{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-1554","number":"1554","name":"Becky Thomas","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-05T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-04T04:00Z","body":"I am a wife, a mom of 4, an RN, an avid volunteer, and now highly sensitive to EMF's.  \n\nI have had zero health issues until in February of this year I was in a \"Smart Neighborhood\" after recovering from the flu and covid.  My body felt recovered, but my immune system was still clearing it.  I was there to visit a sick relative in the hospital.  The first night there I began having chest pressure, a resting heartrate of 120, and tingling in my hands and feet.  I went to the ER to see if I was having a heart attack.  Once I was cleared at the hospital, the tingling continued to spread up my arms and legs.  The tingling turned into burning like I was on fire.  I cut my trip short and came home and immediately saw my Dr.  After multiple scans, I was asked what kind of EMF's I had been exposed to.  That was when we realized that the EMF's from the \"Smart Neighborhood\" and the hospital exposure combined with my recovering immune system has essentially poisoned my system.  Since then, my genetics testing has shown that I have the MTHFR mutation.  They say 40-60 percent of the population has this.  It makes my system more susceptible to any type of toxin.\n\nTo this day, 9 months later, I am unable to touch a live cell phone.  I am unable to be near a live cell phone.  I am hardly able to navigate in a wifi environment.  It has crippled my ability to work, go to church, and volunteer as I did.  I have spent thousands on supplements, red light therapies, iv infusions, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, etc. to try to help mitigate this.  We have hard wired our home so that I can function here.  But I will say that even living on 12 acres, I can pick up on up to 5 different wifi signals in my home from nearby farms.  It's almost impossible to get away from it all.\n\nI know my situation is extreme sensitivity.  But, I am clear that many are suffering milder effects and aren't correlating it to EMF's.  Headaches, random nausea, exhaustion, brain fog, etc.  Because we live in such a world that you can't hardly get away from it, it is hard to connect without the right Dr.  \n\nWhen we try to go away for a trip, I have to drive because a plan is one of the worst.  I can't hardly find a place that will allow me to turn off the wifi to stay. Restaurants are an issue.  Grocery stores are an issue.  Getting gas is an issue.  \n\nI will continue to fight for my health, and also to educate people on something that I was very unaware of before this happened to me in February.  I realize that technology isn't going anywhere, but whether we have the warning signals in our body or not, we are ALL getting damaged from EMF's.  There has to be better regulations put into place to protect us.  To protect the children.  To protect the unborn.   ","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-1554","tags":["child-development","health-experiences","sleep-cognition","exposure-places","policy-standards"],"source_hash":"99c7402e598b3bf7fe68cf36612bbe48fd8cd299a5c875072e93802d30b37f26","slug":"child-development-comment-1554","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-1554","body_sha256":"3f3dd1a942936e01ea84fa851dbe43dda090228f6c9af5827b36733655302273","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"ehs","topics":[{"id":"ehs","evidence":" mom of 4, an RN, an avid volunteer, and now highly sensitive to EMF's.  \n\nI have had zero health issues until in February "},{"id":"cardiac","evidence":"night there I began having chest pressure, a resting heartrate of 120, and tingling in my hands and feet.  I went to the ER "},{"id":"neurological","evidence":"st pressure, a resting heartrate of 120, and tingling in my hands and feet.  I went to the ER to see if I wa"},{"id":"access","evidence":"e in a wifi environment.  It has crippled my ability to work, go to church, and volunteer as I did.  I have spent t"},{"id":"optical","evidence":" etc. to try to help mitigate this.  We have hard wired our home so that I can function here.  But I will say that even"},{"id":"wifi","evidence":"ll phone.  I am hardly able to navigate in a wifi environment.  It has crippled my ability to work, go to church, an"},{"id":"standards","evidence":"getting damaged from EMF's.  There has to be better regulations put into place to protect us.  To protect the children"},{"id":"children","evidence":"egulations put into place to protect us.  To protect the children.  To protect the unborn."}],"summary":"A nurse and parent reports severe EMF sensitivity, chest symptoms and burning sensations, extensive limitations on work and travel, and use of wired services; requests stronger protections.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-05T20:06:38Z","review_method":"Full published comment-body review; exact shared paragraphs read once and reused losslessly; distinct official IDs preserved. Attachments and external links not reviewed.","review_source_sha256":"93e4c3945db6d05ea7b8e6aa2d6894b80ba8b1c25e69cfdab2d7d420388ceca6","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"forum_topics":["ehs","cardiac","neurological","access","optical","wifi","standards","children"],"primary_topic":"ehs","forum_title":"A nurse and parent reports severe EMF sensitivity, chest symptoms and burning sensations, extensive limit…"}