{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5295","number":"5295","name":"Fiona Green","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-27T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","body":"QUESTION 2: PERSPECTIVE – I am a family member who has observed and helped manage my mother’s symptoms due to EMF since 1998. I also hold a PhD in conservation biology, which allows me to approach my mother’s illness from a scientific perspective. \n\nQUESTION 3: EXPERIENCE – My 87-year-old mother has experienced numerous symptoms since 1998, one of the first people to experience severe symptoms due to EMF starting in her 50s. It primarily affects her nervous system (asthma and jitters at best, physiological-based panic attack at worst) and mental acuity (brain fog, aphasia, “swiss cheese” memory). We know in part that her symptoms are due to EMF because, for example, she will be feeling fine and then start to experience jitters after a few moments of someone walking into a room – not knowing that they were wearing a smart watch but feeling the effects of the RF.  At other times, she will start to feel a wave of pressure in her head -- when I measure the magnetic field next to her, I will find it at 2.0-5.0 (which is too high for her nervous system), and her symptoms will subside when the magnetic wave subsides. \n\nWe have been to numerous doctors and health practitioners over the years in search for an answer. Very little is to be found – most MDs are unaware of the condition, and alternative practitioners are limited in the type of testing they can undertake.  Despite this, she found that GABAPENTIN alleviated many of her symptoms over the years, and she is much better now than she was 30 years ago. However, gabapentin comes with its own detrimental effects, and has impacted her in other ways long term.\n\nI have also undertaken extensive home environment analyses with various building biologists and EMF experts across the country, and have become very facile both with meter measuring (all fields: electric, magnetic, and RF) and doing home mitigations with grounding and shielding materials for RF, magnetic currents, electric currents, and dirty electricity.\n\nThe impact on the daily life for our family has been enormous and immeasurable. We live in a metropolis and moving to the countryside where there is less EMF is not an option. So, for example, my mother sleeps in the living room because every other room has too much EMF for her. I did not carry a cell phone until 2017, and cannot use my cell phone or laptop when in the same room with her (which has a huge impact on my work life). The location of cell phone towers, 5G corridors, and underground water that carries magnetic currents are all dictating where and how my husband and I can purchase a house.  The list is lengthy on how every aspect of life is being determined by EMF and the lack of medical expertise or solutions.\n\nHer life and mine have been a long, challenging, and arduous road since there is little information or support for those who are EHS (electrohypersensitive).\n\n\nQUESTION 16: FEDERAL RESEARCH PRIORITIES - I am certain other commenters have provided more details on the technical aspects of home measurements and mitigations, as well as medical advances.  I will add here the following:\n\n1) My observation is that people who are immunocompromised or have a more sensitive constitution will be more sensitive to EMF and RF. There are also genetic factors that could predispose someone to  being EMF sensitive. This is a huge research gap and opportunity given the current and swift advances in clinical genetics.\n\n2) US medicine is still catching up to what is a very modern ailment, given the proliferation of computer and wireless technologies with little thought given  to adverse health effects. EUROPE has better intel, research, and public health protections on EMF and RF than the US, and should be looked to more closely and seriously.\n\n3) Social support is greatly lacking for EHS people. This is a sad, ignorant, and unjust state of affairs for a growing demographic that needs all the support and understanding it can get.","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5295","tags":["health-experiences","sleep-cognition","exposure-places","research-evidence"],"source_hash":"018c44c2e225eef89412af7470d630e4dc7541484dffdf1c40267c72f38dbdba","slug":"health-experiences-comment-5295","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5295","body_sha256":"1ce8cf4f8a8c8f0d5271403ea8c54864d33ad2a16d90a77413a42403f69632f8","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"ehs","topics":[{"id":"ehs","evidence":"tle information or support for those who are EHS (electrohypersensitive).\n\n\nQUESTION 16: FEDERAL RESEARCH PRIORITIES - I am certain other"},{"id":"neurological","evidence":"ed panic attack at worst) and mental acuity (brain fog, aphasia, “swiss cheese” memory). We know in part that her symptoms are d"},{"id":"access","evidence":" when in the same room with her (which has a huge impact on my work life). The location of cell phone towers, 5G corridors, and undergrou"},{"id":"research","evidence":"e someone to  being EMF sensitive. 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