My New Office Nightmare

It was another day, another month, another year of the second millennium, as I mentioned the first week in my new office. I was proud that I created. It was so totally me all about it defines who I am and what I think is lijepa.Ruža walls, Victorian plants, and children's prints, nearly foot thick walls are soundproofed, the big office and flower cars with over-stuffed with over-sized chair - all this part of my personal design space. My husband of three years was the driver of my moving on their own. He was listening to my complaints about where I was for the entire duration of our marriage and he knew that for me to be happy, I needed to be on my own.

Finally, it happened. There were thousands of dollars on credit hours and hours putting together the documentation and negotiation with their new supervisor but after five months of planning, he was here. For the first few days of the week, but I was able to move things in the office of my old, because my old employer I need to stay to the end of January. At Friday, February 1, I saw my first clients in my nice office, and they, as I felt warm, comfortable and happy there.

Unfortunately, this week was a bad week for me with my allergies. Environmental allergies is the bane of my existence, my whole life, earning me the nickname of "sensitive Melody" growing up. As my allergist recently said: "It is a wonder (I) am alive." In fact, I almost died from them several times, ending up in hospital five or six times with pneumonia before I was ten years old. By the age of 46 I had grown accustomed to them and found a way to deal with them. I was on weekly allergy shots taking a decongestant and an antihistamine with a nasal spray every day. This did not stop a runny nose or the occasional sinus headache, but I had my infections under control and seldom missed work for illness. But this week was a horrible one. On Monday evening I had the worst asthma attack I had in many years, I barely slept. Tuesday night I was up all night sneezing so much that I could not sleep. Wednesday I see my allergist and he gave me a shot of cortisone, which has always been stopped such attacks in the past. Wednesday night I had a sinus headache that turned into a migraine, and another is not a dream. By Thursday I was still unhappy, and my doctor gave me a prescription for oral prednisone. On Saturday, second, I felt physically better, although still quite tired and confused why my allergies are so terrible that week. Oh, well, I thought, at least I could do something about it now. I liked that I finally got help with my allergies and have not only had to suffer with them as I did for my entire život.Steroidi to clean up the struggle, and life will soon be back to normal.

The next week I continued to work in my beautiful office. My former employer sent me a beautiful bouquet of mixed flowers that absolutely topped my waiting room with Victorian elegance. (I avoided breathing in the scent) On Tuesday evening when I came home from work I complained to my husband that my ankles itched. I pulled down my socks and noticed a sprinkle of uneven red splotches all over both feet and ankles. Mike suggested I shower and put some cortisone on them, which I did, and it helped only mildly. We are tucked away in bed, embraced each other arms and fell asleep. As I nodded off, the pain hit my chest, and then subsided. I moved to the other side of the bed as the pain kept coming, I started panting like a hit. Mike was exciting and I did not want to disturb his sleep, so I crawled out of bed. I could wall too well the pain is great. I finally got together and I got into the living room where I grabbed a pillow and sat on kauču.Bol kept getting worse, he came in waves, hitting one right after another like a contraction. Mike came apologetically into the living room and asked if he could do anything, and I tried to describe the pain. I was not very good at describing it, because my breath away from štrajkova.Nekoliko minutes later he was piling into my car and headed to the ER.

In the ER, I noticed the rash is now all over my hands and my feet and ankles. They did not give much information about it. They immediately connected me to the EKG machine, and then gave me a whiff nitroglicerin.Bol immediately stopped the pain. My head began to swim and my blood pressure dropped to the point that I could not keep himself upright, such as X-rays of my chest. They gave me IV Benadryl, and the rash faded. It is a relief, itching is driving me crazy. I do not know what else they gave me, but the pain subsided some. I sent Mike home and to bed around 3:00, and they decided about seven to admit me to the hospital because they wanted to have an "echo cardiogram," that day. Unfortunately there were no beds on the cardiac unit. So I was tucked away in a corner of the ER waiting for admission. Around noon, they finally bed for me. I spent the next day and a half in the hospital, stop the heart probleme.Kardiolog said I probably never need a cardiologist, but he gave me his card anyway. That night, two days after my attack, I was released from the hospital and told to follow up with his internist, saying that maybe I should check my gall bladder. I went back to work and still had no idea what has caused or my pain or my rash.

On Friday afternoon I saw one of my "OCD" (obsessive-compulsive disorder) clients. He was off on a tangent about the air quality in my office since before I moved. He really did not like the idea of ​​my movements, and made all kinds of requests on how to do things that suit him. As an example, he insisted that I should gased out my mat for two weeks prior to laying. He was most upset that I was planning to make sure I have cleaner air and spend two weeks waiting on the carpet to get gas. That day he said that, I was really sloppy because I did not do these things, insisting that perhaps my recent health problems were related to that? I was quite frustrated but listened and assured him that it was unlikely, because I certainly never had any kind of problems with air quality or carpet in the past.

As I drove home I realized that right. It is a certain kind of sense. My allergy attack that had begun that week I moved my things into space, a rash, then the crisis of chest pains. What a mess it was. What would cause this? I logged on to the Internet, and provides information on chemical toxicity. It did not sound like what happens with mnom.Najvjerojatnije blame, as suggested by my client, a carpet or carpet padding. Also I found that I really, very happy, was the center for environmental diseases right here in Dallas. I made an appointment with Dr. William Rea for the following Friday. I did not know what else učiniti.Loša stories. I had to pay out of pocket costs, because the files without insurance

I was nervous about having to go through a doctor that May or May not have the answers. Mike was not convinced that it is not a physical problem, and felt it had to be excluded. I called my allergist and insisted that I had to have something for the rash, it was unbearable. It hurt to distraction. He gave me a prescription for Nexium and Doxipin them and I started this dan.Sljedećeg the rash is almost gone. I canceled my appointment with Dr. Rea. I was more comfortable, and has stopped eating, so my chest pain is relieved. I went for a week, and the upper GI scheduled for next Monday.

This Saturday I was in the ER again after the pain has destroyed my day with his wife. This was our first weekend alone for about six months, and we spent our first night I was in the ER. This time they ran gi tests of all kinds. I had an EKG back, chest and abdomen X-rays, blood work (testing for liver and gallbladder problems), and finally, ultra-sound in my stomach. Again I was found to be in perfect health. They gave me a "Pink Lady" (a figment of GI disorders), a prescription for painkillers and methotrexate. However, there were no answers, only clues.

ruled out physical problems, I went to the building manager and showed her the rash and asked her to give me an empty office in which to work until I could solve the problem in the office. She was very compassionate and gave me the keys to an ugly old empty office across the hall. I pulled my bags there and started seeing clients there. Monday morning I was again supposed to Dr. Rea for this Friday. I still do not eat, but the rash is gone, so I felt enough better that I thought I could do it. The materials stated that I should stop my antihistamines a few days before testing, so I stopped my Claritin and Doxipin.Osip returned immediately. I spent the morning in my office even putting my hands and forearms on the carpet for a few moments to see if it will cause an allergic reaction. I got the appointment that afternoon, and he had to cancel. God, it meant another day of rash.

I got to see him the next morning and my hands and forearms are covered osip.Tepih is definitely a problem. Dr. Rea concluded that I was hit with chemical toxins, and that I even had neurological signs of toxicity. He began immediately on a routine IV vitamins and minerals three times a week and daily heat therapy. He wanted to start serious testing with daily visits with him. I spent the next two and a half weeks of testing and treatment. I met with a nutritionist and a patient educator. Without Doxipin, my rash cleared after the first week of therapy. Testing showed that I only chronic fatigue, severe central nervous system compromise, and the failure of my immune system to respond to the attack. I was found to be extraordinarily healthy but of course, quite ill.

Of course, I had to pay out of pocket for all costs. I spent over four thousand dollars and still make out how much insurance will pay, if any. I continued to work, do my clients about my therapy and work late at night. My stress level is far out of hand, along with his health. I quit therapy, but Mike is building me a sauna, so I can continue heat therapy at home. I still feel fatigue, dizziness and severe congestion were, but I bolji.Umor not as great as it was several weeks ago, a rash is gone.

However, I feel sretan.Priče I heard from others that I feel grateful. Many of them suffered for years before they realized what was wrong. I am grateful for my client, which in this case, it was the exact concern. I am grateful to live in the Internet era, where so much information is readily available. I am grateful to Dr. Rea and environmental health are here in Dallas. People come from all over the world to treat him, and he is in my backyard. I try to hold on to those bad days.

Mike pulled out all the padding out of my office about a month ago. He pulled the carpet from last week. We placed a small piece of residential carpet on the floor last week, but by Thursday I started to react to it, too. So it is rolled into petak.Plan is to let the air for several weeks in our garage until he had a chance to gas, then I'll try it again. It is possible that I will never be able to tolerate carpet again. For now, the bare concrete looks awful but it causes me no problems. Maybe I'll find some safe paint and just paint the floor, forgetting carpet, wood or whatever.

The second part of the problem, we discovered, was (as is my client insisted) the air quality. I am a body psychotherapist and my clients often produce much sound. To make your new office work, I had to put up heavy duty soundproofing. We made sure that the sound was locked in a room with no holes. We had the walls go up krova.Soba was a virtual sound box, no sound could come out. We trusted the ventilation system in the building will be adequate to manage the air. We have been in krivu.Zrak never again circulating, but remained in the box. All emissions from paint, carpet and padding has remained in the office with me as I practiced that first tjedan.Zgrada manager last week revealed that the air conditioner is not running noon seven as it should be, and to a foot in the past week. It is closing the barn door after the cows got out.

The people I spoke to the center, about 15% of Americans now suffer from some type of chemical sensitivity, but by 2050 this number will increase to 60%. That is, millions of unsuspecting Americans will go through some of what I experienced, or worse. Many people I spoke almost died from some kind of chemical toksičnosti.Bizarna thing is that most do not fall within the scope of the Environmental Protection Agency, they deal only with outdoor air pollution. Basically, there is no protection from the internal problems of air quality and without resource consumption, except to sue. Of course, it is powerful and has a reduced amount of chemicals in an enclosed building incredibly over the past twenty years. However, the reduction of the "acceptable level" does not suit every occasion and every person.

It is frustrating to note that most people (including myself before this experience) intuitively assume that the "chemically sensitive" is primarily psychiatric or emotional basis of somatic problems. I am a "mind over matter," a person from long ago. I read The Power of Positive Thinking at the age of 14 and I know that my reality is impacted how I think and feel. None of this we are prepared for chemical attack that I went into my lovely new office. Of course, stress and emotional problems weaken us, it is certainly undeniable. However, although this is true, the fact is that we are all susceptible to attack. You never know when your barrel stress, allergies and nutritional deficiency will be hit with a chemical that your body can not fight. Have compassion for those of us who are already hit.Sljedeći time, it could be you or your daughter. You never know.