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Posted 2/28/2019 11:10 AM (GMT -5)
My illness started in an apartment with mold 6 years ago and I recently found out that I have very high levels of mold in me.
The last week I have been in an office where I got headaches and other symtoms and I now know that its a lot of mold there so I wont go back.

I left my monitor there for 1 week, and keyboard, mouse pad and mouse for 36 hours.
I have now moved those to another office.

Im now way more sensitive to mold then before and react to a old laptop that we have at home in a drawer, but that my girlfriend needs to use now, that I used back when I got sick, but that I havent been reacting to before.

I plan to clean the laptop with hepa vacuum cleaner, 70 %+ alcohol mix. I will open the bottom of it and use compressed air on a can to blow out as much as possible.

Dont think I can open the monitor, but plan to clean it the same way, the same for the mouse.

Throw away the mousepad.

What do I do with the keyboard? Would it be enough with doing the same way as it only was there 36 hours? Or do I need to throw it away?
Posted 2/28/2019 1:25 PM (GMT -5)
I would try cleaning it the same way as the laptop.

I have read that laptops can be especially bad for cross contaminating environments due to the vents and fan.

I suggest cleaning them outside, placing each piece in a clean, new plastic bag or sealed container overnight or for a few days. Then take one piece at a time outdoors and open the container and get close to it to see how you react. If you still react, try cleaning again or replace it.

I’m so sorry this second exposure made you hypersensitive. I am still hypersensitive, even after leaving my moldy house and office 2.5 years ago. It’s a horrible way to live. Do you have a CIRS/ Shoemaker trained doc helping you?
Posted 2/28/2019 1:28 PM (GMT -5)
By the way, if you have other possessions in your apartment that were in previous moldy environments, you can be reacting to any of it. Have you done an ERMI or HERTSMI-2 test on your current living place? If not, you should. Never assume you are not being exposed without proper testing. Mold is often hidden and often has no obvious smell. Don’t assume.
Posted 2/28/2019 2:51 PM (GMT -5)
I decided to get a new keyboard, not worth the risk.
down to -3 celcius (27 fahrenheit) for the moment at nights, so dont want to leave the laptop or monitor outside.

We have done a test where we collected dust in and sent in to a lab in Sweden. Not sure what it was called. That didnt show anything 1 year ago and we are going to do the same or similar soon.
We are going to get some better cleaning stuff than the alcohol at a company that specializes in mold tomorrow.

I got sick when we lived 1 year in Canada, as we live in Sweden we dont use that much of the stuff we had then. I guess 1 bag and the laptop, and I guess some other smaller things, maybe some clothes. We have some other stuff but that is in the basement, that we have been avoiding as it was a water leakage about 10 m away from where we store our stuff....
I did put the bag outside also, but mostly because it was also with me at the office.

I have a health practioner and no doctor, no CIRS/ Shoemaker but on their homepage it says specialises in: Autoimmune Disease, Lyme Disease, Chronic Fatigue, Toxicity

I got oil of oregano, sacro b, chroella, liposomal glutathione, ultra binder, GI detox, takesumi supreme.
Started using a neti pot 3 days ago. Im always stuffy in the nose and that helped a lot.
Had a meeting a few days ago so going to order Byron white A-FNG and Argentyn 23. Going to use Argentyn 23 for the sinus area, and in the neti pot.

Decided to take a few days of and get more time for ir sauna, going to the gym and forest walks.
Some lower stress should help.

Is the increased sensitivy because of an increased amount of mycotoxins in the body. And if you reduce the amount with reducing the amount you get in, using ir sauna, binders and something that kills it, it would go back to more of "normal"?

Post Edited (Deep_sleep) : 2/28/2019 1:47:26 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 2/28/2019 4:35 PM (GMT -5)

Deep_sleep said...
br />Is the increased sensitivy because of an increased amount of mycotoxins in the body. And if you reduce the amount with reducing the amount you get in, using ir sauna, binders and something that kills it, it would go back to more of "normal"?

For some people, getting away from mold exposure and detoxing is all that is needed. Others remain sensitive. The Shoemaker Protocol addresses that in the final step with VIP.

Once I removed myself from the excess exposure, my labs (especially TGF Beta-1) normalized and my mycotoxin levels dropped to the negative range, yet I have remained symptomatic (inflamed) and sensitive. I have not used the VIP. You have to be in a very low mold environment based on the ERMI and HERTSMI-2 test, and I am not in that clean of an environment. I have one of the multi-susceptible HLA-DR genes for biotoxins and the Lyme susceptible gene.

I’m really sorry you’re dealing with this.
Posted 2/28/2019 4:38 PM (GMT -5)
You mentioned a basement and water leakage. That’s pretty much 100% guarantee of ongoing mold exposure. Water damaged buildings also harbor microbial VOC’s, mycotoxins, viruses, and bacteria in addition to fungi (mold) - toxic soup.
Posted 2/28/2019 5:03 PM (GMT -5)
I forgot to write that the water leakage got fixed after I called a few times, I felt a reaction that it was itching a bit in my skin when I was there. And there is something on the floor where a pipe dripped but my practitioner couldnt say if it was mold or not based on the picture. But based on my reaction it should be very likely that its mold.

We live on the 5th floor so a long way from the basement. But I guess we would need to test there before we pick something up to the apartment.

I used an Awair that checks the air for voc, dust,co2. Our air was good but it doesnt check for mold.
We use an air purifier daily also.

Taking the whole next week off to work on health and see if I can get more stable.
It was a very long while since I took a whole week for that without going somehere.
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