Amber, if you were a child I'd sit you down and give you a good stern talking to. You're not, and I'm still going to. :o)

With a CFIDS attack and repeated attacks stemming back to the 80s I'd have bet anything you hadn't found the WHY.

As I read about the flood, my first thought was, "you've got mold." But then I saw, you discovered this.

Then the bit about the new furniture... and I thought, "Oh boy, you've just compounded the problem." And then I saw, you also discovered this.

There's not much you can do about the mold, except move (do you have a basement... they're good places for mold to remain and filter up into the house through the air ducts).

Did you rip up the carpet and bin the furniture? Do you now just walk around on floor-boards or bare concrete and use real wood furniture not sawdust-glued-together furniture?

If not, why not?

Do your children now about these things? If so, let me at em.

Kids all over the place harp on to their parents about smoking... and that's based on the possibility of getting sick at some point in the future.

I hope they were like, "Mom, the carpet's making you sick, lets get rid of it. We're happy to walk on concrete as long as you're well".

And your husband... boy do I got a bone to pick with him. Same reasons.

My God woman... you're like someone who knows the pain in their thumb is because they keep hitting it with a hammer and who figures they'll be all right as long as they take pain relief tablets. It's easier to stop hitting it with a hammer.

You're living in a place you know is the cause of the problem and don't appear to be doing anyting about it.

As the Terminator says, "GET OUT!"

Move.

I'm sure your family will understand. And if they don't... let me give em an ear-bashing.

On one hand I'm mad at you - I've just told you why. And on the other hand I'm not. Because at least you know of the dangers within your "environment" and can pass this hard-gained knowledge on to your kids. And they can pass it on to their kids and so on.

Okay. I've had my say.

On a mold-related side note...

You do know there's also mold in certain food, I assume.

I've heard one thing you can take to help your body with the mold already in it is: Vitamin C (10 grams or 2 tsp.), a B50 complex (2 tablets), and niacinamide (three 500mg tablets). This is supposed to help detoxify the mycotoxins already in you and help remove the "gag" mold places on your white blood cells.

And sprinkling some Vitamin B powder on mold-suspect food is meant to "kill off" the mold.

Don't know if it's true. But it can't hurt to try, can it? And whatever can give you an edge, right?

OH... thought... a book on Cayenne done in the same style the book on Vinegar was done (maybe only Australians were subjected to the never-ending ads :o)).

I just did a search at Amazon. There appear to only be two books about Cayenne: "The Healing Power of Cayenne Pepper : Complete Handbook of Cayenne Home Remedies" and "The Health Benefits of Cayenne (Keats Good Health Guides)".

The first book was published in December last year - it's pretty new - and has a sales-rank of 129,583. (and people who bought it also bought Left For Dead which was already mentioned in this thread)

Wonder how it would go bought from the wholesaler and placed in certain health shops... maybe even on consigment. Hmmm.

It's interesting to see the length of this whole thread. There's obviously a lot of interest in Healing Yourself.

My opinion is that most Doctors are only good for one thing... fixing you when you're broken - setting broken limbs and stitching up bad cuts.

Other than that, all they do is prescribe antibiotics as a cure-all. HA!

If you're interested, Dr Sam Chachoua http://www.remissions.org/ seems to be making some interesting inroads in to Cancer Treatment and tissue regeneration. Won $10,000,000 in damages from UCLA for ruining his research too. HA!

And Royal Raymond Rife is fascinating. Apparantly he wanted to GIVE his Frequency Generator, which had a 100% success rate in curing cancer, to the world. His refusal to patent the device and turn it into a cash cow saw all his funding dry up and the ridicule begin.

There seems to be a consitent pattern to this. And from "men of science" who supposedly are about discovering new things. (I'm amazed at how so many scientists seem to be close-minded about new ideas. They have the same mind-set as those of old who refused to accept the earth's roundness, etc. You'd think after seeing the past performance of scientists in putting new things down when those new things were put forward by individuals and turned out to be correct, they'd have learned. Alas.)

Michael Ross.

P.S. Amber, don't take my pushing as "having a go at you" but please, move as soon as you can. Okay.