IEQ/PIR

[Guest guest]

Despite the presence of the author of the Personal Impact Rating

scale, the IEQ group as a whole has no real understanding of people

actually living at an advanced Personal Impact Rating.

Studies and statistics using " normal " people as controls do not

reflect the needs of extreme mold responders and testing cannot

address the changing environmental conditions in a viable " real

time " manner.

This should be quite apparent.

Anyone who manifests a response to contaminated articles brought out

of a contaminated house is misguided to believe that their problems

are over because their new environment was " tested " .

At best, even " perfect " testing can only establish a baseline for a

pristine environment. Those of us who have tested ourselves by

temporarily retreating to a pristine environment can attest to the

ease in which contaminated articles may be introduced and alter

our 'comfort level' beyond an acceptible response.

The IEQ list is misguided to beleive that that this phenomenon

exists only in those who have arrived at a PIR that causes them to

complain bitterly about contact with possessions.

There is no reason to conclude that the same " effect " is

nonexistent in those who are at a lesser PIR and cannot point

directly at the source of vague and subclinical complaints.

As we have seen, people at lesser stages of this illness can be

identified by those of us who have been pushed to an extreme yet

they will reject the concept until they become too ill to ignore it

any longer.

It will sound counterproductive that I am expressing a lack of

confidence in the very people who seem most interested in helping

and appear to be the best source of information, but this oversight

means that their concepts would have accomplished little or nothing

for someone at my level of reactivity.

Presumably, anyone else at my PIR would also receive information

that would only be applicable to someone that would be expected to

recover by simply moving and they would be perplexed at their

continued sense of exposure and illness.

I anticipate that the IEQ member asking about studies on attics in

foggy coastal climates will not find information relevant to his

requirements in the IEQ group.

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