Electromagnetic sensitivity

Thank you very much for giving us all the opportunity to reflect on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am a 52 years old Dutch woman who is elektrosensitive. I became sick in 2009. After years of nearly no sleep I found out that a celltower had been plased in my neigbourhood around the time that my sleepdisorder started. I noticed that my sleep was better when the wifirouter was off at night. And so I graduately became aware of the effects of my surrounding on my health. Because I wanted to know how others with this disorder survived I started collecting stories. And I hoped by publishing these stories in a book that our Dutch government would listen. The book came out in 2017 ("De draadloze kooi"). It has helped a lot of people but our government ignored it. Now I see our government consistently moving away from looking at us. We are an inconvenient truth. Being elektrosensitive doesn't mean that I am against technology. It means knowing how to live with technology without it weakening our health. But with nearly no one being aware of or acknowledging my condition it is very difficult to take part in society. What we need is more awareness about the dangers of EMFs, RF Radiation and Wireless Radiation Exposure, develop healthier products and change the rules of engagement (like with smoking) so our society becomes EHS-inclusive. More practical: The government can launch an awareness campaign, it can regulate the industry better by lowering radiation limits, give incentives to produce healthier products, recognize EHS as an environmental related disorder so people can get the right healthcare and give people with EHS the right to ask for reasonable adaptations if necessary. I hope all the input will give you a clear vision of what to do, and that you will be able to put it all in practice. For a better world for all of us. Thank you very much and good luck.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a parent, family member, healthcare professional, and a concerned member of the public. I have lived between two cell towers for 13 years and am concerned with the lack of safety data in allowing these towers into residential area. We have noticed it is harder to sleep. My neighbor has radiation sensitivity which makes it hard for him to leave his home and Im sure there are more symptoms we could attribute to the towers if we had the actual research behind the technology. daily life. I firmly believe HHS has a responsibility to make sure the technology is safe BEFORE it goes up. Unfortunately we have been failed this far. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

I wore a Fitbit on my wrist and within the first 12 hours my hand became very sore and achy. My mom and husband both wore it for a few days with no impact. I tried it again and it was incredibly painful for me. I called the company and they put me through to their safety department and the person told me to take it off immediately and issued a full refund. I can only use my phone in small increments because my hands hurt when I hold it. I am very certain that my body is highly sensitive to wireless radiation or EMFs and concerned that they are all around me.

I had my first (violent) reaction to WiFi 11/07 when I used my husband's laptop in our hotel room. I started vomiting on/off the rest of the Sun. night. I was so weak I couldn't stand that morning. He put me into the car in my PJ's to go to our family Thanksgiving event. When I got to our event, I went to bed and slept for 2 1/2 days: didn't know anything during that time. Never moved. Then when RF switched from Analogue to Digital 06/09, I started having episodes of my legs going numb: couldn't stand. I took me months to figure out why. I had to get "wired internet in our house"; no WiFi ever. When I was where any WiFi was, I'd get dizzy and sick to my stomach until I left the area. I found ongoing items to help mitigate my extreme sensitivity. But then WiFi is increasing: Elan Musk's 22,000 communication satellites. About 1/3 of US are hyper- sensitive or so I've read in a book by Firstenberg, MD- "The Invisible Rainbow: history of electricity and life. He's hypersensitive.} 1/3 of US are moderately sensitive. Where I live, new build, has materials that are somewhat limiting the "BEAMS" which I felt the first time I entered the area which is why I live here. The EMF Hypersensitivity is something I struggle against anytime I'm away from my house. I take things w/me when I go to hotel room which help me cope. If these things that I use didn't exist, I feel I would have expired long ago with medical evidence as to why/what happened. There a group of Bio-Initiative Scientists who are aware of the EMF challenges to the human body and they're trying to get the word out. But the MOBILE PHONE- tech companies have done all they could to sabotage this information from getting reliably to the public. Some have even that their lives threatened unless they shut up. This came together shortly after 06/09 as i recall.

I was poisoned in a sick building incident in 1993 in Downers Grove, IL with new carpets and glues. I became incapacitated with MCS - Multuple Chemical Sensitivities. I was on full disability for months. Then the company got a major hospital to say since I had been allergies to pollen, grasses, weeds, trees (and cockroaches!) I HAD A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION and they weren't culpable. I use the holistic medical system. They did their best but I didn't improve much. Adrenal support helped. A plant detox powder helped to stop the debilitating symptoms. It took me 17 difficult years to find out that under the MSC was severe ElectroMagnetic Frequency Sensitivity. When my body and home were remediated, I improved greatly! I was so much less sensitive! My life was able to expand and my health improved. So, being in facets of the holistic field, I became a missionary on my EMF soapbox. I gave lectures on it, wrote articles, tried to sell remediation products to help others. Most people were not at all interested. I understand that it asks of them to believe that the industry and government didn't have their best interests in mind. But I was so disappointed that most didn't want to learn, change and protect themselves and their kids. I am grateful that one practitioner told me about EMF sensitivity, and sold me some remediation products for my body and home. She said our home was the worst she ever saw for EMF and dirty electricity pollution. Thank you, Gina Orlando Forest Park, IL

I'm sensitive to EMF. In 2018 I finally figured out why I would not be able to concentrate and relax in certain areas of my house. If was the wifi and Bluetooth devices. When I finally got my house totally clean I could relax on my couch for the first time in 2.5 years because of the wifi router. To this day I can tell you if I'm together with someone if they're wifi or Bluetooth is on on there phone. I will also want to leave a house if the EMF is close to where I'm hanging out takes 10 20 min but my body keeps telling me to go outside and get away from the frequencies. I feel way more calm when away from the frequencies and anxious and it's hard to concentrate when around WiFi or Bluetooth. 517-375-2895 if anyone wants to talk. I had a emf specialist freak out by how good I was at detecting signals. Although it's probably not that amazing. Thanx for listening my house has been hard wired and wifi and Bluetooth free for 8 years next month and never feel better than in my house.

I am a Health Practitioner for over 20 years as a Massage Therapist. Preserve old technology, oldschool, low technology by making it available for the: People With Special Needs including Electric Sensitivity, People With Disabilities, and People Who Are Medically Challenged. Make a law for all high technology companies saying do not make old, low technology obsolete. Have analog and basic technology readily available as an option so there is no need for special accommodations. Computer screens have led backlights & I believe should be made w/TFT-LCD & not led so it doesn't burn eyes. I believe TFT-LCD doesn’t flicker or irritate eyes. We have to also put screen UV Protectors on our monitor screens so it prevents us from getting bloodshot red eyes, bursting bloodvessels in the eyes, because without it, it ruins and destroys the delicate bloodvessels in our eyes. This is how to keep eye clear. The computer screens need to already come with these UV screen protectors. Since we have EHS-Electric Sensitivity, we have been using a computer screen monitor that is over 20 yrs. old just to protect our health. We have to get a hold of old screen monitors which is very hard to do but we go to this extent. We know others who also use old computer screens just to protect their health. The computer industry should always give us a basic model option with low technology. We should have no wifi options & low power options. Right now we have a Shuttle Barebones low power computer & keyboard extension & old rollball mouse. I have to have an oldschool roll ball mouse that is used that lasts forever, can be cleaned for maintenance. THey need to bring back oldschool rollball mouse because they do not have lasers in them burning our delicate hands, they also hold up for years & they are not made anymore, they need to enforce them being made, all companies who make high tech things should be enforced to include LOW tech items for sensitive, disabled & safety purposes. Also toys shouldn't have lasers like Mario Legos, which once we got it and son's eyes were red after using it & we got rid of it & then his eyes cleared up right away. The new LED car spotlights that blind people should be banned, since they were invented I cannot drive at night time & a lot of others cannot drive at night time anymore without being blinded by the new LED car spotlights. Bring back warm glow incandescent low beam car lights or something close to it, yellow warm lights that don't burn our retinas & blind us & distract drivers. Television Companies need to come up with televisions that don't have led lights, Bluetooth, or wifi. I still have to use an over 20 yr. old television to avoid new tvs that hurt the eyes, and the levels of radiation are causing inflammation, burning and numbness symptoms. Bring back old speakers w/the magnets, I have to use my old speakers not just because they are good, but because they are the only ones that don't have bluetooth & wifi. They are not wireless. Bring back old speaker options. Bring back cameras with no wifi options, & video cameras, ones with no touch screens, just buttons. Bring back appliances with dials only, no digital clocks or digital heating, ones that use only coils, basic stove, ovens. There are only a few left, or none. Enforce that every auto company provide a basic low tech. option. The new fancy vehicles force wifi since it is integrated in the system. I can not drive a car because the motor is too close to the driver and that causes high EMF levels that cause pain and dysfunction. I can only drive an SUV where the motor is far away from the driver. SUV companies like KIA should be enforced to always have an option to get a basic vehicle, Basic SUV. I cannot have seats that cook us alive. We cannot have interior car lights that cook & fry our eyeballs. I have to have a low tech, basic vehicle with no satellite radio hub, no wifi and no bluetooth hub. Keep all Basic vehicles "BASIC" with no integrated wifi/Bluetooth/satellite hub. The car company told me that only the basic model allows us to remove the wifi/Bluetooth/satellite hub. That fancy screen hub needed to be removed from our vehicle. Allow & reinforce basic features for Electric Sensitive, Disabled, and Medically Challenged people. If there is a bank teller or a shopping checkout that forces us to use a sensor, handprint or force us to touch the electric screen so we can become electricuted for just a brief moment, I go to the extent to avoid that for health purposes. Our bodies are electric & we are forced to become one with an electric machine that zaps us. How many times per day does it zap us? Just say no. I ask for the stylus, it should be always available, I bring my stylus with me. There should always be a button option for the sensitive, disabled, and medically challenged, and this needs to be enforced as a law. These things need to be done to stay and become healthy.

Hello. I am French, I was working for the French Doctors as a field administrator when I became ill because of waves. Sorry for my English, there might be some errors ! It was during the containment on February 2020, I was very tired with many symptoms and I decided to consult the doctor. We did a blood test and then I figured out than transaminases and ferritin were going up very quickly. As symptoms, I was having : vertigo, dizziness, night sweats, insomnia, waking up systematically at 2 a.m., chest pressure / chest tightness, joint pain, brain fog, short-term memory loss, tinnitus, low libido / decreased, chronic fatigue, erectile dysfunction, proliferation of moles, frequent urgent need to urinate, vision problem.... My doctor did not know what was going bad with me, I did not know either. A few days later, when I was passing by a based station antenna, I had an electric discharge in my head and it began to happen very frequently. That is how I discovered my sensibility to EMF waves, my doctor was useless for it. Then, I discovered that I was must contaminated in my flat in St Etienne. I could see from my flat, 1st floor, the power supply of the tramway on the same street ( a few meters of distance), I was using a wireless phone ( DECT phone), I was much speaking with my smartphone in a place where there is poor signal and smart comunicating meters where fixed for all flats of my buillding. When I realized that, the same day, I left my flat and I went to camp in the garden of some friends. Then, after a few days, I could see some symptoms evanishing like urgent need to urinate. Four weeks after, I did again a blood test and we could see that transaminases increase problem was about to be solved and ferritin was divided by 2 already. I asked my doctor if he knew some other patients with electromagnetic hypersensitivity, he said "NO". Well, as a doctor follows an averadge of 1 000 patients in France and as the estimated prevalence of Electromagnetic Radiation Syndrome is 5 % according to a study dating by 2018 (with no 5G and no comunicating meters Linky in 2018), he should follow at least 50 patients having that. I was wondering, what was going on for the other patients who have not done any link between this environmental contamination and their symptoms ? Having druggs only ? I had problem finding a place where there are not so many radiofrequency electromagnetic waves as there is a clear will to destroy them. Theses areas make it possible for many people to discover the link between their health problems and waves exposure and the autority does not want that any longer. To be clear, I repeat : the Governement want to eliminate areas with very poor reception because they do not want people to make kink between health problem and waves contamination any longer. I followed a training for having an expertise on electromagnetic waves and I have all the necessary instruments to make a diagnostic (low frequency both electric and magnetic fields, dirty electricity and radiofrequency waves). I read many books about this environnemental contamination by electricity. Caregivers (doctors, nurses,…) are not trained in France and medical authorities do not want to train them. Some of them are ill but they even know ! People are now exposed from bearth to death, and even before the birth ! All the living is suffering from that : trees in front of the cell towers are dying, bees and all insects are disapearing and you can drive for miles without having an insect on your windshield, animals in French farms are sick and finally die also. There is a new way of having problems solved : when a farmer get his animals ill from a recently installed electromagnetic wave emitter (radio transmitter, wind turbine...) , he will be blamed for not caring enough the animals and they will withdrow the animals from him...even if they have been having a farm and animals for generations ! Were are destroying life on earth...it is time to wake up ! I added a special document for people who do not want to realise and recognize the biologic effect of radiofrequency waves...it is in French but you will easily translate it in English. Please read it as it gives many information regarding the subject.

Dear reader I'm a certified EHS (electro hyper sensitive) individual and I've been fighting to inform the general public about the exetremely dangerous nature of artificial EMFs for more than 6 years now and my condition has only worsen due to the continous multiplication of harmful and ubiquitous emitting sources invading all land air and sea. It's been proven withou any doubt by thousands of peer reviewed and independent studies that we are on a tipping point regarding human, animal and vegetal life forms survival, it's time to invert this deadly trend if we want to be able have a world with still any kind of organic and not only synthetic life forms in the next future. "Those who ignore history are designed to repeat it" - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) P.S. One pdf file of the attached book was too large so I zipped it and renamed the zip file with .pdf extension to be able to uploadi it.

Je soumets ce commentaire en réponse à la demande d'informations du HHS sur les champs électromagnétiques (CEM), les rayonnements radiofréquences (RF) et l'exposition aux rayonnements sans fil. Je réponds du point de vue d’un [patient, parent, membre de la famille, aidant, professionnel de la santé, chercheur, défenseur, membre du public concerné ou autre]. Je suis personnellement électro-hypersensible depuis plus de 10 ans et ma vie est devenue un véritable parcours de combattant. Je ne peux pas travailler, ni avoir une vie sociale car tous ont des cellulaires, le wifi partout etc.. Je souffre énormément dans mon corps chaque jour et je n'ai pas d'endroit où me protéger de ce qui me rend malade... Je dois me réfugier à tout moment sous un baldequin anti-onde, un tissu protecteur d'onde placé comme une tente par dessus mon lit, je m'y réfugie plusieurs fois par jour et c'est ce qui me permet de survivre.. car je ne vis pas, je survies... Je soutiens l'implication active du Département de la Santé et des Services sociaux (HHS) dans l'examen des effets potentiels des rayonnements sans fil sur la santé et l'environnement. Les questions relatives à la santé humaine devraient être traitées par les agences fédérales possédant l'expertise appropriée en médecine, biologie, épidémiologie et santé publique, et les témoignages des personnes et des familles qui se disent affectées devraient être pris en compte au même titre que les données scientifiques. J’exhorte le HHS à évaluer soigneusement ces expériences et les données scientifiques, à identifier les lacunes de la recherche actuelle, à accorder une attention particulière aux enfants et aux autres populations potentiellement vulnérables, et à établir des priorités de recherche fédérales appropriées concernant les rayonnements sans fil et la santé publique. Merci de donner aux individus et aux familles l'occasion de se faire entendre.