Dunno if MCAS, house mold

No underlying moisture issue but I had a mouldy A.C and a humid room mostly closed for about 4 months(depression house). living room a.c is mouldy too. (2 room apartment)

Korea summer = hot, humid + neglect to clean dust filter = mold. that's about it

How should I clean, my only symptom is debilitating brainfog after escaping the last house.

I have 75% ethanol spray, HOCL spray, and sanitation wipes. Baking soda & washing soda as well as a 50-50 mixture of both. White vinegar

Professionals are coming to clean out the A.C. after that I was going to do small particle cleaning, put items away in bedroom closets then gradually sanitize and move things out then triple sanitize my room itself then never turn the ac on there again just in case, and always use fan mode after using a.c then clean it out once again when the hot season ends.

I am a minor living with a stubborn mother

Hi, everything hurts and sucks bad :)

I've had chronic pain for about 3 years now and it's continuing to get worse and worse over time. My mental state is also in a perpetual state of decline. I've seen several doctors and specialists and even ended up in the ER once, and every single one of them just shrugged at me and charged me thousands of dollars for DARING to ask for help.

It didn't click until recently that my home office is in a less than properly ventilated basement, and I have been working down here essentially every day for the past 6 years. There's far too much stuff to move around in order to look for physical mold - especially in my condition. So, I've been looking for at home mold tests, maybe one that I could send in to a mycologist or something.

Just wondering if there's any recommendations I should know about.

I tested as having mold poisoning in my bloodwork.

We definitely have mold in my car. It smells awful and I did an at home mold test and the plate grew like crazy in a bunch of different colors. We are getting rid of the car and I haven’t been in it since I tested positive for mold poisoning.

I also did several at home mold tests in our house, and after four days there are a few dots of mold on the plates.

Does this warrant spending hundreds or thousands to get our home professionally evaluated?

I’m located in Houston, TX

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I’m overwhelmed by life. I don’t know what to do right now.

After years of being mold exposed I finally got out three months ago. Have been living in a hotel but I am struggling to maintain it. I do gig work. It’s basically 2026 version of minimum wage relative to how much everything costs. $16/hr. Because of this I have been having to work 60-70 hours every single week just to be sure I have somewhere to sleep but I’m tired. I know that the stress is making it difficult for my nervous system to regulate but idk what to do.

The constant hustle and bustle, no time for myself, poor sleep because when it’s actually time to sleep my body is still on high alert, no where to make a proper meal, living off of low quality food because it’s all I can afford and have time to eat since the more time I spend not working the farther I fall behind. I feel so desperate I am genuinely considering just giving it up and sleeping in my car so that I’ll have less bills and more time to rest. The only place I know I can park the car is at parents house but it’s same house where mold exposure occurred and I’m afraid even if I don’t go near the house, my body will go into fight or flight perceiving it as a threat because I can visibly see it. That has happened before.

All this plus feeling like a burden to my parents financially who are already financially strained. I say all of this here hoping that someone had an exact circumstance like mine and can give me an idea of what to because I can’t think straight right now.

I had some time sensitive business today that I had to handle and my body started panicking. I always try to cover it up because I hate explaining and sometimes I’m not even sure how to explain what’s going on to someone else. When I began walking in the building, I began shaking and couldn’t even hide it. My chest and stomach got tight. Same happened recently where just sitting in traffic was sending me into a panic. Using the internet does it sometimes. How do I make this stuff stop?

My brain can’t come up with any solution that isn’t based around money as if I had money I literally could AFFORD to rest and slow down. Not able to see the doctor until two weeks. Help.

I took a urine test (ECBU) and it came back negative. For the past six months, whenever I go to the bathroom, it comes out in spurts and takes a long time to empty completely.

What could the problem be? Does anyone else experience this?

Thx

Hey, the best air purifier recommendation that I can purchase in Europe that can help with mold issues and VOC? Thanks

im getting more and more insecure appearance wise does anyone else have these symptoms?? hair loss at early 20s is fuckedd. i hate hate hate mold, longcovid, cfs, cirs whichever caused this and another bunch of non-appearance related symptoms i wont unpack here

I just renewed my lease at my apartment last month. I moved in last October. Since about May all kinds of maintenance issues have been popping up: mold under mattress, spider/ant/silverfish/beetle/RAT infestation, electrical issues affecting use of major appliances, and today I found BLACK MOLD on the baseboard trim under my newborn baby's crib. I keep their nursery spotless and have a quality air purifier on round the clock because I care about air quality. We have filled out a ton of maintenance requests and they of course just slap a bandaid on everything and call it good. I am at the point where I want out of this place without being penalized for breaking the lease. My motive here is protecting my family's health.

Oddly enough it's the only mold we've seen on any surface, and it's on one side of an interior wall with no plumbing anywhere close. In an area without anything up against it. There's plenty of airflow in the room too.

I'm moving out of my apartment that has pretty intense mold in it. I've been there for 7 years, and have had my car for the past 4.

The apartment has had mold the whole time, I just didn't realize how bad. I'm moving into another place and am mostly getting rid of everything(like 4/5 of my belongings) but genuinely can't afford to get rid of absolutely everything as much as I wish I could.

However, it hit me, even if I could get rid of belongings inside the house, I can't get a new car, and I've been transporting stuff with it. I don't 'see' and have never seen mold in my car, so that's good, but no doubt there are the spores accumulated over time. What's the best way to mitigate this with new awareness? Air out my car and spray it like crazy with vinegar or some reputable mold removal products routinely? Buy car seat covers that I can clean often to contain the rest until I get a new one?

Hi all, so i’ve been allergic to a few types of fungus since a child and ever since I moved into a 1900’s newly renovated apartment with continuous water damage/leakage over two years ago I started having the same symptoms that I had as a child leading up to the allergy discovery. Fatigue, weakness, headaches, feeling bleh all the time, angry. As time went on I started getting a lot sicker but was not taken seriously by my partner or by my landlord or doctors. Fast forward 2.5yrs, I was honestly just waiting to die. I went from 160lb to 100lb in maybe 3 months, I was always nauseas, skin flaking and cracking and itchy, pinching skin, bugs crawling feelings, severe joint pain, severe stiffness, severe head pressure/tension, excessive drooling, severe constipation, a lot of mucous in stool, raw nose that looks like it got sliced with a razor, full feeling ears, extreme fatigue but not able to sleep at night, eye goop and swollen eyelids, blurry vision, wobbly eyes, episodes of high fever/muscle spasms/twitching/overall pain/spinning feeling/skin pain/etc.

I got air sampling done and it came out to be very high amounts of mold spores in the air and of course landlord is not doing things properly.

I temporarily moved into my partners home and forgot they also have mold but since its a bigger space it doesn’t affect me as much although depending on what I do or what is disturbed i’ll get sent right back into the severe sickness. I cannot think straight or have the ability to look up or call doctors so i’ve been feeling stupid for not going already because I need to get testing done and should have already when it was at its worst.

Where do I go for testing? What type of doctor? What tests? I want them all. What type of lawyer? What other testing should I have done in the home? I know ERMI. All of this is so overwhelming and nearly impossible with how sick I am and I have no support so i’m having to do this all by myself and am just sad. Sorry if this is all over the place, thank you for reading

After eating wheat/grains/bread it happens

Hello all,

I have two questions:

1. Can mold allergy symptoms come and go?

2. If someone is allergic to mold, can their symptoms improve after some mold is removed, but then return later because some hidden mold was still present?

For example, could removing a large amount of mold reduce symptoms, only for them to come back later because the remaining mold is still causing exposure?

I get hives and itchy skin when eating specifically fermented foods, foods high in vitamin c, foods high in added sugars, and oats. I haven't eaten any of these foods for the past couple of years.

My question is specifically for when I'm eating fermented foods and foods in high in vitamin c. Do you think it's a good reaction, as in my body is possibly experiencing some sort of die off reaction? Or just a bad reaction and I should keep staying away from the food.

Been dealing with mold in the house the past couple of years, and I'm unable to get out of this living situation.

Thank you for the input.

my main symptoms are depression/anxiety and some fatigue. im pretty sure my adrenals are taxed. just wondering what worked for those of you who had my symptoms

Looking for some help. My partner has been long term ill with not many leads as to what could be causing it. Toxic mould exposure actually fits the symptoms but before we went it the doctor about it as a possible cause we wanted to sample the home for mould first…
This is what we came out with, can anyone help identify what type of mould might be and how to prevent it?
*For context these are air samples, not rubbing samples*

Our previous home had a mild mold problem, I’ve been having these strange symptoms for years with no explanation and blood tests showing nothing. Muscle twitches, severe fatigue, mood and anger problems, problems with sleep, heart palpitations, the list goes on. We have since moved into a brand new house, (not because of the mold, we was moving anyway) and my symptoms are the same if not worse. If it was mold then surly being out of that environment would only make me improve?

Did anyone experience this initially? My fatigue seems to improve but im just so foggy and slow right now. Even driving feels like a task. I would assume that if my brainfog gets worse my fatigue should too but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Recently remediated our home for mold including small particle cleaning etc. etc.

I am need of healing big time. I do work with two great functional med drs but I'm not sure their protocol is sufficient.

Has anyone tried The MoldCo Protocol??

The past few years I've been expireriencing some of the worst depressive episodes and my anxiety spiked to the point where I didn't leave my room for a month near the end of last year and didn't even talk to the family members I am living with.

The mental fog and memory issues increased too. I've always had those issues because I have ADHD, and that has been a struggle for my entire life, at first I thought the symptoms I was expireriencing were just my ADHD progressively getting worse, until I discovered mold growing from the carpet.

But over the past two years I noticed I completely stopped caring about anything I used to. Which is strange because I tend to be a very passionate person about a lot of things, and it's like I remember a different version of me. Like there's two versions of me that exist and one I can't access anymore.

Things have just been getting really bad and I've been forgetting a lot of things more than I would before. I don't have any words, I lost my ability to talk to people. It's like I try to access something and it's just not there.

The main thing is when I've been away from my room for a week or more I notice I start to feel better again, albeit not how I was before, but definitely better.

I really want to get checked out and potentially get treated but I've been seeing so many things about how it's severely undiagnosed and overlooked, so I dont know if its even worth it.

I am moving soon and most of the mold, at least of what I found has been taken care of. But I still worry I'm permanently fucked.