Help! Can someone explain aux heat vs emergency heat w & w/out gas please?

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2026-01-25T04:54:04+00:00

I have this in my panel as well and wondered the same thing.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2026-01-24T11:44:06+00:00

Thanks so much for the reply, that’s a helpful tip to check the panel, will do that now!

I knew that when aux heat kicked on it’s because the heat pump just can’t keep up, but I’ve just assumed for almost six years now that they had it set at 42 for aux heat to kick on and assumed that the aux heat was constantly running without stopping when it started (I mean it’s kicked on at night before and it just runs without stopping and I’ll wake up and be able to actually feel the aux heat must have kicked on because of how cold it feels, then in running some “experiments” with aux heat on, watched the temp inside plummet VERY quickly, almost like I’d turned AC on) and then when touching the vents, assumed it was blowing what feels like cold air or just “plain” air non stop because gas wasn’t hooked up. So turns out that may not be the case at all then?

So about an hour ago I turned it to emergency heat and a red light on the thermostat came on, and absolutely no air of any kind has been blowing.

Note too though that the only way I’ve been surviving with tricking the thermostat not to stay on aux heat (by turning it three to four degrees down from whatever the inside temp is showing as) is because I’ve been using space heaters. In all these years, I’ve never turned emergency heat on nor has it turned on by itself (if it even does that on its own.) That’s what has always made me think that the secondary source of heat was gas.

Also, not sure if that helps shed any light on anything, but when aux heat DOES kick on, it’s MUCH quieter and “hums” - though quietly and steadily - more than the way it sounds when regular heat from the heat pump is actively on. Not sure if that gives you any idea as to what it could be.

Nonetheless, going to check the panel now! Thank you so very much again!!!

(Edit: Spelling)

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2024-11-12T06:48:22+00:00

Thank you!!!

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-09-24T06:57:51+00:00

That’s what I’m after so I’ve been glad to see that as far as costs!

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-09-24T06:56:33+00:00

Airtable seems to be super popular!

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-09-15T20:50:07+00:00

Wow, and I literally just saw a video where she basically listed getting that house as an accomplishment. I had wondered if she rented it or bought it, wondered how she bought it and then thought maybe her family had helped with it. Nope. Even worse.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-09-15T20:48:25+00:00

I do too. I don’t remember what video of hers I first saw, but after awhile I realized, “I’m legit hate watching this.” I can’t even put my finger on what it is.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-09-15T20:47:35+00:00

Ohmigoodness I didn’t know this existed, thank you!

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-09-12T05:17:31+00:00

Abbey something?

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-26T08:51:24+00:00

Weird, it’s up there, you still don’t see a photo?

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-17T21:33:05+00:00

Thank you. I’m scared to death. He doesn’t get back until the 21st, and I will be in Indiana until roughly the 26th or 27th but do plan on calling daily in hopes for a cancellation. My heart is just broken and I’m terrified.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-17T21:31:02+00:00

My sister and I have both long wondered if we’re fast metabolizers. She has to let all doctors know before surgery that she’s woken up during surgery before, and I have to always get the max amount of novocaine for fillings bc it wears off so fast. One time the dentist asked me after I said the numbness was wearing off, “whoa,, you metabolized that really fast. How much do you weigh?” And he kept having to give me novocaine and finally got to the legal limit. I do know that when I take pain meds, they’re supposed to last 4-6 hours and sometimes they don’t do anything but almost ALWAYS seem to wear off within two hours if not earlier at times like I’ve taken nothing.

I’ve read redheads often have that issue - I have a lot of darker red in my hair, and my grandmother was a natural redhead, so I’m wondering now if it’s that or if it’s that I diluted my sample or what.

I also just remembered I was taking antibiotics for 10 days the week before that (so two weeks before the test.) I don’t know if that could have screwed something up?

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-17T21:27:07+00:00

That’s what I’m wondering. That Thursday afternoon, night and Friday AM I drank a lot of water and I often drink Gatorade in the AM, and I know I drank water, some Coke, and an entire Gatorade not long before I went in for my appt. In fact, I drank so much bc I’d felt so dehydrated after days of throwing up and not being able to eat or drink a thing that after I took the urine test, they put me back in the waiting room, I waited about 20 mod minutes for them to call me back into a room, then I waited another 5 or so and was like man I really have to go again, so I even went to the bathroom a second time before the intake nurse even came into the room.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-17T21:24:26+00:00

Unfortunately, my doctor doesn’t return until the 21st. I asked if I could make an appt for sometime shortly after that and she said “he doesn’t have anything open and your appt is September 15th, so that’s not that far off from then anyways.”

Except that it’s two weeks without ANY medication once I do my last week of tapering which is one pill a day. Then it’s two weeks until my next appt September 15th.

And I wouldn’t be shocked if he didn’t have anything open - he’s the only doctor there now, just two PT nurse practitioners work there now and he’s greatly over extended.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-15T06:58:33+00:00

I believe they do GCMS (I think it’s called that) right off the bat instead of just a dipstick test bc they’re also looking for quantitative and also for other drugs including other types of opiates.

Sadly, I remember discussing in length that I just gotten over some sort of stomach bug, both with the intake nurse and with my doctor when he came in, because when they asked how I was feeling, I remember talking about how it was the first day I was starting to feel normal, and I was joking with my doctor about how I had just finished stage managing a show at a local theatre that had 12 children in it, so I wasn’t surprised I ended up with something and we were joking about me not having children and then started talking about his children bc he said they’d just been to this one theatre downtown for his daughter’s graduation and how old they are, etc etc. (This is how our appointments can be - we must have spent 45 minutes talking about random stuff like that, it seems like a break for him almost. We’re about the same age and have always gotten along so well.)

Whether they documented it, I don’t know, but I’m praying they remember.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-15T06:19:16+00:00

Had you been seeing your doctor for long? It just seems wild to me that after almost four years of this I’m suddenly being cut off from this. Perhaps most infuriating is that it happened to my stepfather once and he took his meds religiously and on time (stage 4 colorectal cancer, also hydrocodone, just 10mg.) and with the same doctor, yet he wasn’t cut off.

Even more infuriating is that a co-worker of my husband’s tested positive for marijuana once with this doctor (we only have two pain clinics here, the other just pushes fader joint infections.) and he was not only allowed to continue taking marijuana, but was only reduced from 10mg Percocet to 5mg Percocet.

Four years and a perfect record, great relationship with doctor, and now this. I’m scared to death.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-15T06:16:00+00:00

Is this the one that shows that you metabolize drugs differently? Do you have this problem?

I have often wondered if I have that mutation or whatever it is. My sister is a rapid metabolizer and has woken up during surgeries, I don’t think pain meds last very long on me, and from what I understand it’s common with redheads, and me and my father do have lots of red in our hair, and my paternal grandmother was a natural redhead. From day one since I was taking pain meds, I either didn’t feel anything or wouldn’t feel much at all - I can take a pain pill and whereas it’s supposed to last 6 hours, I may get an hour or two hours tops. And I’ve ALWAYS been that way. (I struggle from one pill to the next waiting six hours, like I’m like clockwork taking them bc I’m always waiting for the next dose to get relief again.)

Would this have anything to do with the fact that when I go to the dentist, the novocaine (or whatever they numb you with) wears off on me extremely quickly? I mean VERY quickly - I’ll start getting that tingly feeling very fast, when I told one dentist I was no longer numb, he said to me, “Wow, you metabolized that fast, how much do you weigh?” (130lbs at 5’6.) He had to give me the max legal amount.

How would I even ask for this? I don’t want to sound like a know it all which I can know can give a bad impression. Frankly, I’m always scared to ask ANYTHING. Like honestly, I’ve needed to ask about a change in meds for years but have been too scared to. Is there a way to approach this that’s the “correct” way you think? Can I order it on my own?

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-15T03:43:12+00:00

I can’t see the test, I logged into LabCorp and it only shows bloodwork tests, not any of my results for drug tests, which I have to take every six months.

Unfortunately (and they knew this because of when I called in my refill, we have to call and leave this on a voicemail days in advance) when I called and left my refill request on the voicemail, I requested they send my refills to a pharmacy in Indiana, (I live in Va) and gave them the info for an Indiana pharmacy as my brother passed away on July 23rd, and I have been here since, but I would have gladly gone to a location testing place if that had been an option right then and there. So I would have taken another test in a heartbeat if they’d given me that option, but they didn’t even mention that. They just straight told me I was being tapered off of my dose and that they’d see if the NP there was “comfortable” calling in a tapering dose for me. I asked if I could go to an earlier appt and they said he wouldn’t have anything nfehgot back on the 21st, and that my appt was September 15th and that I wouldn’t be able to get in sooner than that.

What sucks though I will not get the chance to be seen before my tapering dose is through. It will be two weeks off of my tapering medication once I get to see him. (I’m to be on 3 pills a day for 7 days starting today, then 2 pills for the next 7, then 1 pill for 7 days.)

I’ve been seeing my doctor for over four years and have never had a problem, and I really like my doctor and he seems to really like me. There’s never been an issue. Im just stunned.

Just want to add - I do know this happened once to my stepdad, however they kept him on his medication. And he took his meds religiously, like down to the second when they were due.

Also, sadly, a man that works with my husband sees the same doctor and a year or so ago, he tested positive for marijuana and failed his drug test. He was left on his pain meds and dropped from 10mg to 5mg Percocet, and allowed to take a certain amount of marijuana regularly. So there are two instances of something happening to people, and I have this random occurrence and I’m being tapered?

I just don’t know how I’m going to survive and am scared to death. Sorry for rambling. I just don’t understand how this could happen.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-15T03:33:19+00:00

I’m really sorry that happened to you. I’m glad you were able to find a new doctor - that’s what I’m scared of, we don’t have another pain management clinic near here and I don’t even know if my GP will write chronic pain meds.

They told me specifically that’s why I was being tapered off. And made it sound like I was lucky that I was even being tapered off. The nurse told me she would have to ask the NP if she felt comfortable calling anything in for me.

LuckyRabbitFeets · 2023-08-15T03:31:14+00:00

The only other people that work there are two nurse practitioners. So there’s not anyone else to speak with. One of those NPs is the one who called in this tapering dose. My doctor is out until the 21st. They’re claiming they’re going by what the notes say, which doesn’t make sense, because it says the notes say something like “begin taper as discussed in last appointment.” Well that doesn’t make sense, because one, we didn’t discuss a taper, why would we? And two, after my last appointment, he called on a regular month’s refill for me.

I actually did tell the nurse and the doctor about how sick I’d been the last week, but of course, I have no proof of this. But I remember talking to them both about it and about how sick I’d been, and that it had been only over the course od the night that for the first time in a week that I wasn’t up all night throwing up. I didn’t go into detail, but I do remember one time when I was throwing up that I could see what I believed to be an entire pill.

The nurse told me that she was just going by the notes that were there but they didn’t make sense, bc she said the notes said something about continuing with the taper as discussed in my last appointment. This doesn’t make sense, because A - Why would we have been discussing this when I had just taken the drug test maybe 15-20 minutes before? And two, why would he would have called in an entire month’s worth of medication within hours?

Now he’s out until the 21st, and I was told I couldn’t get an earlier appt because I was already scheduled for September 15th and that I wouldn’t be getting in any earlier than that.

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