Hello, about ten years ago, I bought a table from a school.
It was a solid table with read paint---it was probably
decades old. I sanded the table in an enclosed room, with no
breath mask of any kind. In fact, I didn't even have the
door open until later. Talk about stupid, I was breathing up
red sawdust from my nose for days!
This table was probably fifty years old, and had red paint
that I sanded off with one of those sanders from Home Depot.
Can this have harmed my lungs permanently? I started having
problems with breathing about ten years ago, or therabouts,
and this is the only thing I have think of to have happened.
Could it not be the sawdust but maybe the lead (or whatever)
paint? I have had a ct scan of my lungs, but with nothing
showing up. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? The
only thing I can think of close to it, is when a friend of
mine was into developing film, and he inhaled some chemicals
or somesuch, and damaged his lungs/heart.
Any comments would be most appreciated! Thanks!
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