Hi and Welcome to the forum Tracii.

That is one mighty long list of troubles you have there. and it deserves a mighty long reply.

I remember typing up my own long list of troubles some time ago and trying to get help from somewhere, anywhere, trying to find some answers.

Well just to make you feel at home I have the following (taken from your list) problems myself:-

PHYSICAL
*Constant fatigue
*Food sensitivities
*Bloating– I had this but I sorted it out! I used to have heartburn 24/7
*Tingly in hands/arms/legs
*Joints that periodically make a "popping" sound upon movt.
*Allergies,
*Constipation – ok, not anymore, but I used to
*Scoliosis in lower spine – don’t know what that is but my spine is funked too
*Cold hands and feet
*Low blood calcium/magnesium levels
*Acidic body Ph – I had this but I sorted it out!
*"Sluggish" liver, trouble converting T4 to T3 (or whatever)

MENTAL:
*Need for alone time, music, and writing everyday/avoidance of social contact
*Limited diet
-my mermory is in fact not too bad, just my short term memory is not doing what it should, like forgetting simple words like …..shoe…..
-I am nowhere near my usual old self, menatally or physically.

and I have plenty of other problems and some “blokes” symptoms too. I just found out my adrenals and thyroids don’t do what they should. don’t think my list was ever as long as yours, but whats a couple of symptoms between friends eh?

All of your troubles are shared by others on this forum.

I’m sure you realise that your situation has been going on for a long time now, so you likely DO have lots of different of things wrong with you…..but……but….but…. it’s the root cause that you can’t find out, right? Why? Why is everything so funked up? Why is yr liver sluggish? Why can’t you heal after trying so many bloody pills, diets, exercises and anything else you can think of? Why why why?

I too aksed myself why? Why me? Why don’t I heal. So I too started searching. Like you, I read a lot of books and they all seemed to point at me.

Long long long story short, I figured out I might be mercury toxic. I read up about it, you can self diagnose mercury toxicity (in the book below) and I ticked all the boxes. My history also ticked all the boxes. I did a hair test and that also ticked all the boxes on that too. Upon removing each amalam I got real sick, that’s a box ticked too.
Upon starting metal detox I got a load of side effects that basically confirms I am mercury toxic.

You had a load of mmr jabs, flu jabs and countless other things that potentially have mercury in it. Do u have amalgams too?

I bet you $5 bucks right now that you are mercury toxic. Your terrible list of troubles looks like it to me.

Mercury is a massive root cause to so many problems, once you start researching, reading and then understanding mercury some more, you will see what a terrible curse this dreadful metal has done to us.

“ took psychiatric meds for the following 6 years. Prozac, Cymbalta, Luvox, Anafranil, Elavil, Risperdal, Effexor, Wellbutrin, Lexapro, Modafinil, you name it, I've taken it.” – nasty list that is. I never had that many, but I had a lot, I have given up all but one OTC drug, and all prescription drugs up too.
I do take multiple supplements but very very limited patented drugs, I don’t think I should pay for the privileged of the side effects, thanks very much.
I am considerably better for this change over.

” but every single dr. I've seen has treated me in a condescending manner and thrown drugs at me, all of which I put my faith in and all of which failed.”
-that really pissed me off too. All that trust! All those drugs! All wrong! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! This makes me mad, I get real angry when I think of all the ….anyway….yeah…..chill……..moving on

“Anyway, I guess what I'm after here is, I just want to know what you guys think the possibilities are. What could be wrong?” - as I said, I bet u $5 you have a mercury problem. All those nasty little bit of mercury clogging me up, maybe you too.

“What can I do to help myself feel better physically so I can improve mentally?
Read this book “Amalgam illness” by Andy Cutler. You can preview it here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZG...&sig=EADlKYoDRdIG_N0R9oIa9oK5ckc

Even if u don’t have mercury poisoning the amount of information in it is wonderful and you cannot fail to learn from that book.

You can buy on this forum.

Also check out
http://www.noamalgam.com/


“Please, if you feel I'm just overly sensitive or am being a hypochondriac, tell me so.” You are not overly sensitive. You are not hypochondriac. You are sick. Once you figure out the root cause, you can take measures to fix it and start healing.

“Maybe everyone feels this way and I'm just overly alert about it. I honestly don't know anymore.” – it is not normal.

“I usually don't ramble on so, but feel the need to get it all out so maybe someone can help.” – no no, I love rambling on.

Couple of things…….don’t rush out and start heavy metal detoxing. Do NOT take lots of different herbs, pills and whatnot that you might hear around and especially not from any bloody doctors. (that incluses healers, NP or whoever) . Mercury is a tricky business and it needs to be tackled correctly. The only person that can do that is you. You cannot rely on anyone but yourself and the sooner that is understood the quicker you can start moving forwards. There is lots and lots of help available, but I have only found that in a few places, and only on-line. Here on herb allure is excellent to reconfirm that we are not going mad, it is great for support, curezone a little bit, but that’s a mad house and for mercury there are too many different stories going on, so I would avoid for mercury problems. There is a yahoo group too for technical support which is very good.

And…..the good news is that mercury illness is curable. It does however take a long time. I would call myself moderate toxic and I know I have minimum 1 year, probably 2 years of chelation(metal detox) ahead of me.

So, Tracii, welcome. Read, read and learn some more. Take care and ask lots of questions.