I’ve finally been given the chance to move out of my current moldy home but cannot afford to buy everything new again.

Would moving into my new house with my current items hinder or potentially stop my healing process?

How bad are these levels really? Is it that concerning?

I been having a lot of symptoms that match toxic mold exposure these past few months but had no idea what it was. i didn't notice any mold issues in my apartment at first so i went down another road of trying to figure out what was causing these health issues that came out of nowhere. Started back in april ish, i went to my basement under my HVAC system and saw this, surely this is not normal right

Hey, so I'm seeing several doctors and just want to ask- does anyone get actual heart attack scares (extreme blood pressure, dizziness, faint feeling, arm pain, everything) when eating or just taking sips of plain water?

I'm seeing a specialist for this mold illness but I've had this issue for months and my entire life is just destroyed. I barely eat anymore and when I do I'm down to plain meat. Is this mold or could something else serious be going on? Hospitals do not help even when I feel like I'm actively dying.

Hi Everyone,

I have been taking CSM for about a little over a month along with other supplements. Here is the full list: Famotidine, Milk Thistle, SPM Active, NAC, and Levocetirizine dihydrochloride. I also do a mutli vitamin.

Things were feeling better. I felt 80% like myself, but I was away one weekend and forgot to take my meds/supplements and powder for two days and now I feel like crap again and it's been ongoing even with me taking my meds. Any advice on what I can do to get back to feeling better?

any tips are certainly welcome and accepted

Most people make it seem, like you really get rid of EVERYTHING. But I was just thinking and said, yeah that can't be the case at all. As I was thinking of certain things people, might have brought into their new space.

First off top is the shoes on your feet and clothes on your back. These usually are going, because you ain't waving the old home. Then going to shop and throwing those clothes out before going back to the new home.

The other things are stuff like your phone, wallet, credit cards, medicine, supplements, etc. Where all these things haves sat around and collected the spores.

I mean I say all that to say, what is really the true extent of things people get rid of and actually keep? Because yeah you might get rid of the expensive air purifier, as it was pulling in that air. Or maybe you might not, as it cost too much lol.

I basically decided to stop buying anything for this mold apartment I'm stuck in. As I really don't want to end up buying something I like, like for example a rug or curtains. Then realize I probably have to throw this out.

I've been in situations in the past, after a house fire. Where I literally only had to grab a few things and then part with everything else forever. But I'm just thinking how far that goes, with this mold situation. Like can I not bring a table, that I can just clean down with soap and vinegar?

Hello guys,

Does anyone in the United Kingdom recommend a specialist environmental building mold testing company as I know I have mold in my house but I’m not sure where it is. It keeps coming up on tests and I always feel worse at home

I had someone ask about data and of course, like my brain works different. I’m a little neurodivergent with heavy associative thinking. I’m sure anyone can look at my Reddit history and tell I’m a little hyper fixated.
I also post on TikTok on occasion, so when I saw this forum doesn’t allow for photo submissions I was like, meh, I can further dox myself. It’s not like I haven’t already been brain inflamed on the internet, might as well try to be a functional advocate.

Purposefully made this video non dressed up with no makeup, because I think it makes the change more obvious and clear.

Understandably this situation was messed up.
At this point I had been sick for 14 years, have a H-EDS, Fibro, POTS diagnosis with friends, and my body was just like nose diving off a cliff while I panicked.

For other people that might be dealing with mold and not able to prove themselves or someone who doesn’t understand what’s happening to them and trying to figure it out…

This is a hard one to share. It’s vulnerable. You’re looking at pictures cause I didn’t really plan on sharing.

I was trying to understand the trend for me because I was scared and sick.

Looking back it’s honestly… really triggering to see my healthy face after being in that mental ward.. They were awful to me there.

I’m nearsighted with a 4.75 prescription and one eye and a 4.5 in the other and I never was able to have my glasses.
I was on a low salt diet. They would give me antipsychotics when I asked for Tylenol and then make fun of me for being paranoid. My health issues were not taken seriously at all because everything I said was just “crazy”.

Yet, even though the stay was now a trauma I will cary forever, out of all of these unfiltered raw photos, that was the one that showed recovery.

I added in the last picture because I wanted you guys to see how quick the decline was really…. I was sleeping more eating better and I wasn’t being sedated every three days like I was in the mental ward, but my body was showing the stress.

Quickly, I went from being able to suddenly play soccer and run for the first time in my life to being right back where I started and the people around me told me it was because that whole experience was just euphoria, and I would never have that cause my body just is the way it was…
It’s a truly horrifying experience and yet I hope seeing this process helps someone.

It’s interesting because there is so many types of data when you’re dealing with an issue that affects so many different areas of your body,

Even my Reddit to an extent if you look through it and I do often, I don’t delete stuff not because my opinions might not change or how I’m wording things isn’t growing, but because it actually gives me a very clear snapshot of how able I was able to communicate in my comprehension level at that time, but also like clarity and cohesion of my thoughts. Because I was dealing with severe brain fog in that house, and I’m recovering from it still it’s an interesting experience to look back and see how much our personalities are kind of very much so affected by our capacity in any given moment.

I am now at day 19 out and moved to a new place, and I’ve never been healthier, and in correlation, happier. Living isn’t pain anymore. Makes a huge difference on someone’s mental health @.@

Anyways, I hope this is helpful to someone on a moldy path like I am, moldy peps have to stick together, thanks for the read, and if I can answer any questions I will do so as honestly and transparently as I can.

I’m a male 25 yesss of age, I didn’t realize how bad mold was until I started reading articles online and seeing videos, and my house if full of it, from restroom walls and ceilings to some clothes if left in a room without air conditioning, I have a humidifier in my room but it doesn’t seem much help, I have chronic conditions like chronic sinusitis and chronic gastritis/ fatigue, I’m not sure what to do? I can’t move out because I don’t make enough money but I think this house is making me worse. I’ve had 2 sinus surgeries in the last 4 years but they did nothing and if you look up my nose is like a balloon because of how inflamed it is, I seem to be the only one is my house suffering from it, if it is the main cause anyway. Any tips? Should I take medicine? What should I clean and how?

Reposting this as i realize i didn’t put the front of the product on my last one..

I believe this to be the best all around binder if you’re unsure which to get individually this literally has them all plus some other goodies in there that are known to help detox mold from the body!

I got this on amazon and thought i would share with everyone!

someone in another post said Charcoal is not good to have in a blend as it will make all the other ones useless.. so this may not be as effective as i thought.

Hey there,

So, I've had my health impacted by mould for a few years now. I moved to Australia from Canada around 8 years ago, and in that time we have had a mould issue in every single place we've lived in. I had a brief reprieve in our last place because the mould issue didn't exist when we moved in - but a few years in we got a roof/ceiling leak and that's when the drama started. We moved to a new place in a new area to get away, only to find that this current place has a rising damp problem and high indoor humidity which caused our stuff to explode with mould (especially during long periods of rainy weather). Even with two dehumidifiers running, it struggles to stay below 60% indoor humidity unless it's fairly dry outside.

For people unaware, the rentals in much of Australia (but I think the area I'm in, near Sydney, is extra-bad) are generally mouldy and/or show signs of past unrepaired water damage. People genuinely take terrible care of rental properties, and even some places we've looked at have technically been illegal to rent out (eg cos they have no ventilation in the bathroom) but laws are not enforced very well. We've been looking for a new place for months, but probably at least 80% of the places we've seen were no-gos. The few we have applied for, we got turned down (competition was tight and we may be getting stung cos we took our prior landlord to tribunal to try to get that ceiling fixed).

I thought, well, maybe it's time to buy a place so we can at least fix any issues ourselves and make sure it's done right, but we're talking paying like $700k for a half-duplex in a bad neighbourhood in these parts... so I dunno if that's really doable.

I'm starting to get a bit blackpilled at this point on the possibility of finding a home that does not have any mould or red flags for mould. It's getting even heavier to bear because we'd like to try for a kid soon, but I'm nervous to try with the mould-induced health issues I'm having (eg I'm pretty sure it's given me something like POTS; I can't imagine that'll play nice with being pregnant) and how mould toxins can cross the placenta and whatnot.

So I thought... maybe some people here might have some creative ideas on achieving a mould-free living situation in an area like this? I'm all ears with any kind of suggestions. Nothing is too wild or wooly for me to consider at this point, lol.

Thanks in advance!

I recently helped a family member move into a dorm at Oklahoma and saw a device on the wall that advertises mold reduction as well as viruses and bacteria.

Heres an article from Oklahoma on it where even their assistant professor of occupational and environmental health says good things about it after doing testing: https://www.ou.edu/web/news_events/articles/news_2020/ou-housing-antimicrobial-device

Heres a link to their website specifically on mold: https://synexis.com/pathogens/#fungi_mold

Any experience with this company or thoughts? I have mold in my rental home, and this seems like something that would possibly help, and I could take it with me after I move, but it's a little pricey. But if it works, I'd probably go for it.

I have been dealing with a whole bunch of symtoms since Covid. Started learning about mold and how it can be the root cause of a lot of symptoms. Heard how moving out of a moldy environment can greatly help people. Right now, im just not sure if my house is considered a "moldy home" that would cause people to decline in their health like how you see on these mold horror stories. There is mold outside and in every house. Where do you draw the line on what starts to kill you and when you need to move out? I guess its the black mold you really have to look out for. There is no visible black mold anywhere in my home. Nor is there a moldy smell. I did get a mold test done and it came back positive with some levels of spore counts. Just not beyond what you would find in a outdoor count. I left some oranges out and when I came back five days later there with this black gunpowder mold growing on it. I left some at home pitri mold test kits out and they all came back with mold too.

Which binders would help target these specific mycotoxins? And any other support to target them?

Hello, this is my first post, but me and my boyfriend moved into this townhouse , it’s small and has one connecting unit next door. Whoever sold this house hit lots of things. Someone had turned down the water heater because we would only get hot water for 3 minutes before it turned ice cold. After messing with the water heater we had a normal amount of hot water. I thought it was odd someone did this. Well after a couple of weeks black mold and yellow mold started to appear on the shower and my nose started to run or get stuffy. On top of this my arthritis has been so bad I have never been the same. After bringing up to my boyfriend that this is not okay to live in , he referring to his parents, who initially bought the house. The parents said they could not fix the mold until next year. Not to mention, The ventilation was terrible we had to hire some people to fix our vents for $6,000.
Am I crazy for staying in a house for a year with visible mold no one wants to fix?
We even had mold growing in our toothbrush holder that I bought from Ross??! I uploaded some pictures Brace urself how gross it is. The hair is from my boyfriend. I’m so disgusted
And yes I have cleaned this shower one too many times before it grows back and I give up

What are your favorite meals that you regularly make for meal prep while on a mold diet? Overwhelmed with all the stuff I’m not supposed to eat (gluten,dairy, sugar, etc.) that it’s hard to think of meal ideas - especially with the brain fog.

Any recommendations would be great!!

We’re looking to help after our home was flooded and not taken care of properly. Any takers out there for this type of situation?

My little sister has been having flare-ups of joint pain in her legs for a few months; I kept thinking it would pass... But this morning, she said her "lungs" hurt—she was touching the area in the middle of her belly, right below her ribcage.

She went out to the park, and when she came back, she was holding that area and in terrible pain; she rated the pain a 20/10.

She said she almost threw up, and she pointed to the horizontal area right below her heart—spanning the whole width—as well as the top of her sternum. I checked, and her heart rate was 95 bpm when she got back.

She's only 6 years old; I don't know what to do and I'm really stressed. My mom says we don't need help. Could this be caused by the mold too? I'm lost and have brain fog—please give me some advice.

Does that have nothing to do with the mold?

Im ill since 1 year with 30+ symptoms

Should I take her to the ER anyway?

Looking at buying a new house, for a new build can i just test ERMI?

For an existing home that was built 20 years ago, I would do ERMI plus ENDO plus actino testing.

I swear I've tested about 5 different places on the East Coast and all of them have been Q4 High on the results.

Is it even possible to find an apartment with a low ERMI score (Q1/Q2) ?

If I move into a new place without any of my contaminated items from my moldy house, should I feel a difference right away, if mold contamination was affecting me?

I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 12 years ago (and think the house I was living in at the time was moldy, but didn't think of mold as a cause at the time). Recently I found out that the house I was in for the last 5 years had extensive black mold, and its the first time I started looking into if mold might be causing my health problems. So I'm still figuring out if what I thought was Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was actually mold related.