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#3482985 22-Apr-2026 12:11

False alarms from smoke detectors in the middle of the night. Has happened a couple of times recently.

Have pulled them all down and given them a good once over with the vacuum cleaner although they didn't appear to be dusty or have any visible insect signs.

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#3482987 22-Apr-2026 12:16

Behodar:

… I was in the toilet at the time, so got plunged into total darkness.

Whaaat!! You fell down the dunny??? Hope it wasn’t a longdrop.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3482990 22-Apr-2026 12:26

And now my Internet connection is down, getting its IP address but no data flowing. No outages mentioned on Quic's status page. It's one of those days...

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#3482995 22-Apr-2026 12:53

Handsomedan:

Checked whether it could be teeth, as this can affect ears, with transferred pain, but they all seemed good, so bloods first (have to be sedated, so have to wait until the wife can take me to the lab whilst drugged up to the eyeballs), then if nothing presents itself as obvious, an ENT specialist, or possibly a visit to the dentist, to see if there is a less obvious tooth/jaw issue.

Did your GP check your temporomandibular joint (Jaw joint)? I often get inflammation in the right side joint that manifests as being ear ache. Really painful.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3483087 22-Apr-2026 15:18

MikeB4:

Handsomedan:

Checked whether it could be teeth, as this can affect ears, with transferred pain, but they all seemed good, so bloods first (have to be sedated, so have to wait until the wife can take me to the lab whilst drugged up to the eyeballs), then if nothing presents itself as obvious, an ENT specialist, or possibly a visit to the dentist, to see if there is a less obvious tooth/jaw issue.

Did your GP check your temporomandibular joint (Jaw joint)? I often get inflammation in the right side joint that manifests as being ear ache. Really painful.

Yeah, she poked and prodded that area and it was tender, but it feels "deeper" than the jawbone, if that makes sense.

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#3483285 23-Apr-2026 09:03

There I was in lying in bed in agony last night thinking about @Handsomedan. Jaw to ear painful as a hammer blow on a thumb. Took ages for painkillers to kick in. Pain disappears for a day then comes back with a vengeance so you keep hoping it’s improved.

Mine is definitely from an infected nerve under a tooth as it was X-rayed last Friday and dentist could see it. Can bite perfectly on it and no outward sign except excruciating pain that radiates. Get a dental X-ray on the side that hurts, no needles involved :) Haven’t been able to get mine fixed because dentist was flooded out all week, but going today and likely having it removed.

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#3483292 23-Apr-2026 09:18

Eva888:

There I was in lying in bed in agony last night thinking about @Handsomedan. Jaw to ear painful as a hammer blow on a thumb. Took ages for painkillers to kick in. Pain disappears for a day then comes back with a vengeance so you keep hoping it’s improved.

Mine is definitely from an infected nerve under a tooth as it was X-rayed last Friday and dentist could see it. Can bite perfectly on it and no outward sign except excruciating pain that radiates. Get a dental X-ray on the side that hurts, no needles involved :) Haven’t been able to get mine fixed because dentist was flooded out all week, but going today and likely having it removed.

Funny you should say that @Eva888 - I am booked in with a dentist for next Wednesday (soonest they could see me), but the pain has resolved to be centered around one tooth, which outwardly seems healthy, so I'd imagine I have the same issue as you - radiated/transferred pain into the ear canal and jaw, which even Tramadol isn't getting rid of.

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#3483297 23-Apr-2026 09:28

Geekzone solving health and tech problems. Bet it’s an underlying tooth infection. My pain would disappear for days before the X-ray showed there was infection. Dentist fixed a broken filling above but warned this might happen. It’s now either root canal or extraction. The pain was the worst ever, was literally writhing.

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#3483305 23-Apr-2026 09:52

Use 13% more lectricity this month than last, bill goes up 36%

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#3483311 23-Apr-2026 09:58

rb99:

Use 13% more lectricity this month than last, bill goes up 36%

Given the high fixed charges you'd hope for the the other way round!

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#3483314 23-Apr-2026 10:05

Unfortunately hope doesn't pay the bill. Can't wait till we really start using the heat pump in anger.

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#3483346 23-Apr-2026 12:27

rb99:

Unfortunately hope doesn't pay the bill. Can't wait till we really start using the heat pump in anger.

I really wish Hope could pay the bills.
I have so many more hopes than dollars.

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#3483405 23-Apr-2026 12:55

johno1234:

False alarms from smoke detectors in the middle of the night. Has happened a couple of times recently.

Our last holiday had a fire alarm go off at 4am in the hotel. Out of the 20 odd floors it had, only a couple of dozen people came out.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3483454 23-Apr-2026 12:57

MadEngineer:

johno1234:

False alarms from smoke detectors in the middle of the night. Has happened a couple of times recently.

Our last holiday had a fire alarm go off at 4am in the hotel. Out of the 20 odd floors it had, only a couple of dozen people came out.

Maybe it happens a lot!

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#3483458 23-Apr-2026 12:59

MadEngineer:

Our last holiday had a fire alarm go off at 4am in the hotel. Out of the 20 odd floors it had, only a couple of dozen people came out.

I remember being in a hotel in Auckland. The fire alarm went off around 2AM. I slapped clothes, shoes and walked down the stairs.

Fire service arrived, and there were still people streaming out of the building, most of them carrying suitcases...

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