[color:"blue"] Hello All ! I just joined after reading several posts among you. I have Multiple Chemical Sensitivitiy. This happened 6 months after being bitten by a deer tic below the knee & getting lyme disease . Then a week later, a brown recluse spider nailed me on the other leg.

I was asked to take doxicycline one month for lyme disease which I did. ANd 10 days of another antibiotic for the spider bite.

ANd I worked 3 summers for West Nile Mopsquito Control applying dry pesticides ALtocid & Vectolex.. Add that chemicals. I am on a timed computer . More later. Any response welcome. THanks.

I later read where antibiotics driver the spirocete of lyme into the cells & it reek havoc from there-on .. will go dormant & flare up.. And as far as the spider biter, a friend said it will go dormant & then flare-up. Seems inssects have that affect on humans.

I don't know why the chemical sensitivity chose to happen. It manifested with an outrageous sense of smell disorder to fumes & vapor form of loads ofpetroleum distillates..
such as diesel fumes/vapors , any cleaning product whether man-made or organic, perfumes & fragrances included in laundry products, fabric softeners, copy toner, book print ( old or new) , new caropet, frestpaint, some spices, coffee, toast (their aroma), Vehicle exhaust & furnace emissions, wood smoke , all my art supplies(oil paint, water colors, acrylic enamel paint, paper products & what holds the fibers together, leather dye,cat litter.. to name just a few...you name it ..

This has made it impossible, so far to live anywhere else but in my Volvo sedan the past 4 years now. I have looked at many apts. but either the renovations or what people used in side them before get to me.

My reaction is my eyes hurt, face & ears gets beet red, or my chest feels tight or I may fall asleep from a few cleaning products.Or I may feey dizzy or energy drains UNTIL I remove myself form the fumes. At least I have that option.

I am not on any medication , nor wilI I ever take anything like that. I have researched this pretty wel l& found that medications are a band-aid & have side effects sometimes far worse thant what I have already.

So, I am building up my immume system. I am not in any pain & there are several people who are helping me. One friend washes my clothes for me with one laundey powder I am not allergic to after acupuncture treatment. I was cleared for 3 things that actually worked. The rest didn't $5,000. down the road.

ANother friend lets me shower at her place once a week & has to put things away long before i get there.

I have one gas station were they willingly put gas in my car for me. Stores I can not enter due to fumes wil have the empoloyee come outside to help me with a purchase, etc.

I have bben the=reu several blizzards & hhurricabnes & -4 degrees temps, but am OK. Am on disabiltiy thankfully!

I have finally resorted to eating only organic foods & organic baby food. I tried restaurant food but it does not digest well. Now... I have great tasting food & more energy. 4 4 oz jzrs = 1lb; of great food! NO chemicals or Genetically modified junk or large amounts of refined sugars or chemical ingeredients in adult food supplies in grocery stores.

I urge you to consider doing what I have. I also found a multi vitamin that stopped the "road rage" that was getting worse. GABA amino acid & ATP amino acid stopped the excess adrenalinee but didn't prevent it. Purity Products multi did. Don't know why. I have been exposed to chemicals also from working in a cleanroom at IBM 8 1/2 years inthe mid 80's , doing car detailing outdoors, but next to a laundramat, across t from a firehouse(diefire trucks), next to another store whwere diesel UPS trucks frequented. all this exhaust I inhaled whilo e outside inteh driveway waxing & using other cleaning products.. I believe it all added up & overloaded my body.

ALso, the fellow I resided with @ 7 years was diagnosed woth liver cancer, terminal. I wasched him deteriorate & he had 2 backhoes & I helped him with lawn cleanup = drove a triple bagger Cub Cadet lawn mower for him = more gas exhaust here & there.
THe moore ill he became , the more he was angry at me for not being able to find an apt. He wanted to die at home & not have anyone else there to see it. It was just too much.

My allergies began after he had the house sides & the silicon window caulking fumes from 12 wiindows being replaced & sealed got us good the next 4 days from having to close the windows at night. It was in Dec. he had this done, a mild winter allowed it.

I could not get him to leave the house a stay at a friends till the fumes cleared until after the 4th day of exposure to it. Maybe it was what finally broke the camels back for my body. Too much stress & chemical exposure. I was fine before all of this happened.

The insect bites & antibiotics were tossed in to add fuel to the fire...




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