Towers & siting

Hello, I have tinnitus, it directly coincided with a 5G mast erected very near me.

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 patient and concerned member of the public. Wireless radiation has affected me with tinnitus and insomnia, and likely other ailments that I have not yet attributed to wireless radiation exposure. 5G cell towers are everywhere and do they improve your cellular connectivity? No, they don't. Then why are they there? They are not good, very dangerous and toxic, they all need to be taken down. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

I am a 65 year old woman. I developed electro-sensitivity 5 years ago, shortly after moving to live near a powerful regional TV mast. My symptoms include: fatigue, hair loss, dry flaky skin, poor concentration and memory, diarrhoea, IBS, nose bleeds and sensitivity to noise. I then moved house to an area of lower wireless radiation. I also shielded my home and started wearing shielding clothing. I have stopped using a mobile phone and my internet router is wired. I have managed to reduce the radiation in my home to below measurable levels. My symptoms have improved a lot, but I still suffer from all the symptoms listed above, at a mild level.

Electromagnetic Radiation is continuing to increase with devices and 5G on Street Lights, Phone Towers, 5G Masts, Traffic Control Phased Arrays, Facial recognition Towers on Main Roads and in Supermarkets. We must now start to eliminate these Health Hazards. Myself, my Husband and 8 Neighbours were made ill by a Telensa Street Light Base Station, to switch the Street Lights on and off. Parish Council and County Council gave us the run around and eventually when I threatened the Lighting Department that I would hold the Individuals personally responsible if My Husband's Cancer came back they moved it half a mile away. Unfortunately it is still in our village and there is another one close to the school. Many of the Phased Array devices and Electromagnetic Radiation Patents class them as Biological Weapons and yet we are still subjected to them whenever we go to Town. I live in the UK and the situation here is just as bad as in the USA. The National Health Service has to pick up the bill for all the Heart Attacks, Strokes and Cancers these Devices cause.

Thank you so much for doing this. I'm concerned about the amount of radiation allowed to come from cell phone towers, especially rural ones. This needs to be reduced; existing science is already clear that cancer rates increase for people living closer to towers. Please look into radars. Recently the radar in Duluth, MN tilted its beam down toward earth to capture lower clouds. They said it would not affect human health but it was based on the units of energy per period of time, disregarding the fact that when the beam goes through, it is very intense energy, which concerns me. As a sidenote, though unrelated, please research MRI contrast! Many people have become very ill from it, including myself, and radiologists tell patients like myself there are no side effects. This must be investigated ASAP. Thank you.

I am not as sensitive as my friend. He lived on a corner that received radiation from 5G on a utility pole across the street from his house. He started getting headaches he had not had before; his dog had symptoms not had before; he checked with his neighbors within a block radius and some of them were having similar physical reactions. He finally had to move out of that house to get better. And he did.

I'm at IT professional. I had used and loved technology for over 30 years. Although I had heard of people with sensitivity to EMFs and I knew to be somewhat wary of them (using wired headsets for example and not holding a phone to my ear and not using 5G) it wasn't until I was affected I realised how bad it was. During the COVID lockdowns I moved from the city (Sydney) to a small town. At the time the small town did not have any 5G (Bowen Qld). I had bought a house close to the beach. Unfortunately the house was 600m away from a mobile phone tower. But I didn't notice it. Until Telstra turned on 5G. I had headaches, urticaria and angioedema. I tried shielding my house but in the end sold and moved to a rural village with little mobile reception (Riverina area of NSW). Since then my health has reverted to a good baseline. I still feel the effects when I visit the city or am in highly EMF locations. Tesla cars also seem to be high in EMFs. I manage to do ok in an EV when I turn off Bluetooth and Qi charging and if the car doesn't have its own connections.

Please listen for this greatly affects my health. I need to live away from cell towers, electric big towers etc. I need to be even careful in my own dwelling-this is no joke--- please for the sake of me and my family and all the others out there that are affected by this and don't even fully realize it!!! I even took my child out of school for a big cell unit is within 25 feet of his school. Since, I am teaching him now at school he is more calm and able to take in the info. Sincerely, ab

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. My adult son purchased a condo in North Bergen, NJ. On the day he took possession, we drove down from Canada with his belongings. As the guys unloaded, I cleaned the already-clean kitchen with my non-toxic cleaning supplies. I started to feel dizzy, spaced out, and got a headache, symptoms which persisted through the weekend that we were there. I thought it might be mold, so I ran diffusers with tea tree oil and we ensured vents and ductwork were clean. We returned a couple weeks later, and the same symptoms started up again. On our third visit, when the snow had cleared we ventured out for a walk with our two little dogs. That’s when we noticed the cell tower at the bottom of his street, beside The Home Depot. I was immediately concerned, so we paced it out on the way back to his condo. A quick check online confirmed that the tower was on the borderline for an unsafe distance from our son’s living space. The next time we came to visit, the symptoms again returned… until the guys unloaded and brought up a Qi Home device that we decided our son’s condo needed more than our home did, since we live further from the closest cell towers and I do not have any symptoms (even since removing the device). Within a half hour of the device being placed in my son’s condo, my symptoms resolved and have never returned any time we’ve visited him since then. Thankfully, my son did not have the same sensitivity, but that doesn’t mean his health was not being negatively affected by the cell tower radiation (he did complain of fatigue and brain fog before we gave him the device, but hasn’t complained since). I am glad we had that Qi Home device, which cost several thousand dollars. Most people would not be able to afford that, and should not have to remediate radiation from a cell tower erected too close to their homes. People like me are the canaries in the coal mine, we are sounding the alarm and must be listened to. Cell towers should be better regulated, to ensure safer buffers between them and living spaces, so that people like me don’t feel sick, and everyone long-term doesn’t get sick from constant exposure. Please take our stories seriously and move the towers further away from where people live. Thank you for reading.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify to the horrible effects EMF has on the human body. When I hold my smart phone my hands ache. I can feel the waves pulsing through my body, clear to my feet. It feels like my bones are being stripped of life. I cannot get a good nights sleep. The EMF waves make me so fatigued , they zap all my energy. It is very difficult to live like this day after day. I really noticed a huge difference when 5G rolled out. I wear a EMF protection beanie, jacket, a blanket under me and over me. I also wear a copper bracelet to help decrease the pain. My skin itches, and it feels like bugs crawling all over my body. It never goes away. My eyes are dry, and my vision is getting worse. I just had open heart surgery. I can feel the EMF waves effect my heart and its rhythm. Oh please regulate this for the sake of peoples health. This is an injustice to the people when we have no choice where towers are placed and poles put by our houses and in our yards, and smart meters changed out without our permission on our houses. Other countries don’t allow this because they understand the health effects.