My BF thinks I am mad

[Barmaid]

do you?

The last week I have been really really tired. I've been coming home from work feeling tired and then developing a dull frontal headache, feeling slightly nauseous, feeling desperate to go to bed and then only sleeping half the night. My limbs feel heavy and my head light and full of cotton wool and I am completely unable to think. This afternoon when I got in, I hadn't been in long when I started to feel bad so I went out for a breath of fresh air which immediately revived me.

I have now made him turn off the boiler until we can get a carbon monoxide detector. He tells me there is "no way" it can be the boiler and there is "no way" it would travel upstairs (boiler is in kitchen) and anyway he says he has no symptoms at all.

Am I just a hypochondriac who is probably a bit under the weather, or am I right to be concerned? Incidentally, he can't actually remember the last time the boiler was serviced........

[sara3]

I think you're right. go out and buy a cm detector tonight.

[ummmm]

No BM...be very careful. We have a dodgy boiler and when his mate came to fix it (back boiler) he was shocked and surprised we weren't all sick.

Who spends the most time in the kitchen????

[redcrx]

i would say get a CO detector anyway.
as for the feeling ill, have you felt ill at work too? it could be something there just as easily as at home.
Or maybe dehydration from central heating, a general bug?

ive felt the same, bt without the headache for a couple of weeks now and have put it down to work and central heating

[Barmaid]

I'm going to get one in the morning Sara. Got work to do tonight!

Ummmm - I wonder?!

I work all over Red, but have felt fine once I am in the car and in "work mode". I have felt very dehydrated though and am going through fruit juice like there is no tomorrow.

He just came in again and said "there is no way its cm". Sometimes, men can be twits.

[poodicat]

Thought were intelligent barmaid these detectors are really cheap and should be like fire alarms in every household

[Barmaid]

I had one in my old house Poodi. It was only after I had walked round looking at the ceilings this afternoon that I realised there wasn't one here.

On the bright side, with no heating I shall have to find another way to keep warm!

[poodicat]

Seriously we had a young couple die through inhaling carbon monoxide in their sleep!

[China Doll]

No harm in checking it out, seems pretty sensible to me.

I do get a lot of those symptons when I'm run down as well.

[theonlyone]

You can call any gas supplier and they will do a test for free, if you don't
you will be very cold tonight ...

[Vicasso]

Fond this on another site........

Question - Does carbon monoxide rise or sink if produced inside a
house? Why? Does natural gas rise or sink?
(I am trying to figure out where to position gas detectors).
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Although the molecular weights of these gases differ, convection and not
density differences dominate the distribution of CO, methane etc. The
release of gases associated with combustion tend to rise because they are
hotter than ambient. For this reason smoke detectors and CO detectors are
usually placed high on the walls of hallways etc.

[Barmaid]

That's actually very helpful vicasso. Cos Knowitall said that it is heavy and will sink!!!

I know theonlyone, although I am sure I can think of ways to keep warm! tbh some nights he turns it off anyway cos he is a stingy scot.

It could simply be that CD. I have had a full on week.

[theonlyone]

Life is short ...so better safe than sorry .