Electromagnetic sensitivity

I am a wife, a mom of 4, an RN, an avid volunteer, and now highly sensitive to EMF's. I have had zero health issues until in February of this year I was in a "Smart Neighborhood" after recovering from the flu and covid. My body felt recovered, but my immune system was still clearing it. I was there to visit a sick relative in the hospital. The first night there I began having chest pressure, a resting heartrate of 120, and tingling in my hands and feet. I went to the ER to see if I was having a heart attack. Once I was cleared at the hospital, the tingling continued to spread up my arms and legs. The tingling turned into burning like I was on fire. I cut my trip short and came home and immediately saw my Dr. After multiple scans, I was asked what kind of EMF's I had been exposed to. That was when we realized that the EMF's from the "Smart Neighborhood" and the hospital exposure combined with my recovering immune system has essentially poisoned my system. Since then, my genetics testing has shown that I have the MTHFR mutation. They say 40-60 percent of the population has this. It makes my system more susceptible to any type of toxin. To this day, 9 months later, I am unable to touch a live cell phone. I am unable to be near a live cell phone. I am hardly able to navigate in a wifi environment. It has crippled my ability to work, go to church, and volunteer as I did. I have spent thousands on supplements, red light therapies, iv infusions, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, etc. to try to help mitigate this. We have hard wired our home so that I can function here. But I will say that even living on 12 acres, I can pick up on up to 5 different wifi signals in my home from nearby farms. It's almost impossible to get away from it all. I know my situation is extreme sensitivity. But, I am clear that many are suffering milder effects and aren't correlating it to EMF's. Headaches, random nausea, exhaustion, brain fog, etc. Because we live in such a world that you can't hardly get away from it, it is hard to connect without the right Dr. When we try to go away for a trip, I have to drive because a plan is one of the worst. I can't hardly find a place that will allow me to turn off the wifi to stay. Restaurants are an issue. Grocery stores are an issue. Getting gas is an issue. I will continue to fight for my health, and also to educate people on something that I was very unaware of before this happened to me in February. I realize that technology isn't going anywhere, but whether we have the warning signals in our body or not, we are ALL getting damaged from EMF's. There has to be better regulations put into place to protect us. To protect the children. To protect the unborn.

I have unfortunately developed a hypersensitivity to EMF radiation from various sources. I can feel in pain the difference between high radiation and low radiation. I have on and off been able to use a cell phone and work. I have suffered loss of income and various medical issues as a result of this. I get headaches, chest pains, and fever with high radiation. I would like to see significantly more serious research into this issue and demand regulation of radiation levels on devices and in general areas of high cell phone use. Extra concerning is the use of cell phone towers on buildings in residential areas where there is a potential for 16 hour or even 24 hour exposure to a cancerogenic technology.

Re: Docket HHS-OASH-2026-0397 I submit this as an individual consumer, patient, parent, and family member. It is based on personal experience and precautionary public-health concerns. Questions 2–4 — Personal Experience Exposure to Wi-Fi routers, phones, cell towers, Bluetooth devices, and environments with substantial wireless activity appears to coincide with recurring symptoms for me: ringing in my ears, tingling in my hands and body, headaches, brain fog, difficulty concentrating, chronic fatigue, poor sleep, and inflammation-related symptoms. I am also concerned about possible oxidative stress. My symptoms become more noticeable around wireless devices and higher-exposure environments. Reducing exposure and using wired connections are important to me. Personal testimony does not establish causation, but experiences like mine should be documented and investigated rather than dismissed. Questions 5–8 — Standards and Measurement In my view, current U.S. limits are far too high and emphasize acute heating rather than possible nonthermal, chronic, and cumulative effects. HHS should evaluate pulsing, modulation, peak and average power density, nighttime exposure, proximity, simultaneous frequencies, and lifetime exposure. My requested precautionary ceiling for chronic ambient wireless exposure is below 0.0001 milliwatts per square meter (0.1 microwatts per square meter), with exposure kept as close to zero as reasonably possible. This corresponds with the Building Biology SBM-2015 “no anomaly” category for RF radiation in sleeping areas. Other proposals include the BioInitiative Working Group’s 3–6 µW/m² target and the Seletun Scientific Panel’s 170 µW/m² proposal. Though different, each is substantially below prevailing U.S. limits. HHS should examine international research and disclose funding sources and industry conflicts. Testing one device alone does not represent real life. People may be exposed simultaneously to phones, Wi-Fi, towers, Bluetooth, smart meters, wearables, and neighboring transmitters. HHS should standardize long-term measurements in bedrooms, classrooms, workplaces, and neighborhoods. Questions 9–11 — Disclosure and Vulnerable Groups Consumers should receive clear information about emissions, cumulative exposure, wired alternatives, and disabling wireless functions. HHS should establish adverse-event reporting, environmental monitoring, longitudinal studies, and symptom registries. Children, pregnant women, older adults, people with medical conditions or implanted devices, exposed workers, and people reporting electromagnetic sensitivity require greater protection. Questions 12–15 — Technology, Infrastructure, and Environment HHS should investigate reported effects below federal limits involving sleep, cognition, neurological symptoms, tinnitus, fatigue, inflammation, oxidative stress, reproduction, and long-term health. 5G, 6G, Wi-Fi, satellites, Bluetooth, wearables, smart appliances, wireless medical devices, and smart meters should be studied as a combined exposure environment. Research should also examine possible effects on livestock, wildlife, pollinators, plants, soil biology, and ecosystems. Cell towers and small-cell antennas should not be placed near homes, schools, childcare centers, workplaces, or healthcare facilities without assessing cumulative exposure and effects on residents and animals. Questions 16–18 — Research and Policy Federal priorities should include independent long-term research into nonthermal effects, cumulative and childhood exposure, electromagnetic sensitivity, oxidative stress, neurological effects, sleep disruption, and wired alternatives. Research should be conducted independently of telecommunications-industry influence. I would vote to phase out and disable wireless communications and replace them with wired connections wherever technically possible. I support fiber-optic internet, wired Ethernet, wired telephones, wired school networks, and hardwired utility meters. I would not support expanding Wi-Fi, 5G, 6G, smart-city transmitters, wireless appliances, wearables, or similar systems. Homes, schools, workplaces, healthcare facilities, and public buildings should provide wired service by default, and wireless transmitters should be capable of being completely disabled. No one should be forced to accept continuous wireless exposure to access education, employment, healthcare, housing, transportation, or public life. The below-0.0001 mW/m² ceiling should be a backstop for unavoidable exposure, not authorization to expand wireless infrastructure. Scientific uncertainty should lead to independent investigation, extremely low precautionary limits, full disclosure, and wired alternatives. Thank you for considering my experience and recommendations. Kyle Bennett

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 someone in community with people who experience EMF sensitivity. Given the rate to which wireless infrastructure has expanded over the course of the last 20 years, I'd be interested in learning more about the way that these systems affect the communities that house their infrastructure. What are the long term impacts of these gradual, environmental exposures? 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.

Bonjour je suis un survivant des réseaux FM Satanique ainsi que mes deux garçons aussi victimes et sous contrôle coercitif de ma famille. Je suis également un électro sensible , attaqué par les ondes depuis plusieurs années. J' utilise un crayon tactile pour ne pas toucher mon téléphone mais malgré tout, cela me donne une sensation de brûlure qui peut durer plusieurs heures. Je suis partagé entre le besoin social de communication et l' envie de participer à l' éveil dans ce monde en devenir. J' aimerais avoir reconnaissance de cette difficulté face aux ondes et avoir la possibilité de vivre loin de cette pollution.

The SAR (syndrome of acute radiation) caused by microwave radiation from telecommunication antennas, mobile phones, routers, computers, etc…, is the reason so many of us are sick, debilitated, confused, with memory loss, brain tumors, cardiac arrests, skin conditions, tinnitus, flu like symptoms, ADHD, Parkinson’s, dementia, to name a few. There exists a technology which grounds the microwave radiation, so it is not harmful to living beings and nature. Governments should start using this technology to help the population get better health. I personally am a hypersensitive person, affected by exposure to the wireless radiation emitted from antennas, mobile phones, computers, and routers, for example. My symptoms manifest as headaches, fogginess, tiredness, tingling in the face (specially the chin area), upset stomach, and eye strain. I’m very proud of Bobby Kennedy’s work in the Health Department. I hope he and his team keep digging for answers about the dangers of exposing humans and animals to microwave wireless radiation. I’m specially concerned for the children, as their skull’s thickness is less than an adults, thus the wireless radiation penetrates easily. The military operation of raising towers with antennas all over the world, needs to stop. Humanity is at risk. Children are at risk. Nature is at risk. Species are at risk. We are all at risk! We know better, we can do better! Let’s tackle the pink elephant in the room. If we do, Bobby Kennedy’s name will go down in history, for saving humanity from its finality. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Hello, I believe I do have sensitivity related to being in settings where there is strong WiFi. I become disoriented when I'm in these settings ie: grocery stores like Target, Jewel-Osco Foods, Whole Foods, Walmart, Theaters both for movies & especially for the Performing Arts, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, any music or Plays. I am a volunteer usher for the Performing Arts venues & I have had to cut back significantly because I can't tolerate it & need time to recover after any event. I experience a feeling of disorientation in my head & sometimes an uncomfortable sensation in my chest. It goes away after I remove myself from whichever setting I'm in. During my annual Mammogram I react the same way. I believe Mammograms are Ionizing Radiation. also during CT scans, Panoramic Dental x-rays. I suspect it has affected my memory & may be something like CTE that football players get from repeated brain injuries. I'm glad someone is paying attention to this & investigating it further. I have Right eye Optic Nerve Atrophy which may be caused by a small stroke which I believe is somehow connected. I wondered about a Havana Syndrome situation after I saw a program about some people who experienced it. I'm not sure what else to say. I'd be glad to answer any questions you have. I've mentioned this to various physicians but none have known what to make of it. I've had CT scans which were done during an acute illness which I can send if needed. Thank you Thank you.

A recent study by Yale researchers published in Cell Reports found that exposure to wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation — emitted by cell phones, cell towers, and Wi-Fi — interfered with neurodevelopment and increased the expression of autism-related genes in laboratory models of the fetal brain. This was a state-of-the-art study using human cortical organoids — tiny, lab-grown models of the developing human brain. Created from stem cells, these organoids form many of the same early brain structures seen in a fetus. They are not full brains and have no consciousness, but they closely mimic early fetal brain development, and scientists use them to study how environmental exposures such as air pollution, microplastics, and diesel fuel could impact the brain. The experiments used a wireless transmitter operating at Bluetooth frequency and power, at exposure levels 4,000 times lower (0.025%) than the FCC’s limit for allowable human exposure to RF wireless radiation. “Our findings revealed that RF-exposed cortical neurons exhibited increases in Autism Spectrum Disorder-associated gene expression and dendritic spine density, characteristics of patients on the autism spectrum.” How 'bout a garage door opener that turns out to have v. strong wifi. I felt it even outside the garage by a least 10 feet, so I wonder how the person whose bed it's underneath will be affected? Techs wouldn't come and replace it w. a difft one because they said it's now "used," even tho it was only their testing of it that made it used... Same w. banks of SCE "smart meters," 5 of which are housed next to one apartment. 2 successive tenants got nasal infections requiring heavy antibiotic usage while subsisting next to them. Infections awfully close to the brain. I am the only person in the building who "opted out" with a pretty hefty financial penalty. I keep my cell phone on airplane mode at all times, unless I need to make a text or speaker-call, which is very rarely. My office computer, and a monitor in the living room for Netflix, are both hardwired via ethernet, w. the modem way out at street level so I don't feel it. Electromagnetic Sensitivity (EMS) is a federally recognized condition by which individuals suffer adverse health effects due to electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure. It is also commonly referred to as Electrosensitivity, Electro-hypersensitivity (EHS), microwave syndrome/illness and radiofrequency sickness. I do support the commission’s enunciated goals for advancing “equity in the provision of and access to digital communication services and products for all people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or disability.” But I also believe that forcing exposure – even as part of a genuine effort to provide broadband access – is itself a form of discrimination as a matter of law. More importantly, it is fundamentally inequitable because it leads to great harm: people with severe symptoms are functionally excluded from public participation since almost all public spaces are flooded with RF, and those with wireless facilities nearby cannot even take refuge in their homes. Ethernet is cheaper more secure and physically safer than wifi, which most tech pros will affirm.

I briefly lived across the street from a Cell Phone tower. I lived on Lantern Crest Cove in Lantern Ridge subdivision in Metro Atlanta. The cell tower was just across the neighborhood street from my door. It was a small tower with only one triangular antennae array at the top. It was LOW... much shorter in height than any other tower I have seen. This tower (per GoogleMaps) has now been relocated within the neighborhood to the next street over. I can't tell if it is now on a taller pole (from GoogleMaps.) Prior to moving to this townhome in Lantern Ridge, I enjoyed spectacular good health. I took no Rx meds... and still don't. I had no chronic conditions... and still don't once I got better after moving away from the cell tower. I was an Aerobics Instructor from age 35 to age 50. I have continued fitness classes multiple times weekly to this day. I am now 66 years old. A lifetime of healthy habits and good genes has blessed me with uncommonly good health... except for my few months spent across the street from a cell tower, I developed nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, insomnia and night sweats. I felt like a rope was knotted around my stomach. I couldn't eat. I lost 10 pounds... from 125lbs to 115lbs in about 2 months. My tongue became swollen with raised red nodules... looking at it made me think that if the rest of my GI Tract looked like my tongue, then no wonder I had nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. It started with the nausea and diarrhea, but by the time I left the home I was vomiting every morning as if I had morning sickness from pregnancy. I was 60 years old and menopausal, so NOT pregnant. I have never experienced insomnia, but living across from that tower, I was awake with night sweats every night. The symptoms resolved completely once I moved, although it took a couple months to get back to normal. I only lived there a few months, and stayed with local family a good bit of that time once I realized the issue HAD to be the proximity to the tower. Its been 6-7 years, and I am long since back to my normal state of excellent health, but I will NEVER live close to a tower again. The detrimental health effects are REAL for those sensitive to the radiation. I guess I'm sensitive. Yay, me. My neighbors that I spoke with during my short time on Lantern Crest Cove denied any ill effects. I think I would have eventually died, unless its possible to build up a tolerance to the radiation. It distresses me to no end that SCHOOLS seem to be a favorite place to put cell towers!! Beeming radiation right by the KIDS all day long!!! Even if they don't experience what I did, HOW can we just assume it's safe??? For the love of God, stop capitulating to the Powers-that-Be who think cell towers on school grounds are a great idea! I swear, sometimes I think they really ARE trying to kill us all!! Best regards, C Kornman, RN,BSN

EMF has effected me since before 5G, 5G makes me sick, headache, angry, pensive, want to curl up in ball and cry. Use 3 forms of protection on my body and many more in my home. We don’t have 5 G in our town yet but some ignorant moron just put up a tower right in the middle of our town The entire town will be under the DEW when they turn it on. I can’t go to big cities anymore to see my kids, the EMF makes my heart hurt and I can’t even begin to relax. It’s awful. You do know Scientists and the Military call Cell Towers DEWS, they know what’s going on and something needs to be done before they send a frequency through the towers that kills every living thing on this planet. I will be glad in the future when we can bring suit against this evil for the pain and suffering they cause a lot of people. There are no regulations and the Safety people of these companies are totally ignorant to EMF sensitivity. Told my Electric company not to put a Smart Meter on my property, they waited until I was gone and installed it anyway. I haven’t been able to sleep in my bedroom since. Called them to get it removed, they said it would cost me $1700-2000. The PREC so called Safety person didn’t even know what EMF is. So Pathetic! Something needs to be done. Or they can introduce 6G and it can kill all the morons that took the Covid 19. Either way something needs to be done or USA will be Italy or Ireland where the public are burning down Cell Towers for making their kids sick and killing them. The EMF laws are from 1996, and that’s totally insane, 40 year old regulations in EMF saturated environment. Sounds like it’s time to get up to speed or stop the EMF killing fields. But I know this is all about money and the government doesn’t give one shit about how EMF is hurting people. Can you tell EMF makes me angry? Should make everyone angry enough to do something! Especially the government! Do something!