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It looks like he found a note in his room and see some strange thing in the window, and someone somehow says it's CO but it may be that the OP has unrelated hal
by gus_massa 1y ago
It looks like he found a note in his room and see some strange thing in the window, and someone somehow says it's CO but it may be that the OP has unrelated hallucinations. Is this a symptom of CO poisoning? I think you only get sleepy, faint and die.
- maxbond 1y agoChronic exposure can lead to memory loss, yes. You're describing the symptoms of acute exposure.
- hinkley 1y agoCO exposure is accumulative. If you’re around an intense source of it you’re toast. But with a small point source or decent ventilation it kills you slower. And your body produces new blood cells every day, so minor sources like wood smoke or burning a candle don’t dose you enough to be a problem, unless perhaps your day job is as an athlete.
- hinkley 1y agoAlso looks like the half-life of CO in the blood is around five hours.
- phatskat 1y agoReading in a bit more, the second post links to a comment thread where further down they talk about post-it notes. The original thread about the post its had some updates along the lines of: someone in comments suggested OP get a CO detector. OP says “ya know, I have one. Maybe I should take it out of the box and plug it in.” Later OP said their detector rated the CO at 100ppm! They went to the hospital lol. Last update I saw was four months after - OP was guessing their recovery would go on for another year, and there was likely some permanent damage but overall they felt confident at getting back to 80%, maybe even 99%.