Moved three times to get away from Weed fumes, and now it's happening again

Johndole25

I am posting this here because I don't know of any other forum. If someone could link me to somewhere they might know can help please do. I just wanted to get his off my chest.

I posted a few years ago about weed fumes impacting my life in a serious way. I moved once and thought it wouldn't happen again. I was very wrong, it was FAR worse in the place in a different part of the country, so bad in fact that my last flat was filled with fumes day in day night from downstairs, and both side neighbours. This literally drove me mad, and by mad I mean serious life threatening mental illness that was highly developed. I don't want to hear anything about "get over it" or "learn to deal with your reaction to weed". I simply can't, and I've had professional therapy unsuccessfully. Something about weed makes me VERY ill. 

So I save for a while and decide to move again. This time I make SURE that there will be no fumes, I ask about the neighbours I scout the area, I make sure there wont be anything like that. I pay deposit and a months rent and move. 

I was finally free.

I started to get my life back in order, I woke up early, ate a perfect diet, began being able to talk to people again, learning things and looking forward to work. I was becoming well in a real and for the first time in 6 years (how long I had been drowning in fumes) I could see the chance of living an actual life. I can't explain the feeling of being a very unwell person and coming out of it like that. The trajectory was right.

Two weeks ago, I was taking the bins out and I smelled very strong weed fumes. I was admittedly a bit annoyed, but I put it down to someone near the street having one and I elt it go, I wasn't about to get annoyed over something like that. Then it began. The whole street where my door is started to stench of the pungent fumes. I had a very bad evening since it was coming in near my window. The stress was great, the though of this happening again would feel like the end. I gave it a DAY, next day the whole alley was filled with it right next to my window, then the NEXT. I located where it was from the opposite side of the road.

Needless to say I had what felt like a break. Then the depression and dissociation came. My ears popped numerous times badly and my hearing is muffled badly. I am truly !!!!!! hopeless of the actual terror of having to live somewhere where fumes are invading every ounce of my life again. I've stopped enjoying things, I can't speak to family or friends and I can't even bare to go back to my flat. I shouted numerous times in the street and now everyone thinks I'm crazy.

I'm falling and I can see the bottom, the escape. All I ever wanted to was be away from drug fumes and have clean air. 

MovingForwards

Unfortunately, it's common use by people.

Only thing you can do is move out to a rural area, with land and hope for the best.

Regarding your health contact your GP / key worker or whoever else you contact for support with your MH before it gets you into trouble.

shaun_from_Africa

There's one thing that might help and this involves increasing the air pressure inside your property very slightly by having a fan that brings in air from the outside (providing there is somewhere that a fan assembly can be mounted where there is no smell of weed).
As the pressure in the property will then be a tiny bit higher than outside and the air coming in through the fan will go out through any gaps in the windows, holes in the floor etc, this should help prevent the smells from entering.

This is the sort of thing I'm thinking of:
https://www.i-sells.co.uk/nuaire-drimaster-eco-hall-control-diffuser-positive-input-ventilation-unit?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvq7XzKyJ6QIV0kPTCh0iUQIOEAQYASABEgLjm_D_BwE

but there are many similar types available.

Johndole25

MovingForwards said:

Unfortunately, it's common use by people.

Only thing you can do is move out to a rural area, with land and hope for the best.

Regarding your health contact your GP / key worker or whoever else you contact for support with your MH before it gets you into trouble.

Thanks.

People seem so persistent to get high that they forget that they a literally releasing carboxylized drugs freely into the air and other people. Imagine forcing people to drink alcohol.

Unfortunately doing that requires money. I can't afford to buy a house.

Johndole25

shaun_from_Africa said:

There's one thing that might help and this involves increasing the air pressure inside your property very slightly by having a fan that brings in air from the outside (providing there is somewhere that a fan assembly can be mounted where there is no smell of weed).
As the pressure in the property will then be a tiny bit higher than outside and the air coming in through the fan will go out through any gaps in the windows, holes in the floor etc, this should help prevent the smells from entering.

This is the sort of thing I'm thinking of:
https://www.i-sells.co.uk/nuaire-drimaster-eco-hall-control-diffuser-positive-input-ventilation-unit?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvq7XzKyJ6QIV0kPTCh0iUQIOEAQYASABEgLjm_D_BwE

but there are many similar types available.

I have an air purifier that sits near my door, would that be of similar use? I would spend every penny I had if it meant no fumes

shaun_from_Africa

Johndole25 said:

I have an air purifier that sits near my door, would that be of similar use? I would spend every penny I had if it meant no fumes

Not really. You need something that can draw if clean air from outside which will then result in a very slight airflow with the air moving out of your property.

RelievedSheff

You must be seriously unlucky with your choice of housing.

Grenage

There are garden plants that smell similar, but I think it's quite apparent that people smoking week is not your problem.  The aroma of someone smoking outside is going to have pretty much zero physiological effect.

Davesnave

RelievedSheff said:

You must be seriously unlucky with your choice of housing.

Either that, or seriously gifted in the nasal department. I would be looking for a placement with a company that needs olfactory testing personnel if I possessed such sensitivity.

Otherwise, it's perfectly feasible to rent in the countryside, which might be what Moving Forwards meant. Property with land is not a viable option for most people, but country rentals are often in lesser demand because of their relative inconvenience.

Johndole25

Grenage said:

There are garden plants that smell similar, but I think it's quite apparent that people smoking week is not your problem.  The aroma of someone smoking outside is going to have pretty much zero physiological effect.

It's not basil or any other plant that might have the same sort of smell as cannabis and yes it really is people smoking drugs that is my problem.
Fumes right next to your property after having them come in in vast quantities that did affect me, and not on a psychsomatic level, on a real way due to the frequency and strength. The doubt of it coming in is enough for those feeling to remain.
You don't know how carboxlated drugs fumes can affect an individual. There are people with nut allergies who are so allergic that they can be triggered from being near someone who has been eating them.

Johndole25

Davesnave said:

RelievedSheff said:

You must be seriously unlucky with your choice of housing.

Either that, or seriously gifted in the nasal department. I would be looking for a placement with a company that needs olfactory testing personnel if I possessed such sensitivity.

Otherwise, it's perfectly feasible to rent in the countryside, which might be what Moving Forwards meant. Property with land is not a viable option for most people, but country rentals are often in lesser demand because of their relative inconvenience.

Actually I have vestibulary issues because of damage to my upper lateral cartilage of my nose and my sense of smell is quite diminished.
Maybe I will consider it but without access to amenities I doubt it would be suitable, unless it s a very small town where food and supplies can be delivered.