Power lines, wiring & solar

15 years ago, the 'straw that broke the camels back' was a zero turn lawn mower - a little larger than the average. Started getting rashes as I mowed my 12 acres over a 3 week period. Third week i got a rash on my breast - not good. Never sick at 55 years old and as I went to Naturaopathic Doctor found I had cancer, lyme and started noticing everything electric, magnetic and wireless was affecting the cancer and could feel each exposure. Now 15 years later, cancer is gone though I can feel the old spos activate with much exposure at all, I can still feel all electric, magnetic and wireless exposures. Only got better because i built a zero wireless radiation home with ultra low exposure to electric and magnetic radiation... and I stay in it most of the time. I can't live a 'normal' life - though yes, I am thankful this has led me away from being one of the zombies walking around with head down staring at their screens. This is an entire human experience problem - not just about those of us who can't function normally. Can't go on trips with a group of people in cars, can't stay long at family gatherings, have to put up with close family members being mad at me because I need them to turn their phones off in my mostly safe home, have no hope of ever being in a serious relationship again because no one will give up their wireless technology permanently for another person, can't take care of my own yard (magnetic field) and SO much more. I cry as I type this though I haven't cried about it in a long time, just seeing the whole picture of what has happened in 15 years. BUT I have found purpose and fulfillment in helping others because though it took me years to figure out and get somewhat better, others are completely devastated and don't know what to do or where to turn for help - having a high suicide rate. It's only a matter of time before each person will have their 'lifetime radiation cup' filled (all at different times) and will have to go through this... for the rest of their life. Is someone going to stop it? It's long past due! Please help. Everyone is inflamed (many to the point of cancer), can't sleep (their cells are vibrating), brain fog and memory problems, anxiety (directly related to wireless radiation and the overgrowth of lyme which happens with exposure to wireless radiation) and yes, this leads to our high rates of suicide, constant headaches, obesity/insulin issues (some directly related to wireless exposures), ALS, Lou Gerhigs, Multriple Scleroses all directly related.

My comments represent the perspective of an individual citizen. 3)a)For five and a half years now I have experienced "atypical migraine" (as diagnosed by a neurologist) which becomes severe during and following exposure to radiofrequency radiation from mobile phones, Wi-Fi routers, cell towers, smart meters and any radiating devices. These migraines are characterized by long episodes of afflictive, abnormal, painful, distressing neuropathy, pressure, burning, and palpations in the meninges region. They became severe and chronic starting in the spring of 2021, and at that time always started when I used a hotspot modem to connect to the internet, often for video conferencing. From that time I experienced the above-described form of intolerant physiological reaction while and after coming into close proximity to cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, cell towers, smart meters, wireless printers, and devices including bluetooth AirPods worn by someone nearby. The migraine is also characterized by sometimes severe brain fog, by near total deficit of executive function, memory issues, trouble concentrating, anxiety, and disturbing tingling in my hands, feet, and diaphragm. Over time, unable to establish a stable ongoing life free from exposure, the intolerance is worse. I am also affected by "dirty electricity," and electric and magnetic fields associated with wiring in my home, which has not been assessed by a credentialed professional with knowledge about idiopathic environmental intolerance and best mitigation practices. My comment is uploaded in full in the attached file Pfoutz

Question 3 Thank you for the opportunity to share with you my personal experience of exposure to ElectroMagnetic Radiation (EMR). I became sensitive to EMR when electricity smart meters were first installed in my area. I did not know that they had been installed on the houses two properties away from mine. I couldn’t understand why I was suddenly sleeping poorly, waking at exactly 1.30 AM and 5.00 AM every morning. I would wake with what seemed like an adrenaline burst and it would take me 2 hours to get back to sleep. Given that I was working at the time, this was not conducive to performing well in my job and it contributed to my job loss shortly after. This rendered me unable to ever work again as my new electro-sensitivity meant every work place was now a threat, due to pervasive EMR from wi-fi networks, cell phones, and numerous other RF emitting devices. After two weeks, I recalled that smart meters were due to be installed around that time and when I asked the neighbor two properties away, he said that a smart meter had been installed on their property on the very day I started experiencing insomnia. I had been alerted to the problems with smart meters several months earlier by a TV news report. Some people like to say that electro-sensitivity is a nocebo effect. But it took me two weeks to make the connection between my new insomnia and the installation of smart meter. I experience a large variety of symptoms, including heart problems, insomnia, stinging pains in my body, agitation, head pain, dry eyes, skin and lips, and neuropathy, but I challenge the ‘nocebo experts’ to explain to me how I can knowingly will my nose to bleed when exposed to EMR. I have spent thousands of dollars trying to protect myself from RF entering my home and body. But every time I think I’ve achieved some level of success in protecting myself, a new source of RF invades my home, leaving me struggling to address the new situation. It is a case of two steps forward, three steps back. I have given up all my recreational activities due to the impossibility of avoiding cell phones and cell phone tower radiation. I am a prisoner in my home, but my home isn’t safe either. I have to ‘pick my poison’. Becoming sensitive to radio frequencies has also made me sensitive to other types of EMR, such as magnetic fields, electric fields on wiring and harmonics on wiring (dirty electricity). My life has been turned upside down by radio frequencies. This is not a minor inconvenience. Hardly an hour goes by when I am not in distress from one or more symptoms. Others have been forced to move to remote, inhospitable locations, often even leaving family members behind in the city. Some have committed suicide. And yet, research papers (usually those funded by industry) can find no cause for concern with RF. ORSAA in Australia (https://www.orsaa.org/) has collated hundreds of research papers to show a plethora of papers finding health effects from EMR. Clearly protection standards are inadequate. I became ill over a decade ago from EMR that was a lower frequency and lower pervasiveness than I am currently exposed to. My health has continued to deteriorate with each new environmental EMR assault. If my body couldn’t cope over a decade ago, how much less can it cope today with ubiquitous cell phones, wi-fi networks, cell towers, smart watches, etc, etc.? The strength of RF signals needs to be decreased. Wired internet connections should be used where possible, especially in hospitals, nursing homes and schools. Cell phone towers should not duplicate coverage. Rather, providers should share their resources so that people are not assaulted by multiple cell towers in range of each other. Cell phones should be more stringently tested to ensure that they do not exceed safety standards. We need to investigate the multiplicity of electro-sensitivity symptoms and stop relying on the thermal effect as if only heating of tissues causes distress. I am also concerned about magnetic fields from electricity substations and power lines. The protection standards are woefully inadequate. Building biologists recommend lower than 2 mG, but ICNIRP recommends below 2,000 mG. That’s a huge difference. I am alarmed at the number of buildings being erected with substations incorporated into them. Who is spending their day on the other side of the wall/floor/ceiling from the substation? And it seems that it is now ok to build homes close to high voltage powerlines. In fact, if the powerlines run underground where no-one can see them, power companies are happy to install high voltage powerlines within a metre of (existing) homes. I should know; that is the situation I am in. All of this is also contributing to high ground current which then enters the home as harmonics/dirty electricity.

On Sep 30, 2019 I was stopped at a red light in Boston and immediately felt like I was being zapped by electricity. My heart started racing, felt dizzy, and felt the sensation of a vice around my head. A small cell 4G antenna was on top of the light pole approx 15 feet from my car. I never noticed this antenna before at that intersection. My symptoms subsided within a few hours. After that experience, whenever I go to Boston I feel similar symptoms which are caused by the high number of small cell 4G/5G antennas: head pressure, feeling ‘off kilter’, various degrees of dizziness/vertigo, feeling ‘wired’ like I drank 10 cups of coffee, and loud tinnitus. I’ve only experienced tinnitus that ‘loud’ if I was at a loud concert (decades ago) or in Boston or other cities with many small cells. I used to work in Boston and never felt these symptoms prior to 2019. In Manhattan at the corner of 3rd Ave and E. 45th there is a cell ‘tower’ with many 4G and 5G antennas placed on the roof of a small 1 story sandwich shop. In Feb 2020, I measured the RF from across 3rd Ave. It was 2896 milliwatts (so 2,896,000 microwatts) per sq meter. Ever since getting ‘attacked’ by the small cell antennas, I now get symptoms of slight dizziness and/or head pressure when I am near a router or wifi access point on the ceilings of public buildings, restaurants, etc. The symptoms also linger hours after exposure. I live approx ¼ mile from cellular antennas. I own a meter that measures RF in milliwatts per sq meter, which is set to building biologist standards. With my 3G smartphone years ago I got 5 bars of service from home and the RF reading (not on a phone call) was approx. 3.4 milliwatts per sq meter. With my newer 4G LTE phone when 3G was discontinued, even though I was in the same home, I only got 2 bars of coverage and the RF reading (not in a call) ranged between 34 and 350 milliwatts per sq meter . I stopped using a smart phone as a result of this 10 to 100 fold increase in RF exposure since 3G went away and haven’t had wifi turned on in my home for ten years to reduce my exposure. Worst of all is the AMI smart meter installation that the electric companies have rolled out. I live in one of the few states that allow an opt out. However, my neighbors didn’t opt out and the same day the meters were installed, the side of my head and face felt tingly (occurs when I am closest to the bank of 8 AMI meters-approx 10 feet away). The only other time the side of my face/head ever felt tingly was when I was within 4 feet of a wifi access point that was attached to a wall at a school 8 yrs ago. I occasionally feel a sensation of a quick ‘jab’ to my brain which lasts 2 seconds, constant head pressure/ feeling like a band is tightly wrapped around my head while I’m at home, insomnia, and heart skipped beats, irregular heartrate, tachycardia and a few episodes of atrial flutter. These symptoms all occurred and are getting worse after the AMI meters were installed, likely caused by the RF pulses every 15 seconds and/or the increase in dirty electricity caused by the AMI meters. I didn’t have the tingly head/ head pressure/ stabbing to head sensation, tachycardia, etc symptoms in my home with the prior AMR meters. When I leave the house the head pressure completely goes away but comes back again every time I return home. I needed to spend $$$ on building biologist phone consults, a meter, shielding fabrics, etc, to try to tolerate living in my own home after the AMI meters were installed and I know people that needed to move after the AMI meters were installed on their homes. The shielding fabrics didn’t help that much. The best way to reduce symptoms is to reduce/eliminate exposure and that cannot be done with AMI smart meters in neighborhoods. The meters pulse every 15 seconds or so which is harmful to all of us, whether or not we feel symptoms, due to oxidative stress and many other ill effects. In addition: I am forced to purchase cars at least 10 years old to avoid being blasted by RF in the new cars due to all the technology in newer cars. Difficult to travel in a plane due to passengers using their devices and now some airlines incorporated a drop down ‘shelf’ for the passenger in the next row to place their phone in to watch in flight movies, with their phone’s antennas inches from the back of our heads. The readings in the plane that I have taken vary from approx. 2.9 to 9 milliwatts per sq meter. At hotels, I need to find a room as far away from wifi hot spots to try to get a good night sleep and to avoid symptoms. I wish hotels didn't replace their wired internet in guest rooms with wifi. I used to enjoy spending time in large cities but over the past decade I now sadly need to avoid them due to the extremely high levels of EMF. I feel fortunate that I at least know what is causing my symptoms. So many people have symptoms and they have no idea what is causing them. See attached files

1. & 2. I am responding as: an individual 3a. Type of wireless or RF/EMF sources involved (e.g., mobile phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters…)Wi-Fi, especially when homes have connected devices and appliences 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):aware since 2012, but got more intense over the last 3 years, more effected inside a building and more precise effected at night between 6pm to 6am. also on flights and offices. 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:unease, heart palpitation, shallow breathing, light muscle spasm, insomnia 3d. Time from first exposure to first appearance of adverse health effects; and did a change in exposure coincide with the onset of adverse effects:over the last 3 years i can definitely feel an increase of the symptoms. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis?RF/EMF was tested and I was advised to change the laptop from wireless to wire and switch off the wifi at night. 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects?as mentioned in point 3e, i experience improvements in my home, the symptoms come right back when i am outside or sleep outside of my home. 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information:no Additional Details you would like to share about your experiences of adverse health effects you believe to be associated with exposure to wireless radiation or EMF's:during the testing of my RF sensibilty my body shows also high rates of heavy metals, specially aluminium and cadmium. B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects:cellular phone, mac book, wifi, electric heating, electric car B1b. Sources you can sense, but don't seem to harm you:electric appliances and heavy led light B1c. Sources you can use without sensing or being harmed:not sure B1d. Sources that seem to provide benefit (i.e., electrotherapy):infrared light or infrared mat B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless:stroke B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant:allergies B3. For each subquestion please list up to 5 drugs or therapies or home remedies (if any) B3a. That you recommend, as they helped you tolerate or recover from EMF exposure:walking with bare feet in nature or water, work with hands in the soil. B3b. That you recommend, but you’re not positive that they help:baths with special salts B3c. That helped you but you don’t recommend. (e.g., the benefit did not last long or the side effects were too harmful): B3d. Treatments that had no effect: B3e. Treatments that made your sensitivity worse:65-74 B4. What is your age range?65-74 B5. What year did you become aware of your sensitivity to wireless radiation or electromagnetic fields?2012 B6. What country, state, province, or major city were you living in when you first noticed your sensitivity to wireless or electromagnetic fields?California, Marin

I have been personally affected by my cell phone, computer and wireless radiation since January of 2019 when I had an “electrical accident” in my home office. Since then, when I touch my cell phone or use my laptop, I get these symptoms: tingling on the tip of my tongue that spreads further back toward my throat, my lips swell, nausea, swelling in my joints, ...until I stop using the device. The cell phone impacts me extremely quickly, just by touching the front of it, and I often get a pulse through my arm. Awhile back, I began to get a lump in my breast. It was right where I could feel the signal from my fingers on the cellphone to my breast. This lump kept increasing in size until I went to the doctor and showed her. It felt important that a medical person see the lump and record it in my health records. Realizing the cell phone seemed to be causing the lump, I stopped using it for 4 days until the limp went away. I can only use a computer for a short time before these reactions occur and nausea sets in. I have friends for whom the reaction is a lightning bolt headache that lasts many days, burning skin and worse. I have also had tinnitus since this occurred. It is loud and affecting my hearing. Hearing aids will be necessary, and you know what they cost, but I can’t have wireless hearing aids which are now wireless or have a battery, something I also can’t tolerate at close range. In the "electrical accident," I was using my computer with the wireless on and charging my cellphone in the same unit of 4 outlets. I was back and forth using the computer and the cell phone when I needed to text/make/take a phone call. Suddenly, tingling began on my tongue, and my lips swelled. I have been told that my hands on both the keyboard and the cell phone at the same time completed something like a closed circuit, charging my body. Since that time, I have had this sensitivity. My doctor and my chiropractor both diagnosed it as Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity. My MD says I am something of an antenna now, possibly exacerbated because we all have metals in our bodies from environmental pollutants. There are costs associated with being electrically sensitive. I cannot have wireless on in my home and must hardwire my laptop. Wireless is free, and cell data, which I am forced to use, is expensive. I purchased a good meter, between $350 and $800. My RF/EMF meter told me there is no place is my home that is really safe enough to sleep on a regular basis and I had to invest in some very expensive shielding material ($1500.00) that shuts out radiowaves in my bedroom. I need to hire a Building Biologist to determine what about my home makes the sensitivity worse. This hire is expensive ($800-1000.00) as well as costs for anything that person determines I must do to mitigate my exposure. I have great concerns (terrified, really) about 5G and all that will come in the future. Smart meters aren't local yet, but we have gotten the dreaded letter saying they are putting them on houses now. These must be studied as they emit huge amounts of strong radiation and will be installed right on our homes. They also put dirty electricity into our wiring, and I and some others react to that. I actually have to turn off the circuit to my bedroom when I sleep so I don’t get a killer headache. What else is forced on us this way? Please let us have free meters on our homes for water, electricity and gas. The more radiation we add to the environment, the more people will be negatively affected. Please study the effects of the enormous amount of cumulative radiation in the air in towns wiht strong wireless infrastructure and those with little. We have seen huge differences. Please study the effect on children, wildlife, the elderly and immuno-compromised. Our lives are in your hands. Please protect us and keep services people-centered not profit driven. Thank you so much! ~ Upton, MA

The following information is my personal experiences from EMF's and other wireless technologies. On January 19,2018 I returned home after an appointment. My husband told me that a smart meter had been installed on our home. That night I couldn't sleep anywhere in the house. My reaction also included significant tingling, feeling anxious, weakness all over, balance was off, eyes very sensitive to light and thinking skills were off also. I felt miserable and didn't know what to do to get relief. Duke energy did replace the meter with an electrical mechanical meter, but I felt no improvement. With the previous analog meter I could function well. I had to search and educate myself about the EMF problem. Through many months I purchased products that proved to be useless. Finally, in February 2019 I learned about a product that was a filter to be attached to the circuit breaker box. I immediately ordered it and had electricians install it. While they were connecting the wires downstairs, I remained upstairs. I knew INSTANTLY when it was connected. My tingling abruptly completely stopped! After 13 months I had relief! Living with EMF sensitives has negatively impacted my health and life activities. I always need to be aware of EMF exposure sources and avoid them. Some of the hardest places have been hospitals, long term care facilities and medical offices. I have even had to change doctors due to my body's reaction in those settings. With more technologies being used in my neighborhood, I needed to have a building biologist help assess my home. Using two different meters the assessment showed that I needed further remediation. Seeing actual numbers gave me a clear understanding of the exposure strength. For the future I strongly support the 704NoMore initiatives. New lower exposure standards need to be implemented based on science. I firmly believe that more education and research needs to be accomplished.

To whom it concern regarding the Obamacare health care plan regarding. I have strong beliefs that anything that has to do with radio action microwaves frequencies fiber optic high voltage wiring and any kind of technology affects the human affairs of human safety regarding all the electronics with the 5G frequencies in meter boxes in homes and perhaps in business buildings and facilities also acknowledgment of any power devices does anything to do with the rest. My beliefs and now known to research in fact to be factual that the cell towers give off the microwaves waves and is very toxic they have are where the public. Connected in all sorts of ways it causes ailments of many kinds. There's a lot of other devices connected to be a benefit to the healthcare system regarding the health services of others. I distinctly I'm an advocate for the provision of health.

Hello! I am a Swede living in Sweden and in Spain. I have electrosensitivity since 2006 due to working too much with technology as a filmmaker. It was eventually my own canon videocamera that made me fall into the pit. Needless to say that I get headache and energy loss and constant colds when my immune system goes down in environments with high microwave frequencies and where the electromagnetic fields are high in both microtesla and voltage. I wanted to point out an issue that is not really covered since the focus is mostly on 5G and other terrible wireless systems. I have noticed that these days the microtesla is really high inside and outside houses when measuring with my electrosmog meter, and this I also feel a lot in my whole body and head. Furthermore I have unfortunately not found a good place to live in Malmö in Sweden due to the central heating of the city and due to the smart meters from which its inherent transformers and microwaves emit spikes on the kind 50hz electrical cords in all the houses. And the central heating has also high voltage and microtesla that are transmitted from the original central heating and enlarged by the switchers in every house and then spread up by the leading metal tubes in the house to all the radiators in every apartment or villa. So these will literally be radiating in every room high fluctuating microtesla and voltage which is eat to measure with a electrosmog meter (Cornet for example). So this is the case in bigger cities in Sweden. So I was also surprised to notice high voltage and really high fluctuating microtesla in houses Portugal for example. I don't know why it's so. And I also noticed it with my meter and my brain that got a heavy headache at a friend's apartment in Malmö. So I measured outside her apartment house where there had been put up lightment of modern color lamps. My assumption is that these lampa are wireless controlled and therefore emit such high microtesla and voltage in the whole environment, both outside and inside the houses. I am really worried about this and would like to see some safety regulations around this. So an other issue are the solar cells and the wind mills. I have learned that it has to do with that there are transformers up at the highest point of the windmills that are spreading electromagnetism for serval kilometers away. I "feel" (headache , nausea, energy loss) from a windmill if I am closer than five kilometers away. Instead there should be a faraday's cage around that transformer, or put it on the ground with a parade cage around it. The transformer is changing the voltage rate. This should be constructed in a safer way. And likewise I cannot be close to solar cells or its equipment (transformers and controllers) forany meters. It is not a joke since solar cells are forbidden where military planes are flying low, since the radiation from the solar cells technology is disturbing the instruments inside the planes. Nevertheless there are "kind" solar cells and equipment and it is important to not install the equalizer system on the solar cells, ie that regulates the solar cells when there are clouds that give shade on some parts of the solar cells that are connected together. This makes the whole solar cell roof radiant... Apart from wireless systems and gadgets I also suffer a lot from house alarms and energy saving lamps and some kind of led lamps. Lamps can emit so much fluctuating microtesla. And also dimmers, which is due to the hammering on the electrical cord that therefore emit high spikes and give headache and energy loss, among all the other symptoms... So to avoid that it's better to have the dimmer lamp fully turned on or turned off. Not in between. I also noticed that my sick and sad old aunt was sleeping in fluctuating microtesla in her hospital bed at the senior sick house where her daughter put her. I went there to clean the electromagnetic and wireless ambiance of her room that made her so dizzy and lost. Even if I unplugged the electrical cable of her aluminium metal bed structure which had fluctuating microtesla according to my electrosmog meter it still was emitting, probably due to a encapsulated battery in the bed structure to moving the different bed parts up and down. So I found her a second hand bed of wood, with the same possibility to move the parts up and down with a cord control that the personnel would plug in if needed. She slept so much better after that. And also because I shut down one of the main fuses in the fuse box in her room as well since I measured it with my electrosmog meter that was peaking totally. So strange...

My experiences with EMF impact on my life have been many. I has caused me to have headaches, involuntary body movements, screaming from body punches being zapped, brain fog, brain flutters, left ear ringing constantly, the in ability to write legibly, loosing my balance, eye pain, being relegated to 3x5 foot space in my apartment, sleep only on my left side hoping to mitigate my exposure to sleep, the loss of memory, not being able to do the simplest things: go to the doctor or hospital, attend church, concerts, eat out, travel, stay in hotels or others homes, and more; without being aware of the danger that could ensue. I keep my android phone in a medal case/container off. In order to type this information I use a rubber tip stylist. I use Ethernet, a mouse, and three EMF blocker gloves on my hand, my router is kept in a steel pot wrapped heavy foil. At night I unplug everything accept the refrigerator, and the stove. I never use the microwave oven. I live a lovely small town in the business district. However, I 'm surrounded by electrical infrastructure, so the windows are covered with two plywood board, and EMF blocker net/fabric in ever room accept the back windows in the small laundry room, and bathroom. Just walking to collect my mail or lingering at the front to greet my neighbors is a danger. Walking around in my apartment or washing dishes is a problem. I can't sit anywhere other than the small space in my laundry room. I could go on, but suffice it to say EMF is a real, and very usual challenge for me daily.