{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5434","number":"5434","name":"Anonymous Anonymous","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-27T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","body":"1.  Who I am professionally:\n\nI am a licensed professional counselor and life coach practicing in Texas, mostly in DFW area.\n\nMore EMF in multifamily residences.\nI lived in Ft Worth for 16 years and relocated to Dallas in 2025.  I have rented an apartment in both cities rather than owned or rented a home.  This is important to mention because from my personal apartment, I have been within range of as many as 25 other residents’ Wi-Fi sources.  Which means I have been within range of the effects of the EMF from their wireless devices.\n\nMy experience in the Ft Worth apartment homes was with high magnetic EMF and somewhat lower RF inside my unit.  The most significant measurements for EMF are from my current apartment home in Dallas.\n\nAt my current apartment, there are 11 smart meters located approximately 6 ft. from my bed mounted on the outside wall of the building and located outside the bedroom of the unit directly below me.  The measured RF in my bedroom is higher than I’ve ever lived with before.  They range from 600-1500 uW/m2 at the level of the bed and 400-4,000 uW/m2 at the level of the floor.  Both of these values register either in the severe or extreme range for frequencies recommended for sleeping areas.\n\nThe highest levels are in the living area.  They range from 19,000 uW/m2 – 40,000 uW/m2 and are located over the location of the wi-fi device in the unit below mine.  Other averages in the unit are from 400-24,000 in the living/dining areas.\n\n2.  What I have observed and experienced physically:\n\nFirst, I want to state that I have prioritized my health since I was 13 years old.  Committed to exercise, healthy diet, outdoor activities, good choices for indoor activities, friendships, etc.  I’ve lived a healthy life.  I’ve had no need for regular prescription medications other than an occasional antibiotic when I was in my teens.  I’ve been fortunate to sleep well, feel energized and motivated, and live a healthy mental/emotional life.\n\nSince the jump to 4G and especially 5G, and in the residences I’ve been living in, I’ve experienced the following:\n•       Sleep disturbance\n•       Anxiety (never before in my life had I experienced anxiety)\n•\tRestlessness\n•\tCognitive slowing that is more noticeable when I’m home a lot.\n•\tAppetite reduction and general decline in interest for food.\n•\tIncreases in cholesterol readings, A1C (even though I Never eat sugar foods), and unwanted weight loss.  These are VERY unusual for me.\n\n3.  What I have observed professionally:\n\nMy practice has focused and worked primarily with high-functioning adults, many of which are professionals.  They range in age from 30-55.  Most of them are committed to their physical, emotional, and mental health beyond that of the average person.  My exposure to adults of all ages in a wide range of life stages and demographics offers me the opportunity to NOTICE common frequent signals that inform me about my clients and perhaps the population in general.\nMost of the clients that have reported the experiences below have also reported that they seem similar patterns in their friends and family.  They recognize these in themselves and also in those around them.\n\nSince 2022, I’ve witnessed clients presenting with:\n \tgreater sleep disturbances\n\tincrease in relationship challenges and less ability to understand each other \n\tprofound anxiety increase—prevalent throughout my practice\n\tgreater sense of entitlement\n\tdifficulty including the needs of others \n\tincreased need for somatic calming exercises but less ability to remember them.  \n\nI’ve also witnessed and observed more: \n\tmood impulsivity/less ability to self-regulate emotionally\n\tless memory about the previous session (even when it was the prior week)\n\tless ability to organize information and create structure for themselves\n\nI anticipate that the COVID shutdown precipitated/contributed to some of these, but even after the pandemic was over and people had been back to a normal schedule for some time, these observations have continued to escalate—more and more prevalently.\n\nWhat I observe in the youngest people:\n\nMy exposure to the youngest of our population is not as frequent as with adults.  What I’ve witnessed is a lack of or significant reduction of social skills.  Play is impacted by lessened creativity and lessened spontaneity.  \n4.  Precautionary Approach\n\nI have no proof that EMF/RF is responsible for my clients’ changes in behavior, nor for the physical and mental changes I’ve experienced—other than the concurrent timing of them.  However, facts about 5G is that it brings wider frequency channels, more information per wave, more antennas signaling individual devices, and more “small” cells creating “densification” which is clearly changing the experience of exposure at close range—in homes, workplaces, apartment buildings.\n\nI urge HHS to find ways to reduce EMF exposure to below existing limits NOW.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5434","tags":["sleep-cognition","exposure-places","policy-standards"],"source_hash":"e5eaafe753dd7846ff6d4172360baea8da26036c4e71c37427b63491707d41b2","slug":"sleep-cognition-comment-5434","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5434","body_sha256":"ad9c7f4dd34385316ae25c215918a1f95e59067c89bd80853f4af45f27eca171","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"smart-meters","topics":[{"id":"smart-meters","evidence":"there are 11 smart meters located approximately 6 ft. from my bed"},{"id":"wifi","evidence":"within range of as many as 25 other residents’ Wi-Fi sources."},{"id":"neurological","evidence":"Cognitive slowing that is more noticeable when I’m home a lot."},{"id":"standards","evidence":"I urge HHS to find ways to reduce EMF exposure to below existing limits NOW."}],"summary":"Reports apartment RF measurements near smart meters and neighboring Wi-Fi, alongside sleep, anxiety and cognitive changes. Describes similar changes observed in counseling clients, explicitly acknowledges that timing alone does not prove causation, and requests precautionary exposure reductions.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-27T19:20:49Z","review_method":"Full comment-text review with exact source evidence; attachments not reviewed","review_source_sha256":"1083422c1e30db1a4b7387cf8144f684f25cd8f8414241db6e22ba4ab46ad47a","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"forum_topics":["smart-meters","wifi","neurological","standards"],"primary_topic":"smart-meters","forum_title":"Reports apartment RF measurements near smart meters and neighboring Wi-Fi, alongside sleep, anxiety and c…"}