Re: Do I sound like I've been exposed to mold, or could it be something else?

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Sounds like you are being exposed to some type of chemical.

Barth

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T> Everytime I'm out of the house for a little while I usually feel great

T> and I try to tell myself maybe I was actually just still getting over

T> the cold I had 2 months ago... and then I get home and I get what I

T> call the sticky ickies (congestions in the back of my throat), my

T> sinuses feel tight, my lungs feel a slight pressure, and my eyes hurt.

T> I get a metallic, bitter taste in my mouth and sometimes my tongue

T> kinda burns and my gums feel sore. I always have red eyes now, unless

T> I use my allergy drops but in the house they stay red and sometimes I

T> wake up in the middle of the night and look in the mirror and my eyes

T> are as red as they would be after I'd been crying for an hour

T> straight. Sometimes I have a dry cough, too. And I was getting chronic

T> headaches until my doctor recommed drinking at least 55 oz of water a

T> day, so when those headaches come, which is still at least once a day

T> usually accompanied by fuzzy headedness, I drink as much water as I

T> possibly can and that does seem to help thank god, I really couldn't

T> take those anymore. But I also seem to have cottonmouth that the water

T> doesn't help, and occasionally a soar throat.

T> Is there anything else that could cause this kind of reaction? Granted

T> I do have asthma and allergies, they are usually mild and only react

T> when I am in direct contact with something specific such as cats or a

T> room full of dogs and that reaction is usually my nose running and my

T> eyes itching, not my sinuses feeling like they're closing up and

T> allergy meds actually help with those allergies (allergy meds and

T> painkillers don't help with these symptoms). My husband does not smoke

T> in the house, thank goodness or I'd probably be dead already on top of

T> everything else.

[Guest guest]

-Yes, and that chemical is most likely mold MVOC's and mold toxin

-- In , Patilla DaHun <glypella@...>

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> Sounds like you are being exposed to some type of chemical.

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> Barth

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> T> Everytime I'm out of the house for a little while I usually feel

great

> T> and I try to tell myself maybe I was actually just still getting

over

> T> the cold I had 2 months ago... and then I get home and I get

what I

> T> call the sticky ickies (congestions in the back of my throat), my

[Guest guest]

Regarding the dry mouth, are you on any medication that may cause

that? Dry mouth can make you prone to more infections and sore

throat. Sore throat can also be caused by post nasal drip and of

course any infection too.

In my opinion how you feel while you are away from house is biggest

indicator of if there is anything wrong with house. You can continue

to test this and I discovered that my house only caused me trouble in

warm weather due to direction of air movement in house. Air movement

in winter comes from attic down into house if there is anyway to get

into house from attic, so you may do well in summer but not in winter

or vice versa. That caused alot of confusion for a long time since I

had professional testing of house done in February and they found

nothing so I continued to live in house and figured house was not a

problem but it was, it just was tested at wrong time, so test both in

winter and again in summer, and see how you feel in both seasons, at

home and then away. You may need to live away from house for awhile,

maybe at least a month, in order to tell, or if problem is more

dramatic, just hours may make a difference.

--- In , " TheBeth " <thebethinator@...>

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> Everytime I'm out of the house for a little while I usually feel

great

> and I try to tell myself maybe I was

[Guest guest]

This could be mold, but its also possible that it could be something else..

This is a short list, not at all definitive, of common but toxic home problems..

mold that is alive and growing now

- which can produce mycotoxins AND MVOCs (different effects)

mold that is dead and dried out, which is picked up by air currents

(mycotoxins but no longer any MVOCS) trichothecenes (stachybotrys) can

probably remain toxic for decades.. not many chemicals work at

deactivating them, removal is the best option.)

fumes from chemicals in the home, such as paint, solvents, " VOCs " Can

remain irritating and or toxic for months after a new paint job.

(fungicides in paint can also cause problems)

Pesticides, herbicides, etc.

Allergies from previous dog and especially cat occupants of a house..

walls and everything else need to be scrubbed down

Carbon monoxide from incomplete burning of natural gas or other

fuels.. or from your furnace, but blocked by a blocked up chimney

call a chimney sweep.. (Also, watch out for backdrafting when you use

bathroom or kitchen fans!)

composting pollutants (aspergillus fumigatus, thermophilic

actinomycetes, lots of MVOCs, other molds, mycotoxins)

mold VOCS and tremerogenic mycotoxins from mold growing in earth

basements with no floor

ergot alkaloids from mold growing on a very thin film on top of latex

paint (even on stone or masonry walls)

natural gas or propane leaks

sewer gas (hydrogen sulfide and methane)

lead paint dust, mercury (often from broken fluorescent lights, but

also from the earth in many areas of the north and east of the US,

tilling - i.e. farming briefly increases it to very unhealthy levels.)

formaldehyde from the glue used to hold engineered wood products like

OSB or fiberboard

(commonly used in building materials and a lot of inexpensive

furniture) together - the formaldehyde is released for years, if the

material gets wet the rate of increase goes way up.

fumes from wood burning (search on " ultrafine particles " or " ultrafine carbon " )

pollutants from nearby traffic, diesel exhaust is particularly bad

asbestos from brake shoes on nearby roads

radon from the ground

fumes from the ground of various kinds (nearby natural gas leaks?)

To make a long story short, its important to find out what is the

problem and fix it!

And I am sure that there are others!.

Would it be possible to leave some windows cracked open for a few days

to see if the problem improves..

That would indicate that it was a problem with the indoor air.

Mold is common, perhaps one of the more common problems, and its

harder to fix than many of them, but formaldehyde is also a serious

problem, one a lot of people are dealing with! Also, often people

have several of these issues to deal with..

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:56 PM, TheBeth <thebethinator@...> wrote:

> Everytime I'm out of the house for a little while I usually feel great

> and I