Well 2 weeks ago I vaporized an old pack of weed I had stored airtight for 3 months I was away. The weed was bad shwag to begin with when I bought it at the beggining of the year. When I came back the already grinded stuff looked sort of the same it did before, it was really hard to tell if it was normal or not. I smoked a few times and had a weird sensation, but I dismissed it, since, thats what you get from weed anyway. I finally threw it away since the effect was making me think I there was something wrong with it. At the same time I'm very prone to anxiety on weed. So I didnt know what to think. Its been a bit more than a week now since I last vaporized and I'm worried some fungi is living on my lungs because Ive been having a bit more pleghm than usual, and its a bit gray. Could this be fungus or Im I just paranoid. I feel basically alright apart from a mild headache which could easily be unrelated. Could the fungus get to my brain somehow? I doubt it. I found this on Aspergillus on Wikipedia. Im sure if I had some infection I would have a bit of fever at least, or chest pain.
Aspergillus fumigatus is a fungus of the genus Aspergillus, and is one of the most common Aspergillus species to cause disease in immuno-compromised individuals.
A. fumigatus is a saprotroph that is widespread in nature, typically found in soil and decaying organic matter such as compost heaps, where it plays an essential role in carbon and nitrogen recycling. Colonies of the fungus produce from conidiophores thousands of minute grey-green conidia (23 μm) that readily become airborne. For many years A. fumigatus was thought to only reproduce asexually, as neither mating nor meiosis had ever been observed. However, in 2008 it was shown that A. fumigatus possesses a fully functional sexual reproductive cycle, 145 years after its original description by Fresenius.[1]
The fungus is capable of growth at 37 °C/99 °F (normal human body temperature), and can grow at temperatures up to 50 °C/122 °F, with conidia surviving at 70 °C/158 °Fconditions it regularly encounters in self-heating compost heaps. Its spores are ubiquitous in the atmosphere and it is estimated that everybody inhales several hundred spores each day; typically these are quickly eliminated by the immune system in healthy individuals. In immuno-compromised individuals such as organ transplant recipients and people with AIDS or leukaemia the fungus is more likely to become pathogenic, over-running the host's weakened defenses and causing a range of diseases generally termed aspergillosis.
When the fermentation broth of A. fumigatus was screened, a number of indolic alkaloids with anti-mitotic properties were discovered.[2] The compounds of interest have been of a class known as tryprostatins, with spirotryprostatin B being of special interest as an anti-cancer drug.
A. fumigatus grown on certain building materials can produce genotoxic and cytotoxic mycotoxins such as gliotoxin.[3]
Im also fortunately not inmunocompromissed