Most know my mom and I bought a house and had it remediated for mold and replaced everything and moved in last June. I immediately got worse after moving in. I got an air purifier in August. In September, I had the mold dog come back and he detected mold sources in the living room wall below the windows and in the garage where water comes in when it rains.
I stalled on having any more work done then because I knew there was mold still in other rooms that the dog didn’t pick up on, and I didn’t know who to get to do the work.
Since then, I have had severe bouts of symptoms and felt the urge to flee numerous times, mostly around holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas, my birthday, Valentine’s Day. My mold and chemical sensitivities started increasing months ago around the holidays after having been much better since starting TUDCA in Jan 2020. That alone was a sign post telling me the house was becoming more dangerous.
I have had numerous infections since moving here - bacterial vaginosis (BV) last August, repeated bouts of UTI symptoms for about
7 weeks starting in January with multiple negative urinalysis and culture, followed by BV again. Also developed low IgA after moving here.
The past 4 days have been scary. Complete insomnia 3 out of 4 nights, heart skipping beats, feeling woozy headed, shallow breathing, all in addition to the burning tongue, gums, and lips that my mom and I both frequently get in the house and the car. Also have noticed chest tightness again in the past couple of days and have occasional coughing in the night.
Two or three times, including yesterday, I have smelled something outside in the yard that triggers severe symptoms. It’s not outdoor mold. It’s coming from the house and the wind carries it in the yard. I smelled that same smell right after we bought the house and had the roof replaced. I was there when they had stripped off the old shingles and vapor barrier and the sheething was visible. There was visible mold and damage around the dryer vent, and that section of sheething was replaced. The smell is like damp heat coming off of strand board or like wet sawdust. I could not get near the house from that point until after the remediation was done because I would smell it and have severe reactions.
Dropped off my car last night at the shop to get work done today. Took my respirator mask to wear in my mom’s car on the ride home, because her car has felt super moldy to me for a long time. Almost as soon as I put the respirator on, my symptoms all but vanished.
My car provokes burning mouth symptoms for both me and my mom all the time, so I don’t think living in my car again is going to help. I can’t pitch a tent in the backyard because of the reactions I have to that smell and to laundry fumes and burning yard waste.
We have no money to do any more remediation. We can’t afford to borrow money, as we can’t make the payments. Even if we sold the house, we still owe over $10k on the HVAC replacement and dehumidifier we had installed. There’s no kitchen in the house. We will never get nearly what we put into it. Also, we would have to disclose the mold or sell “as is.” If we do that, we would get even less than its worth.
I now feel symptoms everywhere it initially was. In the beginning, the master bathroom felt the cleanest and least reactive, even before the new drywall was installed, when the walls were
open. I now feel symptoms in there and the master closet in addition to pretty bad symptoms in the master bedroom.
I have nowhere to go. I don’t know what to do.
Fellow Christians out there, please pray for us that God will show us where to go for safety and what to do. Thank you.
Post Edited (WalkingbyFaith) : 3/30/2021 8:33:29 AM (GMT-6)