Wi-Fi & indoor exposure

Currently unable to live in my home due to the strong wireless signals coming from my joning neighbours homes. I've collapsed in doctors surgery while trying to get medical help due to the wifi and close proximity of phone masts. I was referred to mental health because of the devastating impact electrosensitivity is having on my life. They concluded the best way to help me was to give no more appointments because their wifi was making me worse...and all i needed was a home and they couldn't help with that. The local council and housing providers just "sorry we don't have anything suitable " and can't be bothered to try helping to find something for us. I cant private rent because i cant work because everywhere has /needs wifi, i cant work from home because i don't have anywhere to live and i have to avoid hospitals because the wifi in their makes me sicker than ailment they could cure. My human right to basic shelter that doesnt make me ill are being ignored and my health care needs ignored. Loc mps ignore me and government doesnt care. I apparently have no right to be alive and not in wireless signal but neither do i have a right to not exist. What exactly am i supposed to do?

I am a health provider in Toronto Canada. I have seen a number of patients, who present with sensitivity in varying degrees, to EMF/RF. We ran some unscientific experiments and trackings, a few had recently bought new cars (with wifi readings around 2V) they suddenly developed a racing heart and feelings of anxiety and panic anytime they were in their car (heart rate at 150 +bpm), we had them drive other older cars and they were fine. Others had severe muscle twitches in their apt suddenly - violent and visible - when we investigated turned out the building added new access points thruout. One of my clients sadly ended her life (medically assisted dying) because she could not escape the towers, there is no longer any 'safe space', her skin would blister and she was unable to sleep because she would jolt awake as soon as she fell asleep, she described it as being connected to electrodes that someone just turned the dial up on. She had had a hip replacement years ago and another patient had a tennis injury that required rotator surgery with pins, a few others had knee replacements, I wonder if having hardware in the body increases the sensitivity to EMF, ages and sex varied. One client had her hair start to shed, very visible balding (she lived near 16 towers in Toronto), she moved to her small hometown in Alaska and never experienced it again. Thank you for looking into this. I suspect for every anecdotal letter you receive there are hundreds more that are suffering and 1. didnt know about this request for submission or 2. haven't made the connection to this invisible irritant (and people think you're crazy when you mention it could be the towers/wifi). Please do not let your time in office end without some change.

Wifi causes me to feel light headed, headachy and have heart palpitations. Even being around my phone is too much sometimes.. this is a slowly killing us. Read the book The invisible Rainbow. I have fought a cell tower near our home for a year. I cannot imagine how Verizon gets away with placing these death towers by residential homes. Crimes against humanity. They all need to be taken down.

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…)Router: Wi-Fi 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):Nightly- 5 years near bedroom 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:Insomnia, anxiousness, headaches. Nausea, anger, forgetfulness, short-tempered. 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:It's started soon after I installed the router and "mesh" signal amplifiers. When I removed them, I felt almost better immediately. Following days better and better. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis?Evidence was me getting better when Wi-Fi router and mesh devices removed. 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects?Yes removal of devices. 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information:There are countless peer reviewed scientifically accepted studies supporting these side effects effect many individuals from EMF exposure. 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 believe 5G nodes in residential neighborhoods will have similar and potentially worse health efffects than the ones I've listed. Please ban from residential neighborhoods blasting radiation 24/7 into our homes and bedrooms. This is going to at the least reduce our qualities of life. B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects: 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): B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless:None B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant:None 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:Removing Wi-Fi within home. 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:35-44 B4. What is your age range?35-44 B5. What year did you become aware of your sensitivity to wireless radiation or electromagnetic fields?5 years ago B6. What country, state, province, or major city were you living in when you first noticed your sensitivity to wireless or electromagnetic fields?USA, NJ, Ocean County.

In my mid 30s my health started going down hill. My sleep was horrible. I tossed and turned all night and I was exhausted all the time. I also had tinnitus. Then I learned about EMFs. I had been sleeping with my phone on my nightstand and my wifi router was close to my bed in my home office the next room over. I started putting my phone in airplane mode at night and turned off my wifi and my sleep started to improve. I lived in the DC metro area at the time. I decided to move to a more rural area in upstate NY and my sleep got much better and my tinnitus improved. Lately tinnitus is getting worse and when I'm downtown or stay in a hotel, it's really bad. When I disconnect and go on a hike, it goes away. This is an example of my sensitivity. Many are more sensitive than me. A new cell tower was just put up where my son plays hockey. Exposure continues to get worse and big industry of course says there's nothing to worry about but most of us have seen this pattern several times. They buy scientist to write papers showing it's safe. Any papers saying it's not safe, they call quackery. 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.

Comment of Protection of the Educational Rights of Kids (PERK), Amy Bohn, President, in Docket HHS-OASH-2026-0397. Our full comment is attached. It responds to Questions 2, 5(n), 9, 11(a), 12, 13(c), 15(a), 16, and 17 as numbered in the notice. We file as a parent-led organization. Children in American public schools and licensed child care spend six to seven hours a day, roughly 180 days a year, inside wireless infrastructure that their parents were never told about and never asked to approve. That is the parent side of this docket, and it does not depend on how the science comes out. The FCC's exposure limits date to 1996 (11 FCC Rcd 15123). The D.C. Circuit held in 2021 that the FCC had not given a reasoned explanation on children, long-term exposure, and the spread of wireless devices, while taking no position in the scientific debate (Environmental Health Trust v. FCC, 9 F.4th 893). The FCC reopened that record only on September 17, 2026, while a mandamus petition was pending (In re Children's Health Defense, No. 26-1121). The FDA's 2020 literature review addressed cancer only. This notice itself says public concern has risen, particularly around children, schools, and long-term cumulative exposure. When the government cannot say the question is closed, the decision belongs with the parent, and a parent cannot decide without information. What changed since 1996: the FCC funded classroom Wi-Fi through E-Rate Category Two (FCC 14-99; 47 CFR 54.502); 88 percent of public schools now run one-to-one device programs (NCES, 2024-25); and Florida regulates the student's phone during the school day (s. 1006.07(2)(f), Fla. Stat.) but no Florida statute or State Board rule requires a district to tell parents what wireless infrastructure operates in a classroom. The only federal notice requirement attached to E-Rate concerns content, not equipment (47 U.S.C. 254(l)). We ask HHS to do four things. 1. Disclosure (Question 9). Issue a six-item notice format for schools and licensed child care providers: an inventory of transmitters by classroom; the operating schedule; device practices; any measurements taken; wired alternatives and how to request a lower-exposure placement; and a contact. France's 2015 law (Law No. 2015-136, art. 7) and Maryland's 2016 advisory council report already recommend practices of this kind, and Oregon (SB 283, 2019) and New Hampshire (HB 522, 2019) have put the question to study. 2. Guidance (Question 5(n)). Issue practical exposure-reduction guidance for schools and child care providers: wired connections where practical, access points off when not in use for instruction, devices off the body, and no wireless equipment in rooms for the youngest children. School network controllers in common use already support scheduled availability as a standard feature. 3. Measurement (Question 16). Fund a national study of RF levels in occupied classrooms and child care rooms during the school day. No federal agency has published such a dataset. The one government classroom measurement study we found is ARPANSA's 2017 study of 23 Australian schools. Add wireless infrastructure and parent notice questions to CDC's School Health Profiles, which ask nothing on the subject today. State whether the National Toxicology Program's RF research, listed as completed, will resume. 4. Coordination (Question 17). Open a standing channel with the Department of Education and the FCC, and ask that E-Rate Category Two recipients post the equipment disclosure at the internet safety hearing the statute already requires. We also ask the Department to state in its summary of this docket that schools and child care facilities are settings of involuntary, long-duration exposure for children, and that disclosure to parents is warranted on that basis whatever the outcome of the scientific review. PERK's September 2026 filings in Docket HHS-OS-2026-0332 rest on a survey of 664 parents. We offer to run a wireless version of that instrument, measuring notice and consent as parents experience them, with partner organizations across multiple states, and to provide the results to the Department in whatever form it designates. The instrument is available on request. This comment contains no personally identifiable or personal health information. Every factual claim in the attachment is cited to a primary source, with a Sources list at the end. Prepared by Rebekah Ricks, Senior Consultant. Contact: abohn@perk-group.com; Rebekah@PERK-GROUP.com.

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…)Public transport equipped with wireless technology (trams, busses, trains, planes), where nearly all passengers are constantly scrolling on their cell phones. 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):I have been experiencing health issues since 2020 when 5G was introduced in Belgium and in most other EU countries. An average tram ride takes 10-20 minutes, a domestic European flight 2-4 hours. My body always responds to the EMF. That's why I avoid public transport, and when I do have to take a bus, tram or train I always look for a seat away from other passengers. I often change 2-4 times of seat when new passengers get up and all the seats around me get taken. But sometimes there is "no escape" possible. 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:A fatigue overwhelms me, I start sweating and my vision gets blurred. I have had light cataract since 2021. Once home (low radiation home) it takes half an hour to a few hours before the symptoms disappear. But of course my cataract does not disappear. 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:According to the intensity of the EMF, adverse health effects appear within about 15 minutes to an hour. The fuller a bus, tram or train compartment, the faster the effects. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis?Although I gave my family physician scientific information on the impact of EMF, he is not interested in the matter. After I gave him the information I asked his opinion during the 2 next consultations (over a period of 1-2 years). He twice said that he did not have had the time yet to read through the information. For the majority of the medical establishment there is a taboo, omerta on the topic! 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects?I avoid public transport. I rather walk or bike. 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information:I have not found yet any studies on EMF in public transport. But there is this website https://carsradiation.org/ 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: B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects:public transport (bus, tram, train, plane), mobile phones, wi-fi B1b. Sources you can sense, but don't seem to harm you:No idea. B1c. Sources you can use without sensing or being harmed:No idea. B1d. Sources that seem to provide benefit (i.e., electrotherapy):Yoga and a shiatsue massage every 3-4 weeks to calm my nervous system. Gardening, being in nature. B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless:These are not health conditions but may be related to my sensitivity; empathy with all life, great sense of responsibiity. B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant: 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:yoga shiatsu organic food intermittent fasting B3b. That you recommend, but you’re not positive that they help:supplements: omega 3, vitamine D, organic herbal teas. 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?2020 B6. What country, state, province, or major city were you living in when you first noticed your sensitivity to wireless or electromagnetic fields?Belgium, Flanders

My first experience with cell phone was with my ex-husband, who was so sensitive to the radiation that he couldn’t have it any where near his body or he would experience pain, redness and swelling. We opted out of smart meters as they were introduced and kept a wired internet. That was 20 some years ago and since that time I have continued to opt out of all wireless and Bluetooth gadgets, wire my internet and cellphone at home and keep my phone on Airplane mode when I am out and do not need to use it. When I do have to turn my phone on or use WIFI I can feel the energy sometimes immediately- heat, pressure, headache. I believe people get used to the feeling of being radiated and cannot distinguish it from a radiation pollution free environment. It is nearly impossible to find a place like that. We are being over-exposed to non-native radiation and the average person has no idea of the dangers or consequences nor do we have much of a choice as to that exposure.

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, mobile phones, smart meters, LED lights 3b. Nature, duration, frequency, and approximate timing (e.g., years):I am involuntarily surrounded by all of the above all of the time. When I am out in public most people have cell phones bouncing signals in every direction. When I am at a school or other official building, I am surrounded by wireless signals. When I am at home, I am surrounded by smart meters (my own and my neighbour's). Almost all places now also have LED lights instead of incandescent. 3c. Adverse health effect(s) experienced:Headache, irritability, severe fatigue, brain-fog, heart pain, right leg and hip pain (router is near my leg). 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:In about 2020 the adverse health effects became strong and consistent. The roll out of 5G coincided with the symptoms. 3e. Was medical evaluation or treatment sought? (Optionally:) Was there a diagnosis?Yes. No physical reason was found for the symptoms. 3f. Were steps taken to reduce or eliminate exposure, and were there subsequent changes in the effects?Yes. I hardwired my home technology and wear shungite jewellery. I also do NOT own or use a cell phone. Every light bulb in my house is incandescent instead of LED. 3g. Any supporting documentation? This includes Scientific Reports, exposure measurements, or other relevant information: 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:It also affects my husband and daughter greatly. My husband has skin radiation dermatitis and so does my daughter. Fatigue is also prominent with my husband. We also noticed wireless affects our moods in negative ways. B1a. Sources you experience as causing you Adverse Effects:Cellphones Cellphone Towers Smart Meters Wi-fi LED lights B1b. Sources you can sense, but don't seem to harm you:Plug-ins/outlets B1c. Sources you can use without sensing or being harmed: B1d. Sources that seem to provide benefit (i.e., electrotherapy):Rife frequencies, orgone energy B2a. Health conditions you think may contribute to your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless:Previous seizures. B2b. Health conditions you don't necessarily associate with your sensitivity to EMFs including wireless, but might be relevant:N/A 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:Shungite, orgone energy, hard-wire all tech, holy Basil. 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?Alberta, Canada

I am a victim of covert harassment methods such as organised stalking and attacks using directed energy weapons. As a result, I suffer from headaches, nausea and sleep disturbances, which can be attributed to my proximity to 5G masts, Wi-Fi and DEWs. Exposure to DEW radiation has caused the bones in my shoulder to become thinner. I experience circulatory problems on a daily basis. There are countless other symptoms as well. For 21 years, I (and my niece) have been victims of DEWs. We urge you to put an end to the torture of innocent people.