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Hi all,
A couple years ago I moved into a moldy apartment. I got really sick there. First some kind of virus and then after starting some hormone therapy everything in my body went nuts. The neuro symptoms were the worst, but also fatigue, sweats, anxiety etc etc.
I stopped hormone treatment (I'm transgender), and treated for yeast which I managed to improve dramatically in that time but still had die-off.
About a month before leaving the apartment I started suppressing androgen again to bring my testosterone levels down, but did not add any estrogen.
When I finally moved out of the apartment shortly after my die-off stopped within two weeks. Subsequently I stopped taking NAC and ALA which I'd been taking the max doses of for 8 months to deal with die-off toxins.
In the next few weeks in my new house I began developing new symptoms. First and immense fatigue and then immnune responses to EVERYTHING. The immune responses result in loads of brain inflammation.
I have white blood cell counts that are way below the minimum.
As far as I can tell there are three triggers that may have been the change in supplementation (ALA and NAC), the new house or the lowered testosterone.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
Obviously, environment is huge. So it could be something in the new house. But why would my die-off stop if there was something here making me sick? Could my immune system used to attacking mold start attacking me? I know that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but none of this really does to me.
Could stopping the supplements cause my immune system to go berserk? I haven't been able to add these back in because my immune response to them is too intense.
Hormonal change? Could this affect cytokines that much?
Any help would be fantastic.
Thanks guys.
A couple years ago I moved into a moldy apartment. I got really sick there. First some kind of virus and then after starting some hormone therapy everything in my body went nuts. The neuro symptoms were the worst, but also fatigue, sweats, anxiety etc etc.
I stopped hormone treatment (I'm transgender), and treated for yeast which I managed to improve dramatically in that time but still had die-off.
About a month before leaving the apartment I started suppressing androgen again to bring my testosterone levels down, but did not add any estrogen.
When I finally moved out of the apartment shortly after my die-off stopped within two weeks. Subsequently I stopped taking NAC and ALA which I'd been taking the max doses of for 8 months to deal with die-off toxins.
In the next few weeks in my new house I began developing new symptoms. First and immense fatigue and then immnune responses to EVERYTHING. The immune responses result in loads of brain inflammation.
I have white blood cell counts that are way below the minimum.
As far as I can tell there are three triggers that may have been the change in supplementation (ALA and NAC), the new house or the lowered testosterone.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
Obviously, environment is huge. So it could be something in the new house. But why would my die-off stop if there was something here making me sick? Could my immune system used to attacking mold start attacking me? I know that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but none of this really does to me.
Could stopping the supplements cause my immune system to go berserk? I haven't been able to add these back in because my immune response to them is too intense.
Hormonal change? Could this affect cytokines that much?
Any help would be fantastic.
Thanks guys.
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