Natural Gas Poisoning 2
This is a synopsis of the natural gas poisoning symptoms from www.gasstationnearme.com:
Many people have been subjected to gas poisoning but have hardly noticed the symptoms until it has been too late. Whether they have been exposed at home or outside, all have similar stories to tell. So if you are exposed to natural gas in any way, read the following warning signs of natural gas poisoning.
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* Headache and dizziness. While these may not be the classic warning signals, don’t ignore them.
* Nausea. Especially if you are driving with the windows all rolled up or haven’t opened the windows in your house due to foul weather.
* People who have been exposed to natural gas poisoning have ended up with epilepsy, sinus, pneumonia, nosebleeds, memory loss, constipation, diarrhea, weight gain, loss of appetite, loss of menstrual cycles, depression, claustrophobia, pain in hands and feet, low grade fever, heart pain, partial-seizures, chest pain and hair loss.
If you smell any leak in your house or in the car, report it immediately and check for the source. Don’t confuse between natural gas leak and carbon monoxide leak. Both gases are equally dangerous and can cause a slow decline in your health. However, natural gas cannot be detected on carbon monoxide leak tester.
Most of the affected patients usually notice the leaks months after living with health issues. The most dangerous effect of this leak is seizure since natural gas cuts your supply of oxygen. Natural gas has a very strong smelling chemical added to make leakage detection easier. If at any time you notice the leak, immediately open the windows of your house/car and sit in the open to breathe some fresh air.
This is a personal testimony from: From www.homelandnaturalgas.com
This is my story January 1,2009 I was feeling sick a sickness that I had never felt like before I was having night sweats and panic attacks, nausea upon waking loss of appetite I was depressed so I told my husband that I did not know what was going on but I did not like the way that I was feeling that it was scaring me. I would get up every morning and dry heave well let me tell you that is no fun what so ever. So that afternoon I ended up in the ER and they ran all kinds of test on me could not find nothing wrong with me I went to several doctors and even my family doctor, and I told him what I had been feeling like so he put me on some depression medicine which I had a bad reaction to it because I was not depressed. Then he put me on nerve pills well that helped a little but it did not do nothing for the nausea and the dry heaving so a few more months went on and I was not getting no better I actually got worse in the process of my illness I had went through cat scans, EKG’S,echograms,X-rays, and a gynecologist.The next step that they suggested was sending me to a psychiarist for my problems, which I would not do. I knew I was not crazy because my husband and my family seen how my immune system was deterating. So I went back to the doctors and told them that none of the medicines was working so I go for more test so here I go for four and half months and finally found out my problem I was poisoned by natural gas. Since we learned about the gas leak we have found out there is NO TESTING FOR NATURAL GAS POISONING, there is for carbon monoxide poisoning, BUT THEY ARE DIFFERENT! Once my doctor learned about the gas leak he said that it had never accrued to him that this could have been my problem. I respect my doctor and his acknowledgment on family medicine but I’m sure as him and other doctors in our area have not came across any kind of illness like this before.
My husband has not been seen at a doctors office for over thirty-one years really never had no illness until all of this occurred and I seen him more and more getting tired,less energy,and not really being himself.When he finally went to the doctor in February 2009 he told the doctor of his symptoms and ask could his symptoms resulting from the gas leak be affecting him as his wife. I am sure that the doctor not knowing much about natural gas poisoning, he just put my husband on Z-packs. My husband contacted the natrual poison control center and explained our situation to them and they was shocked to learn we had to live in this situation that we’d been in.
My husband told the poison control center that his doctor only put him on the Z-packs since mainly his condition was breathing problems and that would be normal since doctors are not really aware of natural gas poisoning.
UPDATE!
Since this page was created, my husband has been seen by a lung specialist and has been diagnose with Reactive Airway Disease RAD due to breathing in the fumes/vapors from natural gas for the several months! For months my husband has had so much breathing issues, taking inhalers and steroids thinking it could be asthma as the ER doctor told him. Come to find out having RAD is like an asthma symthom. We now have documentation from a specialist to back up my husbands condition.
I hope that our story maybe helpful information to others that have gone through this terrible ordeal that we have gone through.
Some of the other symptoms of this sickness is:
*Weight Loss
*Heart pain
*Chest Pain
*Loss Of Appetite
*Memory Loss
*Sinus
*Pneumonia
*Low Grade Fever
*Hair Loss
*Loss Of Menstrual Cycles
*Constipation
*Diarrhea
*Partial-Seizures
*Pain In Hands And Feet
*Nosebleeds
*Night Sweats- sweaty feet
*Claustrophobia
*Shortness Of Breath
On my Mom’s 79th or 80th year, she had a virus and then became badley dehydrated. When we had gotten her rehydrated alot of other health problems started. She was a child during the depression and was a young teenager during WWII. She was seldom sick. She is now 82, has had 2 bladder infections, a total pelvic floor collapse(that was from having 5 kids, 3 in 33 months) and the dehydration!! We found out we have had a gas leak, I believe for the whole 3 yrs! The house is ours, but it’s 48 yrs old, the original pipe was still in the ground, the atmos gas man said it was a massive leak and that the ground, right beside my Mom’s window, was saturated!!I believe it was coming back up under the house and into her room!! I live there too and kept getting dizzy, having sinus probs and had hives and infections,ear&throat. One of her little dogs sleeps in her room and he slept almost 24/7. Now we are trying to make her dr& visiting nurses understand it was NOT dementia, like they hav labeled her, all of us are coming back and getting better day by day. Unfortunatly it was 2700.00 later though!
Comment by karen a smith — October 11, 2011 @ 8:48 pm
Is there anything doctors can do to test if you have gas poisoning? I have a lot of the symptoms — headache, nausea, depression, fatigue, dizziness, late menstrual cycle. It’s from a leaking pipe where I work, and no one is moving to fix it. Can a doctor prove that this is affecting me?
Comment by RJ — March 21, 2012 @ 9:28 pm
I didn’t find that they could. They insisted that there were no long term symptoms. My husband appeared to be having heart problems before it was all said and done! I am so glad we didn’t let them put him on heart medicine! We are in an all electric home Now, and he is great! Garden of Life has some really great whole food vitamins that can help you to recover once the poisoning has stopped. Check into detoxification aids and antioxidants.
Comment by Gail — July 2, 2012 @ 4:49 am
I had gas inhalation for years…sad,we all got sick,we touhgt that was normal.
I was the worst,until I went away for six weeks and notice In my return that
I couldnt breath again,I called coned,telling them
That a slight odor ofzgin gas was in the basement and to check bwliw my bed.
A valve open, and seven leaks all along my house.
MyKids have thyroid problems,I have everything.
NightmareIs over,Thank to God that there is no more.
Comment by Is over — April 16, 2012 @ 11:31 am
Hello all, I sure did click on the right site here. long story short… all the above and added to them all, is, pneumonia with life support 6 days and threw pulmonary embolism, cervical cancer, skin turned gray, lesions that over 200 drs have tested with no etilogy found, weird blood/ big red blood cells, hard to find dna in blood with other abnormalities, graves, high bp/chol/tryglicerides, brain bleed in the middle if the night in a blizzard, requiring helicopter ride for 65 miles and the next day a 13 hour craniotomy, legs work then get FLOPPY after exposures to “SMELLY” things, perfumes, deodorants, lotions, stores that are not food or resale, new car, beds, dressers, clothes, cleaning supplies, ( I have busted so many people who work in hospitals and dr offices, no, we are NOT allowed to wear smellies, then why do I taste it get immediate sore throat, headache or lose the breath I just had, dizziness had me fall 2 x’s in 6 mos and broke ankle both times, teeth came off and some just came out, c.o.p.d. with nebulizer treatments and 24/7 oxygen which created blindness…I just had lens surgery in aug..thus I see…i’m writing a book, have website, suing gas supplier and property owner, what is right is right, and this was just so plain WRONG. If it was not known, okay, we know it now…If it was known and hidden WHO CARES, we all know it now.
I have learned that yes there is a way to test the blood for ng and additives although it needs to be done during the leak, otherwise it disapates from blood in a manner of disquise through metamorphise and creates motabolites that hide right in plain site…Imagine, take a piece of candy, tootsie roll and put it in a hard boiled egg/ all you see is the egg on the outside. Same scenerio goes on in our insides. My next step is a microscope to look and study the lesions and blood.
God has sustained me thus far and will provide as this is my mission…to right the wrongs, maybe not for me, but for everyones aunt, brother, sister, mother, father, children and also my grandbabies, # 11 is on the way.
I suggest an environmental dr be located. I know of 2. One in Thousand Oakes Calif and one in Plano Tx, I spent 3 1/2 weeks with him…in his office for testing from 8am till 5 pm, 5 days per each week. he wrote in black and white that it was the gas leak that caused respirtory>(spelling, you know brain fade), issues, however in 2000 and since, no dr here on earth to link the blood issues, however I just know that I know!!!! My website has my phone # on it because for so of the dialog needed, it is faster to speak instead of hunt and peck, although I SEEM TO BE GETTING BETTER AT IT. Well, not all the time. Have a wonderful Blessed day.
Comment by mary brickner — December 30, 2012 @ 12:11 pm
Could it cause you to get hives?
Comment by nina — January 5, 2013 @ 8:10 am
I live in 45 year old wood cottage. A natural gas pipe was leaking in a closet for years. I had memory loss, shaking, nausea all the time, unexplained pain , foggy thinking and sheer constant exhaustion constantly. I had grey skin, sore eyes , dried out skin, lesions, Sore throat and a constant unexplained cough. I felt constant pressure in my head. When the leak was found I was told it was a miracle it did not explode and was near explosion. My cat was trying to tell me for months something was wrong in the house and trying to get me outside and panicking when she had to be indoors. She also became lethargic. Now the gas is in the walls and I am still breathing it every day. Because it takes weeks at that level to dissipate according to the plumber. it was 6 feet off the ground level of natural gas poisoning me for at least 3 years that i have been here. I feel lucky to have found it and be alive but the recovery to your body can take years. Our plumber told us that you MUST BUY A NATURAL GAS DETECTOR AND PUT IT NEAR WHERE YOU HAVE GAS NEAR THE FLOOR.. If you put it on a wall it will not register. Do it to save your life and your family.
Comment by Alexis — August 30, 2018 @ 1:52 pm
Ohh and rapid heart beat at different times
Comment by Lindsy Jones — February 22, 2019 @ 7:03 pm