I was an self employed Electrician , but I got so tired very quickly from even really small jobs and also tired of people asking me if I was ill because any large amount of movement makes me sweat like crazy.

I have gone up and down on my benzo levels, slowly tapering down the amounts, but it seems I always end up at the current level. Some days I will take 10 Mgs and others 40 and less Xanax. It is a Roller coaster physically and emotionally.

What I worry about most of all is tolerance to the meds. I am sure it will happen at some point since I have been on them over 4 years. Then what ?

Just wondering how Mrs. Smith copes with her symptoms. Maybe I am going about this all wrong,but it works for now. It is the closest to “normal” I have found that works for my symptoms.

We left for South Padre Island for two months after they had sprayed the house. I noticed I starting sweating profusely for days after being in south Texas for a couple of weeks. We returned on the first day of December and when I opened the house I could not breath. I thought it was dust even though we have a maid service. The pest control company came back that week and sprayed again. This is when all hell broke loose for me.

After he sprayed and left the house, the heat came on and I could not even stay in the house. I opened all of the windows and cleared out most of the vapors. For the next two months I had night sweats,severe fatigue and felt like I had the flu just without the fever, just a blah kind of feeling.My partner kept saying I was depressed, but I knew I was not. I went to my Dr. and he did a complete metabolic test on me. He tested for everything from A to Z . I was 38 at the time and my testosterone level was the lowest he had ever seen for someone my age. I was put on patches for the testosterone.

I called the pest control company and told them not to spray again. They did the first of February. I was so mad , my Dr. thought I was crazy when I told him all of this so he sent me to a endocrinologist . Waste of time because her answer was to move out of the house. I came home and slept in the sunroom for a week. I was burning , had insomnia, vomiting and felt like I was dying. My partner never had any symptoms until later that summer.

This completely ruined my life, I lost my business, I am taking 60 mgs of Adderall daily, 30 mgs of Valium, and 4 mgs of Xanax a day. I tried four SSRI’s and all caused me to swell and breakout in a rash. Shortly after the last exposure, I wrecked 2 trucks in less than a month. This was before I was on all of this medicine crap. If I do not take the Adderall, I can not even concentrate enough to drive, watch TV and absorb what I am watching and forget reading a book.

This year in March, my partner had respiratory failure while in Memphis. He started having breathing issues in 2008 near the 4th of July. He was hospitalized for three months, rehab for two months and is finally getting over the whole issue.

I am in full agreement with Patricia Smith. It ruined my life. It basically has caused me to be dependent on drugs and Hormone replacement. Who knows what the future holds for me now. I am finally glad to have somewhere to tell my story where people do not think I am crazy, even though I fell crazy sometimes.