Carbon monoxide poisoning recovery
Treatment for ongoing symptoms and effects
Recovery from carbon monoxide poisoning can be a long road.
A percentage of carbon monoxide poisoning survivors:
- fully recover and don't experience additional symptoms or after effects
- think they are fine but will face symptoms, health issues, or life impact that they do not recognize (or
are ever told) as being related to cellular damage from
poisoning
- will experience a small number of after effects and seem to heal [slowly] over time
- will experience a wide range of problem and suffer with little sign of relief
The percentage in each group is unknown as carbon monoxide
statistics are not accurate. There is no way to reliably predict what will happen after poisoning. Over time,
symptoms and health problems may surface in
several ways.
It has long been thought that if a survivor continues to have health problem then the damage is [likely]
permanent and therefore so is the likelihood of ongoing long term effects.
"Permanent damage" and "recovery" are contradicting viewpoints. They do not fit together. This thinking has lead
to a behind-the-scenes view that because damage is [likely] permanent, not much can be done to make it
"unpermanent".
An extension of this thinking has been that because the likelihood of recovery is poor, a survivor should to
learn to accept their ongoing symptoms and after
effects. Just make the best of a bad situation and "learn to live with it".
The belief that "...there are no proven treatment options..." and "...not much can be done..." and "...we don't
really know why you are having these symptoms..." and "we don't now much about recovery" understandably results in
a large percentage of survivors becoming frustrated with [and often abandoning] their care.
In reality, health professionals
have a limited knowledge about the after effects of poisoning and how to manage or treat them. For some
survivors this can mean a long slow road to recovery.
Out of desperation many survivors turn to alternative forms of treatment. The problem is, they often bump into a
different version of the same problem. They encounter alternate health practitioners with a
limited knowledge on how to deal with the ongoing symptoms and effects caused by poisoning.
However, there are countless survivors that have refused to "just live with it". They have persevered and over
time have come to understand their symptoms, how to manage them, and reduce the effects. They have learned what to
do to [substantially] recover. Unfortunately for some it has taken years and come at a high price.
However, there are many things that can be done to help manage the symptoms and ongoing effects. Many create a
stronger healing environment within the body that help support recovery.
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When my husband had the small hibatchi out on the boat deck we had just cooked our food on. The Old Wooden Owens electrical system was being overhauled and we had no heat source .
The hibatchi had burned out but was still burning hot to the touch when he brought it in and placed it on the cabin floor.
He laid down on the larger bed and I laid down on the lower to the ground bench type sofa closer and facing the heat source. I don't know how long of a time had lapsed. When this this violent wave of pain was whirling, throbbing, pulsating, like code a blue alert warning to my life's vessel was spinning my head and what felt like that my ability over my will of my mind body and to live was tilting on the brink and ever circuit and alarm in my brain was hay wired and was about to explode or something.
Trying to stop the thrashing inside my head and wake up. I wasn't able to control myself consciously but finally my body obeyed my thoughts or my "will" if you will.
I sat up and I felt as though I have to get help I was gonna die. I kept saying I cant breath but I was breathing. I started crawling out of the boat when my husband woke up and ask me what are you doing.
I told him help me I'm gonna die as I cant breath. He picked me up and laid me down on a lawn chair on the boat deck. That's all I remember until I woke up soaking wet from peeing my pants soaked from my waist to my socks from what felt like along time I thought I was then having a Grand mal seizure, but I cant really tell for sure. But he said that when I asked him how long i was out for (because it felt like I lost consciousness for a long time).
From then on I peed my pants at least 4 or 5 times a day for the next year and a half, and in sleeping I felt as though I would slip, spin into these painful seizures when i would fall asleep and start to lose consciousness.
I never have talked to a doctor about this.
He has hyper, intense behavior, and can be misunderstood by those who don't know him well. His short term memory is not the best - hard time remembering names of acquaintances, or he may forget details or conversations from an event that took place. He learned to remember things via "landmarks" that he notes in his mind. His fine motor skills were not the best after the poisoning and he learned to write/spell best by typing. His typing skills are great.
He has short temper (not abusive) where he gets agitated easily when I give him too much information in a conversatiion, that may be more info than he can take in and process.
While this may sound dismal, he is a very intelligent man (very high IQ), and functions well in businesss,and he is a great father to his 2 children (my step children).
He is more of a big picture guy and nets out details as they become clutter in his mind.
I'm learning how to be "happy" in my situation, hence looking at website to learn more on CO poisoning.
I have been placered on meds used to treat individuals with this disorder. The results have been mixed as far as I am concerned.
Has anyone had their doctor treat the as though they had ADD/ADHD?
Sorry to say but it is possible that what and how you are feeling is related to chronic low level co poisoning.
Sometimes it may take a week before the drug effects me. I now cant seem to be able to take any medication which worries me. If some thing happens and I really need something I'm really stuck.
I cant even find a doctor that knows anything about carbon monoxide poisoning.
I was poisoned some years ago and then had all kinds of health problems I never had before being poisoned. Then I dealt with a medical system that did not know what to do with me. They were useless.
Your website is the best I've seen by far. Thanks.