Last winter I told my husband our house was making me sick.
I even moved into my parent's house for about three weeks. I did get better, but home sick so came back. Sy
mptoms came back and I suffered.
Well, I started seeing the pattern as I remembered when I started to feel the same symptoms this year.
It was when we shut up the house and started the furnace.
This morning I was trembling, head felt large, I couldn't think, heart pounded, and plain didn't feel good.
I hurried, got ready to go to town and got out of the house.
Within 15 minutes, every symptoms I was having when I left the house was gone!!!!!
I have the furnace guy coming to check the furnace.
I am asking around for someone to come check for radon and carbon monoxide.
I am calling to see who can come clean the air ducts.
And last, but certainly not least I am trying to figure out the closest mold/mildew company.
We live in a very isolated area and it will be hard and expensive to find them I am sure.
BUT, this has become a pattern and I need to get to the bottom of it.
Any suggestions are welcome. Am I missing anything else to check?
I have made great strides this summer and I do not want to backslide.
I need to try everything I can to make this house work.
We are farmers, built this house ourselves in 1988 and it sits in the middle of a half section of land we own and farm.
Lots of reasons I have to try to make it work.
That said, I may have to move if we can not resove the issues. My health is too important.
Posted by WendyK (Member # 18918) on :
I think checking the CO levels to start out with sounds like a good plan! Do you have a CO detector?
Radon wouldn't cause immediate effects, but its good to check anyway - see if your local or state health department offers low-cost test kits.
Do you have any wet or damp areas in the house? These will be the places to look for mold.
Have you been tested for allergies?
Posted by Lymedin2010 (Member # 34322) on :
Yes, get a CO detector. I have one that I don't install, just carry it from room to room to check levels. Right now it sits in my bedroom, besides the one that is installed in the hallway & basement.
Look online, there are companies that have test kits. They send you the agar test plates. You leave them out or swab & then send it back to them. I think it was somehwere around $500-600 for a complete test.
If you get a microscope & make agar plates, you can do this yourself. Just need a good ID reference book.
Posted by surprise (Member # 34987) on :
You could have mold in your heating/ air conditioning ducts.