Being sick is no fun at all! I have never really been a sickly kind of person, but in the last three months, I’ve gotten sick four times.
I’ve been to the doctor each time, and she just gives me a prescription and sends me on my way.
I wanted to know what was causing my sickness. I eat a really clean diet, and I exercise regularly, so I didn’t understand why I was getting sick so often especially since it was the middle of July. If I ever get sick, it’s usually once a year in the springtime, and that’s usually just my allergies. One of my friend’s asked me how long it had been since I changed or cleaned the air filters in my air conditioner. I thought about it and realized that I had never cleaned them. She mentioned that the same thing had happened to her. She was getting sick a lot, and her doctor told her to try cleaning her air conditioning filters and see if it would help. It did! She didn’t get sick for almost a year after cleaning the filters. After she mentioned that, I went home and cleaned my air conditioning filters. I couldn’t believe how gross it was. The filters were filled with mold which is probably what was making me sick. Since I cleaned the filter, I haven’t gotten sick. It’s only been about two weeks since I cleaned them, so we will see in time if that was actually what was making me sick or not. Regardless if my air conditioning filters were what was making me sick or not, they needed cleaning.