Wi-Fi & indoor exposure

Wifi and other EMFs make me feel very sick and if the wifi is on in my car and I drive for more than 2 hours I am sick for days! Once we took the wifi out of our house and stopped using in the car I got better. I can then feel the symptoms when I am on my iPhone too long. My symptoms after each prolonged exposure ( more than a couple hours) are:extreme fatigue, foggy thinking, poor concentration, memory decline, achey muscles, joint stiffness, irritability and even sadness! You need to pay attention to those who are sensitive to EMFs because we are just the first ones showing signs ( like with any other sensitivity).

I am an individual who hears electricity humming in the walls. When the power goes out, my body immediately relaxes ( despite the inconvenience of no electricity) I sleep better & more deeply with the power off ( even if it’s too warm or too cold) When I am in a public space with lots of WiFi I can feel vertigo, nausea or just exhaustion—- even though I felt fine elsewhere. In particular places with big swathes of fluorescent lighting are issues. ( I don’t shop at some big box stores anymore, due to this) those give me headaches. In general my body has a very inflammatory response to all these EMFs…many of these symptoms go away when I am out in nature, far from WiFi signals & dirty electricity. We have avoided a Smart Meter for now, but our neighbors have them. I can only imagine how much healthier all of us will be when we clean these up. Thank you, Karen Thompson

I have been sick from radiation since Wi-Fi first came to my home in 2005. It started slowly the sleepless, then later came the pain that has stayed with me until today. I cannot be with my Wi-Fi on and it's hard for me to live in an apartment. It's also hard to work. But what is most difficult is the lack of acknowledgment from doctors and medical providers. You have to essentially "prove" your illness to people. Imagine feeling horrible constantly and having pork tell you there isn't anything wrong. That you cannot possible be sick from radiation because there is "no research" to prove otherwise. So you hide in EMF support groups and find solace in deserted places. I hope someone reads this who can hear us. There are so many sick

I am a 67 year old retired Navy and airline pilot. Throughout my airline career I struggled sleeping in hotel rooms that were near a freeway. My guess is I am sensitive to the vibration. My life suddenly got a lot worse in 2018, the year 5G started coming online. It was getting more and more difficult to sleep in my new home and in hotels for work. Every year over the past 8 years it has only gotten worse. My cellular and WiFi sensitivities present themselves as a low frequency rumble that varies in intensity almost like an idling semi truck. Wearing noise canceling headphones does not eliminate it so I know it is not sound related. My wife or visitors cannot hear what I am sensing. It is at its worse when I lie down at bedtime. I am unable to relax to fall asleep. The signal stimulates my nervous system and my heart. I currently disconnect all devices in the house from cellular and WiFi. I power off my router and sleep in a bed with a canopy of fabric lined with silver and copper that drapes to the floor and rests on a floor mat made of the same material. It is not perfect but so far I seem to be sleeping better. A year ago I started a new job that requires me to work in a large city. This is a city with rough terrain. I assume that is why they have erected cell towers almost everywhere, even in neighborhoods. I had to go through 6 hotels before I could find one I could sleep in. One of the worst sleep experiences I had was a hotel that had a suite. All night I would move the mattress to different parts of the room to try and escape the signal. I basically had zero sleep that night. The next morning I started looking around the hotel for the large cell tower I knew must be nearby. In the front of the hotel on the street was a strange small antenna slightly higher than a light pole. I used AI to try to determine what this new antenna was. It is called a Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS). They seem to be on every other block in many of the neighborhoods in this city. Many are disguised as palm trees or cacti. It is suppose to eliminate dead zones for cell service. I believe it is the same technology used to distribute cell service in large buildings and stadiums. I have started traveling with a mylar tent which helped quite a bit but it is very hot and uncomfortable to sleep in. I finally found a basic old hotel surrounded on two sides by a very large wilderness area with no nearby cell towers and no DAS towers. The company I work for has a preferred hotel but I was not able to sleep there. I went through the process to get a medical HR accommodation so I can stay at this hotel as long as I am willing to pay the difference in cost. It is the only hotel I have found in this city that I can sleep in. Many times over the past 8 years I have felt hopeless and have wondered how I will be able to cope if cell towers are allowed to continue to spread and are allowed to be made more powerful. I cringe when I see an ad promoting 5G internet service into your home. I hope none of my neighbors will use that service but I am sure the pricing from cell companies will make it financially the preferred choice (no more underground lines to upkeep). I recently read that STARLINK received permission to expand their system by 100,000 more satellites. Don’t know if there will be anywhere on earth I will be able to go to escape that. I cannot express how grateful I am to be asked to provide details on how Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure is destroying my quality of life. It raises my hopes that people may finally realize how harmful and toxic to our environment these technologies are. Please feel free to reach out to me if further input or involvement would be helpful.

I personally experience painful tingling in my hands so that I sometimes have to stop using my computer. The kids and I wear silver underwear everyday. Our family lives near a cell phone tower in Germany and my children (now early teens) have experienced many symptoms in the last years - trouble sleeping (especially since Smart Meters were introduced in all buildings here!!!), persistent headaches in one child, and neck problems. Eye strain in our younger child is common. To mitigate some of these constant issues - and yes, I am trying to move us to a new house! - I have invested in EMF protecting bedsheets, a router that automatically turns off when devices are off, screen-flicker blocking glasses... we do what we can to turn off all devices at night, but neighbours do NOT. Our symptoms have improved somewhat - especially the bedsheets help with sleep. It's been financially costly to support our bodies to cope with this much radiation stress, and I do not use a smartphone due to my sensitivity.

I'm very sensitive to wifi and the levels steadily increase as though our health is not important. Big business trumps our health at every turn! Why? They buy off legislators and in today's America that's OK. I'm unable to go anywhere because I become ill.

I have been struggling with exposure for probably 6 years now that 5G is expanding it is more debilitating under heavy exposure I could feel my adrenal system being fatigued and my heart racing feeling the fight or flight chemistry caused only by the Wi-Fi or 5G signal

More studies on effects of WiFi need to be done. I think items reckless to expand WiFi any further until we know the implications this has on the human body and mind, especially with developing children. Can children safely tolerate more WiFi? How do you know? Please stop and reassess. I find I sleep better with WiFi turned off. Do we even know why that is? More independent studies NEED to be done. I never consented to be in a scientific study so quit experimenting on We The People and consider the impact on children.

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. I first starting noticing signs of EHS about 8 years ago. Brain fog mainly and headaches, insomnia and tinnitus. But it may have been affecting me a few years prior as I had unexplained hormonal issues with anemia. In 2021 my symptoms reached a new level with the introduction of 5G and possibly an affect from shedding of the covid vaccine? I would wake up feeling like I was dying most mornings. I had neck pain, followed by double vision (from left eye not moving correctly), a week later I had bells palsy also in left side of face. I saw a neurologist who told me I had MS, but would need an MRI to confirm, I told him I would but it would 'fry me'. He gave me a 5 day course of steroids- extremely high dose. This stopped the bells palsy within about 4 days, but the eye took another two weeks to work correctly. He told me I had inflammation of the Pons and upper brain stem. I was to see him 3 months later. At this point I rapidly shielded the majority of my home and bought a EMF shielding canopy to sleep under, along with a sensitive RF meter. I also started to seriously avoid all sources of RF. Getting shopping delivered to my home and only visiting places/ areas that I knew to be of low emission. At the next appointment (2022) he told me 'It's a miracle!' he repeated this several times during the manual examination. He told me he was expecting me to have to be given another strong course of the steroids for MS. But I was by then able to walk well and was feeling 'sort of' better. I reported what I had done and that I was EHS, he then told me that I could not have an MRI. And he would not be able to assist me in this direction or diagnose me with EHS. He wished me the best and informed me about using Google Scholar to research myself. Since then I have completely cleaned my environment of all RF and some problematic EF and EMF, which may have also contributed to my condition. Shield and avoid. What this actually means is I no longer have any social life as I cannot go anywhere near mobile phones or wifi or I will get ill very rapidly. It starts with the tinnitus getting louder- sometimes to the point of pain. My head feels full and pressurized. I feel the effects as a stimulant at first, talking rapidly. But after about 20 minutes this drains me into brain fog and fatigue. At about 30 minutes my legs will start to wobble, my heart will palpitate. My eyes don't see clearly, I will have an intermittent vocal tremor with stammering. These side effects will start to go once I am out of the high radiation, a slight effect can go in an evening, but more serious effects can last a few days or weeks. I am currently still suffering from a major accidental exposure that left me unable to walk correctly for nearly two weeks, along with neck pain and gave me a shadow in the top left of my right eye, which is still there over a month later. This sounds like MS to me and my eye specialist, but it was brought on by being exposed to very high levels for over 20 minutes. Possibly also to shedding exposure. I am currently having treatment from a homeopathic Dr, she has helped me to become somewhat tolerant compared to how I was a year and a half ago. I also take a host of supplements, drink and cook with ceramic filtered water. Try to eat organic, do not eat processed food. Do not eat gluten or diary (except a little cheese). The worst part is I can no longer attend family events, my son who came back to live with me after leaving Uni last year hates living here (rent and bills free, I also cook for him and help with his laundry) because he cannot use his phone (has to go down the garden to use it). He says this makes his life a misery as he cannot use it. Although he is supportive. I cannot visit my Mother, who lives abroad because I cannot fly anymore due to the radiation exposure. She is in her 80's and of ill health. I can't even go to the shops. I have one 'safe' route out of the city which gives me minimal exposure. But here at home I am surrounded by masts and RF from multiple sources. Even cleaning my van is a rush as it will make me ill. I am very glad that you are looking into this. Even though I am not in the US, where the US goes the world usually follows. And with knowledge hopefully things can happen, people can be educated. My wish would be seeing a reduction of radiation emissions from devices and masts. Technology that would allow me to also use a phone. But probably the best thing would just be recognition, so we can be diagnosed and maybe even treated. My symptoms could be MS triggered by EHS, or EHS showing as MS? There is no way to know. I just want my life back. I am living in a prison with no current parole. Thank you so very much, you have given me hope. God bless.

Thank you for being concerned about wireless technology. I wish more investigations had happened before we were inundated with this. I turn off all electronics including my router at night, but now am having to deal with a smart meter which i have no desire for,but will have to pay every month for a meter reader if I don’t accept!! My concerns aren’t just wireless radiation, but the large screens in cars, which take attention away from driving ( people driving erratically is now the norm) everywhere I go people looking down using their phones, and the discomfort people feel if their phone isn’t on their person. Thanks for listening.