Well, I finally got the samples collected and they’re in the mailbox to be picked up by the postman tomorrow morning.
The master bedroom ceiling had caved in before my husband and I married. We got it fixed this year but there is some water damage, so the swab sample was from a water stain.
The second sample was a collection of vacuum dust from throughout the house.
You might be wondering why we’re testing for mold in our home. My mom, my sister Tammi, and my sister-in-law Marie have been asking us to do this. They think the health problems my husband and I are experiencing could be from mold.
My husband has been having new health problems since March of 2018. He started waking in the middle of the night feeling like he couldn’t breathe, with a sense of dread and unrest, clammy, hot and cold, hot and cold, unusual pain in his back, and severe vomiting. Doctors have been unable to pinpoint the cause of his symptoms. They come and go. There’s nothing I can do to ease his symptoms. He’s been to Urgent Care, the Emergency room, our Nurse Practitioner, specialists, and the Mayo Clinic.
I began having daily vertigo episodes in August 2018. The doctors haven’t been able to determine what is causing my vertigo or how to stop them.
It seems strange to me that such wildly different symptoms in two people living in the same home could be from mold, but we’re willing to try almost anything.
Our exposure times are also different. My husband has lived in this home for 17 years. I’ve lived here just over 2 years.
Results should be in within 2 weeks. I hope they’re negative because I have no idea how to get rid of it if it’s positive.
Does anyone else have experience with this type of thing?
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