I looked at a rental home today, it looked REALLY old. I spent about 20 minutes inside and started to feel asthma symptoms. The ceiling was a drop-panel ceiling (some of the panels had cracks) and the basement smelled so musty and gross that I almost had to hold my breath. There was what appeared to be pink insulation laying in a pile on the floor in the basement. Might I have gotten asbestos poisoning from being in there?

Between Kindergarten and 2nd grade (I’m in my 1st yr of college now) I was in a school that had asbestos ceiling panels/insulation as well as those cancer-causing PCB fluorescent lights. Honestly, what are my odds of contracting something nasty like Mesothelioma? Granted, I know the asbestos was undisturbed, but still, what are the odds? And please tell me how certain you are of them.
Thank you.
BTW the school district was sued for its endangerment of youth back in the mid 90′s, and cleaned up its act since.

I developed a severe sore throat after cutting through some insulation from an old store. I decided to see a doctor about this because it was unusual for me to have one. When I went I told him that the insulation might have been the cause of my sore throat. The Doctor replied well thats not the cause, it is either bacterial or viral. He performed some tests on me and both the test came back negative for both. That was it, I went home without answers to the reason. I was thinking it might have been asbestos related. I am just not the same lately my sore throats come back, I have dry mouth constantly, and excess phlem with blood. I would appreciate anyones answers for the possible cause of these symptoms. Thank You!
I developed a severe sore throat after cutting through a ceiling tile which had some insulation in it from an old store. I decided to see a doctor about this because it was unusual for me to have one. When I went I told him that the insulation might have been the cause of my sore throat. The Doctor replied well thats not the cause, it is either bacterial or viral. He performed some tests on me and both the test came back negative for both. That was it, I went home without answers to the reason. I was thinking it might have been asbestos related. I am just not the same lately my sore throats come back, I have dry mouth constantly, and excess phlem. I would appreciate anyones answers for the possible cause of these symptoms. Thank You!
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My brother 14, my sister 15, me 16 2yrs ago wen our adoptive parents decided that they wanted to put new insulation in our attic. They paid us to remove the old insulation. beings that the house was an old log cabin & built in the early 1900′s or late 1800′s it was filled with asbestos. My little brother was teh one doing most the work. but i helped him bag it up & vacume it out. (my sister was outside throwing it away) they gave us masks to use but beings im soo small my mask did nothing for me & i would have a dark blob on the inside when i took it off from inhailing it. i had to stop after 3 days because it made me sick & i still see little grey specks when i spit sometimes. but a few months later my brother was taken to the hospital & they had to ship him out on a helicopter to the closest ICU. he was in the hospital for a week & i think he had to have surgery. the doctors said he had water around his heart (pericardial effusion) & he almost died. was it cuz the asbestos?

The material that surrounds the water heater and is also in the walls as insulation, contains asbestos and is dangerous for our lungs my mom says, my mom gets words mixed up sometimes , do you think she means asbestos or something else ? I worry about it day and night because I’m into healthful living, but I don’t want to worry about things that my mom is wrong about because she gets words mixed up all the time. What do you think she could mean by this, I would ask her but she gets really mad whenever I talk and she tells me to shut up ? She said she was going to get it replaced or torn out but she is waiting until she has the money. We are all coughing every day it seems like, this could be coincidence but I am worried about everyone’s health.
Our house is a condo and it was built pretty recently , like just a few years ago.

For about a week i worked with my friends dad fixing up an old house. i removed old insulation, and put new insulation in. i was wondering if this short amount of time working with insulation had any effect on my lungs. At another time i spent probably 10 hours total stripping and handling asbestos wire with intent to sell it to a scrap yard. i was unaware that it could cause damage until a friend of my dads told me. how much damage do you think that did? i am wondering all of this because cross country running season is starting soon, and i am looking for ways to increase lung capacity, and strengthen my lungs, is there any way to repair the damage done?
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i wasent wearing a mask because i diden tknow it was harmful at the time