00:00I'm currently healing from black molds after living in a moldy apartment, so I'm gonna share some symptoms that I experienced
00:05So the first thing was burning like a burning sensation. I would feel this all over my skin specifically my face and my neck
00:12I would walk into my apartment and my neck and face would burn
00:16The second thing that I experienced was eczema first it started off as like a little speck on my neck
00:22And then it started spreading pretty quickly. I'm also now trying to heal from eczema
00:27It was spreading all over my arms my legs my neck the third thing is
00:32Allergies and just congestion. I was feeling congested more than ever
00:37I have sinus issues, but I couldn't breathe most of the time breathing in my apartment was difficult
00:43The fourth thing is burning itchy eyes
00:46My eyes were always irritated and the fifth thing was extreme fatigue no matter how much sleep
00:52I got I constantly felt exhausted and tired with mold
00:56It's not always visible. So it's kind of just hard to identify what the issue is. I ran through all the scenarios
01:03I spent a ton of money trying to figure out what was going on
01:07and my conclusion was it has to be my apartment because I have never experienced health issues like this before and
01:14My stress levels weren't any different than they have been before in the past
01:17I've never dealt with eczema before just like in your place tested for mold is expensive
01:22I ended up getting my place tested and ended up finding out that I have black molds since being out of my apartment
01:28My symptoms have healed rapidly. My skin is clearing up. I'm starting to feel better
01:34Who knows where else mold was?
01:36I guarantee that there was mold in other areas
01:38But because testing is expensive and landlords are only gonna fix what is visible and what they can see they're not gonna test new areas
01:47Oftentimes mold lives behind the walls under the flooring so you can't always see it, which is
01:52frustrating
01:53So that's where you have to like go out of your way and get your own testing
01:57But like realistically not everyone could afford that and I couldn't afford to test a bunch of different areas
02:02So I just went with what I saw
02:05Basically what protocol is so I was able to break my lease and they gave me my deposit back
02:09I didn't spend any other additional money outside of the testing that I had to pay
02:13What protocol is is your landlord needs to act within 30 days?
02:17So for those who don't know people are saying, you know, I can't break my lease. I don't have the money
02:22I didn't have to pay any money because it was an unhealthy environment for me to live in if you go through your lease agreement
02:28There's a full section about mold and what the protocol is and what they need to be doing
02:32So look over that in California as renters. We have a ton of rates
02:37So, you know, we're protected in a lot of ways
02:41So basically I confronted them they handled the situation
02:45They did the whole remediation process which took about three weeks and then I had to move back in
02:50I can't just be like I'm dipping out first. They have to do what they need to do
02:55And then I moved back in hoping that the environment was fine, and it still made me sick
03:01And the thing with mold if you have a reaction to it now anytime
03:05I would go into my apartment like immediately the reaction would you know
03:08My autoimmune condition would flare up my eczema would flare up
03:11My symptoms would come back pretty quickly now that my body is so sensitive to mold
03:15So because of that I confronted them and I let them know, you know because of my for my health and safety
03:21I can no longer live here. I want to be taken off of the and then in terms of the moving out process I
03:27unfortunately threw away thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars worth of
03:32Furniture and just things that I couldn't take because my whole place was infested with the mold
03:37I had to get specific cleaner to clean my clothes
03:41And I basically just got rid of everything which obviously sucks now I'm living in a new home so
03:48Yeah, it's been a journey, but I was able to get out of it
03:51I was able to break my lease and they are giving me my deposit back which I'm really grateful for and then I'm gonna send
03:56Them a spreadsheet of all the items that I had to throw out and see if they can match that number if
04:02They refuse to I'm gonna go to a small claims court or I will follow through with one of the lawyers that I've been speaking
04:08To I got my test results back a few weeks ago. I went through a mosaic diagnostics
04:13And I did their mycotoxin level
04:15I did their mycotoxin test and
04:17Basically, it's just a urine sample test you send that in it takes three to four weeks for your results to come back
04:23And then they'll send you
04:26You know everything that they tested
04:29Different the different types of mold that is in your body if there is mold present
04:34the levels and then
04:36What to do so like protocol and how you can detox it out of the body earlier this year
04:40I moved into an apartment with black mold, which made me extremely sick
04:43My video went viral hanging over 3 million views
04:45So I'm sharing an update my landlord ended up remediating the place
04:48But shortly after moving in my symptoms returned even worse for the sake of my health and safety
04:51I decided the apartment wasn't habitable out of throw anything that was porous and basically started from scratch
04:56It took me three to four days to get rid of everything an additional two to three weeks to deep clean everything before moving it
05:02Into my new place. I'm currently living with my bestie
05:04I'm so grateful to be living with Sian after months of living in fight-or-flight mode. I can really finally focus on healing
05:09Detoxing and seeing different specialists to help support me with the symptoms that I've been experiencing in part three
05:14I'll share everything that I've been doing to heal
05:16But right now I'm in a trial and error period to see what works and what doesn't
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