Smart meters

I have suffered from tinnitus beginning abrubtly in 2012 in San Diego, CA 92102 as a SMART electric meter was installed on the outside of my bedroom wall where the analog meter was. At the time of installation of the replacement meter I was ignorant of any issues regarding SMART meters. I began researching tinnitus and found SMART meter's microwave energy emissions implicated in a variety of health effects and tinnitus was one. I also was experiencing abrubt awakening during the night on the hour at 1 am, 2 am, 3 am etc. I moved from that house in 2017 after applying aluminum foil to the interior wall that housed the SMART meter outside. My SMART meter on my present residence located in Julian, CA 92036 is away from the house and I no longer have abrupt awakenings like I did at the 92102 house and the uncomfortable sensations in my left ear while lying in bed mostly do not happen as they did at the 92102 house. But I do hear transmissions or harmonics often that are disquieting pulses of low tones and originate probably from multiple sources of Electro Magnetic Energy transmissions. These EMF energies get onto the wiring in one's home acting like an antenna. Some of us can hear it. I have noticed also that both AM Radio and FM radio stations have more or less interference to the point often especially during the night of being unable to hear a station, especially the AM radio stations that I tune in here in the 92036 zipcode. While driving the radio stations received on the AM band suffer a lot of interference and it has become much worse in the past year while driving the road down the mountain. We are being subjected to unhealthy and unnatural energy fields more than ever.

Four years after living in this 7 unit apartment complex, the meters were changed to 'smart meters', all SEVEN meters are on my bedroom wall; within four months I was unable to sleep in my bedroom...I had severe nausea, tinnitus, dizziness, insomnia, skin eruptions, plus severe headaches upon awaking, so I now sleep in the living room with the breakers turned off, my phone and tablet on airplane mode are placed away from me at night. There is , at present, no WiFi in this building yet I can get it from the next building two walls and 25 feet away. My anxiety and depression have increased, I am on S.S.and do not have the funds to move away. This does not seem right that I can be driven out of here because of the electric meter.

HHS must stop the proliferation of wireless radiation. My life was drastically impacted and my health shattered by RF exposures, beginning with smart meters, and continuing with cell towers, wi-fi and 5G/5GE sources, which keep getting closer - an 85 mile orbit at present- and which do not stop. I had a perfectly healthy heart. As a result of these RF emissions, I now have cardiac disease, insomnia, extreme headaches, microwave hearing and multiple symptoms. Many of my life activities have been stopped due to my needing to minimize wireless exposure. As a healthcare provider, I see many patients with symptoms of wireless injury. HHS must halt and retract the exposures that we citizens are exposed to daily and have no options for avoiding.

Thank you! Now, just a few more steps to also submit to HHS: 1) Select and copy your text from the box below 2) Click on the HHS Link Button 3) Paste your copied text into the HHS comments section at the top of the page on their site 4) Click Submit Comment at the bottom of the HHS page 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…)5G towers, WiFi, mobile phones, smart meters 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):Every day, for 7 years now 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:Headaches, brain fog, heaviness in my eyes, breathing issues 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:Immediate. Once I’m home and away from the exposure I start to feel better 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis?Yes and the doctor couldn’t explain the reasons why I would feel this way other than aging. 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects?Yes, I have bought, wear, and use EMF clothing. It’s expensive though helps much 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information:HAVN has that info 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:I would like to see all EMF devices to be destroyed B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects:5G towers. WiFi Cell phone. B1b. Sources you can sense, but don't seem to harm you: B1c. Sources you can use without sensing or being harmed: B1d. Sources that seem to provide benefit (i.e., electrotherapy):Silver lined clothing B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless:Fatigue , headaches, dizziness, B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant:Eye tiredness. Heavy Breathing 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:Silver lined clothing, supplements, being far away from the cities or where there is 5G B3b. That you recommend, but you’re not positive that they help: 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:55-64 B4. What is your age range?55-64 B5. What year did you become aware of your sensitivity to wireless radiation or electromagnetic fields?2019 B6. What country, state, province, or major city were you living in when you first noticed your sensitivity to wireless or electromagnetic fields?USA Metro Detroit Michigan

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. When I was in college in 2020 I was able to live independently in an apartment. Over the course of 6 months I began to decline. Eventually I was in unbearable pain every day, muscle aches and weakness, migraines, brain fog. I couldn’t function, take care of myself, study for school. Living in a city with multiple new 5G towers near my home and school and in an apartment building with several smart meters nearby as well as several different Wi-Fi connections coming from every apartment destroyed me. I was forced to abandon the life I was building and move outside a small town with my parents. Now because 5G towers have become even more common and other new technologies have become more prevalent, making my family and I very sick, we have to flee our home again. We’re forced to live somewhere remote, away from cities, amenities, and community. I can’t be around Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cell tower, radio towers, antennas without suffering ill effects for days. The migraines come back, extreme muscle pain and tightness, muscle weakness to the point where I’m struggling to walk, brain fog, fatigue, nerve pain, struggle breathing, heart palpitations, nausea and diarrhea. I have none of these symptoms in an emf-free environment. 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, especially through electric companies' smart meters. I am responding from the perspective of a healthcare professional and a concerned member of the public. In my acupuncture practice I saw several people who were sensitive to EMFs and wireless radiation. It is easy for people to write them off as a little crazy, or at least oversensitive, but I saw people have dramatic effects with increased exposures, and then saw their symptoms subside when they were able to reduce EMFs and wireless radiation in their environment. I personally am lucky enough not to have severe symptoms, but it is difficult to have so little control over my environment, especially when my electric company puts a wireless meter on the entry of my home without my consent. As someone with a history of dementia in my family, I do everything I can to control my exposures to anything which may be a neurotoxin. I feel we need to take this issue very seriously. 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.

EMF is horrible. I am one of those people who HAD TO have my smart meter switched back and we all know that it was only switched back to a digital meter. I have an interesting share! I had ordered my smart meter removed/exchanged for an analog (digital is what ya get) and they gave me a date they would be installing it. About a week before that time, they called and let me know they had to move my date 6+ months later. I took a picture of the meter because I wanted to be sure I received a new one. Anyway, not in 6 months, more like 2, I started sleeping better. I even told my husband that I was sleeping so much better that it was like the smart meter had been taken away. Then I thought to go outside and look and sure enough they had changed it out. We must not have been home and the picture I took proved it. IT HAD been switched. Of course the fee also followed right after that for the exchange. Charged for something I never wanted switched in the first place. WiFi has to be off in my house when I sleep or am sick. I am what I think is called a sensitive and I literally can feel the vibration running through me. It is worst at night when I settle down to try and sleep. No C19 shot, I think I may have had covid briefly- just saying. The feeling is unsettling. When I go camping, I sleep like a baby. I am over 50. If this gets any worse, I will have to move further away from things. I believe my husband is affected and does not realize it. One other time, I was in the hospital with my father. He was in one of the rooms they put you in when you enter through emergency. So the room had a door to enter and a door to the side hall. I had planned to stay all night with him but my body was charged worse than ever. I felt like I was going to come unhinged. Literally made me sick. Finally, one of the times that I got up and was snooping around, I opened the side door to find that it was the side hall and they used it to put a bunch of machines to charge. Ones they roll around room to room to do tests. I was unable to stay with my father that night. Not sure how people are working in that atmosphere. Please Please,Please, find a way for the old technology to return. TV can be a challenge too. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Maybe the Amish were right about some things we don't need. I have no doubt the EMF will bring us to an early sickness and death if they do not stop.

Please consider doing more research into the dangers and problems associated with manmade electromagnetic fields. As a holistic and functional nurse practitioner I work with lots of people who struggle with symptoms related to their Wi-Fi routers Bluetooth and cellular devices, smart homes, data centers, 5G radio towers deployed in neighborhoods, smart meters on homes to measure electricity usage. When they are able to turn these devices off and shield themselves and move out of the area where these are deployed, it is remarkable to me how much better they feel. Many people are becoming sicker and sicker all the time and I think it is very important that we look into the effects of man-made electromagnetic fields have on the human body. Over the years I have found ways to cable all of my computers. I’ve gone back to old-fashioned appliances that do not contain Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices in them. I have covered my smart meter. I have downgraded my Apple iPhone to an 11 which does not have a 5G radio and it has helped me so much. Please research the effects of such devices on children and the elderly before you just blindly allow them to be deployed.

We need to regulate wireless technology with non-biased science free of industry influence. I’m someone who is negatively impacted by wireless technology. Smart meters, routers, cell towers, especially 5G cause me fatigue and discomfort. I’ve had to put measures in place to reduce my exposure but that’s not enough. We need strong national regulations to protect children and youth, wildlife, and the public. Polease do all you can to make the regulations as strict and safety conscious as possible. Thank you.

Hello, as a citizen of the United States of America, I am a proud woman with a capitalist mindset. That said, we cannot allow big businesses of any type to continue to run rampant and harm our health. For decades, we have allowed businesses and lobbyists dictate what is good for America, and for decades they have been wrong. We continue to get more unhealthy, sicker and weaker as each year goes by. EMF Radiation is one of those things that has become both commonplace AND extremely harmful. We all carry cell phones, and most have no idea what the safe operating range is because they do not know where to look for that in their settings and nobody is openly disclosing it. My phone is 8 inches! Who talks on the phone with it 8 inches away from their head? We have microwaves, Smart meters, fit bits, 5G towers, and a multitude of other devices surrounding us, both known and unknown.... What about Data Centers? How are they safe when people and animals are effected that live around them? Here are some studies that you should take notice of and change the laws and regulations - for the HEALTH of AMERICAN PEOPLE! Tumors caused by EMFs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006291X15003988?via%3Dihub Cell Phone specific studies: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00223/full https://journaljpri.com/index.php/JPRI/article/view/4556 5G tower danger: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12940-022-00900-9 Please HELP US! Juli Forsyth Concerned Citizen