Comment by njoubert | Hacker News Reader

Comment by njoubert | Hacker News Reader

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Thank you for this, this is awesome. You shared a long, challenging, and deeply personal experience with candor and empathy. Well done!

I grew up in an agricultural area and everyone had respiratory issues from the massive amounts of pesticide and pollen in the area. I was also allergic to house dust mites. It was bad! I remember being unable to breathe through my nose at all for years, having surgery, and completely changing my experience of life. I've recently noticed that i'm having quite a bit of trouble breathing at night, and those old demons are coming back. Your writeup is inspiring me to do a closer investigation as I have been experiencing very similar issues - brainfog, memory loss, all the above.

Your comments is also on point around the shortcomings of OneMedical-style rotating cast of practitioners rather than the longer term relationship with a caregiver.

I know story first hand about a boy with a strong astma on breathing machine daily from dusty capital. When mom moved him to my clean region with fresh air he stopped needing it after two weeks.

But even living here can cause health issues because of winter. More exactly burning coal, not being able to wind room before sleep with clean air, sticking in heated house in dry air and washing in hard (?) water with too much calcium and other minerals.

I had allergy to pollen every year counted with a watch. The same week, hospital, nearly choked up to death. I was 7-8yo.

It disappeared itself. but I think I changed my diet as a teenager. Later discovered histamine sensitivity, the hard way.

Everything eventually comes to our diet not being what it was before inventing farming in natural conditions, our actual diet messing up our natural biom, including already erased majority of bacteria we originally had as mammals and mistakes of our parents impacting our wiring before getting born, especially in pregnancy period (including being born the wrong hole).

Later it's just our body adapting to what it has and coping as it can. The older the more bad accumulates.

Adding new experimental ideas on top of that.. Humanity is not smart, but it surely is persistent at blindly trying things.

It's just one person finds it earlier other later and sometimes have a different kind of luck.

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