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Posted 2026-09-25#0827 · Permanent link ↗

Reports headaches, cold sweats, restlessness and low energy while living under a 5G tower, followed by pe…

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I lived under a a 5G tower and got extreme headaches. Also had cold sweat, got restless but had no energy. When I moved away from there all the syptoms disapeared.
Posted 2026-09-24#0824 · Permanent link ↗

Reports severe brain fog, back pain and hair loss, substantial work limitations and perceived improvement…

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I am submitting this comment to share my personal experience with symptoms that appeared to be strongly associated with electromagnetic-field and wireless exposure. A couple of years ago, I developed severe brain fog. It became so bad that I genuinely worried I was developing dementia. I occasionally teach classes and webinars, and I had to write out exactly what I planned to say because I could suddenly lose my train of thought, forget what I was discussing, and not know how to continue. Around the same time, my hair began falling out in clumps in the shower, with noticeable thinning around my hairline. I also developed severe low-back pain. It became so debilitating that I often needed help getting out of bed and getting dressed. I could walk after moving around for a while, but working became very difficult. I am self-employed and had to significantly reduce my schedule. I could no longer even walk my dogs normally. I tried many approaches and doctors to determine what was wrong. I used over-the-counter and prescription medications, physical therapy, bodywork, had an MRI, and underwent PRP treatment. My MRI did not show findings that seemed consistent with the severity of my pain, and nothing gave me any relief. Eventually, I came across information discussing EMF exposure and symptoms such as neurological problems, fatigue, and pain. I did not immediately assume EMFs were causing my symptoms, but I decided to investigate my environment. I hired a building biologist to measure my home and help reduce stronger exposures. One finding involved electrical interference in the wall directly behind the head of our bed. We turned off the breaker to that wall as we did not need electricity there while sleeping. I also turned off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on my phone and in my car. This was particularly important because I drive extensively for work. Before making these changes, I would often arrive at appointments with severe brain fog and fatigue and need approximately 30 minutes before I felt normal again. I also began turning off WiFi in our home at night before bed. This change was the most remarkable. Literally the next morning after the first night of turning off Wifi, the severe low-back pain I had experienced for approximately one year completely disappeared. I got out of bed normally and experienced zero pain. I could not believe it. This was even tested as about 3 weeks after we began turning off WiFi, one night my husband forgot to turn it off unbeknownst to me. That night I didn't sleep well and the next morning I could barely get out of bed again. Once he saw this, he became a believer and never forgot again. At the same time, my brain fog lifted dramatically. I could again have normal conversations without long pauses, losing my train of thought, or forgetting what I was saying. Looking back, I realized that my health deterioration began approximately one week after our home WiFi was changed from cable service to fiber-optic internet with a new wireless setup. I cannot prove which aspect of that change was responsible, but the timing and subsequent improvement after reducing electrical and wireless exposure were significant to me. I am substantially better today, but I still notice symptoms with certain exposures. I avoid using my laptop while it is plugged in. If I use it for too long, especially later in the day, my fingers can develop an intense burning sensation while touching the keyboard or trackpad. I have also noticed that my former back pain can begin returning after spending extended periods in environments with a great deal of wireless or electrical equipment. Several months ago, I spent most of a day in a hospital while my husband underwent surgery. By the end of the day, the familiar back pain was beginning to return. After leaving that environment, it subsided. I had also received a COVID-19 vaccination before these problems developed. I cannot say whether vaccination had any relationship to my later sensitivity, and I am not claiming that it did. I do believe the timing is worth documenting and studying. Before these symptoms, I also routinely worked with my laptop directly on my lap and gave little thought to cumulative technology exposure. I have since changed the way I use technology considerably. I am sharing my experience because the relationship I observed between reducing exposure and the improvement in my symptoms was profound. I encourage HHS to investigate EMFs, radiofrequency radiation, cumulative wireless exposure, and whether there may be susceptible individuals who experience neurological, musculoskeletal, or other symptoms at exposure levels considered acceptable for the general population. For people who experience symptoms like mine, this can significantly affect their ability to think clearly, work, drive, exercise, and function normally. I hope personal experiences like mine will be considered alongside laboratory and epidemiological research.
Posted 2026-09-24#0821 · Permanent link ↗

Criticizes exposure standards and clinician knowledge, reports sensitivity and neurological symptoms, and…

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Wireless radiation standards in the U.S. are outdated and severely deficient. Thousands of independent studies have shown that there are numerous ill effects from RF/EMF, such as oxidative stress, cancer, and neurological disorders. I've been very sensitive to RF/EMF for many years, and unfortunately, levels continue to get worse. I have neurological symptoms from exposures. I've had to make accommodations to my living environment (e.g. special shielding) to try and limit my exposures. I'm currently looking for a new place to live because my exposures from neighbors has gotten so bad (e.g. wireless routers on 24 hours a day, Tesla cars charging all night long, which cause magnetic field levels in my house to double or triple, etc.) Also, the medical community needs to be educated about RF/EMF because most doctors know very little about the subject (a similar situation to the lack of knowledge about nutrition). Thank you for reaching out for feedback.
Posted 2026-09-24#0814 · Permanent link ↗

Alleges decades of targeting, directed-energy attacks, surveillance and institutional mistreatment. Descr…

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1. I am Ms. Kristi (Kris) Lee Durschmidt, I've been a 27plus years of Torture ( TARGETED INDIVIDUAL) till DEATH by Many of the listed Government Agencies/Military and contractos and some Colleges are listed as my perpertrators per my Hard Core Evidence in my Doctor (Dr. Hildigard Staninger) and her P.I.: Private Investigaor and Specilists listed in my reports. 2. What Action I have taken so far: I have filed lawsuits: pro per (on my own) as NO Law Firm will take my case, and I called every related Law Firm, daily across the USA, including ones for poor, finacially broke, on Disability, taking case for Seniors, Minorities and those RARE few that take cases of Torture: Center for Constitutional Rights (they refused my case multiple times yet they take foreigners who were Tortured to Death on NON-USA soil: Guataltanimo, etc..) and ACLC (American Civil Liberties Centers-WHO get FERDERAL MONEY GRANTS TO ASSIST VICTIMS: have REFUSED ALL "TARGETED INDIVIDUAL CASES-I THINK THE SOUTH CALIFORNIA ONE TOOK A CASE OR A FEW CASES)..I called the ACLU headquarters: who have FULL departments for: Women & Dept. for TORTURE victims: REFUSED my/our cases and would not even give me a phone call back, and said they "did NOT have to respond to me, they get too many request!! They told me to contact my LOCAL ACLU: after filling out long forms and waiting months, while being tortured daily, hundreds of times a day with multiple tortures with Air Assualts, D.E.W.'s: Direct Energy Weapons: RADIATION, NERVE WEAPONS AND ACOUSTIC ATTACKS THAT FEEL LIKE HEART ATTACKS AND BRAIN PAIN/SHAKES..THEY REFUSED TO EVEN RESPOND IN ANY WAY, SAYING THEY ARE TOO BUSY FOR ME OR ANY TI, YET THEY HANDLE MOST ILLEGAL IMMAGRATION CASE AND LESS SEVER OR IMPORTANT CASE FOR USA CITIZENS. THEY ARE DISCRIMINATING AGAINST USA CITIZENS THAT ARE WHITE/CAUCASION! 3. I'M ALSO GANG STALKED, AND TRESPASSED OUT OF MOST PLACES I GO: EVEN GROCERY STORES, AND THEY READ MY THOUGHTS, KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO BUY AND BLOCK ME OR TAKE THE PRODUCT DOWN, SO WHEN I GET THERE, I CAN'T BUY ANYTHING AND SIMILAR EXPERIENCES. I WAS TRESPASSED OUT OF HY-VEE GROCERY STORE AND WAL-MART: THE ONLY TWO PLACES TO BUY GROCERIES IN MARSHALL, MN, AT THE TIME OF THE HARASSMENT/TORTURE TILL DEATH/TRESSPASSING AND FIRED FROM JOBS. I COULD NOT GET FOOD TO EAT AND HAD NO MONEY TO DRIVE MY BROKEN CAR TO FAR AWAY TOWNS FROM MY RURAL AREA. SO I HAD TO GO WITHOUT FOOD, FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME!! 4. THE RELATED PERPERTRATORS, ALLEGELY BILL GATES & MARK ZUCKERBURG: ALSO PARTICIPATE IN MY TORTURE AND I AM TOLD BY X FBI AND OTHER INSIDERS, ALLREGELY: I AM VIEWED REMOTELY ON THE DEEP/DARK WEB, as a CAMERA LENS FORMED IN MY RIGHT EYE (SEE THIS PER MY DOCTOR/P.I. REPORTS: BY EXPERT WITNESS IN DR HILDIGARD AND P.I. MELINDA KIDDER (NOW RETIRED BUT WILLING TO TESTIFY!! I AM VIEWED WITH NANO MATERIAL: THAT FORMED THE CAMERA LENS IN MY RIGHT EYE FOR MY NEIGHBORS, LOCAL LAW AND STATE (UN-INTELLEGET AND FUSION CENTER PERSONAL) TO ALL SEE ME NAKED, AND IN MY PRIVATE HOME AND EVERYWHERE I DO AND EVERYTHING I DO!! 5. MY ENTIRE LIFE HAS BEEN DAMAGED, DESTOYED: REPUTATION/LIBEL/SLANDER/PHYSICAL/MENTAL STATE/TOTAL BODY DAMAGE:MY MY DOCTOR AND P.I. REPORTS 6. I CAN TESTIFY OR SEE MY YOUTUBE IF I DIE, UNDER CHANNEL NAME: KDURSCHMIDT AND I'M ON RUMBLE: ONLY ONE VIDEO THERE, SAME CHANNEL NAME!! YET, ONLY 8 VIEWS OR 47 VIEWS ON ALL, WHEN MY CHANNEL SHOULD BE GETTING MILLIONS, AS TORTURE AND MURDER PREMEDITATED ARE THE HIGHEST CRIMES ON EARTH!! RIGHT FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND CONGRESS ENACTED THESE LAW AND COURTS THEY DO IT UNDER: F.I.S.A.!!! US PATRIOT ACT, ETC.. 7. VIOLATONS OF 1991 FEDERAL VICTIM TORTURE PROTECTION ACT, PERSONAL INJURY, TORTURE, EXTREME VIOLATION OF PRIVACY, JUDGES ILLEGALLY DISMISS ALL MY CASES AND US SUPREME COURT REFUSED TO HEAR MY CASE OF MURDER/TORTURE!! THIS NEEDS TO BE ILLEGAL IF A CITIZEN IS BEING TORTURED BY THE USA GOVERNMENT!! 8. SOME OF THE MOST SEVER PERP'S LISTED ARE 1. US AIR FORCE, BOEING, DARPA, ASU COLLEGE OF RESEARCH ON NANO PRODUCTS, NASA..ETC..SEE MY DR. AND P.I. REPORTS!! 9. I SHOULD BE HONORED AND GET MY BROTHERS INVENTIONS BACK: HE INVENTED THE UNDETECTABLE STEALTH AND ANTI NUCLEUR SYSTEMS FOR NASA, BOEING, U.S. AIR FORCE, NORTHUPT GRUMUND, ETC...INSTEAD THE TORTURE ME TO DEATH AS THEY DID MY BROTHER!!..INSTEAD, OF HONORING US!! THE DURSCHMIDT SHOULD GO DOWN IN HISTORY BOOKS!!

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Posted 2026-09-24#0813 · Permanent link ↗

Reports cognitive and sleep symptoms around Wi-Fi and other wireless sources, perceived improvement after…

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I am an individual consumer and patient responding to Question 3.(a) The EMF sources that most affect me are Wi-Fi and wireless infrastructure. I also struggle with emissions from computer screens and certain lighting that create EMFs. Other sources that have harmed me include smartphones, a microwave, neighboring 5G satellite equipment, and SMART meters on nearby properties.(b) I first noticed effects of wireless technology about 13 years ago (around 2012). I had been sleeping with my smartphone under my pillow, Wi-Fi on, to listen to podcasts as I fell asleep, for at least a few months. We also had Wi-Fi in our home. Exposure later increased when Google arranged free downtown Wi-Fi in our town and then ran that Wi-Fi up the hill where we lived. After we moved, a neighbor beamed a 5G satellite dish over our property toward a distant 5G tower. Our local PUD later required SMART meters countywide; I kept one off my home, but neighbors have them. I still encounter Wi-Fi in stores, restaurants, and other public places.(c) Potential adverse health effects have included severe brain fog, confusion, ringing in the ears, short-term memory loss, insomnia and general cognitive decline. It felt as though all my cognitive functions were slowed down, or as if a heavy wet blanket had been thrown over them. These symptoms have relapsed whenever exposure increased.(d) Symptoms first appeared after months of sleeping with a Wi-Fi-enabled phone under my pillow and living with home Wi-Fi. They increased over several weeks and occurred only at home or in other Wi-Fi environments; outdoors I felt fine. Turning off home Wi-Fi and related sources brought drastic improvement at home. When municipal Wi-Fi was extended up our hill, I became sick again in my own home and we had to leave. A neighbor’s 5G satellite aimed over our property caused another relapse; moving the dish ended that exposure-related flare. Public Wi-Fi still affects me, though usually less than the original home exposure.(e) I sought help from naturopathic doctors. The first scoffed but humored me. A second doctor in 2012 firmly admitted knowing about the problem, said he had encountered it before, and loaned us an EMF detection meter. He did not give a diagnosis. Over the years other doctors have admitted this is a problem and tried to alleviate symptoms, but all have been reluctant to give an official diagnosis. I believe doctors were unequipped to deal with this in 2012.(f) To reduce exposure, we turned off the Wi-Fi feature on our router and phones, switched phones to airplane mode at night, borrowed an EMF meter, tested plugs and electronics, removed the highest emitters, and stopped using the microwave. I improved drastically at home but still struggled in Wi-Fi-equipped public places. Increasing town Wi-Fi forced us to leave. We spent the next three years living in an RV searching for a rural place away from cell towers, SMART meters, and neighboring Wi-Fi. We eventually found one after much research. After a neighbor’s 5G dish caused a relapse, they moved it so it no longer aimed over our property. I fought to keep a SMART meter off my home and have so far succeeded. I have completely removed wireless technology from my home. I have not had a microwave in years. Phones go to airplane mode at night. I use speakerphone, never carry a phone on my body, and use a shielded case. All home networking is wired. Maintaining my health has been a very expensive battle, including measures to manage sensitivity when I must go into EMF-dense environments.(g) We confirmed sources with an EMF meter borrowed from a naturopathic doctor. I have researched scientific journal articles, watched countless hours of lectures, written letters to city councils to keep cell towers away, to my local PUD about dangers, and to county commissioners and state representatives. I have spent countless hours trying to warn and educate others, with little official result, though awareness and injury from EMFs are growing among friends and people I have met. I now fight my teenage son every single day to keep his cell phone out of his pocket because of infertility risks; he does not listen because everyone else keeps phones in their pockets. I cannot begin to communicate my frustration over more than a decade of struggle with EMFs and wireless technology. As long as convenience continues, appropriate studies are not done, and industry regulatory capture is not rooted out, there will be more people like me—and worse—and we will see an increase in the fertility crisis among the next generation.

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Posted 2026-09-24#0809 · Permanent link ↗

Reports worsening health and brief high readings on an EMF detector and asks for investigation. This sepa…

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Im having extremely horrible issues with my health and everytime I turn on my electromagnetic field detector it will give me abnormal high readings for a brief second and then turn.off and go back to normal, and some other people I know have been noticing the same strange anomalies, please check into this disturbing issue because I feel like im being radiated with news and im quite sure this is why my health issues have stared getting so much worse. It's to the point I can barely get out of my bed in the mornings, something has got to be done. Please help!!!
Posted 2026-09-24#0808 · Permanent link ↗

Reports worsening health and brief high readings on an EMF detector and asks for investigation. The comme…

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Im having extremely horrible issues with my health and everytime I turn on my electromagnetic field detector it will give me abnormal high readings for a brief second and then turn.off and go back to normal, and some other people I know have been noticing the same strange anomalies, please check into this disturbing issue because I feel like im being radiated with news and im quite sure this is why my health issues have stared getting so much worse. It's to the point I can barely get out of my bed in the mornings, something has got to be done. Please help!!!
Posted 2026-09-24#0806 · Permanent link ↗

Reports longstanding sleep, cognitive, balance and heart symptoms attributed to exposure in rented housin…

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I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a concerned member of the public who is also a parent, family member, and researcher. For the past fifteen years, these are some of the symptoms that have been experienced in my health: Sleeplessness; Restless leg syndrome; Shortness of breath; Tinnitis; Headaches; Dizzyness; Nausea; Brain fog; Concentration issues; Heart palpitations; Vibrations through my body as if I were jello; I believe being a condominium renter increases exposures that may be lessened in single family homes (unaffordable to me). Attempting to shield myself, I have put up metalic paper on my walls but, having little improvement. I wear a shielding fabric jumpsuit daily and headwear. I sleep between shielding fabric layers and a sleep cap. Effects have followed me through school studies, work choices, and more. There is nowhere to live or hide from this pervasive health nuisance.
Posted 2026-09-24#0805 · Permanent link ↗

An older commenter reports insomnia and cognitive difficulties around electrical wiring and other sources…

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To: US Department of Health and Human Services From: Kathleen Morris, age 83, Pittsboro, NC Dear Sirs, RFK Jr. said that if you believe that you or a member of your family has experienced an adverse health effect that may be associated with radio frequency or electromagnetic field exposure, share your experience. I am such a person. In 1998 I was living in an apartment in Ramsey, NJ, where, due to underground and overhead electrical wiring the magnetic fields were elevated. Magnetic fields are the “magnetic” part of the term “electromagnetic fields.” Magnetic fields are commonly measured in milligauss (mG) or microtesla (𝝁T), using a tool called a gaussmeter. The utility company came in and found that the reading in my apartment was 100 mG in most places. They said this was a healthy level. The real healthy level is and was around 2.0 mG or less. Then I bought my own meters for EMFs and learned to use them. My symptoms included not being able to sleep. I had to sleep in my car. By 4:00 am, when not many people were using electricity, the levels in the apartment dropped to where I could go back to the apartment and fall asleep. But that’s not the final outcome. I got a few hours of sleep but at the end of it my head and brain felt “frozen.” It felt like a rock and that I was not “myself.” Luckily I had a job where my time was flexible and I could “wait it out” until the feeling subsided, which was by about 1:00 pm. I had to abandon my roommate, break my lease, and move to a safe place. I could never move where there are elevated radiofrequency levels in the vicinity of cell towers. I can’t own a Smart Phone. I can’t drive modern cars with all their electricity. I can’t fly on an airplane or ride in an electric train… both of which give me the “frozen” feeling. I found out the hard way that I can’t use electric devices like cars or trolleys. If it got bad enough when traveling I would have to ask for help because I’d have trouble “thinking.” One time I had a wonderful vacation and took a train home that switched from diesel to electric on the way. There went the good feeling from the vacation. My normal recovery time for an incident like that was four days. I have Wi-Fi but it is about 40 feet away from my computer. Ethernet cable would be better. In order to stay “normal” I follow the “degree, distance, duration” rules. DEGREE refers to the power level or strength of the EMF being emitted by a specific source. DISTANCE is your most powerful defense against EMFs because of the physics of how radiation travels. DURATION focuses on the amount of time you are actively exposed to an electromagnetic field. To this day I am paying $15 a month for the right not to have a Smart Meter installed on my house because the new Smart Meters give off high levels of radiofrequency EMFs. A Smart Meter is the meter that measures monthly electricity usage and communicates over the air with the utility company. For my meter the meter reader has to walk up to the meter to read it. It is called an Opt-out meter. Thankfully Duke Energy provides an electric meter with NO EMFs! I doubt whether you will ever prove one way or another if it is genetic or psychological or an indicator of some level of poor health that brings on symptoms from EMFs. Mineral deficiency could play a role. Even too much grief in life could play a role. Reacting to EMFs could even be a survival mechanism because the body is an electrical unit, and it must "notice" as a living unit that it is in a foreign space when EMFs are out of its healthy range. There is also dirty electricity that I keep a watch on. Dirty electricity is considered a part of the study of electromagnetic fields. You can ask Magda Havas about that and how it causes cancer in school children and teachers. I did find one honest doctor. He said that the best he had for me was that I should move to a mountain top! I read every book I could find that was written by scientists and other professionals. I would have gone to the Environmental Health Center, Dallas if I could have afforded it. I have watched big business crush the ideas about EMFs that president Trump is now looking at. They actually “think” that if the EMFs are not heating the body then what could the issue possibly be. Ask the trillion and trillions of cells in the body what they think of that. I'm doing okay now as long as I practice what they call "avoidance, avoidance, avoidance." My next book will be Dr. Eric Berg's new book “Change Your Environments: Redesign Your Life to Reclaim Your Health,” published by MAHA Books on September 15, 2026. Thank you and good luck on your plans to help Make America Great Again. Very sincerely,
Posted 2026-09-24#0800 · Permanent link ↗

Alleges decades of targeting, directed-energy attacks and nonconsensual implants, reporting disability an…

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Congratulations Mr. Kennedy on this assignment. I grew up in Falmouth Mass and back in the day my grandmother Clementina Santos worked as a maid for JFK. She ironed his clothes and there were times I rode with her to the compound to deliver them. As I grew up your family honored my brother Jeffrey Fontes and I with a benefit dance to raise money for our college education. I am 50 years targeted and need help here in Taunton Mass. I am tortured in my own home with directed energy weapons, been implanted which I recorded them doing under the pretense of a colonoscopy at St Anne hospital I Fall River Mass. Please help me resolve this torture I am 70 years old now. I have tons of evidence and hope you can assist me in my freedom. Please be mindful these attacks are very painful and have resulted in me being disabled. Colon removed as a result of microwave in the apartment below me under my bed. Implanted at Brigham and Women's in Boston Mass. Concussion syndrome from a car accident they caused the day I was released from the hospital as well as severe COPD. Please help us all. Love Brenda J. Fontes XXTheBeeeXX1@aol.com

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