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- Aug 7, 2022
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Tldr: how to save my lungs from acid & corroded materials. How to clean it & stop offgassing?
Due to a mold phobia, I ruined my new appartment with chemicals. My landlord is uncooperative. The people who came didn't stay long enough to have health effects even though damage was visible.
It started by using a mix of vinegar & dish soap for evetything, due to chemical sensitivities. Acids like vinegars are the worst.
I had burning red skin on my face by washing the dishes & laundry with it. A swollen tongue, throat, burning eyes & face spasms when I put it in my new washing machine. I had red hives all over my arms that took out the clothes, and on my tighs in front if the dryer. I went to the hospital, got ridiculed. Went to my doctor, still waiting for an allergy specialist months later.
I thought it was the latex in my new bed & machines so I slept on the floor & washed by hand...
The pain was a mystery... Until it rained on a thick blanket. I couldn't get the moldy smell out. In a desperate attempt, I poured the entire bottle of apple cider vinegar in a huge bucket with dish soap... Thinking I could neutralize it with bicarbonate. But it never worked. Instead, massive fumes spread in my entire home.
I couln't breathe, see, I was so weak with myscle weakness I was bately conscious in bed for a week.
I poured the mixture down the toilet, my crotch burns for hours evety time I sit on it.
I rinsed in the bath. Taking one made my feet swell intensely, with red marble skin all over my legs. Muscle cramps, spasms, brain on fire, confusion, screaming agony.
I went to the hospital 4 times, dragged by the ambulance guys because I was so weak. My fingers were purple but I was mocked & sent home. Even when I had been hit by a car, bleeding, they told me it was just in my head. Most hospitals wouldn't even test me before dismissing me as just anxious. Being in that much pain & left to die was terrifying indeed... Being poisonned in evety cells is worse than being hit by a car & that really hurts
In desperation I put 1 kilo of bicarbonate all over the bathroom's ceramic floor for 24h. It gave me a massive head hacke. for months, I couldn't remove all the powder. I tried dish soap, brushed with hand soap made with goat milk with tons of foam, but I think it just made a chemical mess and removed the ceramic shiny finish instead of the vinegar. It still smells acid in spots, and when wet there are spots with no shine. It makes massive fumes all over if I try to mop it, like varnish or varnish remover? It's embeded in my tongue even if I stay outside for days, the taste is awful. My tongue is swollen, throat too. At home my lips & mouth tingle... Like an allergic reaction.
The poison control agreed that weakness, nausea, confusion, etc are sign of poisonning but no one believe me.
Qualinet said to put water buckets & raise the heat but it didn't work, the acid fumes stay since months.
But it's not vinegar that I taste in my mouth. It's the appartment itself. The weird ceramic floor coating, paint, acryluc tub? vynil floor, metal sink.
I washed a part of my vynil floor with a bar of soap. It did extract, but not the vinegar wash... I had a strong taste of soap & vynil for days. I did it because my lungs started to burn, even outside. I could feel their shape, tightness, pain in my heart. I feel like it's the end.
I washed clothes in my metal sink hoping it'd be more resistant, but the vinegar on them contaminated it. Bar of soaps made it worse. I threw away my clothes & bought new ones because just wearing them burned my eyes, skin un my face enough to peel off, lungs...
I fear that I turned the acetic acid of vinegar into acetone... Varnish remover. Corroded metal, Melted vynil floor. The dish soap made rhe vinegar go deep. It's 5% acid but evaporation of water turned it into 100% acid... Powder on my skin & eyes. My eyes peeled, I started to see whitish some days, lost vision. I feel like my eyes are wrapped in vynil & paint thinner is poured diwn my throat constantly. I have a hoarse voice now. It hurts to talk, in my chest too.
I tried washing the walls & ceiling in the bathroom. Sprayed water. The paint melted on the ceiling, my hands were full of wet paint. Tasted it. Now it peels. I warned the landlord that the new building paint was not right in the bathroom, it soaked water, grey spots... Will probably mold, but acid is deadlier than my old moldy home. Every breath is agony. My gut hurts. My skin burns. I now know how hell feels like. With people mocking & dismissing my reality & my pain. Demanding to be positive while calling me crazy. I wish i was... But I feel like I'm dying.
I fought to find a solution to no avail. Called disaster specialists but they don't do chemicals, found one but his water hose & tank can only fit a warehouse. I called the firemenbut too late, the fumes weren't noticeable anymore. But hours here is painful, especially after a bath. A plumber said that i corroded the metal of the kitchen sink, that not just acid evaporate but metal dust. It will get worse & need to be changed minimum 500$ but im poor. I literally have razor blades in my throat & lungs. I can't change evetything... I can't move out it's a special housing for the poor, took me 4 years to flee a flooded appartment full of mold, no one want a jobless cripple. This home was my last chance to heal & have a life. I ruined it with vinegar & weird chemical mixes...
What did i do? How do I fix it? How do I extract acid from metal, vynil, bath acryluc, porcelaine toilet & sink? What paint ro seal my bathroom without creating more toxic fumes or seal too much & create mold? I can't ask the organisation for a transfer until 2 years & they don't accept medical reasons. How do I survive? I don't have the courage to trash evetything I own (i washed it all with acid) & move to a room. Last time I ended up homeless, as a teen, when the house owner changed her mind...
How do i remove acid from it all? Bicarbonate made weird fumes. Left a residue that still irritate... And it's the building itself that I ruined. Why is it still making fumes months later! Water makes it worse.
Damned if you do & if you don't. I literally ruined everything i own. My gands swell red just touching my backpack after washing it at the laundromat with contaminated clothes... And a new natural detergent... Clothes came out oily sticky... What did I create
How can I save my life, my home, clothes...
A dry cleaner said that a visible vinegar spot could be removed but not vinegar all over.
Im in constant agony. I only fond good thing when I google vinegar, but if i google acetic acid i have all symptoms of chemical burn. It can attack the nervous system. I shake as if i had parkingson Sometimes & can't think clearly as if I had dementia... So in pain & dizzy, so gard to eat & breathe & talk... & Live...
Please help me understand what i did & how to remove acid & stabilize the materials so I won't taste the building fir days everytime i wet something... Or stay here.
I went to stores, called my insurances, 3 hospitals, 6 times... 6 doctor visits, countless pleas to my landlird. I even spent 7 days in a psych ward to flee the fumes, i had nowhere left to go. No family, friends, shelters...
This feels like a testament. A doctor mocked me saying that he put vinegar in his salad. DON'T!!! I had such a fast agony from using a bottle in one shot, skin, eyes, heart, lungs, mental problems so quickly... From unnatural acid that even eroded METAL!
How do I fix this so I can live? Thanks
Reddit downvoted me & said the chemical got to my brain too. It sure did! The sad thing is that they acknowledged my reality better than doctors by admitting the poison is real
Due to a mold phobia, I ruined my new appartment with chemicals. My landlord is uncooperative. The people who came didn't stay long enough to have health effects even though damage was visible.
It started by using a mix of vinegar & dish soap for evetything, due to chemical sensitivities. Acids like vinegars are the worst.
I had burning red skin on my face by washing the dishes & laundry with it. A swollen tongue, throat, burning eyes & face spasms when I put it in my new washing machine. I had red hives all over my arms that took out the clothes, and on my tighs in front if the dryer. I went to the hospital, got ridiculed. Went to my doctor, still waiting for an allergy specialist months later.
I thought it was the latex in my new bed & machines so I slept on the floor & washed by hand...
The pain was a mystery... Until it rained on a thick blanket. I couldn't get the moldy smell out. In a desperate attempt, I poured the entire bottle of apple cider vinegar in a huge bucket with dish soap... Thinking I could neutralize it with bicarbonate. But it never worked. Instead, massive fumes spread in my entire home.
I couln't breathe, see, I was so weak with myscle weakness I was bately conscious in bed for a week.
I poured the mixture down the toilet, my crotch burns for hours evety time I sit on it.
I rinsed in the bath. Taking one made my feet swell intensely, with red marble skin all over my legs. Muscle cramps, spasms, brain on fire, confusion, screaming agony.
I went to the hospital 4 times, dragged by the ambulance guys because I was so weak. My fingers were purple but I was mocked & sent home. Even when I had been hit by a car, bleeding, they told me it was just in my head. Most hospitals wouldn't even test me before dismissing me as just anxious. Being in that much pain & left to die was terrifying indeed... Being poisonned in evety cells is worse than being hit by a car & that really hurts
In desperation I put 1 kilo of bicarbonate all over the bathroom's ceramic floor for 24h. It gave me a massive head hacke. for months, I couldn't remove all the powder. I tried dish soap, brushed with hand soap made with goat milk with tons of foam, but I think it just made a chemical mess and removed the ceramic shiny finish instead of the vinegar. It still smells acid in spots, and when wet there are spots with no shine. It makes massive fumes all over if I try to mop it, like varnish or varnish remover? It's embeded in my tongue even if I stay outside for days, the taste is awful. My tongue is swollen, throat too. At home my lips & mouth tingle... Like an allergic reaction.
The poison control agreed that weakness, nausea, confusion, etc are sign of poisonning but no one believe me.
Qualinet said to put water buckets & raise the heat but it didn't work, the acid fumes stay since months.
But it's not vinegar that I taste in my mouth. It's the appartment itself. The weird ceramic floor coating, paint, acryluc tub? vynil floor, metal sink.
I washed a part of my vynil floor with a bar of soap. It did extract, but not the vinegar wash... I had a strong taste of soap & vynil for days. I did it because my lungs started to burn, even outside. I could feel their shape, tightness, pain in my heart. I feel like it's the end.
I washed clothes in my metal sink hoping it'd be more resistant, but the vinegar on them contaminated it. Bar of soaps made it worse. I threw away my clothes & bought new ones because just wearing them burned my eyes, skin un my face enough to peel off, lungs...
I fear that I turned the acetic acid of vinegar into acetone... Varnish remover. Corroded metal, Melted vynil floor. The dish soap made rhe vinegar go deep. It's 5% acid but evaporation of water turned it into 100% acid... Powder on my skin & eyes. My eyes peeled, I started to see whitish some days, lost vision. I feel like my eyes are wrapped in vynil & paint thinner is poured diwn my throat constantly. I have a hoarse voice now. It hurts to talk, in my chest too.
I tried washing the walls & ceiling in the bathroom. Sprayed water. The paint melted on the ceiling, my hands were full of wet paint. Tasted it. Now it peels. I warned the landlord that the new building paint was not right in the bathroom, it soaked water, grey spots... Will probably mold, but acid is deadlier than my old moldy home. Every breath is agony. My gut hurts. My skin burns. I now know how hell feels like. With people mocking & dismissing my reality & my pain. Demanding to be positive while calling me crazy. I wish i was... But I feel like I'm dying.
I fought to find a solution to no avail. Called disaster specialists but they don't do chemicals, found one but his water hose & tank can only fit a warehouse. I called the firemenbut too late, the fumes weren't noticeable anymore. But hours here is painful, especially after a bath. A plumber said that i corroded the metal of the kitchen sink, that not just acid evaporate but metal dust. It will get worse & need to be changed minimum 500$ but im poor. I literally have razor blades in my throat & lungs. I can't change evetything... I can't move out it's a special housing for the poor, took me 4 years to flee a flooded appartment full of mold, no one want a jobless cripple. This home was my last chance to heal & have a life. I ruined it with vinegar & weird chemical mixes...
What did i do? How do I fix it? How do I extract acid from metal, vynil, bath acryluc, porcelaine toilet & sink? What paint ro seal my bathroom without creating more toxic fumes or seal too much & create mold? I can't ask the organisation for a transfer until 2 years & they don't accept medical reasons. How do I survive? I don't have the courage to trash evetything I own (i washed it all with acid) & move to a room. Last time I ended up homeless, as a teen, when the house owner changed her mind...
How do i remove acid from it all? Bicarbonate made weird fumes. Left a residue that still irritate... And it's the building itself that I ruined. Why is it still making fumes months later! Water makes it worse.
Damned if you do & if you don't. I literally ruined everything i own. My gands swell red just touching my backpack after washing it at the laundromat with contaminated clothes... And a new natural detergent... Clothes came out oily sticky... What did I create
How can I save my life, my home, clothes...
A dry cleaner said that a visible vinegar spot could be removed but not vinegar all over.
Im in constant agony. I only fond good thing when I google vinegar, but if i google acetic acid i have all symptoms of chemical burn. It can attack the nervous system. I shake as if i had parkingson Sometimes & can't think clearly as if I had dementia... So in pain & dizzy, so gard to eat & breathe & talk... & Live...
Please help me understand what i did & how to remove acid & stabilize the materials so I won't taste the building fir days everytime i wet something... Or stay here.
I went to stores, called my insurances, 3 hospitals, 6 times... 6 doctor visits, countless pleas to my landlird. I even spent 7 days in a psych ward to flee the fumes, i had nowhere left to go. No family, friends, shelters...
This feels like a testament. A doctor mocked me saying that he put vinegar in his salad. DON'T!!! I had such a fast agony from using a bottle in one shot, skin, eyes, heart, lungs, mental problems so quickly... From unnatural acid that even eroded METAL!
How do I fix this so I can live? Thanks
Reddit downvoted me & said the chemical got to my brain too. It sure did! The sad thing is that they acknowledged my reality better than doctors by admitting the poison is real
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