What’s considered a heavy exposure? Breathed a good deal in an old factory 10 years ago.
I’ll start by saying a have a doctor appointment set up already. I’ve been having some symptoms that align with certain types of asbestos related issues and I’m trying to figure out how substantial my exposure was. Want to explain it properly to the doc.
In 2016 I went into an old sugar mill factory in Colorado that is well known to contain tons of friable asbestos in abatement bags scattered around the site. I didn’t know about asbestos at the time. I had no idea that all of the dust around us may be asbestos dust. I had no mask or anything.
The dust in the building was weird. It floated and did not fall down. It wasn’t insanely dense but I was in there a few hours just breathing all of this visible asbestos.
I know what’s done is done, but I just want to understand how substantial this exposure is compared to something like the 9/11 exposures. It seems different from typical occupational exposures since I was breathing a bunch of dust that they already bagged up. All of the fibers that the abatement people were trying to ensure no one ever breathed.
Thanks for any help.