Thank you Hebbeh. Everything should all be clean now. All of the drywall that had the black mold was ripped out and replaced. We replaced the plywood that was rotten as well. From all appearances everything is now completely clean. We used some of that new supermold remover for any small spots. From my best look around, there is just no mold left. It is possible that the long term mold exposure initiated a health problem, though this trigger has now been removed for years. Yet, as a recommendation for others who might be delaying water damage related work, you should certainly get on it as soon as possible. It does not get cheaper by ignoring it.
It is such a frustration when I push an exhale and it just stops midway through. This is a somewhat odd medical problem as I really do not have any symptoms during the day: it is largely a non-disease; I am not in any way limited with my asthma. I can at any time try to force out an exhale to demonstrate to myself that there is a subclinical problem, though there is typically no great need for me to reach into my vital capacity reserve. The one time that this can be problematic is at night when I am not able to consciously monitor my breathing to prevent apnea, though even my night time breathing has seemed better of late.
One possible approach that I have encountered is a book that appears to claim a curative benefit by using a keto and diet approach. I was worried that when I tired keto a few years ago that this might have been a trigger for my asthma. I was highly impressed with how rapidly I was able to lose weight while on keto; weight just seemed to easily shed. Some of the literature speaks of how excess can contribute to asthma. I am right around 30 BMI; so if losing weight will help then I know how to crash my weight quickly with keto. I also tried some mushrooms (Tiger milk) that were supposed to be helpful. I was thinking of setting up a home grow op to grow these mushrooms as it would save me a fair amount of money growing them myself.
Asthma is just a very frustrating medical problem to cope with. It is somewhat surprising that the bronchioles could just inflame like that and make it so challenging to breathe. You might have thought that the body would have more layers of redundancy to prevent such a problem. When I looked at the KEGG pathway for asthma there did not seem to be that much complexity involved.
I have had some problem with ecezma in the past. For about 3 months my right hand was really sore; washing my hand seemed to make it worse. This went away and has largely not returned. The only thing that I can remember doing at the time was taking vitamin D and then the ecezma seemed to vanish; not sure whether there was a cause and effect relation involved. However, apparently there is a known connection between ecezma risk and asthma risk.
In terms of my full genome polygenic scores: I scored at the 100th percentile for IL18 which has been associated with asthma; I also scored at the 92nd percentile on the asthma, hay fever and eczema polygenic score; also at the 84th percentile for Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis which is also asthma related.; also at the 74th percentile for asthma COPD overlap syndrome. Good to put all of this out there so that it is a known quantity. These SNPs might offer leads in terms of what to do. There might be some way to counteract the effects of the genetics. Probably reaching too far down the genome report though I was also at 67th percentile population risk of systemic sclerosis- another auto-immune - asthma risk condition.
What I actually found funny after reading through some of the research for the above on how to lower 1L18 levels etc. : it was the standard stuff, eat healthier, get plenty of sunshine etc.. People sometimes think that all this genetic mumbo jumbo will give them a pass on healthy living and this is simply untrue.
Edited by mag1, 26 September 2022 - 03:02 AM.
