jray23
18-02-19, 18:23
Hey all, I'll try to keep this short, wondering if I am just being anxious and overreacting...
I live in a 12-story condo, over 300 units. Several of the floors had an electrical outage (not mine) due to mechanical failure in the building. A somewhat large industrial generator was brought over to supply power until the repairs are made. The generator got setup just outside/below my unit, roughly 15 feet or so from the building (I'm on the 3rd floor) on Saturday afternoon.
Well on Saturday night and most of Sunday I was just annoyed at the sound of the motor constantly running and didn't get much sleep. But then Sunday night I began smelling something in my unit, it took a couple hours for me to connect the dots, but it's definitely fumes or fuel smell from tbe generator outside. It got so annoying that I left at 1 am and got a nearby hotel room so I could sleep in peace. So first and foremost I am safe regardless of the following...
But I'm starting to fear that there is CO coming in my unit. I have a CO/smoke detector, but long story short it isn't mounted, it's fallen a few times and I'm not 100% sure the sensor actually works. I know it's never sensed smoke when I cook... [emoji39]
I also know that CO isn't supposed to have a smell, but Google (he's also a chemist and engineer in addition to a doctor!) says that sometimes other gases accompanying the CO could cause it to be noticed by smell.
So if there is a situation I had exposure to it (obviously low level if it all or I'd not be typing this), I'd have been in my home for about 23 out of the 35 or so hours until I left for the hotel. As far as physical symptoms, I have a dull frontal headache and feel kind of dizzy/off balance...but as many of the regulars here know I feel that way all the time due to what's being considered a chronic migraine variant. Plus with lack of sleep that always feels worse anyway. I also feel like a weird taste in my mouth/throat since putting two and two together on what the smell was coming from.
So to sum up - I'm not sure if I have any actual symptoms from the smell and I'm not sure if my detector would go off.. lol. What steps make sense to take vs what seems like feeding the anxiety?
Buy a new CO detector and see if it goes off (before going to a hotel again as the generator isn't moving today it seems)?
Go to the hospital/ER to check for CO poisoning? Or maybe just shoot my doctor an email and ask her opinion? Not get checked at all unless I can confirm the presence of CO?
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I live in a 12-story condo, over 300 units. Several of the floors had an electrical outage (not mine) due to mechanical failure in the building. A somewhat large industrial generator was brought over to supply power until the repairs are made. The generator got setup just outside/below my unit, roughly 15 feet or so from the building (I'm on the 3rd floor) on Saturday afternoon.
Well on Saturday night and most of Sunday I was just annoyed at the sound of the motor constantly running and didn't get much sleep. But then Sunday night I began smelling something in my unit, it took a couple hours for me to connect the dots, but it's definitely fumes or fuel smell from tbe generator outside. It got so annoying that I left at 1 am and got a nearby hotel room so I could sleep in peace. So first and foremost I am safe regardless of the following...
But I'm starting to fear that there is CO coming in my unit. I have a CO/smoke detector, but long story short it isn't mounted, it's fallen a few times and I'm not 100% sure the sensor actually works. I know it's never sensed smoke when I cook... [emoji39]
I also know that CO isn't supposed to have a smell, but Google (he's also a chemist and engineer in addition to a doctor!) says that sometimes other gases accompanying the CO could cause it to be noticed by smell.
So if there is a situation I had exposure to it (obviously low level if it all or I'd not be typing this), I'd have been in my home for about 23 out of the 35 or so hours until I left for the hotel. As far as physical symptoms, I have a dull frontal headache and feel kind of dizzy/off balance...but as many of the regulars here know I feel that way all the time due to what's being considered a chronic migraine variant. Plus with lack of sleep that always feels worse anyway. I also feel like a weird taste in my mouth/throat since putting two and two together on what the smell was coming from.
So to sum up - I'm not sure if I have any actual symptoms from the smell and I'm not sure if my detector would go off.. lol. What steps make sense to take vs what seems like feeding the anxiety?
Buy a new CO detector and see if it goes off (before going to a hotel again as the generator isn't moving today it seems)?
Go to the hospital/ER to check for CO poisoning? Or maybe just shoot my doctor an email and ask her opinion? Not get checked at all unless I can confirm the presence of CO?
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