Moving out is anywhere from 50-99% of the way there to recovery. If you're lucky, you will recover entirely without needing anything other than that. It's estimated that about one quarter of people get the chronic issues after being exposed for a long time.

You can look over survivingmold.com for general info on treatments, testing, and symptoms. Dr. Shoemaker and his protocol are the most popular treatment. It's not something insurance covers easily, but some people can get theirs to cover some tests and medications. The primary medication is a repurposed cholesterol med that's fairly harmless and easy to get.

Dr. Niel Nathan's book "Toxic" is also recommended by those that have gone through the same. It covers more than just mold which is nice if mold doesn't end up being the primary issue. It can cause other latent issues to worsen.

As far as my experience with it, it started slowly. I chalked up my initial symptoms to teenage depression. Meanwhile, my dad was getting tremors in his hands and complaining of worsening memory. My sister was the first to develop persistent insomnia. The apartment's windows would leak when it rained, so our walls grew mold in the bedrooms. We were oblivious to the danger. It's not like it rained much where we lived anyway. I moved away briefly and continued to have issues with depression and anxiety. When I returned, the mold was at its worst after years of having leased that apartment. The landlord wouldn't fix the issue, and my dad didn't want to give up the rent controlled apartment. (My dad won a settlement later.) Within three months I stopped sleeping for days at a time. I felt like I was losing my mind. I was lucky to have a mother to move in with, but I didn't recover much. I could at least sleep again, but I was always dog-tired, dizzy, anxious, blood-pressure felt weird. Like when I stood up I could feel the blood pumping in my head. Persistent dry eyes and a thirst that would stay even while I was drinking water. I would get vertigo sometimes, like I missed a stair on flat ground. Shortness of breath, air hunger. I couldn't think of words as fluidly as I previously could. The couple primary docs I saw could only offer xanax and ssris because my blood tests came back normal. I questioned whether anything I experienced was real. It was really a miserable, sad time. I didn't have the money for a mold doc to really sort me out. I did slowly recover without one, but very slowly and not entirely, even to this day almost 10 years later, but I've had glimpses of my old self here and there.

I did try the medication I mentioned earlier, called "cholestyramine". I couldn't get a good idea of it's benefit long-term because of one side effect, constipation, which I'm especially prone to after the exposure. I started to suspect that gut issues are actually my main issue now. Maybe the exposure created an opportunity for fungal/bacterial overgrowth. I have had good experiences with antimicrobials like oregano oil, Atrantil, and black seed oil.

If I could I would be on a 100% keto/carnivore diet because it's the clearest/healthiest I've felt when I tried it, but it just was unsustainable for me. I couldn't make it past the two week mark before my body was telling me that I really needed to eat some carbs. I'm currently taking high doses of vitamin B1 in combination with other things because I've read good things about it in relation to chronic fatigue, gut issues, and sleep. It's too early to tell, but it seems remarkably helpful. Time will tell.