Advice is always welcome from anyone who listens...

November 25, 2008

Ok, so my latest delima... my house was practically killing me for a

while, but the weather has changed since then. I believe the main

source of my sickness was from our return air not being sealed tight

enough and air from the crawl space getting into it. I breathed that

air in for about 2 weeks, got a bad cold and haven't felt " normal "

since(about 2 months now). Now that its getting cold & we've been

using the heater instead of ac, it still smells a little funky, but I

think the air being colder and dryer might have cut down significantly

on the yucky stuff that was in the air vs. when it was warmer with

more humidity...

I still don't feel " great " while in the house, especially in the

bedrooms, but I think this may be more because they are smaller, more

closed in areas and whatever had been in the air is probably more

concentrated in the carpets. We are going to get an air test,

hopefully tomorrow, since it will still be warm during the day, but I

am worried that the freezing night weather might have caused whatever

was making me ill to go dormant and we wont be able to find it until

it either rains again, (on thurday actually is forecasting rain, but

that is thanksgiving and after that we will have snow, which is too

cold for sure) or gets consistantly warmer and we use the AC again. I

am afraid to stay in the house, but if the air test comes up negative

for any problems, my husband will accuse me of being crazy for reals

and try not to let us get out of it. Also its been harder for me to

tell if its even the house that's bothering me anymore because I

believe I am developing MCS and everything bothers me now. I can't

even hardly go into the shoe stores any more, and just walking from a

non carpeted room into a carpeted one, new and old houses alike, gives

my sinuses a squeeze. Ugh. So frustrating.

I might make it through the winter, but if it gets bad in the spring

again... I just don't know...

I'm really just venting here, so if anyone has some stories they'd

like to share, please, I'm all ears. All I want is to feel normal

again. Really.

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