MY WORKPLACE ALLERGY NIGHTMARE
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MY WORKPLACE ALLERGY NIGHTMARE
Sometimes the hardest thing about allergies, is convincing others they exist.
Several years ago I had to leave a job I loved due to a work-place allergy. This was no average work place allergy as I was only an admin assistant in an office but it was found that petrol fumes had been leaking into the room through a hole in the floor directly underneath my desk from the mechanical workshop below us.
I struggled for over three years with horrendous symptoms, what started out as a simple scratchy throat, sore eyes, tight chest, runny nose turned into extreme chest discomfort, headache, digestive symptoms, the worst ever sinus problems and an all round lethergy. I had been to casualty because I could barely breathe and it was not even after that point when I knew I had to leave. The crunch point came when I had had two weeks off and within 20 minutes of working in the same room my sinus pain was raging.
It was found there was low levels of benzene present as the company did air tests but I failed to convince them, I think, that I was so unwell, for so long. No one else was this ill, so surely I must be mistaken, they used to think.
It took over over two years for my chest to improve slightly, I was left however with nasal polyps and my nose is now always red, which is a source of concern as I wonder what damage I may have done by inhaling these fumes.
I don't think I ever managed to convince my employers I was truly ill.
Several years ago I had to leave a job I loved due to a work-place allergy. This was no average work place allergy as I was only an admin assistant in an office but it was found that petrol fumes had been leaking into the room through a hole in the floor directly underneath my desk from the mechanical workshop below us.
I struggled for over three years with horrendous symptoms, what started out as a simple scratchy throat, sore eyes, tight chest, runny nose turned into extreme chest discomfort, headache, digestive symptoms, the worst ever sinus problems and an all round lethergy. I had been to casualty because I could barely breathe and it was not even after that point when I knew I had to leave. The crunch point came when I had had two weeks off and within 20 minutes of working in the same room my sinus pain was raging.
It was found there was low levels of benzene present as the company did air tests but I failed to convince them, I think, that I was so unwell, for so long. No one else was this ill, so surely I must be mistaken, they used to think.
It took over over two years for my chest to improve slightly, I was left however with nasal polyps and my nose is now always red, which is a source of concern as I wonder what damage I may have done by inhaling these fumes.
I don't think I ever managed to convince my employers I was truly ill.
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