On the Paleo diet you're not supposed to have milk because of the lactose, but I didn't think I had a problem with fermented dairy because the lactose is broken down in that. So I'd have plain natural yogurt and cheese. Cutting those out wasn't very hard, I didn't have them that often. But I did find that when I went off the rails, the sweet things I ate almost always had dairy of some kind in them. Could just be coincidence, I don't know.
When I had my hair test results a year and a half ago, it showed that there was more calcium in my body than I was able to absorb. For my own safety, I cut out my calcium supplement until such time as my absorption gets better, though I'm still keeping up with other minerals like magnesium.
The sugar cravings are constant, they don't match up with when I'm hungry. I think they are probably tied to weak adrenals, but I don't understand it because I'm on a strong adrenal medication. I really do think that my adrenals are at the heart of this but I've got books, I've got a specialist doctor, and I've done everything I can humanly find out about to treat them. My doctor is flummoxed. I've even started running a little magnet down the associated meridian to try to stimulate them though doing it with a finger never helped much in the past.
There's a missing key here. Food sensitivity would explain things, but these tend to be foods you eat a lot and crave, they are "feel-good" foods. I cut sugar and grains out of my diet anyway, and if it isn't dairy, I doubt if it's anything at all because nothing else I eat fits that description. And there's nothing else I eat regularly now that I also ate regularly when I became ill.
Yes the chelators have worked for me in the past, and I'm hoping my body is simply re-adjusting to them now. It's horrible. But I can't honestly see how mercury from 4 fillings and lots and lots of chelating afterward could still be making much of an impact now. My body seems to eliminate other toxins without much trouble so it doesn't make sense to me that so little mercury could still be causing me so much grief.
I don't think that I have huge deficiencies of any minerals; my hair test didn't show any, I eat a balanced diet, and I take supplements like sea salt. I tried supplementing potassium and various other things for a while but it didn't help.
My Yahoo adrenals forum has long been out of ideas. I don't know of any other specialists who can help me here. When I had those 1 1/2 weeks of feeling well at the beginning of April I wasn't doing anything differently, I was just eating a clean diet and chelating. It had never happened to me before, the whole time I'd been ill. Maybe I just need to keep my diet clean a while longer and trust that results will come, but those dang cravings are driving me mad.
