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I am an epidemiologist and personally began reacting to wireless radiation exposure several years ago. I was living in a condominium unit when Comcast/Xfinity came out with their new modem that broadcast a public hotspot. I have documented myelin damage in my spine and my symptoms of numbness and pain similar to an exacerbation of multiple sclerosis became severe. I also began having focal seizures which had not occurred in over 10 years. I talked to other people who had a similar experience of central nervous system reactions. One was a mother whose next door neighbor got one of the new modems (the hotspot was made to broadcast up to 300 feet). A few years earlier her daughter had brain surgery to try to resolve seizures from a birth defect and she had been seizure-free since then until this episode. I talked to another person whose son had a metal plate in his skull which was placed after a serious accident. Comcast had upgraded their modem and he began having seizures. I talked to a pediatric nurse at a local hospital who said in the past several weeks they'd had a notable increase in children coming in for treatment of seizures. Turning off the hotspot feature manually did not work because frequent automatic updates reset it to default to broadcasting the signals. Comcast finally gave us instructions on how to call in and have it disabled by an agent. After doing this, all my symptoms resolved, but every time a new neighbor moved in using one of their modems it would happen again. I asked them if they would disable the public hotspot and in some cases I even bought them a third party modem that did not broadcast that signal. One night I began having seizures and numbness and could not identify any new neighbors but my phone was showing an access point. It turned out to be a neighborhood public hotspot mounted on a phone pole across the street from my bedroom. With the help of a city commissioner and medical documentation, Comcast sent someone out to disconnect it and the symptoms resolved. It happened again several months later, and someone on their crew had seen the dangling line and reconnected it. At first they insisted it was not active, but then they came out and confirmed I was correct. Over the next several years, many other companies began producing modems with multiple signals to cover guest access, in-home security systems, smart TVs, and hidden signals that no one could define for me (a typical modem now emits 3-5 signals simultaneously). This overlapping of broadcast wireless radiation like this has never been studied, yet people in multi-family units like apartments, townhomes, condominiums, and medical facilities are getting exposed regularly to increasingly strong broadcast levels which we never anticipated when wifi was first utilized in homes. I could no longer keep up with the exponential increase in usage by talking with neighbors individually, and many providers now do not allow you to adjust the signal strength or completely disable all the wireless broadcasting. My symptoms became so disabling I finally had to move to a single family home which was a significant financial hardship because of the higher cost of housing. After studying the impact of 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequencies on human tissues, I suspect that people with any type of myelin-related health conditions (which might include multiple sclerosis, brain injury, autism spectrum disorder, and aging disorders affecting the brain) are especially susceptible to the non-ionizing effects of wireless radiation on the nervous system. We desperately need updated studies and guidelines to protect these vulnerable populations.

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