Carbon monoxide poisoning:
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Carbon monoxide poisoning
Physical symptoms and after effects

Physical symptoms and after effects of carbon monoxide poisoning come from injury to the brain, other areas of the nervous system, and to cells throughout the body.

Carbon monoxide poisoning can result in:

  • Exhaustion and fatigue

  • Reduced muscle coordination and balance (instability when walking)

  • Involuntary muscle twitching/jerking

  • Tremors and Parkinson like symptoms

  • Problems regulating body temperature (particularly hands and/or feet)

  • Change in movements/body language

  • Reduced bladder control/increased urge to urinate

  • Headaches

  • Irregular heart beat

  • Problems writing (including assembling thoughts/thinking clearly)

  • Changes to hand writing

  • Sensitivity to light

  • Difficulty processing visual information, particularly faster moving images

  • Spots in vision and/or blurred vision

  • Difficulty hearing

  • High pitch noise in ear(s)

  • New or increased food sensitivities

  • New or increased allergies

  • New or increased sensitivities to chemicals

  • Disrupted, disturbed, or poor sleep

  • Sensitivity and/or changes in smell

  • Sensitivity and/or changes in taste

  • Muscle/joint pain/cramping

Physical symptoms and "side" effects of carbon monoxide poisoning may [significantly] rise and fall depending on diet, environmental factors, and physical, mental, or emotional stress.

Short to mid term effects of carbon monoxide poisoning may also include mental, emotional/behavioral, and social symptoms/effects; and continue as long term effects.

Carbon monoxide poisoning is dangerous because it deprives all cells of oxygen and poisons them. It can cause brain injury, brain damage, and impact brain functioning.

Poisoning can also affect the heart, disrupt or damage endocrine function, and cause other kinds of damage.

 

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My Aunt was carbon monoxide poisoned
Karen from Pennsylvania
My Aunt is 77 years old and is a retired nurse who happened to also loose her hearing and was very hard of hearing. She unfortunately left her car running for approximately 17 hours in a garage attached to the side of her house. Her daughter found her with shallow breathing and the daughter slapped her mother, my aunt woke up and threw up. They called 911 and took her to a hospital and put her in the oxygen chamber. After 2 days in the ICU she was moved to a step down unit and was released 2 days later. She was cognitive and could carry on conversations and even drove her car again! She was good for about 12 days after leaving the hospital. Now she is in the hospital and can't talk, is incontinent, can't walk and looks like she has had a stroke. All tests have come back negative for stroke and they say her cat scan for her brain is the same as when she left the hospital. What can we do to help her? We are at our wits end. The neurologist has not been very helpful, we have asked to talk to a toxicologist but can't seem to get anyone to listen to us. I am a speech pathologist and I am trying pictures with my aunt but I'm not sure what she is seeing. Can anyone help us? THANK YOU!
Possible carbon monoxide poisoning?
Cynthia from Los Angeles
The apartment my daughter lived in was found to have a gas leak from the heater. The levels of carbon monoxide were so high it could cause death.

The owner pretended to fix it but didn't. My daughter became so ill she could barely walk, lost a lot of weight, can hardly chew or swallow, cannot sit up or stand up on her own, bones are transparent. We found this out when she fell and broke her arm. Doctors thought she may have hyperthyroidism but lab work came back normal she even had a protruding eye. She was exposed to carbon monoxide for two years.

The last time the gas company came out the problem had not been fixed. The owner lied when he said he fixed it. Could all these symptoms be carbon monoxide poisoning?
Carbon Monoxide Poisoned
Christine from Ohio
I was poisoned from 2002 8 months into 2003. We bought a home and it had CM leaking though it. We told our insurance company who at the time was American Family. They told us to just keep the windows open until the new furnance and hot water tank was installed in August! The whole family was exposed but I am a house hermit so I got the brunt of it all.

I have numerous health problems. The first doctor I had would\'t do anything he just said there is no after effects from carbon monoxide. I am sick all the time and in pain. Never gets any better just worse. I now have a heart condition I didn\\\'t have, seizures, fibromyalgia, memory problems etc.. almost all the symptoms that are on the page.

My hubby and my family especially my Mom is my rock. It is very hard to deal with let alone survive. No one understands what you are going though.

I am glad to have survived but it is a daily struggle.

We tried to sue the seller but she never showed up in court. She knew about the problem otherwise she would have shown up and faced the music. Instead she decided sell a home that had a serious problem and let a family suffer.
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