Now I know this is going to sound ridicoulous, but listen. I seen this commercial about carbon monoxide poisoning. I Googled it & now im freaked out. Started reading stories about how people died in their cars, houses etc. I'm scared that I've been exposed to a lot of carbon monoxide because it's colorless, odorless, & tasteless. I'm terrified. It's almost Christmas & i dont wanna die. I don't know the difference in between anxiety & a serious problem. I feel like I need reassurance every single day. I'm scared that my house is producing carbon monoxide. We have a gas stove & im going to be terrified if i see someone cook. Please help.
First of all don’t worry about your gas stove. All gas from those have a purposely injected smell into them to alert people if there’s a leak so you’ll smell it and gag if it’s too much.
Carbon monoxide usually leaks from a gas boiler that’s used to heat your home. Detectors are dirt cheap so just go get a couple of you’re worried and put them close to your boiler and wherever else you feel you need one. And unless you have a car from years ago, newer cars don’t have that problem. But sure, but a detector in your car as well if you want. Easy phobia to solve! Take care.
Thanks! I'm thinking that's if there was something wrong with the appliances on my home, everyone on the house would be feeling the same like vomitting & being dizzy. Idk i just need to stop self diagnosing & stop worrying about everything. I'm obsessed with the fact that there mind be something wrong with me
Get a detector for your house. I have one in mine and it's gone off twice and we are all fine. If you are really concerned, I'm pretty sure they can check the levels in your body with a simple blood draw. But I'm almost certain you're fine.
Jessixa
You are not sitting in your car in a garage, with a pipe running from exhaust through a gap in the window of your car.
That is one way of been effected, or sitting in your house with a gas fire on that has not been serviced for several years with no ventilation ?
As long as the car is ventilated and there are no pipes, the air will circulate as you drive, yu will be ok. The same with the fire You need to stop your obsessive fears and concerns. Get on with your Christmas and stop worrying.
If you need a gas fire serviced get it done after Christmas, our boiler is serviced every once a year. Even when it is still clean
BOB
EASY FIX! Buy a carbon monoxide detector at a hardware store. Put one near the hot water heater, one in hallway by bedrooms. Believe me, they are so loud and you will wake up instantly.
But the odds of a carbon monoxide problem are low. The amount of carbon monoxide we may get from stoves or cars is so small it has no effect. Otherwise we would all be dead. It’s when it’s concentrated like sitting in a car in a closed garage and it builds up. The way gas stoves are made these days there is no problem with carbon monoxide. Millions and millions of people have gas stoves with no problems. Like I said, it’s the intense concentration of carbon monoxide that is the problem not general every day use of cars, homes, stoves, etc. we just have to use common sense. Nobody would be alive if it was that prevalent of a problem. Just learn how to relax and not stress over things that have easy Solutions. Stay busy and active with other things. Worry does absolutely no good it only makes you sick. Enjoy your life!
I will never live in a place that has gas. Years ago, I actually got pointed from it. It was awful. To put your mind at ease go buy 2 different quality detectors just to be sure. Also if the pilot is still lit then there is likely no leak.
Lol I'm so scared o will get poisoned from it. But i live with my family so if there was a huge leak all of us would be sick
Thankyou ❤. I'm just really scared & whenever I get headaches or feel lethargic or any symptoms, i swear up & down it's a signal of a life threatening illness eventhough im 16. I just wanna feel normal again. I was never worried about carbon monoxide, my heart, or any illnesses until i started googling. I just wish I would be never driven myself to this point with stressing myself out so much with irrational thouhts
One of the worst things to do is Google symptoms or diseases etc. they don’t pertain to your individual situation. They are very general and you can take just about any symptoms and it will go with just about any condition. The more you think about things like that the more symptoms you will have it it will just scare you for no reason. At your age you have about a 99.9 percent chance that you are completely healthy and have nothing to worry about. Anxiety came produced hundreds of symptoms that will not hurt you. People get headaches all the time and aches and pains and Tiredness and weakness.that are not serious. In fact, as a nurse I can tell you that 95 percent of symptoms are not serious. I had about 10 symptoms all at once when I was in my 20s and I thought I was going to die. Weakness, floaters in my eyes, pins and needles, numbness, headaches, chest pressure and on and on. I found out that every single one was due to stress and anxiety! I am doing really well today and I’m in my 50s so even those symptoms didn’t hurt me. So enjoy your life! Stay busy and active and focus on other things. I wasted over 20 years of my life worrying about things that never happened! I can never get those years back so please don’t do that!
go to YouTube and listen to some great meditations for anxiety, overthinking, depression, etc. I listen to them every day and they really help me realize how much overthinking I was doing. They teach you how to separate anxiety from yourself so you can live with peace. Life is too short to waste on worry and fear so don’t let it take you over. Merry Christmas!
Hahaha this is hilarious! I literally had the same scare a month ago.. went and bought THREE $100 CO Detectors that can read 5ppm and higher! Tested them all, and they all worked! Ever since then, my fear went away. CO positioning has the same side effects as almost 90% of illnesses, it'll definitely help you calm down if you buy one, cause the second I installed mine, my fear went away!
See now im scared that i have an illness 😩
Thankyou so so much ❤. I notice you help me a lot & you don't realize how much of an impact you have. You are truly a great person to take the time out of your day to respond to me. Thankyou again, & God bless you!
It wasn't intended to scare you! I too thought I had CO, but I wasted a bunch of money to find out I was worrying about nothing! The only thing that REALLY produces enough CO to do damage to a gas furnace, which I have and most people have, but if it worries you a lot, you can go to the store and buy a cheap $20 CO alarm and put it in the basement, so if you do have a CO leak you'll know before it does any damage! But the more you think you have a disease, the more you'll believe it! And if it is CO posioning, every one who lives in your house would have headaches everyday.. if you have a pet, you will see it in your pet first! It's most likely your anxiety just playing a trick on you