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Posted 2026-09-23#0688 · Permanent link ↗

Reports headaches and other symptoms around a dog-fence transmitter, work radio equipment, aircraft Wi-Fi…

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EMFs have given me issues many different times, long before I made the connection that that is what was causing my symptoms. I will give you a few examples. A couple of years ago we had a dog and bought a shock collar for her. My husband installed the device that sends out the perimeter signal in our laundry room, which happens to be on the other side of the wall from the head of our bed. I woke up with the worst headache the next day that persisted all day long. Nothing would relieve it. The next day was even worse. Then it occurred to us that the device may be the problem, so he unplugged it. Gradually the headaches subsided, but it was the most intense and unusual headache I have ever had! We never ended up using the shock collars because it was clear that the product and its frequencies were unsafe. I also have difficulty flying on airplanes. It gives me terrible restless leg syndrome that goes away as soon as we are on the ground again. This was not an issue for me before Wi-Fi became available. I used to work a job that required me to wear a radio with an earpiece. A headache developed all day long and work its way down in my shoulders and the upper half of my back. I would go home in misery every day. I saw a chiropractor often and got adjustments, but the pain would always come right back. And then I made the connection! After I stopped wearing the device, no more pain and stiffness. I can also no longer go out to the movies without having concussion-like symptoms afterward from the EMF exposure… for weeks! Not everyone is as sensitive as I am— AND not everyone has made the connection that their symptoms may be related to EMF— but this is a daily issue for someone like me and it is ever-increasing as the world depends on more devices and generates more frequencies from those devices. I am terrified that the power company will come out and install a smart meter on my house without my knowledge. Then how would I live in my home? If a cell tower was installed closer to my home -what recourse would I have? I would literally have no way to avoid feeling awful all the time and there are no laws in place to help someone like me. Please take our safety seriously. I’m referencing real-time symptoms, but there are long-term effects to these things too, and if not enough study is done then we are all guinea pigs. We have failed to do the research! And now people are paying the price.
Posted 2026-09-23#0681 · Permanent link ↗

Attributes family symptoms, including insomnia, palpitations, headaches and tinnitus, to electrical pollu…

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I am still of sound mind and body. I am writing for the purpose of the survival of the human race and secondly due to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I have been fighting what seems a non-stop war against dirty electricity, high frequencies, low frequencies, and beamforming technology that has been forced on me and my house against my will since 2010. The frequencies, I have come to find out are, unsafely and without discrimination, commonly used to employ gas and electric smart meters, rural companies' PLC (broadband over powerlines), neighbors' wi-fi and cell phones. My health-conscious family and I lived by high voltage power lines until my daughter's hair began to fall out in bunches, but we had choice to move from the power lines. In 2010, the gas and electric smart meter was forced upon our rural house without my consent or knowledge. The first night the gas smart meter was installed was the first night of 15+ years that my family and I experienced symptoms relating to high frequency EMF: insomnia, heart palpitations, headaches that bore into the eyes, nausea, inability to concentrate, and a new thing called tinnitus. Being in my house at night felt like being caged and whipped at the same time, with no place to hide, no place for relief. I tried sleeping in the garage, sitting up, was told it was my blood pressure, that it was my imagination, so many things, but the only thing that solved the issue was to get away from the smart meter, and guess what: THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT TELLS ME THAT I HAVE TO TAKE, and this was one of them. Emotionally, psychologically, mentally STRIPPED. Years and years of being forced to live with the smart meter on my home that the utility companies have been told are safe as a baby's bottle. The nervous system in my body cannot tolerate being close to a cell phone tower. I have friends who are dying because their nervous system has been incapacitated by the 5G around them. And STILL, the U.S. continues to bring children to school in the face of Wi-fi, hand out cellphones to the elderly, erect cell phone towers in neighborhoods where we sleep and next to hospitals and schools. No place is safe, but WHY are we being told that they are safe? We not only need protection, but we need truth; our children and our next generation deserve it. The government should be demanding truth for the sake of its citizens. In addition, I am attaching a MUST-READ written compelling testimony from Victor Nixon, a computer systems engineer and army veteran, who wrote years ago that the power lines were in fact emitting microwave radio frequency (RF) energy at a level orders of magnitude above the maximum FCC regulated limit for an antenna of 4W/cm2 (W=Watt) at a distance of 1 meter in air...high-voltage electricity transmission overhead cables at astonishingly high energy levels and this energy is radiating away from the lines; i.e. leaking heavily, wherever there is a chip, ding, or joint." The Smart Grid system is a labyrinth of signal strength in which one elusive issue problematic to human beings is that some can “hear” the emissions due to a scientifically-proven phenomenon known as the Microwave Auditory Effect...an engineering/physics fact." People have been told that they have tinnitus, when in fact if you turn off this signal through the overhead cables and transmitting antenna, tinnitus disappears. I say that the damaging effect of RF, heard or not, must be taken into account and should not be forced upon us. Read the article, please.

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Posted 2026-09-23#0678 · Permanent link ↗

A self-described physician, parent and advocate raises concerns about school wireless equipment and nearb…

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I am a medical doctor, mother, and health advocate, who has studied the mal-effects of the EMR, especially related to children, for more than 16 years. Initially, my concern was regarding cellphones and laptops. In researching worldwide studies and incidences, wherever I pictured a student placing a cellphone or laptop, the rates of dysfunction of the tissue and cancer were elevated. There has been an egregious lack of oversight since the inception of this technology. In the last ten years, my concern includes children, families, and citizens with mal-effects from the cell towers present over schools, work and homes, as well as the "smart" meters. I began Louisiana for Safe Technology. org. to educate and record their stories. For example, one school presently with a tower near the early childhood center, playing field, and gym have extremely elevated readings. In the third grade, last year after being in the class nearest the tower, two children with acoustic tumors and another one with hearing loss, epilepsy, and headaches occurred. One girl in the class died of brain cancer. Cancer caused death in two teachers whose classes were in this area. Cancer occurred in two students who played hours on the field. These are a few of the health issues in a previously healthy group before the tower instillation. Another school had a tower on top of the music room. Two 7 yo girls had neurologic issues, one of whom can no longer be in the city because of her body's reaction. The teacher they had died of cancer, as well as the subsequent one. I have reports of children with gastrointestinal, neurological and behavioral problems in the classrooms with the wireless laptops, routers, and white boards. The children are nauseous and cannot hold it together psychologically until the end of the school day. Now, my concerns have expanded to AI data centers running ahead at warp speed, again with no studies and no transparencies. // The amount of suffering because of this unseen, but ubiquitously present, toxin is tremendous. Please, examine with transparency the thousands of studies and case histories as to the harms not only to humans but to animals and to the soil microbiome. Allow a health, uncensored debate on EMR, then set appropriate guidelines.
Posted 2026-09-23#0673 · Permanent link ↗

Requests investigation of perceived wireless harms, describing headaches, sleep problems and agitation am…

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There have been many studies done on the harmful effects to the health of all organic life from 5G radiation and EMFs. Almost everyone i know complains of symptoms from this. Headaches, Sleep Disturbances, Agitation. Many people have devices in their homes to measure the output of wifi and it goes way beyond any healthy range. And that is why millions if not billions of people buy devices and technology to counteract this harm. Even having protection, no one can escape the harm all of the time, especially now that most homes have smart meters on top of everything else. Look at the data. Organic life thieves in nature and pulls and exhausts while being wrapped in these toxic frequencies. We all should care about the world we live in and all life upon it. Children in schools should be getting cancer at the rates they are now. Some schools have removed the cell towers for this reason. Please protect our right to good health!
Posted 2026-09-23#0665 · Permanent link ↗

Reports myalgic encephalomyelitis and physical symptoms attributed to nearby phones and Wi-Fi. Describes …

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I have a devastating chronic illness called, myalgic encephalomyelitis. This illness dysregulates my body in many ways. Because of this, cellular phone use around me causes body wide discomfort, open sores on my skin and serious digestive issues. WiFi causes muscle spasms. I can rarely leave my house and cannot go to populate areas or any area where WiFi and cellular are deployed. There are few areas I can go without being exposed to cellular or WiFi EMF. Fortunately, I now live in a rural area. This is all documented via my health care professionals.
Posted 2026-09-23#0663 · Permanent link ↗

Reports longstanding wireless sensitivity and perceived improvement after installing dirty-electricity fi…

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I am so encouraged to see this issue being looked into by HHS. I have suffered for years with electromagnetic/electrical field/WiFi sensitivity. Please include investigation into dirty electricity also, not much is said about it. But remediating it in our home with dirty electricity filters helped me immensely, and my husband noticed it too. We are electrical beings, we all are impacted by EF/EMF/RF. These frequencies are very detrimental to our health, to childhood development, to plants, animals and insects. Thank you for looking deeply into this matter.
Posted 2026-09-23#0657 · Permanent link ↗

Requests a substantive FCC response to the court remand and reliance on health-agency expertise. Reports …

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I am writing regarding the FCC’s response to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ remand concerning its decades-old radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure guidelines. The Court directed the FCC to provide a reasoned explanation for its determination that its guidelines adequately protect humans against harmful effects of RF radiation unrelated to cancer. Specifically, the court required the FCC to address the impacts of RF radiation on children, the health implications of long-term exposure, the ubiquity of wireless devices and technological developments, impacts on the environment, and the adequacy of the FCC’s testing procedures for cell phones and other portable devices. The FCC should fully consider evidence and real-world experiences concerning the health and environmental impacts of wireless radiation, including non-cancer health effects, impacts on children, long-term and cumulative exposure, cancer, and impacts on wildlife and the environment. The FCC is not a health agency and does not have expertise in medicine, biology or public health. Yet, the agency continues to assert authority over RF exposure standards and is preparing to reach conclusions about whether its existing guidelines adequately protect the public. I urge the FCC to recognize the critical role of federal health agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and to rely on appropriate health and biological expertise when addressing the issues identified by the court. This issue matters to me personally because: I am one of the approximately 20%+ people who can hear Rf radiation being put out by cell phones, cell towers, Wi-Fi, smart meters, 5G, etc. Both the US Navy and Army have verified the fact that people can actually hear the buzzing of Rf radiation. My neighbor is a disabled Navy veteran due to his exposure to Rf radiation so this is NO MINOR issue. The buzzing of Rf radiation is not a benign sound. Rather it is a discordant sound in much the same way as nails crossing over a blackboard would be. However, each source, i.e. smart meters, cell towers, 5g, etc. all produce a different frequency and hence, a different discordant sounds. This sound is not only painful, but incredibly annoying and is present 24 hours per day. You need to consider that 20%+ of the population is being physically harassed by this discordant sound every single minute of every day. This is a significant part of the population. Because Rf radiation is being expanded all of the time, the pain and annoying sounds are only multiplied in intensity every day. It is not something I can escape as Rf radiation is everywhere. It causes me headaches, incredible piercing pain when smart meters link up, and interrupts my sleep every night. Rf radiation like all radiation is cumulative. Studies in Europe have shown that the closer to Rf radiation producers, they more prevalent the cases of cancer. Rf radiation has been proven to disrupt bees (which are responsible to pollinating the majority of our food) and birds. It has been proven to be dangerous to children, in vitro, the handicapped, and the elderly and is likely to lead to sterility in future generations. The FCC needs to give meaningful consideration to the experiences and evidence of the 20% of the population seriously harmed by Rf radiation before it and must fully address each of the issues identified by the court.
Posted 2026-09-23#0655 · Permanent link ↗

Reports a physician’s electromagnetic-hypersensitivity diagnosis and extensive symptoms after a gas smart…

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I appreciate that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a request for input from the public on the health impacts of RF radiation. Here is some of my personal experience: I have been made very sick by RF radiation exposure. My doctor has diagnosed me with electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Massive, overwhelming numbers of scientific studies have shown microwave radiation creates adverse health effects. The most extreme experience I had was when I suffered severe health symptoms from RF exposure after a smart meter was placed on my residence. I have been in a legal case since 2018 about this. Here is the story: A smart meter was put on my residence by my gas company without my knowledge. I began to experience severe symptoms, which I reported to my physician, who had treated me for over 23 consecutive years. The doctor kept medical records of all my new symptoms: ― Insomnia and fatigue. ― Joint swelling in both hands, with decreased mobility, joint pain, joint stiffness, aches, stinging, and pinching. “I’d never had anything like this in my life,” I said. ― Frequent irregular heartbeats / palpitations. ― Neurologic symptom of dizziness. ― Cognitive dissonance, or “brain fog.” ― Gastro-intestinal symptoms of constipation and abnormal stools. The doctor ordered extensive testing to determine the cause of these symptoms, including: ― Echocardiogram and holter monitor test, to determine the cause of the heart palpitations. ― An appointment with a sleep specialist to consider sleep apnea, to investigate the cause of the insomnia. ― Thyroid test and anti-inflammatory or autoimmune workup, to further investigate the insomnia, as well as the hand pain. I was away teaching in Europe for five weeks, during which time I was symptom-free. When I returned home, my symptoms resumed. I asked the gas company if they would remove the meter. They said they would if my physician sent them a letter. The physician sent a Letter of Medical Necessity and the gas company removed the smart meter. Most of my symptoms subsided as soon as the smart meter was removed. The joint pain and insomnia subsided several weeks later. My doctor diagnosed me with EMF sensitivity and recommended that I avoid exposure to EMFs and RF. I took steps to eliminate almost all exposure at my residence: ― The house does not have wifi or any wireless devices. ― The computer does not have wifi; it is hard-wired, and also has an external, wired keyboard and a wired mouse. ― A no-EMF earphone is used with the computer. ― The desk chair is positioned at least 30 inches away from the laptop screen, at which distance EMFs drop to zero. ― Rather than a cellular phone, a landline is used. ― There is no television. ― There is no microwave oven. ― A low-EMF hair dryer is used. ― Lamps are unplugged when not in use. ― Before purchasing any electrical item, I test the item using a gaussmeter and radiofrequency radiation (RF) meter, to measure radiation. In addition, I suffer effects of RF exposure in airports. My physician wrote a letter excusing me from going through security scanners because body scanners use radiofrequency waves.
Posted 2026-09-23#0652 · Permanent link ↗

Reports worsening joint symptoms after moving near towers, neurological symptoms during phone use and dif…

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To whom it may concern, My name is Cathy Shoro. My husband Jim and I moved from Fountain Hills Arizona to Lyman S. Carolina four years ago. I have rheumatoid arthritis which had been well controlled for the twenty years that we lived in Arizona. We now live within about a half mile of two 5G towers. The height of these towers and other surrounding towers has been significantly raised about a year ago). Within a few months of moving here, I began to experience lower spine pain which I had never experience before and I'm having general joint discomfort which I hadn't had in twenty years. My arthritis medication hasn't changed. Regarding my cell phone, I never hold it up to my head because when I do, I experience extreme agitation, dizziness and sometimes tingling in the hand that holds the phone. I always set it down and put in on speaker. I'm also very concerned about my smart meter which is situated not far from our bedroom. We would like to swap out our smart meter for an analog meter but Duke Energy makes that nearly impossible and gives us the runaround on the phone and wants us to be diagnosed by a doctor with electromagnetic sensitivity before they would "deactivate" our smart meter (which I don't believe to be reliable). We would like to have studies done on the health dangers of cell towers, cell phones, WIFI and smart meters and to have our government come up with safer alternatives and/ or mitigation measures which should be made available to the public at a low cost and paid for by the companies/ entities which have imposed these dangerous technologies upon us. Thank you. Cathy & Jim Shoro @ 231 Lake Lyman HTS, Lyman S. Carolina
Posted 2026-09-23#0647 · Permanent link ↗

Attributes neurological and skin symptoms to towers, transmission lines and wireless devices, and request…

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For heavens sake stop these cell towers blasting us with electromagnetic radiation. …. NOW! I am feeling so sick from all this radiation. Where I live there were no towers when I moved here. Now there are 37 of them plus 2 transmission lines within 2 miles of my home. My smart appliances are also blasting me and my router and cell phone too. I got a meter to measure the electromagnetic radiation and the electric voltage and the readings were off the charts!! I am woosy, can’t think straight, tipsy like I am drunk when I walk. I have a Headache, have had hearing loss in one ear. And a sense that sound is very muffled and my head is dulled. Once I had a strange burned looking area on the side of my face where my hearing loss occurred and then it turned into a peculiar rash that spread down my shoulder and took weeks to go away. I have been a very healthy and robust female but now everything has changed. I have the sense that I am being cooked!! The government must protect us from all this. We are All endangered as I see it. When I travel those towers are everywhere!! Then up in the sky these planes dropping chemicals down on us too, chem trails crisscrossing above my head, polluting our air, our crops, poisoning our water, absorbed from our skin, and damaging our lungs when we breathe it all in. The Muslims must be deported too or we will be just like the UK! And they have been taken over!!! Are we going to tolerate this. Where are the hero’s to put a stop to the harm being done? Is little Nick Shirley the only patriot that is actually working to correct these wrongs? The big cell tower blasting radiation by my children’s school is blasting our kids as they learn and causing serious side effects in them. The vaccines they are forced to have are giving them all serious conditions as well. Why is all this harm being done?? Is this progress that is going to kill us all??? DO SOMETHING to stop this insanity! PLEASE!!!

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