Mold and Mental Problems

[ggreg]

My husband and I have the same mental symptoms for almost 10 years.  We lived in a house for 15 years with all sorts of terrible mold in the basement from water, sometimes getting on stored stuff and on wall partitions down there, and upstairs some black mold around the edges of the tub.  We didn't know this was problematic until it was on the news, so we cleaned it up a couple years ago.  It dawned on me just the other day that since we have the same symptoms, it might have been that mold, and perhaps the spores are in our bodies and creating neurological problems.  

We both have very bad concentration, can't mentally filter or attach words with thoughts properly, lose balance often, walk with a wobble, exhaustion doing little things, no strength, got depression and anxiety.  We're only in our mid-50s and neither of us can work.  We just want to do the simple things in life and we can't.  

If this sounds like other people who have had mental problems related to mold, I'd like to hear it, please.  What doctor can we see and what blood test to ask for?  Took me two hours to put together this post.  Thank you.
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[miamiamia]

My son has seizures.  I visited the epilepsy board and did find that a woman said her daughter's seizures were caused by the toxic mold in their house (caused asthma, a rash all over the body, and seizures)- confirmed by a Dr. in New York specializing in allergies.  All of which went away when they had to abandon the home and all the posessions inside.  I just sent out the mold tests I did on my house yesterday.  Let me try to find her message.  She was kind enough to personally answer my question.

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We had found small spots of mold but at the time nothing major.My youngest daughter was one when we moved into the house.She started having rashes.She was allergie tested but had no allergies that they could find.Then are other daughter started having headaches,stomaches and asthma problems.Everytime my stepdaughter came and stayed with us she would get sick.Then almost a year later I devoloped asthma and was always fatigued all the time.Almost a year later my little one started having seizures. She was immediatly put in the hospital.Then I developed the most horrible rash.It covered my whole body.
  Through out all of this my girls ped started asking questions about our enviroment because she was watching their health as well as mine deteriate.I think it was my dad who first recommend a mold inspector.When I went to the hospital with my rash there was a new doctor there.She asked if I lived next to a radiation plant.Not even close.She was from another state somewhere.She said my rash was consesent with radiation poising.Then she started asking about my family.I told her the problems my kids were having.She said go home get your kids and leave your house its going to kill you.Then she asked if I had seen any mold in my house.After that I listened to my dad and called a mold inspetor.
    When he got there and pulled the baseboards in my daughters r m it was covered in thick black mold.I knew then.We ened up having it in every room in the house.
  Once the ped saw the report she agreed that the mold had caused my girls problems.The first neruo wasnt sure because we live in CA and they are just starting to look at mold as causing health problems.Her new neruo was an expert in different areas.She order several test on my daughter over a couple of years.She also treated my other daughter for the headaches and stomaches.
  During this time I contacted a doctor out of New York.He is an expert in toxic mold related illness.I sent him copys of my kids charts from the ped from before we lived in the house until after we had left the house.He concluded that the mold is what caused my daughters seizures and my familys health issues
    Both my older kids health returned to normal soon after we left the house.My fatigue is gone and for the most part so is the asthma.My daughter with the seizures still has seizures but we do know from testing that she will someday outgrow them.She doesnt have eplipsy,no scarring on the brain or abnormalities