Towers & siting

Im feeling more tired and my sleep is not of a good guality. Im feeling drained of energy. The 5 g antenns is all over owr city.

**Public Comment to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services** **Re: RF/EMF Exposure and Human Health, Docket HHS-OASH-2026-0397** I am a homeowner in East Hampton, New York. Recently, I woke up to discover that a 42 foot cellular antenna structure had been erected directly across the street from my home, outside my bedroom window. It was installed without any advance notification to me or my neighbors, and stands less than 100 feet from my residence. Several other homes are similarly close, with some only 20 to 30 feet away. My greatest concern is for my health and the potential consequences of prolonged, involuntary exposure to radiofrequency radiation in the very place where I sleep. Yet what I find most disturbing is that, under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, local governments are prohibited from rejecting the placement of wireless facilities based on the environmental effects of RF emissions, provided those facilities comply with FCC exposure regulations. Think about what that means for homeowners like me. A telecommunications company can install an antenna directly outside our bedroom windows, and the health concerns of the people who will live beside that equipment are legally restricted from influencing the siting decision. I am not opposed to cellular technology. I recognize its importance. But there is an enormous difference between supporting wireless infrastructure and being forced to accept a new source of continuous, involuntary RF exposure immediately outside one's home, without notice, meaningful input, or the ability to raise health concerns as a basis for opposing its location. The current framework places tremendous weight on federal exposure standards. But are those standards sufficiently protective of people who live in close proximity to wireless infrastructure for years or decades? Have we adequately studied the consequences of chronic, cumulative exposure, particularly in residential settings where people spend a substantial portion of their lives? I recognize that the scientific evidence concerning potential long term health effects remains contested and that proximity alone does not establish an unsafe exposure level. That uncertainty is precisely why independent, rigorous research is so important. I urge HHS to prioritize long term studies of residential exposure to RF radiation, evaluate whether existing standards adequately address chronic and cumulative exposure, and recommend transparent, independent exposure assessments for wireless installations near homes. I also urge HHS to consider whether federal policy gives sufficient weight to protecting residents when wireless infrastructure is placed directly beside their homes, particularly when alternative locations may be available. **Americans should not have to choose between access to modern telecommunications and having a meaningful voice in decisions that may affect their health.** My bedroom window should not be the front line of an unresolved public health debate.

Q2 - Perspective: Individual consumer and resident of New York City. Not affiliated with any organization. A fuller version of this comment is attached. Q3 - Personal experience 3(a) Source: In 2019, four cellular antennas were installed on the roof of the building immediately adjacent to mine, approximately ten feet from my bedroom. They initially operated as 4G transmitters. In December 2019, T-Mobile activated 5G on the same site. 3(b) Timing/duration: I slept roughly eight hours a night in the room closest to the antennas. I was not notified of the installation and did not learn the antennas were there until after my symptoms began. I stopped sleeping in the apartment in January 2020 and formally moved out in April 2020. 3(c) Effects: After the antennas began 4G operation in 2019, I developed intense tinnitus, frequent headaches, and noticeable hair loss. In December 2019, when 5G was activated, a new symptom appeared: burns on my ears with no apparent cause - no sun, no heat source, no contact with anything that could explain them. 3(d) Onset relative to exposure: I had none of these symptoms before 2019. Tinnitus, headaches, and hair loss began during 4G operation. The ear burns appeared only when 5G was activated and had never occurred before. Two distinct changes in exposure at the site were each followed by a distinct change in my symptoms. Hair loss and burns resolved after I left. Tinnitus and headaches persist to this day. 3(e) Medical evaluation: My primary care physician had no explanation for the ear burns and asked whether I had been on vacation, though I had not traveled and sunburn confined to the ears made no sense. No cause was identified, no workup done, no diagnosis given. Tinnitus and headaches were never evaluated. Through my own research I later learned that localized burns are a recognized effect of sufficiently intense RF/microwave exposure and that close-range cell transmitters were a plausible source. My clinician had no framework for even considering RF exposure. That is itself a gap HHS should address. 3(f) Exposure reduction and results: Once I learned the antennas were there, I stopped sleeping in my bedroom and slept in my kitchen, the room farthest away. By January 2020 I had stopped living in the apartment; I moved out formally in April 2020. After leaving, tinnitus and headaches improved substantially but never fully resolved. They recur strongly whenever I am near an RF source and subside when I move away. My symptoms have tracked proximity to RF sources consistently since 2019. Being driven from my bedroom and then my home, with no recourse, was a serious hardship. 3(g) Documentation: I have dated photographs of the ear burns from December 2019 and can provide them on request. Q13(a): The 4G antennas alone were associated with tinnitus, headaches, and hair loss. Adding 5G at the same site and distance was followed by a new, different effect on my skin. HHS should treat adding 5G to an existing site as a change in exposure in its own right. Q15(a), 15(d), and Q9: Antennas were placed ten feet from a bedroom in a neighboring building with no notice and no assessment of exposure at the nearest occupied residence across the property line. Compliance evaluations address the host rooftop and ground level, not a bedroom at antenna height next door. HHS should recommend that exposure evaluation for new sites and upgrades consider the nearest occupied sleeping spaces in adjacent structures, that cumulative nighttime residential exposure be studied as its own category, and that residents be notified before installation or upgrade and be able to obtain frequencies, power output, and power density at their own dwelling. Q4(m) and Q16: HHS should prioritize (1) clinical guidance so primary care providers take an exposure history when patients present with unexplained localized burns, new-onset tinnitus, or headaches after nearby antenna installation or upgrade; (2) research on long-term close-range residential exposure to rooftop 4G and 5G infrastructure, including dermal effects, tinnitus, and headache, and why symptoms persist and recur after exposure ends; (3) a standing adverse-event reporting mechanism (Q10(f)). I appreciate HHS asking for the experiences of people who have lived next to this infrastructure and am willing to provide further detail on request.

To whom it may concen I am glad that I get to share my story as I hope it will help with reform in regards to Emf and cell phone towers etc I grew up with a mother who was so sensitive to electrical outlets in the house that ahe had to sleep in the middle of the room on rhe floor to find releif. Fast forward to years later when I found her sleeping in a room where there was a wifi modum on the other side of the wall where she was sleeping. I asked her why she wasnt reactinf to the emf coming from it and she said since she had put 3 rather large obsidian crystals in front of it they had stopped bothering her. I thoufhr that was very interesting until a couple of months later she became very ill . Thats when I discovered that she had 4 golf ball sized tumora growing in her breast tissue. We had it biopsied and it was cancer. She died a week later. She was a very healthy grandmother who ate extremly well excercized and was very fit! Fast forward to 2020 and my husband who is also very healthy amd extremly fit with a great diet started to hve odd symptoms after qe had moved to a new house. He had installed about 8 wireleaa Sonos speakera in the house. My daughter and I couldnt sleep in the rooms that they were in. We have all our homes tested for wifi and emf levels and the levels before we moved in were great! Unfortunatly because each Sonos speaker has ita own Wifi built into each speaker the levels in our home went from nothing to Extremly Dangerous levels. My daughter and I had moved to Tahiti so that we could eacape all the Emf pollution in Calif and my husband commutes every month to see us One year later he developed Afib and had to have an ablatian. Two years later he developed prostate cancer! I just cant beleive that we arent able to protect ourselves or hve any sayso on where we live and the emf that invade our home!! Its just insane that we dont have any right to clean air and clean energy! We have since moved to yet another house and we just found out that we live across the street from 6 cell phone towers and an huge antena!! All if this while my husband it healing himself from a very significant disease! We are now looking at buying a 30 acre property in the mountains just so we can have some righta to clean energy free living! How is this legal in Usa??

They put up a cell tower at the local park. I sat very near it for a couple of hours. When I got home, I had a headache that lasted for 6 days. I don't get headaches, except around cell towers... repeated, and it happened again. I can't sleep well with Wi-Fi on at night. I turn it off. If I'm exposed for a long time during the day outside my house (don't use Wi-Fi) and then at home, I get extremely tired. I can wear EMF protective clothes; that's the only option. I've noticed that people with pre-existing conditions are affected symptomatically. Others may not feel the effects even though the frequencies affect mitochondrial cell function and metabolism. I know people that cannot function outside their house for long, due to EMF frequencies. The public is not given informed consent, and this has been ignored for years. What happened to the Precautionary Principle? There is a lot of research on this, so I won't attach it.

I am submitting comments about my lived experience when exposed to EMF and RF radiation from cell towers. I used to live in a garden apartment in a Colorado town for 9 years in good health until a cell phone tower was put up only 3 blocks away. Soon I experienced poor quality sleep, ocular migraines, occasional heart palatations with chest pains, & my tinnitus became unbearable all through the day. I moved across the state to a smaller town and another lovely garden apartment where I felt total relief from the previously mentioned symptoms and sidnificant reduction in my tinnitus "noise" for about 2 years. Then a cell tower was constructed 1 block away. Very soon (in a few weeks) my previous symptoms started up again w/ my tinnitus becoming quite unbearable and in addition to the previously mentioned health problems, my skin became extremely itchy, I started having nose bleeds and my lethargy was a daily burden. I moved again, this time to a more remote location, but with an almost hopeless feeling that I would be continuously pursued by this poisonous EMF and RF radiation anywhere I might go. Currently the nearest cell tower is 2 miles away. So far I still have ongoing tinnitus, but it is somewhat quieter. I still get very occasional ocular migraines and itching skin. It is clear to me that the distance I live from a cell tower adversely affects my health to some degree no matter what. This clearly means that these towers must Never be placed too near communities or schools because the RF radiation causes illnesses. Human bodies are NOT meant to withstand these harmful frequencies which cause internal health problems. Serious consideration Must be given to these problems and appropriate regulations have to be put in place. Please take these comments into very serious consideration. I am now a 77 year old woman who went from excellent health 7 years ago to a compromised health situation due to cell towers and their RF radiation being putup around me!

I am submitting comments about my lived experience when exposed to EMF and RF radiation from cell towers. I used to live in a garden apartment in a Colorado town for 9 years in good health until a cell phone tower was put up only 3 blocks away. Soon I experienced poor quality sleep, ocular migraines, occasional heart palatations with chest pains, & my tinnitus became unbearable all through the day. I moved across the state to a smaller town and another lovely garden apartment where I felt total relief from the previously mentioned symptoms and sidnificant reduction in my tinnitus "noise" for about 2 years. Then a cell tower was constructed 1 block away. Very soon (in a few weeks) my previous symptoms started up again w/ my tinnitus becoming quite unbearable and in addition to the previously mentioned health problems, my skin became extremely itchy, I started having nose bleeds and my lethargy was a daily burden. I moved again, this time to a more remote location, but with an almost hopeless feeling that I would be continuously pursued by this poisonous EMF and RF radiation anywhere I might go. Currently the nearest cell tower is 2 miles away. So far I still have ongoing tinnitus, but it is somewhat quieter. I still get very occasional ocular migraines and itching skin. It is clear to me that the distance I live from a cell tower adversely affects my health to some degree no matter what. This clearly means that these towers must Never be placed too near communities or schools because the RF radiation causes illnesses. Human bodies are NOT meant to withstand these harmful frequencies which cause internal health problems. Serious consideration Must be given to these problems and appropriate regulations have to be put in place. Please take these comments into very serious consideration. I am now a 77 year old woman who went from excellent health 7 years ago to a compromised health situation due to cell towers and their RF radiation being putup around me!

I am submitting comments about my lived experience when exposed to EMF and RF radiation from cell towers. I used to live in a garden apartment in a Colorado town for 9 years in good health until a cell phone tower was put up only 3 blocks away. Soon I experienced poor quality sleep, ocular migraines, occasional heart palatations with chest pains, & my tinnitus became unbearable all through the day. I moved across the state to a smaller town and another lovely garden apartment where I felt total relief from the previously mentioned symptoms and sidnificant reduction in my tinnitus "noise" for about 2 years. Then a cell tower was constructed 1 block away. Very soon (in a few weeks) my previous symptoms started up again w/ my tinnitus becoming quite unbearable and in addition to the previously mentioned health problems, my skin became extremely itchy, I started having nose bleeds and my lethargy was a daily burden. I moved again, this time to a more remote location, but with an almost hopeless feeling that I would be continuously pursued by this poisonous EMF and RF radiation anywhere I might go. Currently the nearest cell tower is 2 miles away. So far I still have ongoing tinnitus, but it is somewhat quieter. I still get very occasional ocular migraines and itching skin. It is clear to me that the distance I live from a cell tower adversely affects my health to some degree no matter what. This clearly means that these towers must Never be placed too near communities or schools because the RF radiation causes illnesses. Human bodies are NOT meant to withstand these harmful frequencies which cause internal health problems. Serious consideration Must be given to these problems and appropriate regulations have to be put in place. Please take these comments into very serious consideration. I am now a 77 year old woman who went from excellent health 7 years ago to a compromised health situation due to cell towers and their RF radiation being putup around me!

I am submitting comments about my lived experience when exposed to EMF and RF radiation from cell towers. I used to live in a garden apartment in a Colorado town for 9 years in good health until a cell phone tower was put up only 3 blocks away. Soon I experienced poor quality sleep, ocular migraines, occasional heart palatations with chest pains, & my tinnitus became unbearable all through the day. I moved across the state to a smaller town and another lovely garden apartment where I felt total relief from the previously mentioned symptoms and sidnificant reduction in my tinnitus "noise" for about 2 years. Then a cell tower was constructed 1 block away. Very soon (in a few weeks) my previous symptoms started up again w/ my tinnitus becoming quite unbearable and in addition to the previously mentioned health problems, my skin became extremely itchy, I started having nose bleeds and my lethargy was a daily burden. I moved again, this time to a more remote location, but with an almost hopeless feeling that I would be continuously pursued by this poisonous EMF and RF radiation anywhere I might go. Currently the nearest cell tower is 2 miles away. So far I still have ongoing tinnitus, but it is somewhat quieter. I still get very occasional ocular migraines and itching skin. It is clear to me that the distance I live from a cell tower adversely affects my health to some degree no matter what. This clearly means that these towers must Never be placed too near communities or schools because the RF radiation causes illnesses. Human bodies are NOT meant to withstand these harmful frequencies which cause internal health problems. Serious consideration Must be given to these problems and appropriate regulations have to be put in place. Please take these comments into very serious consideration. I am now a 77 year old woman who went from excellent health 7 years ago to a compromised health situation due to cell towers and their RF radiation being putup around me!

I am submitting comments about my lived experience when exposed to EMF and RF radiation from cell towers. I used to live in a garden apartment in a Colorado town for 9 years in good health until a cell phone tower was put up only 3 blocks away. Soon I experienced poor quality sleep, ocular migraines, occasional heart palatations with chest pains, & my tinnitus became unbearable all through the day. I moved across the state to a smaller town and another lovely garden apartment where I felt total relief from the previously mentioned symptoms and sidnificant reduction in my tinnitus "noise" for about 2 years. Then a cell tower was constructed 1 block away. Very soon (in a few weeks) my previous symptoms started up again w/ my tinnitus becoming quite unbearable and in addition to the previously mentioned health problems, my skin became extremely itchy, I started having nose bleeds and my lethargy was a daily burden. I moved again, this time to a more remote location, but with an almost hopeless feeling that I would be continuously pursued by this poisonous EMF and RF radiation anywhere I might go. Currently the nearest cell tower is 2 miles away. So far I still have ongoing tinnitus, but it is somewhat quieter. I still get very occasional ocular migraines and itching skin. It is clear to me that the distance I live from a cell tower adversely affects my health to some degree no matter what. This clearly means that these towers must Never be placed too near communities or schools because the RF radiation causes illnesses. Human bodies are NOT meant to withstand these harmful frequencies which cause internal health problems. Serious consideration Must be given to these problems and appropriate regulations have to be put in place. Please take these comments into very serious consideration. I am now a 77 year old woman who went from excellent health 7 years ago to a compromised health situation due to cell towers and their RF radiation being putup around me!