Confused about differences in mold and mold reactions, smells, etc

[Guest guest]

This week I went out to visit a friend in Sag Harbor. She/her family

has 3 homes out there, 2 on a wooded property, and one she just built

on the water.

Now, the original house she built, she bought a barn and moved it, and

built a 4 bedroom (small) house around it. When I was there 12 years

ago I'm sure there was not any significant mold as I was always

sensitive. Well when we walked in I was really hit with mold, but I do

not believe it was toxic mold (simply by my reaction), however very

allergenic. Does anybody else notice such a difference? Her entire

house is made of old and salvage wood (in a high end way), and there

must've been water damage and water intrusion over the last decade.

Her porch has a brick floor and green mold growing on some of it.

Green mold on some of the trees. I slept on the rooftop deck which was

pleasant except for the cicadas .

My bf also was reacting to the mold and took an allergy pill.

However, in her new house she built by the water (only a year old)...a

very beautiful house with 30 foot cathedral ceilings, I did smell " new

house " smell and not sure I would've wanted to stay there although it

is a pretty healthy house (post and beam, and salvage wood floors with

wide planks, and saltillo tiles, and so on--still offgassing some,

though), anyway, in the basement which is really the ground floor

(opens out level with the ground, but part of it is probably

underground, I didn't really notice, she bought land right on the

water and many sand steps down to the beach)...anyway I immediately

felt kind of sick in that room. I knew there was mold, but also there

was some kind of new carpet too. The combo was bad, and I hightailed

it out of that room. Unlike my feeling at her house in the woods,

which had a " fancy log cabin " feel and that kind of mold, which

seemed, allergenic only, this basement in the new house made me feel

kind of sick.

However some of my chronic sinus/ear issues got a little better

sleeping on the deck.

When I got home--my home is different and I'm baffled by WHAT IS IN MY

GODDANG APARTMENT!!!!!!! That rage reaction does happen when I smell

stuff that's been hanging in any closet. All my clothes and linens get

a dry musty smell that I hate and react to. I almost feel like I'm

smelling DRY MOLD. That doesn't make any sense, but whatever it is, is

completely unlike what was in her " barn " house. It's not like what was

in the basement of her new hosue either.

I do react with inflamed sinuses etc...this apartment has ALWAYS had

that musty smell.

This building--is from 1931 originally. What kind of mold or maybe its

a bacteria, would grow in the wall cavities? The bricks that hold up

the building and are between walls and apartments are VERY THICK old

orange-y colored bricks. If anything they are normally rather dry and

when you hammer in nails to hang pictures you can hear the sound of

" sand " . Of course they can get wet from leaks, but what would grow in

them. Or in plaster. Its true when they repair leaks, they do put up

drywall, but that's only happened in two spots in my apartment, and

never in the closets.

Anyway I hate it and want to get out of here. I wash all my clothes (I

got a new Eco Egg, like a miracle) and they smell great and after a

few weeks in my closet they get that musty smell that causes me a rage

reaction. Even with the closet door open. Same with my linens. I just

bought damprid to see if that helps. I also got 2 essential oil diffusers.

As I once posted in philosophical thought, it's a struggle between

" old and mold " and " new and phew " . I bought a bunch of new clothes on

my 2-day vacation, just the kind I've been imagining (flare style yoga

cotton pants, cotton knit and cotton shirts--designer stuff on sale),

and I had to wash them all about four or five times to get off

whatever is in cotton now, formaldehyde, other chemicals, I don't

know. One store had scented candles and incense or whatever, and every

item of clothing smelled like that. I washed them all downsairs in the

y ucky washers about 4 times, and then brought them up to do in the

Egg, to get off the fabric softener.

Its really a production!!!

Anyway, I wondered if anybody with personal experience of different

types of mold had any thoughts about the above differences in mold

experiences.

[Guest guest]

Just about every toxic castle I have lived in had a slightly

different effect on me-the last gave me RA-one was so bad

nuerologically I had 3 strokes in one week-and had to be spoon fed

for weeks-they all burned my skin-swelled my ankles, and gave me an

earache

>

> This week I went out to visit a friend in Sag Harbor. She/her family

> has 3 homes out there, 2 on a wooded property, and one she just

built

> on the water.

>

> Now, the original house she built, she bought a barn and moved it,

and

> built a 4 bedroom (small) house around it. When I was there 12 years

> ago I'm sure there was not any significant mold as I was always

> sensitive. Well when we walked in I was really hit with mold, but I

do

> not believe it was toxic mold (simply by my reaction), however very

> allergenic. Does anybody else notice such a difference? Her entire

> house is made of old and salvage wood (in a high end way), and there

> must've been water damage and water intrusion over the last decade.

> Her porch has a brick floor and green mold growing on some of it.

> Green mold on some of the trees. I slept on the rooftop deck which

was

> pleasant except for the cicadas .

>

> My bf also was reacting to the mold and took an allergy pill.

>

> However, in her new house she built by the water (only a year

old)...a

> very beautiful house with 30 foot cathedral ceilings, I did

smell " new

> house " smell and not sure I would've wanted to stay there although

it

> is a pretty healthy house (post and beam, and salvage wood floors

with

> wide planks, and saltillo tiles, and so on--still offgassing some,

> though), anyway, in the basement which is really the ground floor

> (opens out level with the ground, but part of it is probably

> underground, I didn't really notice, she bought land right on the

> water and many sand steps down to the beach)...anyway I immediately

> felt kind of sick in that room. I knew there was mold, but also

there

> was some kind of new carpet too. The combo was bad, and I hightailed

> it out of that room. Unlike my feeling at her house in the woods,

> which had a " fancy log cabin " feel and that kind of mold, which

> seemed, allergenic only, this basement in the new house made me feel

> kind of sick.

>

> However some of my chronic sinus/ear issues got a little better

> sleeping on the deck.

>

> When I got home--my home is different and I'm baffled by WHAT IS IN

MY

> GODDANG APARTMENT!!!!!!! That rage reaction does happen when I smell

> stuff that's been hanging in any closet. All my clothes and linens

get

> a dry musty smell that I hate and react to. I almost feel like I'm

> smelling DRY MOLD. That doesn't make any sense, but whatever it is,

is

> completely unlike what was in her " barn " house. It's not like what

was

> in the basement of her new hosue either.

>

> I do react with inflamed sinuses etc...this apartment has ALWAYS had

> that musty smell.

>

> This building--is from 1931 originally. What kind of mold or maybe

its

> a bacteria, would grow in the wall cavities? The bricks that hold up

> the building and are between walls and apartments are VERY THICK old

> orange-y colored bricks. If anything they are normally rather dry

and

> when you hammer in nails to hang pictures you can hear the sound of

> " sand " . Of course they can get wet from leaks, but what would grow

in

> them. Or in plaster. Its true when they repair leaks, they do put up

> drywall, but that's only happened in two spots in my apartment, and

> never in the closets.

>

> Anyway I hate it and want to get out of here. I wash all my clothes

(I

> got a new Eco Egg, like a miracle) and they smell great and after a

> few weeks in my closet they get that musty smell that causes me a

rage

> reaction. Even with the closet door open. Same with my linens. I

just

> bought damprid to see if that helps. I also got 2 essential oil

diffusers.

>

> As I once posted in philosophical thought, it's a struggle between

> " old and mold " and " new and phew " . I bought a bunch of new clothes

on

> my 2-day vacation, just the kind I've been imagining (flare style

yoga

> cotton pants, cotton knit and cotton shirts--designer stuff on

sale),

> and I had to wash them all about four or five times to get off

> whatever is in cotton now, formaldehyde, other chemicals, I don't

> know. One store had scented candles and incense or whatever, and

every

> item of clothing smelled like that. I washed them all downsairs in

the

> y ucky washers about 4 times, and then brought them up to do in the

> Egg, to get off the fabric softener.

>

> Its really a production!!!

>

> Anyway, I wondered if anybody with personal experience of different

> types of mold had any thoughts about the above differences in mold

> experiences.

>

[Guest guest]

I got that earache thing too, along with boils on the outer rim of my

ears, and inside my ears, headaches, really bad headaches that made me

completey unable to function.. I also got swelling ankles, muscle and

joint pain, eye pain, blisters, blind spots, numbness on skin,

fingers, toes, bloody nose, coughing up blood, ringing in ears, cold

hands and feet, twitching, shortness of breath, red skin, dry cracked

skin, blisters at corners of fingers, numb palms of nands and feet..

etc..

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:01 AM, <kdeanstudios@...> wrote:

> Just about every toxic castle I have lived in had a slightly

> different effect on me-the last gave me RA-one was so bad

> nuerologically I had 3 strokes in one week-and had to be spoon fed

> for weeks-they all burned my skin-swelled my ankles, and gave me an

> earache

>

>