Smart Meters - Public Service Commission

I have NEVER had headaches in my life but now find myself with one everytime I spend time in the room next
to where my smart meter was installed. I want this thing out and my old meter returned.
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One day I got a notice in the mail that “Smart Metetrs” were being deployed in my neighborhood in Long
Beach weather I liked it or not. I found it interesting that they use a military term to describe this intervention.
Since the meter was installed I have had problems with my heart racing for no apparent reason while I am in
bed. The meter is on the other side of my bedroom wall. I am in my 60s and everyone I have talked to at
Southern California Edison claims the meters are not the problem and no more dangerous than a cell phone.
However the phone I can shut off. It has even affected my pets. I have two old dogs and two young cats. Since
the meter installation I have noticed that they are panting more and at times seem to have trouble breathing. I
do not believe these meters have been studied long enough as to long term effects on humans or animals. I
would really like my analog back and have no desire to watch the meter on my computer to see how much
energy I’m using. I have no air conditioner; dish washer;clothes washer or dryer. Nor do I have central heating,
extra refrigerators or freezers. I use a power strip for my computer and shut it off when not in use. I don’t need
this big brother utility dictating my energy use. It is an invasion of privacy and it puts meter readers out of
work. Higher unemployment rates in this state are NOT needed.
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I am a health practitioner concerned about the effects of Smart Meters I have seen in my patients. Many
previously healthy people are having symptoms dating from the installation of their Smart Meters or shortly
thereafter. Some patients already health-compromised, have gotten worse since their Smart Meters were
installed. Some are affected more than others. Some have become disabled from their symptoms.
I feel strongly that installation of Smart Meter’s with their potential health hazards is a violation of the
personal rights and freedom of myself and others.
I have refused a Smart Meter and want the right to continue to do so to protect my health.
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On October 22nd of 2011, my life changed forever. I was sitting writing a letter to my daughter, and I began to
get stinging, shooting pains in my jaw and ear area, my sinuses starting filling up and my head felt like it was
full of paint. That night I was unable to sleep because of a very alarming case of acute tinnitus, unlike anything
I had ever experienced before, and chest pains. The next night I was awakened from a dead sleep at 1:30 in the
morning with vacuum-cleaner like tinnitus and an alternating two-tone noise that sounded like notes from an
electric keyboard. It was so loud that I opened the window to see if it was coming from outside. I had to put on
street clothes and walk away from our apartment in search of relief. A couple of blocks away, the tinnitus
diminished greatly. When I came back I had to lie on the couch in the living room and turn on the TV and
heater to help mitigate the white noise in my head to try to sleep. Staying asleep was another battle. This
nightmare went on for a couple of more nights.
I stayed away from the apartment during the day, and it was patently obvious that the symptoms abated away
from the 11 “Smart” meters installed in our building a couple of months prior. As I already had fibromyalgia,
missing deep sleep cycles affected my health all day long. My ten year old son and I had to start finding
different places to sleep. I soon began to realize that some of the symptoms he had been having disappeared
away from the apartment – chest pains so alarming I had to take him to a pediatric cardiologist, “stinging”
headaches, and bouts of fatigue.
My son and I have now been homeless since early December, when I was finally able to get us all the way out of
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