{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-2946","number":"2946","name":"Anonymous Anonymous","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-14T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-11T04:00Z","body":"I am writing to provide feedback regarding my firsthand health experiences with RF/EMF exposure. Thank you to the HHS for seeking the feedback of individuals, as the current framework for regulating wireless radiation completely ignores the real-world biological experiences of sensitive populations.\n\nI have had numerous clear, neurological symptoms that are reliably triggered or exacerbated by heavy exposures of RF/EMF. Specifically, when subjected to elevated wireless environments, I experience a disturbing \"foggy head\" sensation that makes it difficult to concentrate. Furthermore, I have a long clinical history of migraines with aura. While I have multiple environmental triggers, I have identified heavy doses of EMF as a distinct trigger for these. In our home, we take steps to reduce our exposure, but it has become hard to avoid.\n\nThe current safety guidelines enforced by the FCC offer no protections for individuals like me, or citizens with concerns, in general. The FCC’s standards, established in 1996, rely entirely on a narrow thermal paradigm. These guidelines assume that wireless radiation is only harmful if it is intense enough to literally heat human tissue. The cognitive fog and migraines I have experienced have occurred at exposure levels below this thermal threshold. This is clear evidence that the federal government's current stance fails to recognize or account for non-thermal biological mechanisms. Low-intensity, chronic RF/EMF exposure exerts systemic, non-thermal biological stress on the human nervous and vascular systems, which directly manifests as neurological symptoms in sensitive individuals, and likely is negatively effecting a lot more people in ways that are not understood. There have been studies linking chronic exposures to elevated blood sugar levels and increased insulin resistance. It also may impact human quality of sleep. These are all huge issues.\n\nThe HHS should abandon the outdated 1996 thermal-only standard and to develop safety limits that protect citizens from chronic, low-intensity, non-thermal biological and neurological impacts. It should also immediately investigate the specific biological pathways linking RF/EMF exposure to central nervous system disruptions, including focusing on its role as an environmental trigger for migraines, blood-brain barrier permeability, cognitive fog, insulin resistance, and disturbances in sleep patterns. There have already been some studies on these issues, that the relevant government agencies seem to ignore.\n\nThe FCC, that has commercial deployment goals, should not be the only department to regulate the wireless industry. There needs to be more control given to local populations to say no to continually increasing the population’s exposure to EMF/RF with more and more towers flooding people’s homes and workplaces. \n\nAlso of concern are the ever increasing number of products used in the home that use and issue wireless radiation (the IoT), including baby monitors and home appliances. We are now in cars loaded with EMF/RF. And, of course, the now pervasive smart meters that emit radiation, not once a month, for billing purposes, but often every 15 minutes, and in some places practically continually. It is grotesque how callously this has and is all rolled out with so little understood about the impacts on human health.\n","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-2946","tags":["health-experiences","sleep-cognition","exposure-places","policy-standards","research-evidence"],"source_hash":"9d128ac849df876800e5b2e4771cc74b6d1f787bc9735fb6fe9337e9fc480197","slug":"health-experiences-comment-2946","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-2946","body_sha256":"1e7bdda9066061a493f0192fc836e0c296f3118391666687e0ed04b0c16dd23e","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"neurological","topics":[{"id":"neurological","evidence":"more, I have a long clinical history of migraines with aura. 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We are now in cars loaded with EMF/RF."}],"summary":"Reports migraines and cognitive fog associated with wireless exposure and requests nonthermal health research, revised standards and greater local control, also raising concerns about household devices and meters.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-15T03:51:16Z","review_method":"Source-based AI review of complete published comment bodies; exact topic evidence; attachments and external links not reviewed.","review_source_sha256":"96e6129db1a0a6ba479545c5e0cccf9924cbfdf85af272b5805fce57b9657836","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"forum_topics":["neurological","standards","mechanisms","research","smart-meters","children"],"primary_topic":"neurological","forum_title":"Reports migraines and cognitive fog associated with wireless exposure and requests nonthermal health rese…"}