I need help
I washed my sheets in the beginning of June not realizing that when my fitted sheet snagged the mattress cover off the corner it fully exposed all the fiberglass in my mattress, I then later knocked my basket on the side of my bed between the wall and all the clothes dumped on the floor and I just scooped it all up not realizing fiberglass was all over them. I basically spread it around my room for two weeks, AC full blast, ceiling fan on high, sleeping on fiberglass infested sheets and pillow cases and comforters and my entire wardrobe from mixing the laundry together.
I genuinely thought it was the detergent, then I thought it was my medication and now I am 100% positive it’s the fiberglass because I could see all the tiny shards around my bed and on the floor and all over my clothes when I shined a flashlight.
I fully dumped my bed. Took me 2 days to dismantle it and get it outside because even touching the frame itself my hands were wicked itchy and i’d breakout and be miserable scratching my skin (I know I shouldn’t do that). I used cream relief and it helps for 20 seconds and i’ve been rotting in cold bath water or a cold shower and went to the beach today at 6am to get the water nice and cold too and I had so much relief from it but the second I got home more fiberglass irritation because I was exhausted and needed a place to sleep.
Bed is gone. Room is vacuumed (did not have a special filter but I was desperate to clean so I used my normal one) wiped down the baseboards around my bed and cleaned off my ceiling fan but didn’t know you had to use wet material to make the glass stick so i’m pretty sure it’s floating everywhere at the moment from my duster and paper towel.
I feel so helpless. Truly want to rip my skin off me it’s so bad I could cry some nights. I did go to the ER because I couldn’t even sit one shift at work because the back of my legs were ridiculously itchy (just from sitting on the edge to put on my shoes before I knew about the fiberglass) I get hives and bumps and rashes and warm heat that spread, the PA in the ER sent me home within not even 10 minutes because she said it wasn’t an emergency.
I purchased an air mattress since I don’t have a bed at the moment and will be sleeping on it on the floor in my brothers room for now since he’s not home but we are in a heatwave and my room has AC and I can’t be in there so i’m afraid the heat will irritate my skin.
Will this ever get better or do I have to live with this forever now because i’ve been poking myself for two weeks straight! I am seeing my dermatologist this week because my primary care saw in my bloodwork I was fighting an infection and my vitals were low but this is insanity. No one can tell me what’s happening, I get these bumps and rash as soon as I touch my bed and since removing it the itching is still get present but it’s a little better.
I just want my room back and can’t believe I have to throw out my entire wardrobe now that it’s all covered in fiberglass…