sunnysammy
Junior Member
Back in August I signed into a lease with an apartment building in Florida. Over the next four months I began to develop symptoms such as extreme weight loss, abdomen pain, headaches, and just general feelings of being tired and ill. I went to an E.R over my abdomen pain last December after living at the apartment complex for five months. I was in fear that I might have something wrong with my appendix. They assured me my appendix was okay and that my problems were probably related to a U.T.I that I had apparently developed. I saw my primary later that week and the test showed no U.T.I.
By January my doctor was extremely concerned about my weight loss. I had gone from 130 pounds down to 107. I was shocked at my own image in the mirror. I still felt hungry but was nauseated whenever I tried to eat. My primary admitted me to a hospital. They checked everything under the sun and decided I might have a peptic ulcer, since everything major had been cleared. My doctor put me on medication and sent me back to my apartment.
A few weeks later I was still feeling ill and had developed a strong cough with a lot of mucus coming up. I felt out of breath and had developed a wheeze, as well as really bad tremors that I could not control. At a check up appointment my doctor was surprised by my wheeze. She said it sounded like I had some how developed asthma. She put me on two inhalers and asked me a ton of questions. One being, "Could their be any standing water in your apartment or bad piping?" I was honest. "Possibly. It's a crappy apartment complex...and I drink the water right out of the sink quite often." She decided to test me for legionella.
My results came back with very high exposed rates. Unexposed being a reading of around 65. I had double that count. After being sick for 6 months I was angry over the results. A place I was paying to live in had given me a disease. My wheezing has not stopped and even though I'm a smoker with a low immune system I was wondering if there was any legal action I could take over this situation. My boyfriend that lived with me also had a deep cough with mucus and was taken to the E.R during the six months we lived there for difficulty breathing. I broke the lease and I'm being charged $1900 for the four months I'm not living there. I'm confused and frustrated over this ordeal. I also worry about babies, smokers, cancer patients, and other people with low immune systems that might be living in the apartment complex that I was. I told the apartment complex and they said they would have someone check into it, but never got back to me. I was shocked that I never heard anything else about the legionella results for the water samples they said they would take. Is there anything I can do about all of this? Thanks so much for the help!
By January my doctor was extremely concerned about my weight loss. I had gone from 130 pounds down to 107. I was shocked at my own image in the mirror. I still felt hungry but was nauseated whenever I tried to eat. My primary admitted me to a hospital. They checked everything under the sun and decided I might have a peptic ulcer, since everything major had been cleared. My doctor put me on medication and sent me back to my apartment.
A few weeks later I was still feeling ill and had developed a strong cough with a lot of mucus coming up. I felt out of breath and had developed a wheeze, as well as really bad tremors that I could not control. At a check up appointment my doctor was surprised by my wheeze. She said it sounded like I had some how developed asthma. She put me on two inhalers and asked me a ton of questions. One being, "Could their be any standing water in your apartment or bad piping?" I was honest. "Possibly. It's a crappy apartment complex...and I drink the water right out of the sink quite often." She decided to test me for legionella.
My results came back with very high exposed rates. Unexposed being a reading of around 65. I had double that count. After being sick for 6 months I was angry over the results. A place I was paying to live in had given me a disease. My wheezing has not stopped and even though I'm a smoker with a low immune system I was wondering if there was any legal action I could take over this situation. My boyfriend that lived with me also had a deep cough with mucus and was taken to the E.R during the six months we lived there for difficulty breathing. I broke the lease and I'm being charged $1900 for the four months I'm not living there. I'm confused and frustrated over this ordeal. I also worry about babies, smokers, cancer patients, and other people with low immune systems that might be living in the apartment complex that I was. I told the apartment complex and they said they would have someone check into it, but never got back to me. I was shocked that I never heard anything else about the legionella results for the water samples they said they would take. Is there anything I can do about all of this? Thanks so much for the help!
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