reacting to molds/chemicals

[Guest guest]

I react to everything all of the time. Are you guys mainly talking

about mold. I don't come across mold as much as I do fragrances,

cigarette smoke, fireplaces, cooking odors, even just walking by the

baby products in the store bother my lungs and sinuses.

If you are always reactive, you'd have little

> chance of differentiating between things you react to. If you are

> seldom reactive, you'd have little trouble at all finding what set you

>

[Guest guest]

for the fist year of my mold illness I was reative to everything- the

first 6 months this time- the Dr said i was Pan-allergic. This gets

better and goes away as I return to health

--- In , " ldelp84227 " <ldelp84227@a...>

wrote:

>

> I react to everything all of the time. Are you guys mainly talking

> about mold. I don't come across mold as much as I do fragrances,

> cigarette smoke, fireplaces, cooking odors, even just walking by the

> baby products in the store bother my lungs and sinuses.

>

> If you are always reactive, you'd have little

> > chance of differentiating between things you react to. If you are

> > seldom reactive, you'd have little trouble at all finding what set

you

> >

>

[Guest guest]

" carondeen " wrote:

>the Dr said i was Pan-allergic. This gets

better and goes away as I return to health <

Dr told me that I was a " Universal Reactor " and " You are at

the point where most people with CFS commit suicide " .

I was reacting to an amazing number of irritants.

But I remembered that my FIRST irritant was mold.

And I knew about the concept of " spreading " .

So I proposed that mold was my " primary " trigger and asked for help

to devise an extreme avoidance strategy concentrating upon mold.

Everybody told me that this was impossible and useless and that it

wouldn't work.

But I did it anyway.

Within six months I was climbing Whitney.

I have a tape recording of myself describing to an NIH researcher in

1999 that " My MCS is gone, but nobody believes me, except for the

people who saw me recover " .

Rick warned me in 1998 that trying to help others probably

wouldn't work and that nobody would believe me.

He had been trying to warn people since 1994 and mold sufferers just

slammed him until he lost interest in trying to tell them anything

against their will.

Rick was absolutely right, but I'm a slow learner.

-

[Guest guest]

> >the Dr said i was Pan-allergic. This gets

> better and goes away as I return to health <

>

> Dr told me that I was a " Universal Reactor " and " You are at

> the point where most people with CFS commit suicide " .

> I was reacting to an amazing number of irritants.

> But I remembered that my FIRST irritant was mold.

> And I knew about the concept of " spreading " .

> So I proposed that mold was my " primary " trigger and asked for help

> to devise an extreme avoidance strategy concentrating upon mold.

> Everybody told me that this was impossible and useless and that it

> wouldn't work.

> But I did it anyway.

> Within six months I was climbing Whitney.

>

> I have a tape recording of myself describing to an NIH researcher in

> 1999 that " My MCS is gone, but nobody believes me, except for the

> people who saw me recover " .

>

> Rick warned me in 1998 that trying to help others probably

> wouldn't work and that nobody would believe me.

> He had been trying to warn people since 1994 and mold sufferers just

> slammed him until he lost interest in trying to tell them anything

> against their will.

>

> Rick was absolutely right, but I'm a slow learner.

> -

[Guest guest]

>

> I react to everything all of the time. Are you guys mainly talking

> about mold. I don't come across mold as much as I do fragrances,

> cigarette smoke, fireplaces, cooking odors, even just walking by the

> baby products in the store bother my lungs and sinuses.

>

Yes, I have been there. Nearly died from it. It was the mold causing it

according to the

doctor, and since I am much better after following his treatment, I believe him.

I had both mold exposure from it growing in my home, and outside,and also mold

exposure from the mold growing inside my sinuses, and GI tract (and who knows

where

else).

Once the exposures were lessened, I started being able to tell what would set me

off. (That

is also how I found the mold in the basement). But, I get a massive cognitive

impairment

when I get an exposure that sends me to Mars, so it takes awhile for me to get

it, and get

away from it.

I have to be extremely vigilant. I have a charcoal mask I take with me for

occasions when I

run into anything that I think is going to set me off.

[Guest guest]

It's so hard to find a doctor that can help that is on my insurance. None of

them so far think mold is a problem. Loni

kl_clayton <kl_clayton@...> wrote:

> >the Dr said i was Pan-allergic. This gets

> better and goes away as I return to health <

>

> Dr told me that I was a " Universal Reactor " and " You are at

> the point where most people with CFS commit suicide " .

> I was reacting to an amazing number of irritants.

> But I remembered that my FIRST irritant was mold.

> And I knew about the concept of " spreading " .

> So I proposed that mold was my " primary " trigger and asked for help

> to devise an extreme avoidance strategy concentrating upon mold.

> Everybody told me that this was impossible and useless and that it

> wouldn't work.

> But I did it anyway.

> Within six months I was climbing Whitney.

>

> I have a tape recording of myself describing to an NIH researcher in

> 1999 that " My MCS is gone, but nobody believes me, except for the

> people who saw me recover " .

>

> Rick warned me in 1998 that trying to help others probably

> wouldn't work and that nobody would believe me.

> He had been trying to warn people since 1994 and mold sufferers just

> slammed him until he lost interest in trying to tell them anything

> against their will.

>

> Rick was absolutely right, but I'm a slow learner.

> -

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