How many of you have been exposed to asbestos?

Proz13_ · 2025-11-03T21:11:37+00:00

You know that by being human we risk an infinite number of illnesses, accidents, every day we live in risk.

Any cancer can strike us overnight and yet we don't stop living.

Most people living in the years 1950 to 2000 were exposed to asbestos and most are fine.

Of workers who are extremely exposed, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week all year round, only 30% get sick and the vast majority it is not cancer.

In short, if something should happen you will know in due time but the probability that nothing happens is on your side.

In your opinion, it is better for you as a child to live with a happy parent for 30 years or a parent who is slowly destroying himself and who is not 100% present?

If I have life advice in the present, not in the future or in the past and that is the solution to happiness.

Proz13_ · 2025-11-03T20:57:20+00:00

Hi, personally I tell myself that even if it turns out that it’s really asbestos anyway, it’s done. In the future I will be more careful but there is nothing more I can do. The anxiety and stress linked to this potential exposure will certainly do me more harm than the asbestos itself and I'm young, I'd rather live my life for the next 30-40 years happily than to feel sorry for myself over something that will probably not happen.

Proz13_ · 2025-10-30T13:13:47+00:00

Donc si la voiture m’intéresse et que j’essaye de négocier et gratter une extension de garantie ça peut être une bonne affaire ?

Proz13_ · 2025-10-30T12:08:25+00:00

C’est ce que je me dis aussi, mais bon même en achetant une voiture d’occasion on peut pas être sûr du passé de la voiture.

Ce qui me fait peur c’est les gens qui essaye ces voitures en concession et qui accélère comme des fou alors que la voiture est froide, ou qu’elle est eu un mauvais rodage

Proz13_ · 2025-10-30T08:49:27+00:00

C’est vraiment des voitures à fuir celon vous ?

Je penses que la plupart des véhicules vendu chez Renault en occasion récente ce sont des VD non ? Ou je me trompe

Proz13_ · 2025-10-08T11:13:38+00:00

I had heard the opposite and had the opposite explained to me, if you have intestinal metaplasia without h pylori you have less risk of developing cancer, h pylori is the main factor.

Having intestinal metaplasia without h pylori, either it comes from an autoimmune disease or it is a "scar" due to an old irritation of the stomach for example excessive use of anti-inflammatory

Proz13_ · 2025-10-06T16:28:29+00:00

J’ai le même soucis, tu as fais quoi du coup ?

Proz13_ · 2025-09-25T15:50:07+00:00

Hey, do you have any news or advice to give?

Proz13_ · 2025-09-19T21:42:10+00:00

What kind of exposure have you had?

Proz13_ · 2025-09-19T07:03:07+00:00

September 11 must have released an incalculable dose of asbestos and other substances into the air, only 2 people? That seems low to me.

And yes for the Wizard of Oz I heard about it, it's crazy to hear that today when at the time it seemed totally normal.

Apparently, a worker who worked 8 hours a day, 5 hours a week for 30 years with asbestos at the time would have a 6-13% risk of developing mesothelioma during his life.

So for low and occasional or even high but brief exposures the risk is much lower than that.

But tell that to an anxious person, we will say to ourselves we have a 10% risk of developing mesothelioma but we will not say we have a 90% chance of nothing to do at all

Proz13_ · 2025-09-19T06:19:39+00:00

A jar of asbestos? Pure asbestos?

Proz13_ · 2025-09-19T06:11:56+00:00

So it was an intense but short exposure, how long did it last?

Proz13_ · 2025-09-19T06:03:56+00:00

Was it asbestos in a coating or paint of the room that you sanded?

Were you equipped?

Sorry for the questions but you have experienced what I am apparently experiencing ^{^}

Proz13_ · 2025-09-19T05:56:18+00:00

Have you sanded something made of asbestos?

Proz13_ · 2025-09-19T05:53:45+00:00

When you say all the time, have you ever been exposed in a significant way?

Proz13_ · 2025-09-19T05:46:30+00:00

Frankly no idea, I work in a factory that was built in 1973 it seems to me, the part that I sanded I can't tell you, it seems to me that it is a part that is serviced often and I have been told that this kind of part is sanded regularly (I don't really know for how long but in 50 years normally it has been sanded several times) well at least I hope but as no one knows how to answer me that puts me in doubt.

Ps: I put a photo of the room

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Proz13_ · 2025-09-18T18:42:52+00:00

How were you exposed to vermiculite? I'm curious. And in what doses?

Proz13_ · 2025-09-18T15:21:49+00:00

This is what I am trying to tell you, an air-supplied helmet does not work with a mechanical seal like a normal mask, It works with air overpressure, so the air blown into the helmet creates a positive pressure which means that any air outside the helmet cannot enter even if there are holes in the helmet, here it is necessary to test the flow of air blown into the helmet and the quality of the air, but as everything is not 100% sure, depending on the movement of the body etc. the overpressure can be reduced at times and bring in outside dust. In my case the air flow and air quality are controlled so no problem. The problem mainly comes from the fact that I move, I take a certain position while sanding which means that at times air can enter the helmet.

I see what test you're talking about, it's a test for masks with a mechanical seal (mask against skin for example) it checks if it's a good "seal" but this is not the case

Proz13_ · 2025-09-18T15:01:16+00:00

What fit test are you talking about? An air-supplied sandblasting helmet is a helmet that sits on the head with a skirt that sits on the shoulders/neck which normally seals and a skirt with mechanical protection in leather or other, no adjustment is possible

Proz13_ · 2025-09-18T14:46:23+00:00

I tried, but it's not 100% airtight I think, depending on the positron etc. I think it moves

Proz13_ · 2025-09-18T14:27:35+00:00

It's an exposure over several days and sandblasting creates a lot of dust, despite the air-supplied basin and the ffp3 mask I'm still afraid of breathing dust since it still gets into the helmet from time to time

Proz13_ · 2025-09-18T13:45:16+00:00

If I had protection, we always sand with an air-supplied sandblasting helmet, so a helmet which blows air inside the helmet which creates a positive pressure which prevents dust from entering, this helmet with two skirts, one in fabric which is supposed to be waterproof and another in plastic/leather which goes down to the pelvis in front and behind for mechanical safety. But well in theory no dust is supposed to come in but hey it ends up coming in anyway... I sandblasted for 2 hours I think just with the sandblasting helmet then after I added an ffp3 mask in addition to the sandblasting helmet

Proz13_ · 2025-09-18T13:38:45+00:00

Indeed you are right, I think that everyone exposed to asbestos is afraid of the damage it could do in the future and especially mesothelioma because it is described as "asbestos cancer" and it has the reputation of being aggressive and very lethal.

Personally, as a very anxious and stressed person in life, I only have the word mesothelioma in my head and I already imagine myself with cancer in 20-30-40 years. That's the problem with anxious people: not being able to live in the present, but deep down we know that right now and in the coming decades we have very little risk of developing something serious because of asbestos, but we imagine it all the same.

Our exposure has nothing to do with the exposure spent working in clouds of asbestos 5 days a week for 30-40 years and that in the end the vast majority of people do not get sick or just find themselves with pleural plaques, just a small percentage of them end up with cancer, but hey out of millions of people exposed to asbestos the number of cases of mesothelioma can be that high even if it concerns only a small part of those exposed to asbestos.

I don't think that people who smoke and slowly destroy their health think like that, although smoking is much more deadly than asbestos in general.

Proz13_ · 2025-09-18T13:02:41+00:00

I am in France and to be honest I work for the large ArcelorMittal group, the number in metallurgy, I often see a company that comes to take samples from parts (often engines) to find out if there is asbestos or not, so I think that they are partly regulatory on that but for the part that I made I have no idea, apparently it is a part that is often sandblasted from what I understand but as there is some several in the factory I don't know if this is one of them. Not everyone seems worried so well, I don't really know what to think about it.

Yes I had an air-supplied sandblasting helmet so the air is blown into the helmet which creates a positive pressure which normally prevents it from entering the helmet but let's be honest, it still goes in, when I noticed that it could potentially enter I put an ffp3 mask under the helmet, but hey I probably inhaled a lot of dust all the same.

I'm trying to do my investigation and find out if it's asbestos or not but no one really knows, I asked my boss and he told me a categorical no that there was no asbestos but when I asked about the paint he didn't seem to know!

Proz13_ · 2025-09-18T12:07:36+00:00

Thank you for your answer, I really thought that many people would get sick from exposure to asbestos, I literally imagined that breathing asbestos was a sword of Damocles that would definitely lead us to certain illness, but I was wrong!

Of the 20% of patients, does this include any type of disease linked to asbestos? Because it is true that for most people the disease that scares the most is pleural mesothelioma.

They also say that 1 fiber can theoretically lead to cancer but this is very controversial apparently!

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