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(Message started by: Lizzie2 on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 11:47pm)

Title: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by Lizzie2 on Mar 2^nd, 2006, 11:47pm

This is totally going to sound random, but I was sitting here tonight just not feeling well. I know I've been incredibly nauseous lately, and that was starting up again tonight. I was feeling dizzy and just like my head was foggy while I was trying to do an assignment for class. Last night I fell asleep at 4:30 in the afternoon and didn't wake up until this morning.

My throat has been feeling tight all night long, and I was lying in bed just thinking I needed to look at my lips because they felt itchy and they are bright red.

So here I go freaking out. I went out and looked at the CO detector - it did flash it's green light. But earlier tonight I remember thinking about it because I had made something on the stove.

I opened a window in the front just a bit and also opened one in here.

Is it possible that my detector might not be working?? How do I tell?? I feel like I'm having an allergic reaction to something (like last week) but I haven't eaten anything different today or taken any new meds.

This is weird, and I'm probably being paranoid, but now I can't sleep.... :(

Any ideas???

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by mynm156 on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 12:05am

I dont think that it is carbon monoxide. You usually feel like the flu and it doesnt go away until you move to FRESH AIR. Do you have an Epi Pen? They sell them OTC now I keep one around the house I had a reaction to Demerol day after I took it the first time. We never figured it out until I had surgery and had a MAJOR reaction in PACU. Anyway, I dont know if you can TEST a CO monitor other than the test button.

Anyway, Be good Hope you feel better its finals week and I am STRESSING! UHG!

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by cootie on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 12:07am

Supposidly the detectors have to be in a draft free area to work properly.......so who knows ! I tried to read the directions on the one I bought and it had alot of stuff about WHERE to put it and not sure I got it all but it won't detect area problems if it's in the wrong areas where there's drafts or alot of movement. Sumthin like that. Do you have any unvented heaters by any chance or the dreaded kerosene heaters your around ? Those make me feel HORRIBLE !!! Could you be takein any meds causeing a problem and even if sumthin simple you still be havein a reaction to it or a combo of meds ? Alot of pain meds will cause ya to feel CRAPPY as hell or feel that way when they wear off. I went thru about a 2 year faze of feelin nausious terrible worn out and burnt out and not sure WHAT it was from other then gettin off paxil after a few years and some sort of faze stage in life it held back that hit me all of a sudden. I woke up feelin like I'd been out drinkin all nite. Sumtimes I think a person needs to get off all meds and start over......not that that's yer problem but if I took everything my doc told me to take or gave me I'd be a mess cuz each one has it's own side effects people get sumthin else for to counteract and so on and so on and so on. Hell I swear vitamins make me feel like crap........oddity of nature Pam

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by Lizzie2 on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 5:42am

Woke up this morning! ;)

I'm sure it probably wasn't related to CO - just was one of those freak out moments because all the sudden it's hitting me as I have woken up nauseous every day for 3-4 weeks now with quite a lot of vomiting. I take zofran almost every morning and by the time I get to work, I usually feel better. Could be the zofran - could be getting away from something in my apartment. (Like my cat - I'll blame him LOL)

So other than waking up absolutely freezing and still nauseous this morning (and no, I'm not pregnant), seems things are fine. I'm off to get ready for a 12 hour work day.

Good luck on the finals week! March is an odd time to be having finals!

Carrie :)

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by cootie on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 10:42am

I was naustious for so long that now if I read it as a side effect on any med I am afraid to even think about takeing it.....but it happens. Felt like one long hangover for me for a long time (no I wasn't drinkin)......and I still wake up some days FREEZEING cold.....like today !! I have NO body heat. And my hand and part of my arm are asleep and tingleing and WON'T WAKE UP. Half my hand is totally numb.......WTF ? Maybe that's anouther result from my back and neck crap but it sure the hell is wierd !!!! Is that normal for sumthin to fall asleep and stay that way for hours I wonder ? Gee Lizzie you and me would make a great pair of room mates wouldn't we........side effect symtom queens ! I get paranoid about stuff and think sumthin is wrong all the time and get myself all freaked out. I think I had too much time on my hands as a kid cuz my parents both worked and I was home alone every day. No biggie cuz they worked and I had a nice home......(latch key kid it's called I think).....I wasn't allowed to go anywhere or call anyone or anything. Or sit and watch tv all day either cuz they could tell if the tv was warm how long it'd be on. So I sat in my room alot starein out the window THINKING......I think I over developed the ability to get paranoid or freak out about things I didnt' understand and no way to find info on. No internet back then !! Almost as if I have developed a 6th sense of WORRY. I'm soundin dumb now so will go back to my corner......but I understand how you can get worked up about how you feel and start thinkin sumthin is going on......and you feed your own fears. Hopefully it's just some sort of side effect you can figure out or maybe anouther one of lifes MYSTERY FAZES.......either way I hope you start feeling better. I think you work too hard.....too much responsibility with your hours and then the other ailments goin on addin to it. Do't blame the cat Pam

Man I gotta wake up this arm.......good grief !!!

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by Dragnlance on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 10:48am

Quote:

because all the sudden it's hitting me as I have woken up nauseous every day for 3-4 weeks now with quite a lot of vomiting.

hate to say this, but could it be pregnancy?

Just fishing for possible answers...

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by mynm156 on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 11:01am

YEAH! KNOCKED UP! Nothing says loving like a bun in the oven. I always say. As to finals I am taking classes online. So I started at the end ot ther regular semester.

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by CHTom on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 2:45pm

From your description in your first post-sleeping from 4:30 in the afternoon until morning-if it was caused by CO you'd be dead. Maybe you are just too tired and stressed out from your CH, work and your other illnesses/non-medical problems-and it doesn't sound as if you have been getting enough sleep It might be a good time to see a shrink and find out what effect your life stressors are having on you. I am amazed and congratulate you on being able to continue to work with all that seems to be going on with you; you sound like a strong person, but maybe you need some help in cutting back on some of the stressors in your life and finding some more effective ways of handlng them. Good luck!

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by cardogman on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 3:24pm

Agreed Tom is right on. Maybe just something your body is fighting off, a virus. If you have been on that med for a while and you are just getting symptoms that might not be the problem.

See how you feel in a a few more days.

Burt

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by cootie on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 3:49pm

zofran 'is' for nausia.......do you wake up nausiated to take it ? From what I've heard it has no real side effects tho.......maybe it is JUST too much stress and too many hours addin up. You need some regular lizzie time Pam

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by Opus on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 8:35pm

Get a Night Hawk unit, with a digital read out. CO detectors go of when a certain level has been reached for a certain amount of time. This means your house could peak to lets say 100 ppm 10 times a day, and it won't go off. If they did many city dwellers would have constant false alarms. Remember that possibly you reduced lung capacity may make you more susceptible than most people.

As you say probably wasn't CO but exhaustion and you body needed the sleep. I hope things start getting better in you life :)

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
Post by Lizzie2 on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 9:33pm

LOL Did you guys skip the line where I said I'm not pregnant? ;)

Got home about a half hour ago and the cat's still alive, so it must not be CO.

I go see the GI doc in less than a month now (early April), and unfortunately it seems we've not controlled the reflux or nausea, but sometimes I fish for answers...being medically oriented as it is and being used to crazy stuff going wrong!

Also - my skating coach's daughter died from CO poisoning at age 10 - so I even said to my mom this morning (as I apologized to her for waking her up last night when I was worried) that Abby's death has left a HUGE mark on me about CO poisoning. She didn't have to die - and the levels can be bad for a long time but just undetectable by the monitor only bad enough to make some people very sick.

I think, having been through that experience losing Abby, I get a little touchy about the CO and just got over-paranoid. ;)

Thanks for the advice :)

Coots - we SHOULD be roommates at some convention down the line. I can see us now. "Ya feel dead yet?" "Nah...not yet." ;;D

Carrie :)

Title: ;)
Post by cootie on Mar 3^rd, 2006, 10:18pm

We could hold each others hair up when the other gets over nausiated and wants to barf.....that's what girls do for each other Pam ;)