Sick Building Syndrome

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http://www.immunesupport.com/library/bulletinarticle.cfm?ID=6205

Workers in sick buildings often report having itchy skin, a dry cough or

fatigue, which may be a result of exposure to chemicals from inside the

building. Adhesives, carpeting, upholstery, manufactured wood products, copy

machines, pesticides and cleaning agents can give off what is known at

volatile organic compounds, which the EPA says can cause " chronic and acute

reactions. "

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Thank you all for the help you have given me on this illness. I also

wanted to share that you all could talk with an environmental engineer

like I did for some very imporant information he will give to you with

your particular situations. His name is Slemmer and is a SR.

Environmental Engineer, the site is: http://www.ehso.com and you

will be able to contact him through the site. was great at

responding to me personally with my situation and told me to contact

Bill Handel for a recommendation for a lawyer. Bill Handel runs a

radio talk show also, and is an expert at finding help with law issues

and medical issues. You can go to his site and email him:

www.handelonthelaw.com. I hope this helps you all. I also suggest

that everyone keep pushing these doctors to get educated so that we

all can get the correct diagnosis and treatments for sick building

illness or building related illnesses. I had one attorney that I had

contacted, not through Bill Handel, but on my own. This attorney told

me because i also had firbomyalgia, that even though my syptoms are

some of what is included with the fibro, are the same symptoms that

one can get with sick building syndrome and the doctors that one might

see will say it is the fibro that is acting up. Well the fibro isnt

making me inhale these toxic molds and the deteriorating fiberglass

and I have never had any problems with my breathing until my own PCP

had started to question that I had sick building syndrome due to the

molds and fiberglass that the mycologist had found in my apartment.

As far as moving out of here, well you take it all with you it does

not go away from being exposed for so long, and you can still have

long term affects from sick building illnesses or building related

illnesses. We just all have to push and I mean be stern and assertive

with these doctors, and insist on how we want quality care and to get

them to do the proper diagnosis, and not to try to get around it as

another illnesses. I am not giving up, Assertivenss and agression

will get us a long way. Another attorney had also told me to contact

the attorney generals office, that this office will get involved. But

first I want to do some more research through Slemmer and Bill

Handel, and push from there. Being a nurse, I am very pushy when it

comes to doctors and they dont like the fact when I mention to some of

them I am a nurse, and I do know things, so this is what it is, and I

will get my diagnosis and this will go through the legal system for

restitution no matter how long it takes and where i have to travel to

do so. I hope this helps some of you. Just start pushing, I am

writing to my local state reps, senator Kerry in my area and his

is good, and going up from there. Oh, this will hit the news before I

am done, and it will be big because the property manager over here has

a copy of the mycology report and there are about 300 units in the two

buildings here, so this is affecting alot of them here. I just

started getting some of the to talk, seek doctor's for their

illnesses, the more you have with you on this fight where you live the

better recourse you will have when all is said and done. It is a very

hard illness to deal with when you get the medical field running

scared to diagnose you with this syndrome which is very sad. These

doctors are suppose to help in prevent illnesses and disease, not

shrug it off as something else when they know clearly this is what you

truly have. Once again thank you all for the input and information.

Just keep fighting for your rights, lets get them all to recognise

this more in todays world.