Likely suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning for at least six months..

My post history here would show that I've been going through various ailments and had really bad tinnitus for a couple of months starting around six months ago. For a while then, I felt like my world was ending for no apparent reason. My girlfriend has been sick as well and our two pets died for no reason so I threw out the water cooler in paranoia.

Got our gas replaced a week ago which is in the kitchen and my girlfriend remarked that we only had it replaced six months ago and we don't really cook that much. Didn't think anything of it until my tinnitus came back and I started feeling like crap 2-3 days ago.

This morning with my head ready to explode from the noise, I remembered the famous post on Reddit and opened the press with the gas tank and it absolutely stank of gas, way worse than any press with a gas tank should ever smell. People go through carbon monoxide poisoning when it's suck a small amount, you can't smell it around your living area.


So it makes sense that it's worse with a new tank because of the pressure. And I've been working from home so I've been sitting in it every day.

In typical Vietnamese fashion, the gas guy came, not even with a meter, had a look for 10 seconds and said "yeah, it smells but it's fine". My girlfriend took this as gospel but I'm forcing a new pipe. She thinks I'm an idiot but I don't care. My ears and head are killing me so why take the risk.

Del2005

Do they sell carbon monoxide alarms there. Friends were renting a place and the landlord installed a CO alarm, it went off that night. Got the boiler replaced.

Point is get a CO alarm and then you'll know for sure. But it could just be "normal" gas poisoning which will need to be fixed, if you can smell it it could be reaching toxic levels.

Wesser

Is carbon monoxide the same as gas?
I thought carbon monoxide was odourless.
Maybe getting a carbon monoxide alarm would answer your question.

dr.fuzzenstein

Gas has a smell for safety reasons, CO doesn't smell, the two are not related. Get a CO alarm and get your gas fixed by someone competent.

dr.fuzzenstein

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Gas has a smell for safety reasons, CO doesn't smell, the two are not related. Get a CO alarm and get your gas fixed by someone competent.

To be honest, I just assumed it was carbon monoxide.

The fact is that it stinks inside the press and people suffer from these things because they remain at an undetectable level throughout the house.



I don't even know how or where to buy a meter here. My girlfriend is useless when it comes to this stuff and thinks it was just the gas company selling us a half-empty tank because she hasn't been sick, even though she has. She says it doesn't matter anyway cause we're moving in two months. The mind boggles.

FishOnABike

Any hardware shop or any of the big chain home + diy + garden super stores stock carbon monoxide alarms. They're not expensive. If you use any gas, oil, solid fuel or any other source of combustion you should have a carbon monoxide alarm. It kills silently as it has no odour.

http://www.carbonmonoxide.ie/htm/poisoning.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide_poisoning

Carbon monoxide is produced by incomplete combustion so if you are not lighting anything (gas cooker, heater, fire, etc..) there would be no carbon monoxide produced.

A gas smell could be unburnt gas (which might be due to incomplete combustion) or a gas leak - either of which could be fatal.

McMurphy

This threads GAS.

artanevilla

Carbon Monoxide poisoning is serious. Don't look on boards for a solution, get a detector, go to a doctor. End of.

dmc17

Deleted User wrote: »

To be honest, I just assumed it was carbon monoxide.

The fact is that it stinks inside the press and people suffer from these things because they remain at an undetectable level throughout the house.



I don't even know how or where to buy a meter here. My girlfriend is useless when it comes to this stuff and thinks it was just the gas company selling us a half-empty tank because she hasn't been sick, even though she has. She says it doesn't matter anyway cause we're moving in two months. The mind boggles.

Google is your friend, Ads by Google

http://www.ie.screwfix.com/first-alert-tco-9bq-carbon-monoxide-alarm.html

DEFTLEFTHAND

Where's that weirdass, Pat McCanary when you need him? The anti carbon monoxide singning budgie.

Metric Tensor

Carbon monoxide poisoning is totally different to leaking unburned gas. Both are very dangerous.

If you can smell gas it may well be a gas leak. A carbon monoxide alarm with not detect this.

Carbon monoxide is odourless and can be generated by poorly operating burning appliances sometimes, but not always, in places with poor ventilation.

You need to check for both OP. Before using anything gas fired again.

Penny Tration

dmc17 wrote: »

Google is your friend, Ads by Google

http://www.ie.screwfix.com/first-alert-tco-9bq-carbon-monoxide-alarm.html

The guy lives in Vietnam!

iHungry

If it was carbon monoxide you'd be dead already.

Tigger

dmc17 wrote: »

Google is your friend, Ads by Google

http://www.ie.screwfix.com/first-alert-tco-9bq-carbon-monoxide-alarm.html

screwfix vietnam is very poor

dmc17

Tigger wrote: »

screwfix vietnam is very poor

Find a different outlet then

Mr. CooL ICE

Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry. This must be a case for Mulder and Scully



(Catatonia were on the radio a while ago)

McMurphy

Penny Tration wrote: »

The guy lives in Vietnam!

Pfft.

Yup. Imagine giving someone in Vietnam a link for a screw-fix.

That be like selling sand to an Arab.

endacl

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Where's that weirdass, Pat McCanary when you need him? The anti carbon monoxide singning budgie.

He’s a canary. Clue’s in the name.

Outkast_IRE

Deleted User wrote: »

To be honest, I just assumed it was carbon monoxide.
She says it doesn't matter anyway cause we're moving in two months. The mind boggles.

Just to make this abundantly clear for you, now that you have noticed the issue you have a duty to inform the landlord and or gas company and push for it to be fixed.

Failing to bring this to their attention amounts to contributory negligence, the last thing you want is to be reading a story in the paper about the apartment you used to live in killing somebody.

DEFTLEFTHAND

endacl wrote: »

He’s a canary. Clue’s in the name.

Bah , same thing to me son. One annoying cnut who needs to be shot in the head and dumped out of a car on a country lane.