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Topic: My house is making me sick

cozynana
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 34270

posted

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.

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WendyK
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 18918

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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?

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Lymedin2010
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 34322

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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.

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surprise
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 34987

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You could have mold in your heating/ air conditioning ducts.

Google ERMI test kit.

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Lyme positive PCR blood, and
positive Bartonella henselae Igenex, 2011.
low positive Fry biofilm test, 2012.
Update 7/16- After extensive treatments,
doing okay!

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