You sure do have a lot to deal with.
And of course, none of this is your fault!
I was wondering if you heard you folks talking about a time when your
mom was OK vs when this horrible depression came. What kind of work
did she do? Did your dad do?
Now the chemical I've studied (as a lay person who has an interest in
it, because it harmed someone in my family) ... is a teratogen.
Meaning it does cause birth defects. However, whether or not it caused
yours, I can not say. However, it is possible, because it affects so
many parts of the body: joints, cartilage, blood, immune system,
nervous system, could be any of the glands/organs, a lot of
things.
Other things that would most likely show up with it, would be this for
fatigue:
Chills
Fatigue
Pale color
Shortness of breath
Rapid heart rate * *
Yellow skin color (jaundice)
Dark urine
Enlarged spleen
Eyes burning & hurting (with initial exposure - flu symptoms, too)
Red blood cells immature
Blood in Urine (part of autoimmune hemolytic anemia)
In addition there are many times, off and on, Horrible
Headaches!
The Central Nervous System damage gets the most attention, things
like:
Difficulty Concentrating
Short Term Memory Loss
Difficulty Sleeping
Constantly Irritable
Depression
Suicidal Tendencies
You say that your mother was severely depressed. Did she have the rest
of 'the pattern?' If not, dismiss this info. If so, and you wanted to
check more, there may be enough information in her medical file to say
'yes' or 'no'
This girl saved the medical info on her mother from 1975. She was only
10 when her mother died of acquired
autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
Pets can get it, too. Such
as these
In general, if someone has been harmed by a chemical, it can be
counter productive to take more chemicals ... as your body is maxed
out. At least I've heard comments on that by those who are experts in
the field of chemical overexposure. So, ask your doctor if there is
anything that isn't working for you, so you can take the most minimal
medications.
You say you are tired. Would you be tired without the medications?
How well do you sleep?
It took a long time to find this information. But I
looked into it because someone in my family was harmed by
2-butoxyethanol (by working on the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup)
I am not a medical person or a researcher. I'm just an ordinary person
who took an interest in what 2-butoxyethanol
can do. And thus, I've come to recognize the bigger picture of
what this chemical does.
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