{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5877","number":"5877","name":"Anonymous Anonymous","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-28T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-20T04:00Z","body":"I first noticed a light headed feeling when I was close to a modem many years ago. When I moved to another room, the feeling subsided. \nThe next experience was when our power company installed smart meters wherever it was most convenient for them. \nThey put one on my bedroom wall and I was dizzy, light headed and unable to sleep. I had to move and when it happened\nagain at another rental unit, I was told I was too sensitive. \n\nI am unable to be close to modems for more than 15 minutes as I get dizzy and light headed, and have chosen to shut them off\nat night in order to sleep more soundly. I have found that I cannot live in some places because of the EMF fields and the radio \nfrequencies, etc. and that if I can put up a 16\" piece of sheet metal, on the wall where the smart meter or fuse box is, I cannot\npretty much mitigate the intensity of the waves.\n\nI recently was visiting a home of a friend and felt very strange and light headed, almost losing my balance when I entered the bathroom, and it subsided when I went into the other room down the hall. I went back to that area and the same thing happened. I asked my friend and she said that their TV satellite dish was on the roof right at that room. And when I went into the bedroom to take a nap, the same thing happened. I looked on the wall and the smart meter was right on the bedroom wall and the neighbor's Satellite dish on their roof was aimed right at the bedroom as well. I had to leave the home as I was starting to feel very shaky from the EMF's and radio waves. \n\nSome of us are truly more sensitive than others to EMF, radio frequency waves\nand wifi. \n\nThe cell towers they are putting into our communities are put right in front of people's homes and there are numerous cases of\nchildren and adults getting symptoms and there is nothing we can do about it because the county gave them permission to \"help\" us\nhave better cell phone access and they are not required to alert the homeowners and phone companies are able to put them where they feel it is best for\ntheir company. \n\nWe, the people, would like to have choice about our bodies and how we are impacted by new technologies. Smart meters should be put on garages where no one lives and not on our bedroom walls. And now we have new AI data centers that are being built with no care for the impact on the populations nearby. \n\nI cannot sleep with the modem on at night and have had to shut it off to avoid the way it impacts my sleep and my brain function. \n\nMy hand starts aching when I hold my cell phone for more than 10 minutes. I use some protections that are sold by companies claiming\nto have devices that block the EMF's but they do not block them completely. I feel relieved when the phone is on airplane mode but still, \nthe only full relief I feel is when it is shut off completely. \n\nI only can share personal experiences and have no documents to prove anything.\n\nI request that you please expedite safety reviews of the new technologies that will be even stronger than 5 G. As well as how we can be protected from all the smart meters and cell towers and computers that are everywhere emitting radio frequencies and wifi signals that truly have an impact on our bodies and brains and immune systems. \n\nThere have not been enough research studies done to clearly document the impacts. And the research needs to be across a large population of children, adolescents and elders and those who have compromised health issues already, because I truly believe that we are harming ourselves and our families by not\nhaving protections available and having choice about what the new technology companies can do without our permission. \n\nThank you for finally considering science do research about  this. In our area, those of us who have the financial means to hire specialists come to our homes\nto use expensive meters that can check for \"dirty electricity\" and for EMF exposure and help us find ways to shield ourselves from the impacts on\nour bodies when we have not been able to figure out why we are not feeling well and there is no reason for it. And then we find out that our homes have very high EMF and radio frequencies and that the cell towers close by are all contributing to the high readings. 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