Heisense refrigerator

I don't mind working on low voltage (< 480VAC) ciruits live if I must, but I generally prefer to disconnect (and verify) power from a circuit before working on it.

You can find various breaker locators at Home Depot, Lowes or Amazon that work pretty well (but not perfectly[*]) to help associate a receptacle with the corresponding breaker.

I've heard of using a plug-in radio. Use an older one that just works, rather than one with electronic controls that have to be set every time.

Am sort of getting used to it but still may get a new one.

A friend might want it

The condo is small enough that I would use my trouble light, which is on a 50' cord. I'd keep the trouble light by the breaker box and have my trusty assistant (my better half) report back where it was plugged in and move the plug from outlet to outlet, room by room. Power to ceiling lights, dryer, heat pump and kitchen appliances would be easy to determine. As I said, I've never bothered because I haven't had occasion to replace a receptacle or wall switch and our engineering staff does work after hours that doesn't require a licensed electrician (such as replacing an ugly chandelier with one that's more to our taste) for much less $$ than an electrician or was done by experienced major appliance installation people.

Even though the refrigerator does have an almost constant slight hum,my wife insisted that where our bedroom is on the 2nd floor ...it's impossible to hear. (Her hearing is way better than mine)

I was put on a medication that she said could cause noises in my head...so I turned off the breaker, went upstairs and the noise was still there! Sheesh. Philo is indeed crazy after all.

On Monday, I will try to make an appointment with a better doctor.

Good thing you didn't toss the fridge.

The Rx drug might have made your hearing so sensitive that you can hear the subduction of the continental plate and the resultant murmur of the magma. You might need a pair of ultra-low-frequency noise-cancelling earplugs.

Might also be a job opportunity:

The UN's "International Monitoring System" (and similar groups run directly by the US and presumably "the others") use a system of super sensitive infra-sound monitors to listen for nuclear explosions. They've also found all sorts of fascinating other fun stuff, like the discovery the Earth's atmosphere is hit by plenty of meteor[ite]s that explode way up there.

Yeah, but now you didn't waste hundreds on a bad refrigerator.

Good idea, although I think it was up to you to tell the first one about side effects. He too probably has a substitute drug.

I read that tamsulosin, Flomax, causes back pain in 1-10% of those who take it. I had to use Walgreen's website to see when I started taking it this time, but it was after the morning my back hurt so much for the first time.

I talked to my neurologist and she prescribed an alternative. Before I filled it, I looked up the side effects and I think it would be worse than what I'm on...Right now I am trying to set up and appointment with a doctor who is more willing to really look into things.

At any rate , as far as world problems go, this one is pretty minor.

I understand. My endocrinologist prescribed alendronate to rebuilt my bones after a bad parathyroid drained some calcium from it. She could have told me about necrosy of the jaw. It's not a common side effect but it happens and sure sounds terrible, and if she had told me, I would have gotten all my dental work done before I started taking it.

As it was, the dentist asked me if it was safe to work on me and I called her to ask. And she said to ask the dentist. I said, YOu're the one who prescribed it. I changed endocrinologists.

Meanwhile, I started taking it again and did for a year or so, then was told to stop by the second guy, and despite what the literature says (I'm told) my calcium has continued to increase for 5 years and my hip is just 0.1 from normal range, my spine is within normal range and only my arm is out of range, but I break my arm it's not as important as breaking my hip or spine. I take vitamin D (which I don't think she mentioned. My GP said no one gets enough vitamin D, but he too didn't tell me it was used to rebuild, and build, bones, and two TUMS each day. The TUMS are a difference compound of calcium, carbonate insteadd of whatever, but the pills were too big to swallow and the tums taste good. One time I wasn't paying attention and I was eating them like candy and it made me constipated. But 2 is okay.

She also didn't forward my medical records the first time I called, and may be not the 2nd time either. They've gotten less important as time goes on.