AnxietySufferer
03-10-23, 04:24
Hello,
I am a long time lurker, but have not posted for many years as mostly my health anxiety has been in a better place.
I moved into a basement flat around 5 months ago in a high radon area. I did a 3 month radon test (you have to be living at the property to get accurate results). I recently got these back and the bedroom got a result of 2100 Bq m-3 (200 is the action level so this is EXTEMELY high) even the living room got 800Bq m-3 which is still very high. I spend a lot of time in the flat due to working from home.
Obviously, I am going to look at getting a mitigation system, but I don’t know how to stop the health anxiety making me feel like it’s already too late and I’m going to get lung cancer from this. I also don’t know how long it will take to sort the mitigation system, or whether it will be possible to get this down to reasonable levels so I am feeling very stressed and wondered if anyone else has had a similar experience?
Based on these stats https://health.mo.gov/living/environment/radon/riskcharts.php , if I was exposed to these high levels for a lifetime it would be around a 10% risk of cancer, which is quite high but I am trying to remind myself that this is lifetime exposure not 6 months, but my anxiety is through the roof trying to sleep knowing the levels are so high.
I am a long time lurker, but have not posted for many years as mostly my health anxiety has been in a better place.
I moved into a basement flat around 5 months ago in a high radon area. I did a 3 month radon test (you have to be living at the property to get accurate results). I recently got these back and the bedroom got a result of 2100 Bq m-3 (200 is the action level so this is EXTEMELY high) even the living room got 800Bq m-3 which is still very high. I spend a lot of time in the flat due to working from home.
Obviously, I am going to look at getting a mitigation system, but I don’t know how to stop the health anxiety making me feel like it’s already too late and I’m going to get lung cancer from this. I also don’t know how long it will take to sort the mitigation system, or whether it will be possible to get this down to reasonable levels so I am feeling very stressed and wondered if anyone else has had a similar experience?
Based on these stats https://health.mo.gov/living/environment/radon/riskcharts.php , if I was exposed to these high levels for a lifetime it would be around a 10% risk of cancer, which is quite high but I am trying to remind myself that this is lifetime exposure not 6 months, but my anxiety is through the roof trying to sleep knowing the levels are so high.