Mold Toxicity

@chronicpaingirl15 – If it were me, I would need to know the source of the mold toxicity and fix the problem at the source first. So it it was my living environment (house, etc..), I would want to have it examined or tested by an expert to determine if it's something that can be fixed or if I may need to move. The money up front seems to be another red flag if it were me making the decision.

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I have toxic mold poisoning for 2-3 yrs . Inside one of our outside walls was full of toxic mold and we were unaware of it . We had 3 of the most toxic molds there is and the mold experts tested air quality outside it was 300ppm and inside 18,000 it was airborne and very bad . We moved in 3 days . Since I have lived through this hell and I have learned A lot about this . Bleach alone will not eliminate toxic black mold. Yes it will turn white and appear to go away but the bleach will not eliminate the spores. The spores will attach to all of your belongings . We had to throw away 95% of our belongings. If you don’t do this when you move you will take the mold with you . I had been to about 15 Drs when I was sick for the first 18 months and we had not discovered the mold yet, and they could not figure my case out . I had done so many tests and lab work and procedures done it was crazy. Then after we found the mold I have 3 more doctors and they are trying to help me . People will think you are crazy when you have this . There really is no cure but there are some actions you can take to help you contact me anytime by Text or email and I will be glad to share my experience .i want nothing out of it I just hope to help anyone I can because this is a horrible experience .

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Can you tell me the doctors you found that helped? I have mold toxicity from black mold. I am having trouble finding the right doctor to help. Thanks!

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I have toxic mold poisoning for 2-3 yrs . Inside one of our outside walls was full of toxic mold and we were unaware of it . We had 3 of the most toxic molds there is and the mold experts tested air quality outside it was 300ppm and inside 18,000 it was airborne and very bad . We moved in 3 days . Since I have lived through this hell and I have learned A lot about this . Bleach alone will not eliminate toxic black mold. Yes it will turn white and appear to go away but the bleach will not eliminate the spores. The spores will attach to all of your belongings . We had to throw away 95% of our belongings. If you don’t do this when you move you will take the mold with you . I had been to about 15 Drs when I was sick for the first 18 months and we had not discovered the mold yet, and they could not figure my case out . I had done so many tests and lab work and procedures done it was crazy. Then after we found the mold I have 3 more doctors and they are trying to help me . People will think you are crazy when you have this . There really is no cure but there are some actions you can take to help you contact me anytime by Text or email and I will be glad to share my experience .i want nothing out of it I just hope to help anyone I can because this is a horrible experience .

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I have been living through the hell of it for 11 months. Every day my primary focus is just to be okay and not end up in the hospital. I'm so clouded by it that it's hard to accomplish anything else at all, just surviving, barely.
I'm in income based apartments in Big Rapids Michigan and there is no agency with oversight to make them do anything about it. I've about lost everything from it, in and out of hospitals and doctors. I'm so shot out from it, people I meet just assume that I'm strung out on drugs, or mentally ill.
I can't find any recourse, I even contacted the EPA and no response.
If anyone has any insight or suggestions that have helped it would be greatly appreciated.

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Dear @sundance6 :

Do not take mold lightly. I worked in a building for 3 years that caused much hardship. Tenants in this building year in a year out left due to illness.
No one could figure out why. Most states do not even recognize mold as a harmful item. Shoot most doctors don't recognize mold as an issue. It wasn't until our functional medicine doctor made an issue about it that we started to focus in on it. Eventually we discovered he was right and there was mold in the building.

Mold can cause issues on your health and it creeps up slowly over time which makes it difficult to diagnose. Usually starts with some stiffness in the hips and irritability. You may get insomnia and maybe even some anxiety. Eventually it will cause shortness of breath and digestive issues. The worse part is that main stream medicine doesn't know how to tackle the situation. This is why doctors like Shoemaker and Brewer make a fortune because they cater to this illness but even their methods are not really perfect and in my opinion subpar. Mold is by far more harmful than our western medicine recognizes and society recognize. I know this first hand and have seen so much illness due to my experience in that building.

If you are experiencing shortness of breath, good luck getting help from doctors. They will do the normal routine. They will do a chest x-ray. Then they will make you do a pulmonary function test. After that an echo will be ordered. If you have a cardio doctor on your team they will probably order a stress test. They may tell you to get an 02 monitor (the little finger device) to check your 02 levels. If you are lucky a CT scan will be ordered or MRI. The crazy part is all of these will most likely test out fine. The reason I believe is mold effects your bloods ability to transport oxygen. Thus you have all the oxygen you need in the lungs (hence the perfect tests) but it isn't getting to your organs and thus you have air hunger.

The worse part of all of this, is once doctors have deemed you are fine in the lungs they will either tell you it is anxiety and put you on SSRI's which doesn't work or they will tell you it is GERD and put you on PPI's which in the long run will only make things worse. Both diagnosis are awful and in reality lazy medical practices because essentially the doctor is saying this is your fault when it isn't.

I'm not telling you this to dishearten you as I'm in search for the solution and I believe it is out there. What I do know is people need to know this information so they don't get cornered that it is just in their heads. It is not in your head. You will find Lyme is usually triggered due to mold (lots of research on this fyi). Shoot there is also research supporting that mold triggers autoimmune conditions. Stay positive, have faith, and may you have a speedy recovery!

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