For the first time since the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome (MCS) had started I was finding real ways to manage it.  The next couple of years presented a time of ever increasing knowledge about how to improve things.  I had found out what the problem was at its root and I was in a position to make it better.

 

The apartment I was in was great but I still did not feel as good as I wanted to most of the time.  There began to be flashes of what I remembered as normal, an hour here and a few minutes there.  Over the next several years of living in that apartment I would discover a lot of the triggers for different reactions and how to manage them. 

 

The real blessing of the time I spent in my 1920’s, hard wood floor, with real wood construction apartment is that the space itself did not cause a MCS reaction with me.  Being in a reaction free environment allowed me to test individual theories and what was a trigger to MCS and what was not.  It also permitted me to discover how to minimize the reactions I was having and even to discover the existence of false reactions.

 

The next few years of putting what I was learning into practice would allow me to go from feeling not so good most of the time to being reaction free most of the time.  I would discover what kind of cloths to buy and how to wash them.  I would find out that taking showers in a certain way could almost always get rid of a reaction.  I would learn a lot about bedding, kitchenware and how to work on my motorcycle.  I would study a lot about plastics and how most of the plastics made after 2005 are almost always better.  I would learn how to care for and clean my car.  I discovered that often putting up with a short term MSC reaction would save me hours or days of an effect in the future.  I would even find that some the things I was once afraid of would turn out to be ok.

 

The main purpose for everything I am writing here is to help you, the reader, get better faster.  In the following posts you may find strategies for management that can be put into place tonight instead of spending months or years discovering them on you own.  If life gets better for you then I will have achieved my goal in all of this.  No matter how bleak it seams it can get better.

 

 I hope you find what you are looking for in the posts to come.