Neurological symptoms & sleep

My whole family has been affected by EMF. My mother had to stop wearing a smart watch as the EMF created wrist and joint pain while wearing the watch. Additionally, my mother developed a rash around that wrist regardless of the wrist strap. The wrist and joint pain and rash would go away when the watch was off. Therefore, she had to stop wearing it. I have to place my phone and tablet in airplane mode as I will experience pain in whole body yet especially in my hands and wrist when using those electronics. Additionally, I have to turn off all electronics including the wifi to sleep. Otherwise, I have a hard time falling asleep, staying asleep and getting a restful night of sleep. When my wifi had to have the wires replaced and upgraded, I had the same issues even without the wifi on at night as there was still emf coming through.

I am writing as a person who is adversely affected to the point of being disabled by radio-frequency (RF) radiation. I am a 54-year-old woman from the UK. I was diagnosed with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) in 2009 after suffering unexplained and debilitating symptoms over several years. My symptoms suddenly became extremely severe when Wi-Fi was installed in my university workplace in 2008. (I discovered that Wi-Fi was present only after the onset of far worse symptoms, and it transpired that I had been working immediately above Wi-Fi routers recently fixed to the ceiling of the room below me; thus, an informal and unintended ‘blind’ test took place.) My symptoms include: headaches and head pressure, facial burning and redness, chest pains and chest oppression, palpitations, feelings of ‘fight-or-flight’, digestive problems, stomach pains, nausea, vertigo, ear pain and ringing ears, urinary urgency, problems concentrating and focusing, memory loss, aphasia, exhaustion, insomnia. My symptoms fluctuate in severity depending on the duration and intensity of exposure. They resolve in an area with little or no RF pollution. I feel, however, that my cognition has been irreparably damaged to some degree. I am debilitated and disabled by all sources of wireless radiation: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DECT cordless phones, smart meters and ‘smart’ devices, cellphones and cell towers, etc. I have paid a very high personal price because of my EHS and have lost my career as a university lecturer, my home, my ability to earn a living, the chance of a family, my social life – not to mention my basic human rights. Unless things change, the future looks very bleak indeed for me and for others who are similarly affected. Given the lack of recognition of EHS and its cause, I currently have no access to redress for the harm and loss inflicted on me by the proliferation and ubiquity of wireless technologies and the concomitant RF radiation. I welcome the Department of Health and Human Service’s call for evidence about health harms from RF radiation because recognition of these harms is well overdue. Rather than provide you with a long list of studies on EHS, I here refer to four that I find instructive: Belpomme D, Irigaray P. Why electrohypersensitivity and related symptoms are caused by non-ionizing man-made electromagnetic fields: An overview and medical assessment. Environ Res. 2022 Sep;212(Pt A):113374. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113374. Brown RR and Biebrich B (2025) Hypothesis: ultrasonography can document dynamic in vivo rouleaux formation due to mobile phone exposure. Front. Cardiovasc. Med. 12:1499499. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1499499. Heuser G, Heuser SA. Functional brain MRI in patients complaining of electrohypersensitivity after long term exposure to electromagnetic fields. Rev Environ Health. 2017 Sep 26;32(3):291-299. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2017-0014. Erratum in: Rev Environ Health. 2017 Dec 20;32(4):379-380. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2017-0027. PMID: 28678737. McCredden, J., McLean, L., Steinemann, A. Wireless sensitivity and co-morbidities: A prevalence study in Australia, Canada, and the United States, Next Research, Volume 8, 2026, 101577: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nexres.2026.101577; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050475926002745?via%3Dihub

I bought a new Apple laptop and opened it up and turned it on and felt electricity currents go thru my whole body and then felt like my life force was draining out of me. I shut it down. From that point on I began to get a burning sensation thru the top of my head and pressure squeezing the skull when on my iPhone talking on speaker or in certain stores. The emf from towers hitting our dish made me so ill I began to sleep on my bathroom limestone floor for protection from the rays hitting the thru the window. We remediated our whole home and moved dishes off the house. I did numerous detox programs and all the right stuff. It’s been five years and I’m much better mostly due regulating my fight or flight reactions. This fear h on workers in an electric plant and its numerous effects reveal a succinct description of what I knew. Excessive oxidative stress is proposed as the main mechanism through which EHS occurs [12]. It is suggested that an environmental stressor such as non-ionizing EMF creates a local mild inflammatory response that leads to histamine release by cells in the brain [Z]. Histamine, in turn, induces oxidative stress in the brain, which, upon second exposure to the EMF stressor, disturbs the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and creates an augmented inflammatory response responsible for the symptoms observed [7]. Thank you

I can’t live in my home anymore because Madison Gas and electric won’t take the communicating chip out of the smart meter on the home. I’ve had to bounce around between two homes that are outside of the city and don’t have smart meters on their homes. I’m seriously worried about my future. I work hard, and I’d like to continue to work and pay for my living- however, the way I feel when I’m overwhelmed with EMFs is so intense, I’m worried I’ll end up in the hospital. It’s debilitating for me. The most intense brain fog, fatigue, headaches, nausea, dizziness and my jaw, neck, ears are in pain like they’re on fire or something is being pulled from it I can’t explain it. When I stay away for abut a week, all symptoms go away and I feel great. I know it is the electromagnetic frequencies- please please help.

For the first 61 years of my life, I was not exposed to EMF as I had not cell phone nor WIFI router and neither did my landlords. Then I moved into a senior housing building and am now exposed to EMF from WIFI routers from other apartments (I have no router in my apartment.). I have insomnia and what sleep I do get is non-restorative as I toss and turn like crazy. I have developed loud tinnitus, suffer from constant fatigue with muscle pain throughout my body, am annoyed by brain fog and have frequent frontal lobe headaches (I have never had headaches prior to this, even when ill.). When I leave my apartment for a few days to go out into the country, these symptoms lessen - so I know they are from all the exposure to EMFs my body has been forced to deal with for the past several years. I would move, but cannot afford a home in the country and there is no way I can avoid the exposure. Please codify into law strict regulations regarding cell towers and data centers, as well as satellite internet connection and WIFI routers. Thank you.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a patient and parent. I first became aware of the fact that EMFs, RF, and wireless radiation in our environment affect human health and well-being when I underwent a CT scan after sustaining a concussion. While I have had countless x-rays, sonagrams, and EKGs prior to this procedure, I noticed a strange feeling after I emerged out of the CT scanner--the vibrations in the scanner leaving residual echoes in my body that were unfamiliar to me. That was only the beginning of my initiation into the world of the electrically sensitive. Following this procedure, I quickly witnessed a barrage of symptoms that I still occasionally experience to this day-- twelve years later. I became aurally sensitive to Bluetooth and WiFi frequency to the point where I developed migraines, chest tightness, mental agitation, and myoclonus, or pulsatile tinnitus. While some might wonder if my electrical sensitivity is the result of concussion, there has not been enough unbiased review of how electromagnetic exposures can contribute to and lead to bodily sensitivities and disease to rule these out in the final assessment of how I got here. We cannot rule out at this time, or when my sensitivities surfaced, many likely other factors which may have contributed to the onset of my electrical sensitivity including the magnetism from the CT scan, additive synthesis of my overall EMF exposures at the time, and Mercury in the amalgam fillings I had in my mouth...in other words, the many singular, but potentially interactive, variables that can trigger a person's exposure tipping point at any moment in time. The personal toll my electrical sensitivity has taken on my life has been considerable. It cut short a promising career in technology, and in my work life in general, and affected every choice I make about my travel, social interactions, personal tech use, and daily and living arrangements. Sadly, I have also watched the effects increasing EMFs, RF, and wireless radiation have had on my child, my child's friends, the classroom, and our local school district. Minute-to-minute EMF, RF and wireless radiation exposure and technology addiction have had a harmful affect on the physical and mental health, academic achievement, and privacy of my child; all claims increasingly documented by scientific findings these last several years. I stand with Americans affected by wireless radiation, and believe HHS should continue to raise questions and fund research on the effects of EMFs, RF, and wireless radiation on human biology and psychology. We cannot afford as a society and species to continue expanding and unleashing untested EMF, RF and wireless radiation techologies in service to all but the American public. We deserve to live freely and safely, and need help from the HHS to do that in this instance. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a [patient, parent, family member, caregiver, healthcare professional, researcher, advocate, concerned member of the public, or other]. I moved into a new place in 2021 and suddenly I was exhausted all of the time, even after a full night’s sleep. After some time I started to wonder whether it could be because the internet company had run the wifi into my bedroom. In my old place the internet came into the house from a cable that was run into the living room. I decided to move the wifi connection to the living room but was still not feeling 100% so I turned off the wifi on the router and plugged in our devices with an ethernet cable. This solved the problem. During that time I bought an EMF meter and before I made changes to the wifi I had a reading of 2.1 in my bedroom. After I made the changes the reading went down to .7 everywhere in the house. Outside walking through the neighborhood the reading was at a 1. I did some research to find out what a safe level of EMF exposure is so that I could change the setting on my EMF meter to reflect the official safe level only to find that there wasn’t an official safe level of EMF exposure. This is a serious health concern. 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.

Since understanding the influence of electrical/RFR devices and mitigating their use in my home, I am now more clear on the symptoms they cause when in other, non-mitigated, high radiation areas (like shops). Symptoms experienced: Numb face unpleasant tingling in finger tips if touching phone/laptop 'airplane ears' as though taking off/landing in a plane sore, sensitive/itchy ears chronic inability to cognitively function, esp find the right words chronic fatigue stiff, aching body palpitations innate stress/anxiety - physical feeling of having had too much coffee, stress even when there is nothing to be stressed about When 5GHz band was added to router I felt extreme tension, unpleasant ill-=at-ease feeling, heavy, disorientated head, dyspnoea, giddiness, pre-syncope low blood pressure - nearly fainted - better for being outside/off site symptoms dissipate quickly Since 5G added to mast nearby I have not been able to sleep properly since. even if I fall asleep I seem to bounce back up instead of resting or going into deep sleep. I was sleeping well before and could have restorative afternoon naps but even though i am tired and fall asleep, my naps are unsettled too and I wake up again within 10mins whereas before I could fall into deep sleep and catch up on sleep if needed. headaches and also a horrible sensation in my chest/heart area like dyspnoea very dry skin. I look and feel unwell

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS's request for information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMF), Radiofrequency Radiation (RF), and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding in the perspective of a patient. My reaction to EMF exposure: I couldn't sleep for a month - a strange pain in my back and shoulders, a shaking/vibrating sensation would keep me awake, my knees ached, hands and wrists swelled. I lost muscle in my shoulders and arms. My knees began to hurt and fail.I needed a knee brace to walk. I am a hiker! I couldn't dress myself-my arms couldn't function. I was almost cripple. My D.O. couldn't find any physical cause for the symptoms. My chiropractor couldn't find a cause. I have no disease or cormorbidity. I started weekly Acupuncture treatment. I called an EMF expert to evaluate the home. She found: *Strong WI-FI signal for home computer. *High Frequency Cell Tower emitting strong waves directed at the house. *Dirty wiring in bedroom walls We addressed these with help from our electrician: *Switched all computers to Ethernet only, turned off all WI-FI in house and cars. *Installed Whole House Filter and repaired dirty wiring *I don't sit on the front porch (hot spot)or other areas in direct line of Cell Tower. *I purchased an EMF meter, clothes ,Faraday Fabric, sheets to protect from EMF from 2 catalogs (One USA,one Canadian). Before theses changes and treatments we took a pre-planned trip to a remote mountain Lodge. I was almost cripple the first 2 days. By the 3rd and 4th days I was significantly improved and walking well. On a return trip to the Lodge I took my meter - the WI-FI signal is weak throughout, and weakest in our room. In about 8-10 months of these treatments and changes, I finally regained most of my mobility and muscle,my wrist swelling abated,I slept well. When I travel,I carry the meter and protective bedding and clothes. If the WI-FI is strong we can't stay, it may take days to recover after exposure. I don't know if it is safe for me to fly. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing us an opportunity to be heard.

I am surrounded by 5G towers (2 blocks in each direction) in the City of Marysville, CA 95901. I now have tinnitus, trouble sleeping, and intestinal problems. I was fine before 5G. I am 77...