit of 0.08 W/kg. The safety exposure levels for RF, wireless, microwave radiation have not been meaningfully updated in roughly 40 years. The current U.S. FCC limits were adopted in August 1996, based on the ANSI/IEEE C95.1-1992 standard and NCRP recommendations which was studied in the 80’s which govern the frequency range from 3 kHz – 300 GHz. Those numerical limits (and their thermal-only basis) have remained essentially unchanged; the FCC reviewed and explicitly reaffirmed them in 2019. The foundational threshold is approximately 4 W/kg whole-body average SAR, associated with roughly a 1 °C rise in core body temperature (and with the behavioral disruption seen in earlier animal studies that was attributed to heating). Large safety factors are then applied—reducing the occupational limit to 0.4 W/kg and the general-public limit to 0.08 W/kg. Military development and fielding of RF/microwave directed-energy systems as non-kinetic tools is itself proof that governments know these fields can produce physical effects. They would not have researched and deployed such systems if they believed the fields were inert. The same applies to medical and commercial remote-sensing tools. For 30 years, medical, military, and commercial sectors have been using and further developing methods to sense and influence the body via RF, wireless, magnetic, and related pathways. IEEE 802.15.1–.6 (including Body Area Network standards) define networks in which the human body itself functions as a node and essential backbone. Without living bodies as nodes, the systems do not function as designed. This has occurred under SMART/IoT/IoB, and many other Io'X' labels without clear public disclosure that the architecture depends on human bodies. Absence of consent is criminal. I have found no clear independent studies showing that continuous use of the body as a communications node does not affect cellular energy, molecular/photonic processes, or long-term health. Robert O. Becker, M.D. (Army Medical Corps, VA orthopedics, The Body Electric), documented the body’s intrinsic DC electrical system (currents of injury, perineural control, piezoelectric bone) and its sensitivity to external fields well below thermal levels. The body is an electrical organism. Are there rigorous studies showing that treating it as a network node does not disrupt those systems? Every person in range of expanding sensor/wireless infrastructure should be informed of the body’s role as a network node and given a practical ability to opt out of remote/wireless/magnetic access or use of their body as a network element by any party when no onboard or near-body device is present and no consent has been given. This inquiry is decades overdue. If Making America Healthy Again is to be taken seriously, RF, magnetic, wireless, and related exposures—including use of the body itself as network infrastructure—must be examined alongside diet and traditional medicine. Best Regards,

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Posted 2026-10-28#5978 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter attributes lifelong seizures and other symptoms to RF and electrical exposures and reports …

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I've suffered from Seizures almost all my life, and its stolen near everything from me, agitated by EMFs and RFs and Dirty Electricity. It wasn't until I was 28 after seeing world renown specialist from across the globe that I on my own tried EMF reduction tactics like filtering powerlines, shielding wireless, using grounded devices and hardline connections that I recovered enough to walk and have my eyesight repair, migraines that never ended recovered. I'm the canary in the coal mine growing up in southern CA and later near Scilicon valley since my pre-teen years of age in the late 90s into the 00s. We'll all suffer more and more as signals add up and pollute each other. We need to use software on wireless that puts the device when not in use like the JSR-eco Router, saving our cyber security and electricity as well as our bodies. Education in this field will spur on not only engineering but biological intelligence in the coming generations too, demystifying this technology through its physical and biological interactions. It took almost a decade to repair my lifetime of nerve damage to the extent I have which isn't total, but 7 seizures a week is much more than now 2-3 a year. I remained HYPER sensitive to foods and wireless radiation swelling and having radical inflammation so great I can have a seizure or not process food the next few days, small scale seizures for a few days that burn and hurt and make it dangerous just to stand and go to the bathroom are then common after being on a train or near a cell tower too long. Please consider Xemes coating on the towers that exist and angle them up away from residential zones, school, hospital, ect. just like radio and airplane tower signals are supposed to be. I have an IQ tested by Sandford of 138-147 and studed neurology and computer science, I was an olympic level swimmer too, now i'm and unemployed cripple and try everywhere I go to help those I see with mounting symptoms and they're getting worse. Powerlines aren't being well maintained and conduict standards are being lowered to pvc instead of steel, most houses I've lived in I've called power companies and they find the power pole to not even have a grounding wire in the conduit tube it having rotted away long ago. The telecom companies would jump at a chance to market "a radiation safe company" if you set standards like the organic food crazy, try using that on them. Titanium with Vanadium should be used on and with cases for wireless like routers/modems, and reinvesting in this with our new steel systems would be a great boon in modernizing tech while creating potent economic opportunitiesa, longer lasting too. Please do what you can, the pain is never ending. God Bless

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Posted 2026-10-28#5969 · Permanent link ↗

Reports severe electromagnetic sensitivity, escalating neurological symptoms with exposure, costly home m…

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I have known about my severe Electromagnetic Frequency (EMF)/Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) sensitivity since 2018. This malady has changed my life in a bad way. It forces me to live the life of a hermit because I cannot be exposed to EMF radiation which happens if I leave my house. I will describe the symptoms that I get when I am exposed to wireless, Wi-Fi, cell towers, antennas, fluorescent lights, LED lights, electrical fields in walls, magnetic fields in walls, Dirty Electricity in Breaker Boxes, household lamps that have metal in them, wireless in automobiles, magnetic fields in electric cars, etc, etc, etc. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on work to make my house safe for me to live in. I have to spend this money for my life – meanwhile the telecom industry gets to make tons and tons of money to make me sick ….. It is very unfair!!! My symptoms go through a progression – based on the exposure time and the severity of the EMF situation I am in. Also based on the exposure time and the severity of the EMF event, I have a recovery time with different symptoms. My initial symptoms – are a warning from my body - that I had better get out of there ASAP!!! INITIAL PROGRESSION: When I initially get into an EMF situation I get dizzy, foggy, headache, nauseas. When I get these feelings, I immediately leave wherever I am. If I get out of there immediately, my recovery symptoms are minimized. NEXT PROGRESSION STEP: This occurs in stores, friends’ houses, any gathering of multiple people (whom of course all have wireless devices going simultaneously). I quickly progress into a situation where people think I am having a stroke. Although I can think of what I want to say, I am unable to articulate the words. I start slurring speech. missing words, only getting like 1 in 5 words correct. The first time this happened I was at a Thanksgiving event. I was in the living room and started not being able to say the words I could clearly think. When I looked around the room, there were about 20 people in the room, and I counted 8 cell phones and I-Pads out that were being used in the room. When my frantic host drove me home (30 minute drive) – within 15 minutes of leaving her house – I was starting to be able to speak correctly. When we got to my house - 30 minutes away – I was totally fine as far as language was concerned. I did have residual exhaustion, unable to make a decision and brain fog for several days afterwards. WORST CASE SO FAR: The worst case I have had so far has to do with AT&T. I had fought with them for a number of months that I wanted a modem WITHOUT Wi-Fi. They kept saying that I could turn off the Wi-Fi on the web. The problem is that they kept turning the Wi-Fi on from the web. They did it during the day so that when I started getting sick I would go out onto the web and turn off the Wi-Fi and call them again that I wanted a modem WITHOUT Wi-Fi. So one night I woke up in the middle of the night – HUGE symptoms – dizzy, nauseas, I COULD NOT THINK – I was extremely weak. Somehow I had the consciousness and determination to crawl to my office and pull the plug for my modem out of the wall. It was hours before I was able to get back to my bedroom. This was the worst case of residual symptoms I have had - I was unable to function for a week from this experience. After that week, I fired AT&T – I had been a customer of theirs for 42 years. I beg you – please please please pass some laws to rein in the telecommunications industry. Childre are so sensitive to the EMFs – my heart is wrenched when I see a small child with a cell phone near their head. I have heard that the radiation from EMF/EMR is cumulative. I was a computer programmer for IBM for 21 years. We had test floors that were as big as a football field. I suspect that I got a ton of radiation during my years at IBM. I cannot go out to you because of the EMFs. However I do have a PC with wires- and a telephone which is connected to the wall. I am happy to talk to anybody who wants to gather data about real life experiences with EMF sensitivity. Sincerely, Florence Gans
Posted 2026-10-28#5966 · Permanent link ↗

Requests improved dosimetry and EHS study designs that account for signal modulation and delayed symptoms…

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Greetings! Concerning question 18: 1) A better measurement for rf-EMF is necessary, since SAR lumps together situations with extremely different potential for biological effects: SAR measures simply the absorbed energy over 6 minutes in standard cubicles of different sizes. It ignores peaks and modulations of the signal. The problem with that is that modulations might lead to resonance-like effects in biological molecules like Proteins (ion channels, enzymes,) even DNA. The peak intensities in suitable modulation and orientation in space might be responsible for „throwing the switch“ in those molecules, leading to ion influx and disturbed signalling in cells, or impaired mitochondrial funcion. Effects on voltage gated ion channels or the respiratory chain could explain the symptoms of people with EHS to a great extent. Panagopoulos states that in studies with real mobile telephony-exposure, over 95% of the studies find biological effects even below current limits where as continuous-wave exposure with the same SAR, and even „simulated exposure“ with highly repetetive modulation yield ambiguous results. He states that the polarisation and the variability and the modulation in the ELF/VLF-range are responsible for the biological effects, not the SAR. (as stated in the european parliament-workshop). Panagopoulos tested the hypothesis in Drosophila oogenesis and did find different results in different exposure settings with similar SAR. It is deeply concerning that public agencies like the BfS are caught in the circulatory reasoning that due to difficulties with dosimetry in real-mobile-telephony-settings, those studies are excluded for methodological flaws. Therefore, only studies with a small likelyhood of biological effects are considered, which acts as confirmation that there is no danger at all at this SAR. Therefore, no further exploratory research seems necessary.. 2) When testing for electrohypersensitivity (EHS) in provocation studies, it is crucial to take into account: In almost all EHS people, reliable symptom onset is delayed, sometimes by hours, and more so in high-adrenaline-situations like a provocation study. Likewise, symptom-offset is extremely delayed, often by a day or longer. This makes provocation studies hard to do: Required would be: max 1 test per day, without need to travel through traffic or public spaces or places with higher EMF, a daylong reporting-window, and several days of recovery are needed, as well as using real signals as described above. Some backup for my requests: The inadequacy of SAR can be seen when comparing exposure with the same SAR but different signal charactersistics as seen here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrrev.2019.03.003 (bigger numbers would be nice, but funding seems to be hard to come by). A very good source of information is this workshop of the European Parliament (4 hours): (english starts after a few seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Kn7pGy3CI Both Panagopoulos (talking about the above points) and Yael Stein provide important insights, if you have only limited time to skim. Yael Stein is a md and proposes different stages of sensitivity - the early stages are characterized by late onset of symptoms and light symptoms overall, the later stages of late offset of symptoms even hours after the exposure has ended, and the symptoms are severe. __ That effects can occur even theoretically can be seen in this preliminary model: (autoimmune d) - this also points to a lack of funding for testing the effects of shielding during sleep on autoimmune disease in a double blind study. This does not take away from the simulation of the vit D-receptor and the result that at least in theory, mobile phone radiation might lead to functional vit D deficiency in humans in general, with very small SAR values. Models like this for the voltage gated ion channels (sodium an calcium might be of highest interest) could be very useful, but so far we don’t have a complete model of those channels (according to the German Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz/FCC-equivalent). Some personal motivation: I know several people who are extremely sensitive to Wifi and mobile phones in use and phone masts, which has led me to look into possible reasons for their reactions (headaches, brainfog, fatigue, clenched muscles, altered circulation in the face - red and white spots). From my experience with them, I can rule out nocebo, since in a place where we had measured extremely low fields, they both had symptoms without expecting them (when they insisted, we measured again and found a switched-off IPAD with strong intermittent signals for location when lost, which had been brought in after the first measurement). I'm afraid the technology also hurts nature and the normal population.(see athem3, bee-fi). Thank you for your consideration. People with EHS suffer greatly and unnecessarily, and might be the canary in the coal mine for the rest.

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Posted 2026-10-28#5964 · Permanent link ↗

Reports EHS, pain and cognitive difficulties near phones and Wi-Fi, discusses nerve testing and proposed …

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I have been intolerant to pulsed radio frequencies since 2004. I get lancing pain through my brain on exposure to certain phones (certain frequencies), burning pain in the soles of my feet. I have had a microneurography test done which shows altered amplitude on a Rasta chart on exposure to mobile phones. Microneurographer says it is likely to be through the Somato sensory pathway. This would be in accordance to my research and other ion channel tests done showing hyperexcitability in ion channel variants. No allowance for people with peripheral nerve sensitivity. ICNIRP acknowledge these are from extremely low frequencies. Public Health England acknowledge 2.08hertz and 8.34 hz from mobiles 10 hz from WIFI. This can be demodulated from the signal via a non-linear system. As per attached you see that the cell membrane is calculated as linear when in fact it should be non-linear which is one mistake. Another is the staircasing error. Instantaneous peaks are then smoothed out by computer algorithms but they are not like this in real life which all lead to a false picture on what is really going on with the nerve system as in real life the nerves will spike. Acoustic blasts will also be experienced as thernoelastic bursts but these also are averaged out per 6 minute intervals. Again not a real life scenario. As an EHS sufferer I experience vasodilation all the blood goes to my feet away from my heart and brain on exposure which has been witnessed at the hospital. I get brain fog where it's like I am drunk - thinking overload of glutamate or ammonia. My memory is like it is completely wiped near a mobile or router. I have extensive research and written a thesis on the matter when I am not in an emf area I can function but I cannot function around WIFI or mobile phones. It has taken away the best years of my life.

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Posted 2026-10-28#5960 · Permanent link ↗

An architect reports electrosensitivity, cognitive difficulty in a work meeting and other symptoms associ…

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I live in Rio de Janeiro, and I would like to report what happened to me 2 months ago. I consider myself moderately electrosensitive, and I had an episode of brain fog. I am an architect and was in a work meeting. After 1 hour in the same place, I started to feel discomfort and looked for what could be the cause. Generally, it is the proximity to a modem or Wi-Fi router. I didn't want to interrupt the meeting, but 15 minutes later, I could no longer pay attention to what was being discussed in the meeting, nor could I write anymore. The group had to end the meeting outside the venue so that I could continue participating. My most common symptoms were body aches, without explanation and without a fixed location. They could appear one day and not the next. I have also experienced headaches and palpitations, but the intensity needs to be high and for a longer time. I have the Safe and Sound Pro II meter and I was able to verify this.
Posted 2026-10-28#5959 · Permanent link ↗

Reports severe RF/EMF sensitivity, nerve pain and arrhythmias, improvement in children's health after rel…

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I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. As a concerned parent and member of the public, I support further research into the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation, particularly its long-term effects on children and other vulnerable populations. With wireless technology becoming increasingly common in our homes, schools, and communities, I believe it is important that federal agencies thoroughly examine potential health risks, consider the experiences of individuals reporting adverse effects, and identify gaps in existing research. I urge HHS to prioritize independent scientific research, evaluate current safety standards, and ensure that public health decisions are based on comprehensive, transparent, and up-to-date evidence. I have suffered for the last decade from extreme sensitivity to RF and EMF. I have meters that measure both and have been able to confirm over and over that in low EMF/RF environments, my body can rest, but in high environments, I react as if it is plugged in to the wall- my whole body feels as if it is on fire (nerve pain), and I frequently experience arrhythmias in high exposure situations (again, I have confirmed this with my meters). I have been to many doctors, who can not find anything wrong with my heart or body even though they can see it reacting to outside stimuli in a very exaggerated way. I am asking for more study of this problem, as the effects of high EMF and RF exposure have been my family and it is in every public space, at high levels, so very hard to avoid if you are sensitive. My children are also sensitive and experienced very poor health when living near a tower and next to power lines. When we moved to a place that was low EMF/RF, their health issues dramatically decreased. I’d like more research to be done so that we can keep our children and vulnerable populations safe and not degrade the health of everyone else. I’m hoping for more conservative, wise use of technology in the future and I know that the science will show support for that, if it is studied and measured thoroughly and appropriately. Thank you for providing the public with an opportunity to voice these concerns.
Posted 2026-10-28#5958 · Permanent link ↗

Reports family illness after an electrical fault and persistent EHS, including a daughter's lost educatio…

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I am submitting this account as a mother, patient, and caregiver whose entire family experienced years of serious illness while living in a home subsequently found to have an open neutral on the electrical utility’s primary distribution system underneath our home. After leaving that home, my daughter RH, now 19, then lost 5 years of substantive education, friendships, social development, and independence due to electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), which is a sensitivity to everyday wireless signaling. I, too, continue to experience this sensitivity. RH and I have debilitating physical reactions with continued exposure to wireless signaling, including skin burns, blistering, rashes, boils, hidradenitis suppurativa, swelling, migraines, neuropathic pain, muscle tightness, dizziness, cognitive impairment, memory and processing difficulties, brain fog, exhaustion, and systemic inflammatory symptoms. For RH, attempts to return to school and ordinary activities after her year of medical leave were ineffective because of wireless signaling throughout the community. Our family moved into our Chapel Hill, NC, home in 2015. Over the following years, we developed serious neurological, cognitive, dermatological, and systemic illnesses. RH suffered profound cognitive deterioration, with neuropsychological scores in the first percentile; I developed cognitive impairment and small fiber neuropathy. After a year of our begging in 2020, Duke Energy discovered their corroded line improperly buried beneath our property. Magnetic field measurements exceeded 100 milligauss, beyond our meters’ range, and we experienced electrical shocks from metal surfaces. Unlike the electrical failure, which could be identified and escaped, wireless environments are virtually impossible to avoid. It is persistent sensitivity after moving from the home, not the history of our electrical exposure, that I am asking HHS to prioritize investigating. Without EHS, RH could have returned to life. Instead, she required medical leave, homebound education, and extensive accommodations under Section 504. Friends’ electronic devices and wireless networks became barriers to participation. She lost not only classroom instruction but 5 years of the friendships, independence, belonging, and ordinary experiences through which children become adults. Her medical history includes subsequent traumatic brain injuries, significant physical illness, and severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her PTSD developed amid years of debilitating symptoms, inadequate medical understanding, and exclusion from ordinary life. Her PTSD is not, in our understanding, the explanation for her electromagnetic sensitivity; it is among the consequences of prolonged illness, uncertainty, and isolation. Her reactions to wireless signaling, the repeated disruption of her recovery, and the possible contributions of those experiences to her neurological and developmental trajectory need to be investigated. My own professional life has been profoundly altered. I loved my corporate career, but working in an office surrounded by wireless networks and electronic devices is incompatible with the symptoms I experience there. Our family is not alone. We have dear friends in two other families who also suffer EHS. Unlike our family, neither has a known electrical exposure. Yet they, too, experience debilitating symptoms associated with everyday wireless signaling. Physicians lacked validated diagnostic tools, treatment protocols, and clinical guidance. We sought treatment for individual conditions, yet no medical specialty could offer an effective strategy for the recurring illness we experienced in wireless environments. Again and again, doctors told us, “There just isn’t the data.” My response has always been the same: “We are the data! Why are we being dismissed rather than researched?” Our medical records, neurological evaluations, dermatological diagnoses, hospitalizations, educational accommodations, and years of documented attempts to recover constitute a substantial clinical history worthy of investigation. We need research directed toward treatment: whether wireless radiofrequency exposure can produce measurable inflammatory, oxidative, neurological, or cellular changes in susceptible individuals; whether repeated episodes are associated with cumulative biological injury; and what interventions might prevent, reduce, or reverse those effects if demonstrated. Research should investigate objective biomarkers, possible differences between people with and without unusual electrical exposure histories, and safe, effective therapies. Avoidance is not sustainable when the places to avoid include schools, hospitals, workplaces, and nearly everywhere people gather. I ask HHS to investigate the mechanisms and treatment of EHS so that other children and families do not spend years searching for answers while their health, education, relationships, and ordinary lives slip away.
Posted 2026-10-28#5936 · Permanent link ↗

A retired nurse reports EMF sensitivity, repeated relocation and inability to travel, with symptom relief…

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Dear sir/madam, I am writing regarding electromagnetic frequency from cellphone towers and utility poles, as well as from personal devices, eg phones, tablets, computers. I have been a nurse for 40 years. For the last 21 of those years I was exposed to 60 hours a week of computers and cellphones. As a result of living near 3 cellphone towers and one large utility pole I developed extreme sensitivity to EMFs. As a result, I’ve had to move multiple times, until I found a place that was relatively low EMF. I am 83 now and use the computer very little. I do not travel with my phone, I put my devices in the unfunctioning microwave, and turn off the router 4 hours before I go to sleep, and my symptoms of dizziness, disorientation, nausea, depression, and mental confusion have disappeared. I hope in other letters people will be writing to you about their experiences with cell phone towers placed near hospital buildings, and churches and schools, and they will provide you with their own experiences and detailed studies that will verify their own experiences. I am not including any studies as I am very sight challenged and it’s all I can do just to write this letter. Sufficient to say, that I’ve been forced to move to a very remote location where exposure is minimal, as a result of my inability to handle a high emf environment. I can no longer travel because of my inability to handle exposure. Kind regards, Sunshine Appleby Retired registered nurse
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Reports EHS beginning around smart-meter exposure, neurological and cardiac symptoms and major lifestyle …

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I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on EMFs, Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am very pleased with HHS's initiative and hope it will take action to to examine the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. I also hope that my government of Canada will follow suit. I urge HHS to carefully examine the submitted experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research and give particular attention to children, and other vulnerable populations that are affected in different ways. Please do not delay in taking action.   I was a healthy woman, leading a normal (and international) life until a RF communicating smart meter made me sick. Since 2016, my life and that of my family has been turned upside down. I had to move away from what is deemed 'normal' society. I do not consent to the continuous involuntary exposure to pulsed modulated, biologically active electrical and radio-frequency radiation. Thank you for providing an opportunity to be heard.  1. & 2. Responding as: an individual 3a. Type of sources: pulse-modulated RF radiation from: smart (utility) meters, Wi-Fi routers, any 'smart' tech including in cars; iPads/ laptops; earbuds/ hearing aids ; cell towers. Low frequency EMF's from wiring, electrical appliances, transmission lines, cars. 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, timing: Adverse health effects have changed over time: including severity of symptoms, timing of onset, - some with delay, others directly when exposed - and recuperation time after exposure.  3c. Adverse health effects: Symptoms experienced over the last ten years (difference in presence and severity over time) : Cardio-vascular (heart palpitations, tachycardia); eye sight, neurological effects including speech problems, memory, tinnitus; chest pain/tightened chest; sleep dysfunction/  head aches/ stabbing pains, tremors; sensations in thyroid and face/ jaw area, chills/ flu like symptoms.  3d. Time from exposure to appearance of adverse effects; did a change coincide with onset: In 2016 our family returned to Canada after living in Europe for some years. Upon our return I developed electromagnetic radiation syndrome (EHS), with debilitating neurological and heart problems, very likely caused by frequent and prolonged exposure to a smart meter installed right outside the kitchen on our home in Canada. At the same time A Wi-Fi router in the basement beamed up under my feet and smart phones were charging on the counter.  I had milder symptoms in Europe but did not recognize it as such. I started to use a smart phone around 2014 and developed heart arrhythmia; a cardiologist in Europe could not find anything wrong. I had stabbing pains in my head, but they came and went so quickly, that I did not pay attention. I also already had unusual, unexplainable, out of the blue fatigue. 3e. Medical evaluation sought? Diagnosis?  In Canada I sought medical help from my own family physician: he had never heard of the condition but would look into it and asked how he could help. I did not know. Two other physician-friends were dismissive: one did not respond, the other could not find it in the BMJ". The waiting list for an environmental doctor was too long. I mostly found my way on my own. A few years ago I sought help from an acupuncturist who worked on my neurological system, and recently I started to work with a cranio-sacral therapist.  3f. Steps taken to reduce exposure; subsequent changes in effects: We managed to have our utility company change our smart electricity meter into a non-communicating meter in December 2016, after repeated requests. Early 2017, an EMF specialist measured RFR and low frequency EM fields in our house. We switched off our Wi-Fi; went back to cabled computers and lap tops; replaced our DECT-phone with a corded phone; got rid of dimmer switches; switched back to incandescent lighting and use kill switches to turn off electrical groups at night,.  Regularly being outdoors, walking (and grounding) in the woods, exposing myself to natural sunlight (and the Earth's magnetic field), swimming in summer (in the river), and eating healthy are essential for me to stay healthy, heal and deal with exposure.    I can now better tolerate some exposure for a short duration. Yet radiation density all around is rapidly increasing. It seems a Sisyphean task to grow more tolerant in an an environment that is ever more inundated with artificial forms of electromagnetic radiation. I cannot imagine how life is like for people who have no safe place to live and without a support system.  I try to raise awareness in my community, in the political scene, through the media. I write letters and articles and work with advocacy groups in Canada and across the world, but we encounter many brick walls. That is why I even more appreciate HHS's initiative. 

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