Re: [was: my puppy Now: hypersensitivity

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Janet!  Your journey sounds like mine; I now am hypersensitive to products and

smells that never bothered me before.  First, it was pain with breathing due to

exposure, with the majority of symptoms targeting my lungs, brochial tubes,

eyes, head.  Now, this exposure has cloned itself yet again and continues, it

seems, to evolve into a much more multi-symptom illness which now prevents me

from eating or doing much of what I once did.  Isn't this very progression

part

of the diagnosis Dr. Thrasher discusses?  Our immune systems, it seems, were

once truly under attack, and they reacted to this enemy as they were designed to

do.  However, after repeated exposures and countless battles, the immune

" soldiers " have run amok, with no managing officer to tell them, " Hey, folks,

false alarm.  Everything's fine. "   Am I way off here?  If so, I'll take my

quasi-military analogy and revise my explanation to myself.  Without that

reassuring order that " all is well, " our immune system troups are hypervigilant

and overeager to view any " visitors " through our senses as the " enemy. "   Here

we

go:  a reaction to the  " alien " substance  and a rush of our defenses, even if

no

threat exists.  Enter our pain, our edema, our cognitive symptoms...a multitude

of responses that would help us survive a real attack but makes life miserable

without one.  This is what drives my objection to the use of the diagnostic

label MCS, which I have tended to view as a long-term illness or

susceptibility.  I am over 50 and have never before had any particular

sensitivities; I loved perfume, ate whatever I wanted; never worried about odors

or germs or much of anything except tangible dangers we all fear.  Just a

thought...sally

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From: " Gingersnap1964@... " <Gingersnap1964@...>

Sent: Thu, September 2, 2010 4:35:13 PM

Subject: Re: [] Re: my puppy

 

I got sick from mold first Id lay in bed with pain and just try to

breathe, As this eased I became very sensitive to chemicals or fragrances

Janet

In a message dated 9/2/2010 6:37:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

tug_slug@... writes:

Im sorry Carl that was my mistake and Carl is right I have become somewhat

chemically sensitive. Being fairly new to all this and knowing how mold

effects me its difficult for me to determine whether it's mold that's causing

the problem or a chemical. Beings theres such a strong musty odor coming

from the crawl space I automatically assume it's mold.

I stand corrected

>

> Tug,

>

> I'm going to interject here and will do so without breaking

> confidentiality.

>

> Below you state " my mold exposure " and nothing else. As you have

> previously reported on Sickbuildings it has been demonstrated

> that you are also chemically reactive. It is not just mold.