Sinusitis – It was CO Poisoning !
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Congratulations Bongo! What excellent news! It makes me wonder now if I’m getting more migraines in the winter (when the windows tend to be closed). Something to think about, amyway.
CO detectors are cheap. Anyone who doesn’t have one is nuts.
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that is scary! What a relief to have it over though! We had a radon/CO monitor in our house for a while. My mom thought as we heat with wood CO could be an issue and so bought us one. Anyway it never
but we never had any fires so we took it out" ? You usually get CO in the house when your flue gets obstructed. This can happen at any time, without warning, and without other symptoms. I recommend you put it back in. And if you don’t have smoke detectors, or you haven’t checked the batteries on the ones you have recently, take care of that, too.
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Congratulations Bongo! What excellent news! It makes me wonder now if I’m getting more migraines in the winter (when the windows tend to be closed). Something to think about, amyway. Andy.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I had been suffering from a blocked nose, daily headaches and sinus pain for over 18 months, had been to the doctor numerous times, initially diagnosed with sinus problems, referred to an ENT specialist and eventually had a sinus op to remove a nasal polyp. Still no success, particularly with the daily headaches….
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – a. I have been very lucky that the fumes were at such a low level otherwise I would be dead by now. Yep. b. At no stage did any of the docs I see even suggest any sort of poisoning. Why would they suspect it? c. I have been through a needless sinus op. Maybe. d. Although I was shocked that it was CO poisoning I am just delighted to be headache free for the first time in 18 months. I feel fine now but did go back to the docs to explain what had happened – the doctor didn’t seem particularly clued up on CO poisoning and just said I should be fine as long as I wasn’t exposed to the fumes any more. I do wonder though if there will be any long-term effects. http://www.coheadquarters.com/ChronicCO/indexchronic2.htm
Thanks for that link – there seems to be a stack of information there so should keep me busy for a while.
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a. I have been very lucky that the fumes were at such a low level otherwise I would be dead by now.
Yep. b. At no stage did any of the docs I see even suggest any sort of poisoning.
Why would they suspect it? c. I have been through a needless sinus op.
Maybe. d. Although I was shocked that it was CO poisoning I am just delighted to be headache free for the first time in 18 months. I feel fine now but did go back to the docs to explain what had happened – the doctor didn’t seem particularly clued up on CO poisoning and just said I should be fine as long as I wasn’t exposed to the fumes any more. I do wonder though if there will be any long-term effects.
http://www.coheadquarters.com/ChronicCO/indexchronic2.htm
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that is scary! What a relief to have it over though! We had a radon/CO monitor in our house for a while. My mom thought as we heat with wood CO could be an issue and so bought us one. Anyway it never
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I had been suffering from a blocked nose, daily headaches and sinus pain for over 18 months, had been to the doctor numerous times, initially diagnosed with sinus problems, referred to an ENT specialist and eventually had a sinus op to remove a nasal polyp. Still no success, particularly with the daily headaches. Went back to the docs and was prescribed various other meds including propranolol and then when that didn’t work amitriptyline. Then one day my central heating boiler broke down and I got the engineer out to fix it, during this he did a ’smoke test’ which he said was not extracting properly and he said he needed to go into my loft where the flue was. The first thing the engineer said to me when he climbed into the loft was "have you been having headaches ?" when I said yes he said he had found the reason why – he had discovered that the flue (which goes out through my loft) had broken and the carbon monoxide fumes had been feeding down into the house. Anyway he fixed the flue and within 48 hrs my headaches disappeared. The first thing I did was go out and buy a carbon monoxide detector for the house and I am monitoring this very closely now! A number of thoughts occur to me: a. I have been very lucky that the fumes were at such a low level otherwise I would be dead by now. b. At no stage did any of the docs I see even suggest any sort of poisoning. c. I have been through a needless sinus op. d. Although I was shocked that it was CO poisoning I am just delighted to be headache free for the first time in 18 months. I feel fine now but did go back to the docs to explain what had happened – the doctor didn’t seem particularly clued up on CO poisoning and just said I should be fine as long as I wasn’t exposed to the fumes any more. I do wonder though if there will be any long-term effects.
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I had been suffering from a blocked nose, daily headaches and sinus pain for over 18 months, had been to the doctor numerous times, initially diagnosed with sinus problems, referred to an ENT specialist and eventually had a sinus op to remove a nasal polyp. Still no success, particularly with the daily headaches. Went back to the docs and was prescribed various other meds including propranolol and then when that didn’t work amitriptyline. Then one day my central heating boiler broke down and I got the engineer out to fix it, during this he did a ’smoke test’ which he said was not extracting properly and he said he needed to go into my loft where the flue was. The first thing the engineer said to me when he climbed into the loft was "have you been having headaches ?" when I said yes he said he had found the reason why – he had discovered that the flue (which goes out through my loft) had broken and the carbon monoxide fumes had been feeding down into the house. Anyway he fixed the flue and within 48 hrs my headaches disappeared. The first thing I did was go out and buy a carbon monoxide detector for the house and I am monitoring this very closely now! A number of thoughts occur to me: a. I have been very lucky that the fumes were at such a low level otherwise I would be dead by now. b. At no stage did any of the docs I see even suggest any sort of poisoning. c. I have been through a needless sinus op. d. Although I was shocked that it was CO poisoning I am just delighted to be headache free for the first time in 18 months. I feel fine now but did go back to the docs to explain what had happened – the doctor didn’t seem particularly clued up on CO poisoning and just said I should be fine as long as I wasn’t exposed to the fumes any more. I do wonder though if there will be any long-term effects.
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