Re: MCS and petrochemical exposure

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Funny but I always used similar wording-I always say I feel like I've been hit

by a truck.

I actually had been hit by a car a few years ago and honestly, not quite the

same thing, but the feeling of total weakness and like something so heavy is on

top of you, you can't get up is what we are talking about, I think. And that is

the feeling I had a day after I was hit by the car. (ps, I was just bruised

badly when the car jumped the sidewalk and hit me-luckily my beloved dog pulled

me away from the oncoming car so hard her leash bruised my hand, but the car

missed me by an inch. It did send me flying into a fence which was bad enough.)

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> I have met a woman here who has " MCS " for 10 years. It's a long story, but she

has told me two things I'd like to check up on from others with MCS.

> 1. She states she is sensitive to " all petrochemicals " . I asked her to

elaborate, and she said her occu-doc said this. (however, she has no prproblem

entering a building within days of it being painted. ?.)

> 2. She states she is sensitve to wood smoke, especiall from her neighbor who

uses wood burning stove in winter, and from bbq lighter fluid. It hits her and

feels like she got hit by a car - on the very first breath.

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> She in fact was hit by a car about 10 years ago; so she claims the physical,

neural, and musculatur pain is nearly identical. As she says, " if you haven't

been hit by a car, you don't know what I mean " . I haven't, so I obviously don't

know.

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> Can any one elaborate or offer further discussion. I'd love to hear your

comments and stories that are similar.

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> Sincerely,

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