Haven’t been sleeping well for awhile and it’s been getting me down. Seemed like every time I’d fall asleep this noise that is difficult to quantify would wake me each night. Took time to trace the problem as it was intermittent and would cease once I was adequately awake to analyze the problem. So I’d be awake trying desperately to sort out the source of what I was hearing. Was it a prowler, in my mind, what. Gradually I’d fall back asleep only to be wakened again by the indefinable noise.

My neighbor saw me after about a month of restless nights and enquired as to why I looked worse than normal. When I described the issue to him, he immediately hit upon the source and corrective action for my night-time anxiety. He’s a plumber and knew what I was describing. While my sanity may still be in question, I was indeed hearing something intermittently. My toilet flapper was leaking, causing the tank water to rush into the bowl, and once the tank refilled the noise would cease until sufficient water leaked again to cause another cycle.

Solution…as many know, wiggle the toilet arm and the flapper valve will seat itself and the problem stops. Unfortunately, the problem has started once again, and no matter how many times I shake the flush arm mechanism, it doesn’t resolve the problem. I even replaced the suspect flapper to no avail.

Today I had some palpitations and heart issues, so went to see the cardiologist. He commented that I looked awful and felt there could be a correlation between my sleepless nights and the arrhythmias I was suffering. When I explained about the toilet flapper he got a smile on his face, listened to my heart and had me raise my arm and pump it up and down several times. The noise we heard ceased immediately, seems my mitral flapper was leaking…Cardiologists are plumbers you know.

 

 

Sorry you're not sleeping well Patch. Are you practicing for a new Pacer Olympic event that we didn't know about? Thought you'd pull something out of your sleeve huh? Well I guess you need to pull the wool off of our eyes and slip them over yours, then maybe you would get some good quality shut eye.
I see a plumber (cardiologist) for my electrical problems, but he charges me the same. Go figure?
Before my pacer was implanted, I remember lying in bed at night and my entire body would POUND to every heart beat. Instead of counting sheep, I'd count my pulse. Kind of hard to ignore it.......

Hang in there Patch. I believe there's hope for ya yet.

On a side note: I look to my right of this message window and you know what the advertisement is? No kidding, and this is verbatim.
TOILET SALE:
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WAKING UP AT 2AM?
Get the facts about insomnia.

Is that not the funniest thing? I believe this site is rigged. LOL,

we'll all get this through this together.
Keep on hanging on,
Angelie