[Note: This post may be updated in the future if more information is available.]
In our mid-thirties, we moved to another house in our area. It had never been lived in, but it was 3 years old. It was the former model home of a slow-growing (at the time) neighborhood. This would be our second new home purchase. We understood early on in our marriage that living in newer homes was the best route for us in order to prevent as much mold exposure as possible and to prevent exposure to other known contaminants from living connected to others (we used to have cigarette smoke from neighbors come through the ceiling vents and walls at previous apartments/duplexes). Since I was a teacher, and we already had quite a few medical expenses and special food expenses for me, we could not afford new homes in the school district in which I taught, so we bought homes in surrounding areas that were new and also more affordable to save money for my expenses.
We were so excited for our new home. Since we were spending a lot of time in the kitchen for my food sensitivity meal plan, we wanted a more open floor plan that would allow us to cook and spend time in the living room at the same time. It wasn’t the biggest and best kitchen out there, but it was perfect for us. The only stressful part of the moving process was that there was a hiccup in the purchase of our old house (buyer’s fault), and we owned two houses for a little longer than we had anticipated.
About a month after moving into our new house, we had the windows open, and I got a raging headache. It was mid-April. I was nauseated and sensitive to light and sound. The headache lasted for a few days, but eventually it went away, and I didn’t think much of it at first.
About a month later (2 months after moving into our new house), I started to get more unusual symptoms again. I had chronic sinus inflammation, ear infections, eye problems, etc. At one appointment, I had black mucus come out of my ears when the doctor did an ear rinse.
We started to wonder if our new house had mold. So, we had a professional come out and look around. They did not see anything that would indicate mold, but they said that we could do an at-home mail-in mold test to make sure. We decided to do the test, and it came back negative for mold. That was a welcome relief.
So, what was the cause of these symptoms now? Was I getting mold exposure from somewhere else? Was it something else entirely? Conventional doctors did not have any ideas, but they had me start taking over-the-counter medications and doing ear rinses to try to keep the symptoms from getting worse.
No problem. I will not eat anything, drink anything, or do anything, and also add eye drops, sinus sprays, and ear rinses to my already packed daily routine and phone alarm schedule. In addition, we will now spend a large sum of money on expensive air purifiers for our new home.
Everything seems normal, right?
I continued to ask questions, and there continued to be no real help from conventional doctors.
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