MOLD STORIES

NEW HOUSE MOLD NIGHTMARE MADE BABY AND CHILDREN SEVERELY ILL

We bought a house three years ago. Did a stupid thing, trusted our real estate agent. Coming from a different state, now knowing anything about where were moving we trusted the agents inspector. End result, $106,000.00 plus three years payments later..yesterday we had to walk away from our home because of black mold. We had a baby two months ago born two months early, and after a very difficult pregnancy. I now wonder if it was partly resposible for me breathing the mold. No one knows. Anyways, the babies problems were everything from breathing to throwing up blood and blood in his stool. After numerous trips to hospitals and doctors we got the support of a doctor who would listen, told us the mold was making the babies already problems with formula alergy and cronic acid reflux much worse. The baby never stopped crying in all this time, crying and throwing up constantly. Leaving me with no sleep, and our poor son exhausted and in so much pain. Like I started out, we left the house, our funiture we pulled away from the wall and found black mold on, toys of my daughters, clothes stored in closets, the mold won when I became to sick from the pregnancy to keep using the bleach to get rid of it. Now we are renting, but already have seen an improvement in our health just in the two days we have slept in our new home. Life is hard, this is hard, but when you have to choose between the life of your children and a moldy house...there is no choice.

MOLD NIGHTMARE IN FINLAND

Year 2007 january i started to have blurred vision and dizziness and i was in good shape so it was weird, few months later i started to feel weak once in a while while lifting weights and i started to get mood swings,red dots on my skin,sense of smell weakened and also hearing difficulties, a few months went by and my condition got a lot worse, i lost my ability concentrate and was feeling very weak not able to enjoy daily activities anymore. Life turned to hell and i went to see a doctor who took some blood tests and said there was nothing wrong i went back home and got even worse i had almost every single symptom there is and i lost my appetite but ate by forcing it down my throat every day. few weeks after... i snapped coudn't take it any longer i felt so ill i thouht i was gonna die had no strength left in me to do anything,time seemed to go by extremely quickly,i went to eat breakfast but it was already evening! i said to myself am i going crazy or is this just a bad dream and then i decided to go to the hospital hoping it woud help, BUT i was wrong! the doctor said i was depressed and gave me some pills! i said to him that it wont help im not depressed but he just ignored me so i went home again. I felt very weak and my arms and legs went numb while exercising. i felt even sicker my parents said i was crazy and i had to sleep 12 hours each night if i didnt sleep that long i felt extremely weak and tired! i started to have hard time understanding anything and everything felt weird like i was in another world or something. a few days later i finally did go crazy and wanted to go to the hospital again but this time in an ambulance.This time the doctor said i was crazy and they sent me to the mental hospital!!! once i was there they said i was not crazy i was just over reacting two weeks went by the doctor said i lost my strenght because of too much exercise whitch i at first i thought was true but then i noticed something i felt like i had just drunk 10 beers and woke up every morning in a huge hangover feeling,my spit was yellow and extremely sticky then,i escaped the mental hospital in my dads car he believed me it was the mold that caused me to go crazy he was also very sick the cops were after me the next week i went home! a huge mistake home means mold in the finnish language! I got really really sick and extremely angry for unknown reason then i also lost 90% of my strength and everything went black and my parents said most of the mold was in my room thats why i got so sick from that BLACK MOLD! and was sent to the mental hospital again! 6 weeks later i was released diagnose was asperger syndrome! but they did find out i had been exposed to black mold also, and now here i am living in a new home still feeling all weak shaky and drunk,but i will beat this illness thats why i ordered liquid zeolite to help beat the toxins in my body and help me get my strength back i still feel like im going to pass out and these weird flashes but there is a really weird symptom which is new, My muscles are extremely soft and my skin is very loose everywhere and its impossible to exercise without tiring out instantly and sweating buckets.resting pulse 60 but if i get up from bed its instantly 120! beats per minute and if i try to take the trash out i'll propably pass out,so im badly sick and nobody believes me exept my dad and hopefully some people here,by the way i was in great shape before getting ill and felt like i coud do anything,well i hope you understand this because its hard to write this in the state that i am now with these painful joints THE END.

MOLDY WINDOWS

We bought a new home knowing that the windows needed replacing, but ran out of money to do so, that was 3 years ago. 2 years ago I started feeling...funny. I had headaches all the time and I never had them before,I felt like my body was shutting down - like when your car is misfiring, I always felt like I was going to pass out. I went and talked to my doctor about what was going on,he sent me for blood tests to see If maby it was my thyrod or diabetis, It all came back great. Then I was sent for a catscan for my headaches, that came back good to. BUT.. the nuralogist thought that maby starting me on Topiromate(a seziure medication that helps with migrains) could help me. first he started me on 25 mg and then as I could talorate it he increased the dose...up to 100mg this did not work,it just made my memorie and cocentration worse. Then he had a lisen to my heart one day and found a murmer. He tells me that some people with heart murmers could have a hole in the heart and this could be why Im having the headaches. I wait 3 months for an Echocardiogram(ultasound of the heart) and yes I do have a 3mm hole in my heart...finally an ansewer to why I feel so horrible..right ..wrong. The hole in my heart is in the wrong spot to cause headaches. then they send me to a heart specialist..they run some tests..and he tells me he dosnt think its my heart,but just to make sure hes sending me to have another echo..but this one goes down my throught. Ive been waiting now scence november for that test and its on March 3. So I have looked on this computer for an ansewer...and there it was, The mold that I have been cleaning off our windows for these past few years that has to be it!!!!! All the symptoms are there, I have at least 8\\\\10 of them and when it said - the feeling of shutting down I couldnt belive it..I have been saying that to people for years and they just look at me like Im loosing it. YEA!!! I cant wait to start feeling better. I had to quit my job, I couldnt do it any more Im to out of breath. We have ordered the new windows and they will be in soon. thank goodness for this site, I dont think I would have thought that mold would be my problem.

MOLD MADNESS IN NEW ZEALAND

Myself and my partner moved to wellington in new zealand as the begining of our travels. i landed a really good job in a very nice restaurant and we got a room to rent only a few days later. everything had come together very well for us and we were feeling great about where we were going in life and for me I was very happy with my career opportunity. heres where it all goes downhill. about 3 weeks later after living in the house with the constant exposure to the mould, i had started feeling indescribably odd. Even to the point that I had told my partner that i was sure i was going mental and i was so sure that something was no right. I had almost convinced myself that I had some kind of mental disorder because it was the only thing i could think of that could explain how i was thinking. As a chef i had had alot of passion for my work and thoroughly enjoyed working at this new restaurant, but that all seemed to be so unimportant to me. after calling in sick one day when i wasnt feeling physically ill at all, and I couldn't explain why i felt like crap and didnt want to go to work. only 3 days after that i did become physically sick with all of the symptoms of a flu. runny nose and eyes, headaches, nausea, every muscle in my body ached. I took care of myself and stayed in bed for a almost 2 days not understanding why I was only getting worse. well it was only through sheer coincidence that our flat mate at the time had seen on tv a story about the effects of black mould. we were aware of the mould in the house but had accepted it, as we weren't paying much for rent and it was walking distance to work for myself and my partner. When our flatmate asked if i was allergic to pennecillin and i replied yes she almost cried and explained about the mould and its effects. we moved out of the house within a couple of hours and with 2 days rest and good sleep in clean dry houses i feel soo good in comparison to a few days ago. unfortunately due to all of the effects of the mould, I have now lost my job and we have no home, but i know im not insane and my partner understands it wasnt my choice to become nasty and short with her. even now that im feeling better, i still have a headache and muscle pain. im aware of my shortness of temper but its still hard not to be rude to people. The thing that really makes me angry about the whole situation is that months before we moved in to room in that house, the agent that was supposed to be looking after the house was made aware many many times of the mould situation and refused to do anything about. I wouldn't wish the effects of black mould on anyone, but if only they had half an idea what its like.

BELOVED PET IS VICTIM OF TOXIC MOLD!

Our beloved pet Tally died just a couple of months ago. We had lived in the same apartment for a couple years and had problems with mold. I always cleaned it up when I saw it but I guess there was more I couldn't see. Tally developed respiratory problems and was diagnosed with a lung infection and asthma. The vet said he had never seen such a severe case. We spent $800 in three months time trying to keep Tally alive not realizing at the time that the mold was what was killing him. He finally went into respiratory arrest and there was nothing more they could do for him and he passed. Our vet was puzzled as to why Tally was so sick and didn't seem to respond to any of the treatments and medications that normally his particular illness. After cleaning a closet that was packed with boxes and finding more mold growing on the walls from floor to ceiling I realized that there was more mold in the house than I was aware of. The tenants in the basement told me that there was mold in their apartment too and the landlords were doing nothing about it. I put two and two together and realized Tally must have died from the toxic mold exposure. I spoke to our vet and although he could not tell me with 100% certainty that it was the mold that killed my Tally he did reiterate that there was something causing Tally to be so sick and unable to respond to the typical treatments given him with his conditions. Before I figured out it was the mold that made Tally sick and die I adopted another homeless cat and he immediately upon coming to live with us became ill. He was having the same symptoms Tally started with and he too was not responding to the medication. We moved out of the apartment and little Eli has completely recooperated and is no longer having respiratory trouble and/or infections. I am convinced that the mold killed our beloved Tally and recommend if you find even a little black toxic mold in your home have it cleaned or move immediately it could be a matter of life and death for not only your pets but other members of your family as well. In addition you can't always see all the mold that is there so if you see even a little be certain that there is more you just don't see it.

TOXIC MOLD IN THE UK

I AM EXHIBITING ALL THE SYMPTOMS OF BLACK MOULD. MY WIFE AND I SEPARATED AND SHE HAD LEFT CLOTHES IN THE WASHING MACHINE FOR 3 MONTHS. I TRIED EVERYTHING TO GET RID OF THE MOULDY SMELL, A WEEK AGO. I AM BRITTLE DIABETIC AND IN THE LAST WEEK I HAVE EXPERIENCED THE FOLLOWING..POOR CONCENTRATION,TROUBLE BREATHING,NAUSEA,SWOLLEN THROAT, AS IF IF SOMEONE HAS THERE HAND AROUND IT,MEMORY LOSS,RASHES, HIVES,DIZZY,NIGHT SWEATS,HEARING PROBLEMS, TINGLING IN MY ARMS,MOOD SWINGS,JOINT PAIN,BLURRED VISION. I NEED HELP, I FEEL SO ILL! I AM A RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC GOING THROUGH A EXTREME SEPARATION WITH KIDS AND DEBT! I RELAPSED, BUT THESE SYMPTOMS ARE NOT LIKE ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS OR CONSISTENT WITH THEM! I FEEL POISONED! JUST SPENT 3 HOURS ON THE NET RESEARCHING THIS!

I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY!

No one has come out and said that it is toxic mold, but I did a home mold test and there were all sorts of mold in it. I did this test because for the last couple of months I've been so ill. I go to the hospital at least once a month with a bad headache. The doctors give me a shot and send me home. I've been to the ear-nose-throat doctor, neurologist, my obgyn, the family doc, and the eye doc and no one can tell me anything. They are all making it seem like I'm crazy. My symptoms came on after we bought our house a year ago. I've been having bad panic attacks, blood pressure has been sky high, always feeling like I'm gonna pass out. It's just unreal. I'm glad to finally read about people who are going thru this same thing, because for a minute I really thought I was loosing my mind.

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