Chemicals and CIDP

Brandy,
I appreciate OSHA much more now. We all hated it when they were coming to search for little blobs of Mercury and check our control upkeep.

I’m on the other side now. My chemistry classes included lots of carbon tet. and boiling 3 flasks (each) of concentrated H2SO4 and there was no hood that worked. No presence of the prof. After all, we were upper division students.

My lab trainer poured a bottle of pure mercury all over me–head, hair, clothing. (That was before OSHA) We did blood sugars with a reagent that was known for causing cancer. Sucking up chloroform with unprotected pipets. No squeeze bulbs for suction. And on and on.

Finally I had to quit because I became very sick one day and was taken to the ER. The clinic doctor said there was no problem. Everything OK. (Hmmm–) My own doctor told me never to go near any hospital lab again. For several years I avoided roomfulls of women with perfume. Gasoline Fumes. Polyester, ethanol, etc etc etc.

Our bosses knew of the risk from chemicals. We put up with because we were all invinceable.
Med techs you see. This was before we had machines and closed in reagents. So goes pride.

I shudder to think of all the poisons I inhaled. My micro lab partner had a rack stacked with Clostridia, Plague, Cholera, ect. She passed me carring the rack, dropped it all over my clothes. I was still “invinceable.” We had to have vaccinations to take that class: Typhoid, Shigella, a bunch of that sort. We WERE warned that that was just a postering to make the class look safe. It was not close to covering our risk.

I have been aware of my symptoms since 1985. Dx in 1987. That was the last I heard of anything about it. A report to my local Neuro. my primary Doc. No explanation no treatment, no clue. I’ve never had any treatment. I’m just now finding out what that is.

O Well. I don’t think medicare will pay. I know my medigap won’t.
Take care, Patricia

Brandy
I wonder why so many doctors are always giving vaccine. When I was working at the hospital, and it was just after the Hep. B was introduced, the hospital wanted all of us to buy a $100 vial and get the shot. Our pathologist .
had a meeting and told us what the hospital wanted us to doe.
We asked him repeatedly what he thought about it. He only restated that the hospital wanted us to do it. After 10 or 15 minutes of this the smartest one of us asked him if he was going to get on

He slammed his fist into the table and said, (no, shouted) ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! No one in my family!!!We don’t know what other deadly things are in that serum.

Brandy
I wonder why so many doctors are always giving vaccine. When I was working at the hospital, and it was just after the Hep. B vaccine was introduced, the hospital wanted all of us to buy a $100 vial and get the shot. Our pathologist had a meeting and told us what the hospital wanted us to do. We asked him repeatedly what he thought about it. He only restated that the hospital wanted us to do it. After 10 or 15 minutes of this the smartest one of us asked him if he was going to get one.

He slammed his fist into the table and said, (no, shouted) ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! No one in my family!!!We don’t know what other deadly things are in that serum. Several months later the AIDS disease was announced. The serum was made from people with Hep. B. How else could the even make it.

I still wonder what horrid things are lurking in the pooled blood that is made into products. I am afraid of gamma gobulin now, and refuse any blood based infusion. I know from my many years of hospital lab work that you cannot prove anything is NOT there, only that none was seen. I appreciate your comments.

Patricia

Jayjay

Yourn seems worse than mine. I can’t imagine falling from high equipment.

My illness began when I became numb from, first, a vaccination. Then I bacame allergic (more numbness) to the air in the lab where I worked. People were not following the rules about using aromatic chemicals in the open spaces instead of a hood that fanned fumes out. I didn’t go to meetings, places where people used scents (perfume. etc.), any sort of place that had fumes. i HAD TO QUIT MY JOB to get to be in a place with uncontaminated air.

I finally was sent to Scripps San Diego and got my diagnosis of CIDP. Finally my primary was impressed enough to actually believe I had a serious problem. But nothing was done to help me. That chemical allergy seemed to become less and less. We all forgot about it and then I started getting more and worse symptoms: all over pain, migraine, IBS, Gerd, CPS, and was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and myofaciel pain–got many muscle trigger points but they helped little.

Finally 20 years later, I searched out my letter from Scripps. took it to my doctor and he considered it seriously. That’s all though. I am going to forego vaccinations.

I hope you find the answer for your problems. Falling can be a bad problem. I know about that, having broken at least 10 bones from falls.

Take care
Patricia

yeah. always ask the doctor what HE’S doing for his family and for himself. I learned that the hard way.

Take care
Patricia

We have just used the normal ones that people think they need. This morning the ants came marching, under a rug in the back entrance, accross my kitchen floor, up into my cupboard, onto the shelves, into my favorite cereal. (I might have eaten some–hope not.) Yes. 🙁 I got out the raid and sprayed, then I wiped it all up with a paper towel. I wonder how much I got on me. I don’t smell the stuff any more. I might have attended Church smelling like a chemical plant. No one said anything; of course no one would. 😮

Patricia