{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5969","number":"5969","name":"Florence Gans","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-28T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","body":"I have known about my severe Electromagnetic Frequency (EMF)/Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) sensitivity since 2018.  This malady has changed my life in a bad way.  It forces me to live the life of a hermit because I cannot be exposed to EMF radiation which happens if I leave my house.  \n\nI will describe the symptoms that I get when I am exposed to wireless, Wi-Fi, cell towers, antennas, fluorescent lights, LED lights, electrical fields in walls, magnetic fields in walls, Dirty Electricity in Breaker Boxes, household lamps that have metal in them, wireless in automobiles, magnetic fields in electric cars,  etc, etc, etc.  I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on work to make my house safe for me to live in.  I have to spend this money for my life – meanwhile the telecom industry gets to make tons and tons of money to make me sick …..  It is very unfair!!!\n\nMy symptoms go through a progression – based on the exposure time and the severity of the EMF situation I am in.  Also based on the exposure time and the severity of the EMF event, I have a recovery time with different symptoms.  My initial symptoms – are a warning from my body - that I had better get out of there ASAP!!!   \n\nINITIAL PROGRESSION:  When I initially get into an EMF situation I get dizzy, foggy, headache, nauseas.  When I get these feelings, I immediately leave wherever I am.  If I get out of there immediately, my recovery symptoms are minimized.  \n\nNEXT PROGRESSION STEP:  This occurs in stores, friends’ houses, any gathering of multiple people (whom of course all have wireless devices going simultaneously).  I quickly progress into a situation where people think I am having a stroke.  Although I can think of what I want to say, I am unable to articulate the words.  I start slurring speech. missing words, only getting like 1 in 5 words correct.  The first time this happened I was at a Thanksgiving event.  I was in the living room and started not being able to say the words I could clearly think.  When I looked around the room, there were about 20 people in the room, and I counted 8 cell phones and I-Pads out that were being used in the room.  When my frantic host drove me home (30 minute drive) – within 15 minutes of leaving her house – I was starting to be able to speak correctly.  When we got to my house - 30 minutes away – I was totally fine as far as language was concerned.  I did have residual exhaustion, unable to make a decision and brain fog for several days afterwards.   \n\nWORST CASE SO FAR:  The worst case I have had so far has to do with AT&T.  I had fought with them for a number of months that I wanted a modem WITHOUT Wi-Fi.  They kept saying that I could turn off the Wi-Fi on the web.  The problem is that they kept turning the Wi-Fi on from the web.  They did it during the day so that when I started getting sick I would go out onto the web and turn off the Wi-Fi and call them again that I wanted a modem WITHOUT Wi-Fi.  So one night I woke up in the middle of the night – HUGE symptoms – dizzy, nauseas, I COULD NOT THINK – I was extremely  weak.  Somehow I had the consciousness and determination to crawl to my office and pull the plug for my modem out of the wall.  It was hours before I was able to get back to my bedroom.  This was the worst case of residual symptoms I have had - I was unable to function for a week from this experience.  After that week, I fired AT&T – I had been a customer of theirs for 42 years.  \n\nI beg you – please please please pass some laws to rein in the telecommunications industry.  Childre are so sensitive to the EMFs – my heart is wrenched when I see a small child with a cell phone near their head.\n\nI have heard that the radiation from EMF/EMR is cumulative.  I was a computer programmer for IBM for 21 years.  We had test floors that were as big as a football field.  I suspect that I got a ton of radiation during my years at IBM.\n\nI cannot go out to you because of the EMFs.  However I do have a PC with wires- and a telephone which is connected to the wall.  I am happy to talk to anybody who wants to gather data about real life experiences with EMF sensitivity.\n\n\nSincerely,     Florence Gans\n","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5969","tags":["child-development","health-experiences","sleep-cognition","exposure-places"],"source_hash":"17f6da7b50ab8a467a509588abf5977c8c57a121639bb6f1aa7df6a286b2f246","slug":"child-development-comment-5969","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5969","body_sha256":"6f54f0a24700681db9361e93540994b87b80bcd24c6ef67498274e77dbe0f69f","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"ehs","topics":[{"id":"ehs","evidence":"quency (EMF)/Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) sensitivity since 2018.  This malady has changed my life in a bad way.  It forces me to"},{"id":"neurological","evidence":" am unable to articulate the words.  I start slurring speech. missing words, only getting like 1 in 5 words correct.  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