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Posted 2026-10-28#5874 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports dizziness, agitation and worsening chronic illness around wireless technologies, de…

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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… ) WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, SMART METERS, WIFI, CELL TOWERS, CELL ANTENNAS 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years): TEN YEARS 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced: DIZZY EQUILIBRIUM, AGITATED, EXACERBATION OF CHRONIC ILLNESSES 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: A FEW MINUTES 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis? YES 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects? FELT MUCH HEALTHIER WHEN AVOIDED EXPOSURE TO WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, CELL ANTENNAS, CELL TOWERS, SMART DEVICES, WIFI AND BLUE TOOTH DEVICES 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information: YES. TOOK METER READINGS THAT SHOWED THERE WERE UNSAFE TO DANGEROUS LEVELS OF RADIATION AND EMF FIELDS Additional Details you would like to share about your experiences of adverse health effects you believe to be associated with exposure to wireless radiation CELL TOWERS, CELL ANTENNAS, WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY, WIFI DEVICES MUST BE BANNED. AND REPLACED WITH WIRED, CORDED TECHNOLOGY AND COPPER LANDLINE PHONE EQUIPMENT SERVICES B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects: CELL TOWERS, CELL ANTENNAS, SMART METERS, WIRELESS MODEMS AND DEVICES, WIFI, BLUE TOOTH B1b. Sources you can sense, but don't seem to harm you: SOME CELL PHONES, B1c. Sources you can use without sensing or being harmed: NONE B1d. Sources that seem to provide benefit (i.e., electrotherapy): NOTHING BUT AVOIDANCE OF EXPOSURE B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless: EXPOSURE TO EMF FIELDS AND RADIATION WORSENS ALL HEALTH CONDITIONS AND ILLNESSES B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant: NONE B3. For each sub question please list up to 5 drugs or therapies or home remedies (if any) NONE B3a. That you recommend, as they helped you tolerate or recover from EMF exposure: SHIELDING OF EXPOSURE, AVOIDANCE OF EXPOSURE B3b. That you recommend, but you’re not positive that they help: SOME NOT ALL SHIELDING SOURCES ARE NOT EFFECTIVE TO STOP EMF FIELDS OR RADIATION LEVELS B3c. That helped you but you don’t recommend. (e.g., the benefit did not last long or the side effects were too harmful): THE ONLY EFFECTIVE TREATMENT WAS ELIMINATE EXPOSURE TO THE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY AND CELL TOWERS B3d. Treatments that had no effect: ONLY EFFECTIVE TREATMENT WAS TO AVOID EXPOSURE TO ALL WIRELESS, WIFI TECHNOLOGY, AND TO CELL TOWERS, CELL ANTENNAS, SMART METERS B3e. Treatments that made your sensitivity worse: ANY THAT INVOLVED USE OF WIRELESS, WIFI, BT TECHNOLOGY OR DEVICES B4. What is your age range? 60-75 B5. What year did you become aware of your sensitivity to wireless radiation or electromagnetic fields? IN 2015 B6. What country, state, province, or major city were you living in when you first noticed your sensitivity to wireless or electromagnetic fields? CALIF
Posted 2026-10-28#5873 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter describes a neighbor's anxiety worsening after a nearby 5G installation and disappearing on…

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A neighbor of mine, a former public official in a very responsible position has begun suffering from anxiety for the first time in his long life coincident with the rollout of 5G in our town. Doctors have been unable to find the cause. This person is now retired, spending most of his time at home helping with extended family child care. About 6 months ago a 5G station was installed on a pole on his street about 10 yards from his house. His formerly episodic anxiety has become nearly continuous and grown worse. In August he went on a two week family vacation in a fairly remote area with no cell service. He experienced a complete lack of anxiety at that location. His anxiety returned with a vengeance a few hours after he returned home. His doctor has advised him to move from his life long home to a rural location without cell service. This is not a controlled study, but as a natural history experiment it strongly suggests that there are serious health impacts from cell phone system radiation.
Posted 2026-10-28#5872 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports head buzzing and brain fog during phone calls and near towers or in cities.

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Every time i hold my cell phone to my ear to answer a phone call, I head a head buzz, feel spacy and brain fog. When I am in the city or near a cell tower I feel the same effects. The evidence has been proven for several years, thank you for now taking it into account.
Posted 2026-10-28#5870 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports worsening AM-radio interference along roads, attributes it to 5G infrastructure, an…

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5G proliferation along interstate highways is rendering my car's AM radio unusable. I first started noticing significant disruption of AM reception in my 2010 Toyota Sienna early summer 2025. Affected interstates in Massachusetts were extensive segments of I95, I24, I495, I295 in particular. Over time the affected segments elongated and merged to the point where my radio has become unusable. Since last summer, the interference spread to local roads to the point that AM is unusable almost anywhere. This has clearly been caused as 5G nodes began appearing on poles along our local streets. If the emf radiation is powerful enough to prevent me from listening to a 50,000 watt nearby clear channel AM broadcast station, what detrimental effects has it been having on people?
Posted 2026-10-28#5867 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports burning and tingling with phones and headaches near a home smart meter and towers, …

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Hello, I am reporting the health consequences that I have experienced as an average human, living an average life, with what I consider low to average daily radiation exposure. I use a smart phone, daily. I have a smart meter on my home from the local electric company. I drive down the streets, that are lined with cell phone towers. I use wifi in my home as an internet option. I use wifi at work. I use the 5G on my phone when wifi is not available. I use my smartphone mostly for texting and for searching the internet/ social media. I am a medical professional, but this is only a report of my personal life experiences. The first time I noted a distinct and obvious negative health consequence from using a cell phone was in 2017. I bought an iphone 10 as an upgrade to an iphone 6 and immediately noted that my hands felt like they were literally burning and on fire when I was holding and using the phone. I immediately contacted Apple, reported the burning sensation, and sent the phone back to them to confirm that it was not defective. They sent it back to me without confirming or denying there was a problem, but the symptoms continued, so I promptly sold the phone and went back to using my iphone 6. My hands continue to feel like they are burning after any prolonged use of a cell phone. I currently use an iphone 14 Pro. Any amount of time using the device causes my hands to tingle. The longer I hold this hand held device, the longer it takes for my burning sensation to recover. If I put it in airplane mode, I have minimal tingling in my hands, in comparison. If I completely stop using any handheld device, my hands stop tingling within a few hours, or a few days, depending on the recent duration of use. I have only had Apple cell phones in the past 20 years. The smart meter on my home has been giving me headaches. I have lived in a home with a smart meter attached to a main living room wall for the past 6 years and am increasingly sensitive to spending any time in that room. The closer I get in proximity to that meter, the worse I feel. I start to feel tense, uneasy, and agitated. I start to get a headache with any prolonged time spent in the living room. I also have the wifi router in close proximity to the smart meter, but I get the same symptoms when the wifi router is unplugged. I have called the electric company and asked for an analog meter that gets read in person, but they told me they do not offer that option. Cell phone towers give me headaches. They also cause a feeling of uneasiness and tension in my body. I was on my honeymoon with my husband, driving from Anchorage to Glennallen, Alaska and we saw an inviting valley where we decided to stop and take a hike. We didn’t note that it was at the base of a very large cell tower (I am assuming it was a cell phone tower but would have to confirm with whatever company owns it). As we climbed the hill I mentioned to my husband that I was getting a very severe headache. Headaches are not common for me in my normal daily life. I have experienced very few, and rarely over my 44 years, except when exposed to emfs. We looked up the hill and noted the giant tower and decided we better start walking away from it, assuming this was the cause. Sure enough, the headache decreased as we got further away. We were unable to enjoy that area and had to continue driving to find a safer alternative for our enjoyment of nature. I have noted similar headaches when driving past certain towers in our city of Anchorage, Alaska. There are certain areas that I try not to drive through because they give me headaches with any proximity. I also note headaches when I am driving on the highway and passing certain large towers (towers I assume are cell phone towers). The headache will start at low intensity and I will make note and look around. Almost always I am able to spot a tower right away. The headache increases in intensity as proximity increases, and decreases as I get further away. I could write much more about the health consequences of the continual broadcasting of radiation from cell towers, smart phones, smart meters, and wifi. I believe it is “cooking” us with high frequency vibration emissions like heat vibrations heat up a pan on the stove to cook food. I believe that we are all being cooked, as well as our pets, animals, plants, and all the molecules around us. Everything is being forced to speed up, causing a host of environmental problems. I have bought an emf reader and have been able to confirm the high frequency emissions from each of the hand held devices in our home, as well as the computers, the smart meter and the wifi router. The health consequences of having these frequencies continually bombarding us will only become more severe as a population in general if we don’t change the trajectory of limitless emfs in our immediate environments. Something must be done. Please, consider my testimony. It is honest and true.
Posted 2026-10-28#5865 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter opposes an approved tower near Brookfield housing, describes unanswered community concerns,…

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Please help our small community in Brookfield, Connecticut despite over 200 signatures from residence to stop the building of 175 foot cell tower literally across the street from private townhouses with hundreds of people and children play and walk and live. We have 3 to 4 towers about 3 miles from here on this community. We do not need a cell tower. It’s not even for our town of Brookfield. It’s for the town of Bridgewater across a beautiful lake that will also be impacted not to mention the bald eagles and the wild animals that we have here. The Sitting Council of Connecticut has approved it without any of our concerns has that answered any of our questions regarding the environment and the danger to the wildlife, not to mention the impact it will have on the health of hundreds of people, especially children. There’s a piece of private land that it’s being built on smack in the middle of all community literally across the street cell towers should never be built among people. Please help us stop the cell tower. We live at Lake Lillanonah Shores in Brookfield CT
Posted 2026-10-28#5859 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports diagnosed EMF sensitivity, device-related pain and disabling vertigo and headaches …

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The last few years I've had a decline in my health due to EMF exposure. The first thing I noticed was pain when holding my cell phone, or being on the computer. It took me about 1 and 1/2 years to figure out what was causing the issues by process of elimination. I was working from home until March of this year, when I lost the ability to be on my computer from extreme vertigo, and headaches due to emf exposure. There is also a 5g tower right down the street from me, and my digital emf device readings are dangerously high, only a few feet from my home. The only thing that has truly helped is avoidance, and hardwiring my house. I was seeing a doctor and diagnosed with extreme emf sensitivity.
Posted 2026-10-28#5853 · Permanent link ↗

A taxi driver reports pain, disorientation and other symptoms near transmitters, describes observations i…

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**Europe, Slovakia, Bratislava** Dear Sir or Madam, I am a 52-year-old woman and I currently work as a taxi driver in our city. I am writing to share my experiences with 5G, 6G and Wi-Fi, because there are also people in America who come from our region or have ancestors from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Russia, and other countries. I want other people to be protected as well. In our city, there are 5G transmitters almost every three houses. **My personal experience — I have also asked my passengers about theirs:** Near these transmitters, I experience tingling in my limbs, burning sensations and pain in my bones, joints and spine, difficulty concentrating, disorientation, and overheating — as if I were boiling from the inside. I sometimes even feel faint. Other people experience similar symptoms. It seems to depend on the frequency being used. I also have a Geiger counter to check my observations. It registered high radiation readings, reaching the alarm level. In another part of the city, people experience headaches, depression and suicidal thoughts. Elsewhere, people suffer from abdominal pain, have to make frequent trips to the toilet, or experience burning sensations in their respiratory tract. The intensity of this radiation fluctuates in sinusoidal waves. For a short while, I have to breathe through the pain; then I feel better for a moment, and it starts all over again. I have difficulty walking from one end of the street to the other. Yet when I get into a car and drive into an area where this radiation no longer reaches, I have no pain at all. I feel completely fine. This happens to us several times a day, especially at night. In places where the radiation intensity increases, I have noticed frequent car accidents. I have also noticed frequent abnormal swelling of a single limb in people and domestic animals, particularly dogs. The lymphatic system does not appear to function properly. Under the influence of this radiation, people and animals seem unable to defend themselves against ordinary bacteria. Overall, everyone's health appears to be deteriorating. Wi-Fi is the same, since it involves the transmission of microwaves. This is not the way forward. It is a path to disaster. It would be better to provide high-speed internet through fibre-optic cables. Wireless transmission should be kept to the absolute minimum necessary — 4G or lower. Thank you for taking the time to read this and for your understanding. I hope this will help us find relief from this suffering.

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Posted 2026-10-28#5844 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports headaches and other illness beginning after local 5G activation, describes relief a…

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I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH THE VERY UNPLEASANT EFFECTS OF THE EXTREMELY HIGH LEVELS OF EMF RADIATION IN MY COMMUNITY SINCE THE 5- G SYSTEM WAS ACTIVATED HERE IN MAY OF 2019, I HAVE EXPERIENCE PRESSURE HEADACHES ( I NEVER HAD HEADACHES BEFORE THE ACTIVATION)! I ALSO EXPERIENCE AN OVERALL UNWELL FEELING WITH QUEASINESS, FATIQUE, MUSCLE ACHES AND A FEELING OF " HEAVINESS" IN MY BODY MAKING ACTIVITIES MUCH MORE DIFFICULT! THREE YEARS AFTER THE 5-G ACTIVATION, I EXPERIENCED NUMEROUS HEALTH ISSUES, INCLUDING A NEUROLOGICAL CONDITION THAT REQUIRES CONSTANT MEDICAL ATTENTION! When i leave my community, most of the symptoms allivate and then return when I come back to the area! My EMF METER IS ALMOST ALWAYS READING HIGH OR EXTREME! TO ALLOW, THIS TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY IN COMMUNITIES AT SUCH HIGH LEVELS OF TRANSMISSION, IS AN ASSULT ON EVERYONE'S HEALTH AND HAPPIN3SS! IT MUST BE REGULATED !
Posted 2026-10-28#5843 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports household neurological and cardiac symptoms linked to nearby towers, describes temp…

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March 15th, 2019, our life changed overnight. I went from sleeping 8 to 9 hours a night to 4 or 5 at most. We thought there was some kind of attack--both my husband and I had headaches, extreme tinnitus, heart palpitations, brain fog and memory issues, irritability, aches and pains, and feelings of internal vibrations (jumpy legs, our teeth hurt, etc.). We didn't know what happened. As the days wore on, we found that when we were away from our house, we felt relief, and then all the symptoms and extreme discomfort would come back when we returned to our home. Eventually we came to realize that the cell tower on the water tower near us was the cause of this, and we researched emfs. We fit all the symptoms. We got an rf meter, tried a dozen other things, but it was too much for our bodies. We had to sell our beloved home and move, which impacted our finances in a negative way. We were fine in the new place for almost a year, until a cell tower about a mile away was 'upgraded' to 5G. (Remember all the commercials during the pandemic about Verizon 'upgrading' all their towers?) Since that time, we have doctored to no avail, people have thought we were crazy, the energy is sapped from us, the symptoms are worse when it's time for a phone update or when we are in a city or large crowd, and it is almost impossible now to get away from it, which we were able to do in 2019 and 2020. EMF radiation from cell towers have ruined our lives, our health, our home, and our joy. Recently I have been diagnosed with a mold infection (not by a western doctor, but by a functional medicine practitioner)--one of the symptoms is emf sensitivity. So it seems like there is some relationship between how emfs effect a person if there is mold. ( I did read that mold replicates 600 times faster when emfs are present). So two huge problems that seem to be getting worse. The RF world of cell phones and towers has never been effectively researched on the health impacts of not only humans, but all biological species. Something is seriously wrong with our environment when we have so many sick, medicated, unhappy people. Stop the give-away to the cell companies, make them accountable, regulate them with stiff penalties, do the research, protect the American people! I have read that there are frequencies that are more compatible with biological life, but cell companies would have to pay for them while the ones they use now are free. There are solutions to these problems. Don't let money and corporate greed get in the way of the health of people, animals, and plant life.

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