Neurological symptoms & sleep

Around twelve years ago I had a cell phone that I kept for emergencies still preferring wired technologies. My wired service went down and I used my cell phone for around an hour long conversation with a friend. Later that evening, I felt a gland in my neck, underneath my jaw on the right side, swell up and become painful. The next morning I was quite sick with a sore throat and other symptoms that lasted around a week. I had no doubt that the phone was responsible. I had also noticed a slightly painful and tingling sensation running from my right hand and up my forearm whenever I held the cell phone while using it. I've since completely avoided using cell phones but I no longer can. Recently, in Boise, Idaho where I live, CenturyLink has joined with Qwest and is discontinuing all wired telephone services. CELL PHONES THE CAUSE OF BELL'S PALSY PERHAPS? Following this injury I began to research the possibilities of harm due to cell phones being held against the body. A researcher in Norway had published a book (I can't recall the title or author) with each chapter consisting of reports of individuals who experienced physical harm due to cell phone use. I read a sample chapter online that described where a man was experiencing numbness and paralysis on the right side of his face next to his mouth. Over time the numbness began to spread along his cheek, down his throat and eventually down the right side of his body. The doctors who saw him were at a loss as to the cause. Eventually, he decided that his cell phone might be the cause and quit using it. It was and fortunately his condition then reversed itself and he healed. After this he never allowed wireless technologies in his car or home. Coincidentally, just after reading that chapter, I met a physician friend and a friend of his at a wine bar near where I lived. The two of them began talking about a health problem the doctor's friend was experiencing -- the very condition I had just read about. Only his facial numbness was just spreading from the right side of his mouth across his check and not down the right side of his body yet. He told the doctor, my friend, who had recommended the neurologist he was seeing, that the neurologist was considering putting him on antiseizure medications. I interrupted and asked him if he was a heavy cell phone user. He said yes. I asked him if he held the phone on the right side of his face. His eyes got very big as he considered that this was the cause of his facial numbness. I then told him what I had just read. I do not know the outcome having not spoken with him after that. Also, among many other sources, I read "Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette" by Robert C. Kane, a PhD electrical engineer, who developed the technology for Motorola Corporation. He was convinced of its safety and volunteered to be a user prior to mass production and marketing of the product to test its safety. He developed brain tumors and had no doubt that the cell phone was the cause of his tumors. Prior to his death due to the tumors, he heroically did everything he could to warn of the dangers and was entirely ignored, and worse, by the industry and regulatory agencies. For the industry and regulatory agencies to claim there was no valid research and findings (several reported of in Kane's book) of harm due to usage quite upsets me. For example; the book reported that rats demonstrated Alzheimer's disease symptoms in a laboratory environment when exposed to RF radiation comparable to typical human cell phone usage and exposure. Free online publication of Robert C Kane's book: https://archive.org/details/CellularTelephoneRussianRoulette/page/n5/mode/2up) Sincerely, Leslie Taylor

My family and I live in an apartment in Gras Valley, California. We have 9 smart meters on the side of the building, and everyone in the building has a router and devices. We have high exposure here. I've taken an EMF detector to the smart meters and had readings over a 1000. This is CRIMINAL! We have majorly high exposure, and it constantly messes with our health. My equilibrium is off, ringing in my ears, getting sick more than normal, and we eat PURELY organic. I work out daily yet feel less than. This exposure is dangerous and unhealthy, and it is affecting our moods as well. I've done the research, and the EMFs are harming us!

I live probably 1/8th of a mile (as the crow flies) away from two towers that have 5g attached to them. I can see them clearly from my house. I have been waking up with headaches quite often over the past few years. I have also noticed that it's hard to drift off to sleep and am often still awake at 2 or 3 in the morning. Brain fog is another side effect that has been happening, as well as having heart palpitations off and on throughout the day. I honestly don't think that the towers are our only health issues. We are being sprayed on a daily basis by airplanes with millions of tons of toxic metals and other toxic ingredients. Now we have data centers popping up everywhere and we all know that they are causing us to have health issues and draining our resources for something that we absolutely can live without. We don't need 5g . We did fine without it. It's like a giant microwave oven that is slowly killing us and all living things around it.

I remember the first time I started to notice the ringing in my ears was when we first got a wifi router and it would keep me awake if someone turned it on so I would make sure and turn it off at night. Now the ringing in my ears is non-stop and so loud that I find it hard to sleep and have insomnia now. I hate it so much. We need to remove all the 5G towers away from homes and schools. My kids and myself all deal with many headaches. I worry about what it is doing to their brain development. I find it hard to focus during the day with the ringing in my ears as well. Please make laws to move towers away from homes and schools. Our children should not be subjected to this.

well i am sensitive to EMFs. shortly after moving back to US from Fiji I developed an essential tremor in my fingers.....when i went to India for 3 weeks and had no phone or wifi it went away and came back 2 weeks after returning. now its everywhere, on planes, satellites and i feel like i have no where to run to.

I feel buzzing 3-4 nights a week and I can't fall asleep. My legs start twitching and my mind is wide awake. It ends about 3:30am every time. Then we're exhausted the next day. We ask those at work if they experienced the same thing and they always have the same experiences on the very same nights. We know it's from the EMFs and radio frequencies.

The affects of EMF/RF Radiation has ruined not only my permanently injured my health but has also robbed my home from me! Five years ago, I purchased my dream home in Rockwall, Texas, which is loaded with towers and began feeling sick within weeks after purchasing it! Dizziness, major, heart, palpitations, headaches! I began to lose my eyesight and developed severe hip and lower back pain. My naturopathic Doctor Who owns the Health food store here asked where my smart meter was and much to my horror. It was on the other side of the wall from my head where I was sleeping. It just about gave me endometrial cancer!!! Two years later they moved up to 5G and blasted us and I lost that house and haven’t been able to pack it up because every time I go back there it makes me sick. I’ve had two realtors quit because they get sick being on that corner and around that part of the neighborhood.. as it turns out that Location is within 1 mile from up to 70 cell towers and antennas! Everyone talks about how they feel sick in our town. It’s beyond terrible and on top of that I feel a detachment from my life and deep depression that I’ve never felt before until they blasted us with 5G!!! Every day at 5 o’clock many of us have heart, palpitations, headaches, a feeling of haziness and blurred vision! Imagine what this will do to us long-term! I am now having hormone problems connected to breast health that I’ve never had before. This is causing my health to fail for sure, and it has ruined the quality of my life! Thank you so much for launching this investigation!!! Please stop these terrible towers or we are in trouble! Cellular radiation has absolutely ruined my life! I have never been sensitive to it until they moved up to 5G and started placing all of these towers everywhere and now I’m just dealing with a depression from it all because it just seems hopeless at this point! Because of the level of radiation that we are dealing with here, I am not able to live in my beautiful home and have to power through the health symptoms while I’m there packing it up! Needless to say it’s taking us forever to do so!!

The affects of EMF/RF Radiation has ruined not only my permanently injured my health but has also robbed my home from me! Five years ago, I purchased my dream home in Rockwall, Texas, which is loaded with towers and began feeling sick within weeks after purchasing it! Dizziness, major, heart, palpitations, headaches! I began to lose my eyesight and developed severe hip and lower back pain. My naturopathic Doctor Who owns the Health food store here asked where my smart meter was and much to my horror. It was on the other side of the wall from my head where I was sleeping. It just about gave me endometrial cancer!!! Two years later they moved up to 5G and blasted us and I lost that house and haven’t been able to pack it up because every time I go back there it makes me sick. I’ve had two realtors quit because they get sick being on that corner and around that part of the neighborhood.. as it turns out that Location is within 1 mile from up to 70 cell towers and antennas! Everyone talks about how they feel sick in our town. It’s beyond terrible and on top of that I feel a detachment from my life and deep depression that I’ve never felt before until they blasted us with 5G!!! Every day at 5 o’clock many of us have heart, palpitations, headaches, a feeling of haziness and blurred vision! Imagine what this will do to us long-term! I am now having hormone problems connected to breast health that I’ve never had before. This is causing my health to fail for sure, and it has ruined the quality of my life! Thank you so much for launching this investigation!!! Please stop these terrible towers or we are in trouble! Cellular radiation has absolutely ruined my life! I have never been sensitive to it until they moved up to 5G and started placing all of these towers everywhere and now I’m just dealing with a depression from it all because it just seems hopeless at this point! Because of the level of radiation that we are dealing with here, I am not able to live in my beautiful home and have to power through the health symptoms while I’m there packing it up! Needless to say it’s taking us forever to do so!!

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 an individual who is highly sensitive to high levels of EMF. I lived in NYC beginning in 1995-2010, and during that time our society went from pay phones to cell phones and hardwired computers to WiFi. Around the increase of cell phones I began to develop migraines, and they only become worse as time went on. I tried to eliminate every possible trigger, but never considered EMF. In 2010 I then moved to North Africa where there was very little EMF around us - especially coming from the densely populated apartment and office buildings of NYC, and my migraines disappeared. I suddenly found myself sleeping better, no longer felt an ancy, irritated feeling within by body. I still did not attribute this to EMF. There were times that I then stepped back into high density EMF areas - airports, bigger cities, and I'd notice first the sense of agitation within my body and then migraines. It wasn't until 2017 when I moved back to the states and was once again surrounded by endless lists of possible WiFis to connect to just within my neighborhood that my migraines flared up with a vengeance. My body felt like it was in total overwhelm. We then moved out to a rural area where the EMF was minimal, and once again the migraines subsided. We turn our WiFi off each night, and nights that I forget my sleep is restless. I'm unable to visit my aunt and uncle in the 30 floor condo in FL because each time I go my body literally shuts down, as the density of EMF is too much. On a side note I've also noticed that on the rarest of occasions when I've put my phone near my ear to talk, I get a tingling sensation in my brain that lasts long after the call. Is there a chance that my symptoms are completely unrrelated to EMF? Absolutely. But we also don't know if they are not. we need more studies, we need to understand. 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.

Electromagnetic interference and damage at the residence. As early as March 4, 2013, I submitted a formal complaint to local authorities against unknown parties regarding electromagnetic disturbances occurring at irregular intervals in my home—apparently within my own living space. Along with the complaint, I provided two medical certificates attesting to my good physical and mental health. Following this, on March 14, 2013, ARPA Reggio Emilia conducted an environmental site inspection— to which, incidentally, my parents initially objected (though not to the plants that withered rapidly in conjunction with anomalous ticking sounds) —an inspection that was utterly inadequate, lasting only 20 minutes (and not even continuously) and covering only specific types of fields. Given that the phenomena occur at extremely irregular intervals and vary in duration and intensity (especially at night), and because the results showed nothing amiss, the case was closed, leaving me with the same unresolved problems for years to come! In the meantime, I have also encountered various malfunctions: among others—in addition to the electrical system in the rooms surrounding my bedroom (which has since been repaired)—there have been frequent issues such as internet connection problems and interference affecting television, radio, and both landline and mobile phone services. My former cat (who was also mentioned in the 2013 formal complaint) also suffered health problems—beyond just vomiting—particularly during periods spent in specific areas of the house; these included rather unusual symptoms, such as the frequent loss of whiskers (she subsequently passed away on February 6, 2019, from a very aggressive, rare form of connective tissue tumor, the kind typically associated with certain types of radiation). P.S.: My previous electromagnetic field meter (which has since disappeared) would often shut down; evidently, the ambient levels in my living space would at times exceed the device's maximum measurement range—a situation that had been occurring for years. + Problems with my internet connection and desktop PC, as well as unauthorized access to my Facebook account, continue to occur at irregular intervals; yet, the Postal Police in Reggio Emilia are taking no action. + In addition to the withered plants and garden, I have also observed various structural damages to the house: crumbling reinforced concrete, cracks and peeling paint on the walls, and damage within my bedroom and bathroom, including to the bathroom fixtures. By August 2026, the electromagnetic disturbances had worsened. At irregular intervals—in addition to the symptoms already described in 2013—I suffered from severe headaches characterized by sharp stabbing pains and a burning sensation lasting for days, as well as dizziness; my scalp and skull bones actually ached, and my head felt burning hot (though I had no fever). My insomnia worsened, and I experienced a loss of balance and memory, leaving me debilitated. Consequently, on September 3, 2026, I filed a second, documented formal complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office in Reggio Emilia, acting also on the advice of the Reggio Emilia branch of Legambiente. However, the Reggio Emilia Prosecutor's Office was reluctant to accept my petition, turning instead to psychiatric services—which deny the existence of such electromagnetic-related issues and attribute the symptoms to other causes (thereby disregarding the principle of mandatory prosecution, which remains in force in Italy). Even though I am feeling better now, my new electromagnetic meter continues to detect average electric field levels of 500–600 V/m—with peaks exceeding 800 V/m (far above the legal limit of 15 V/m)—at my desktop PC station in the living room; average electric field levels of around 30 V/m affect me and my rooms, with radiation readings around 25. Could you please look into my case? Thank you. Sincerely,