"is it mainly mercury poisoning your dealing with or something else?? "
I think it is mercury poisoning, however I can't be sure. I haven't been to any doctors lately. I went to many doctors when I first become ill many years ago. They did many tests, and had no idea whar was wrong with me.
My main symptoms are extreme fatigue, chemical sensitivity, and fibromyalgia. Notice that I listed fibromyalgia as a symptom. Others think it is a disease. I was told many years ago that I have chronic fatigue syndrome. My blood tests didn't point to anything specific, but just showed mild anemia and some immune system abnormalities, but didn't point to any specific diseases. I went to some immunologists, rhumatologists, and
many internists. They couldn't explain why I had hose symptoms.
Many years ago I asked one doctor if my illness could be from my mercury fillings(I had 25 of them). He ordered a blood test for mercury which didn't show anything.
Just a few years ago I found an article that tied together all my symptoms with mercury poisoning.
http://www.flcv.com/cfsfm.htmlAfter reading that I became more confident that my primary problem is mercury. Some recent articles tie CFS to some viruses, however I believe that CFS is caused by mercury, and those associated viruses are opportunistic, and can cause infection when the immune system is damaged by mercury. This would also explain the chemical sensitivity and symptoms from candida overgrowth.
"The anemia is possibly true as well since for 2 days out of every week i wake up with body temp at 95f or lower."
I had trouble with low body temperature for quite a while. I took 50 mg a day(that is 333 times the RDA) of iodine for a few months, and my body temperature got back to normal. Some people believe that mercury can clog the iodine binding sites on the thyroid. Another theory is that mercury causes selenium deficiency since the selenium in the body attaches itself to mercury and becomes unavailable. Selenium is needed for the conversion of T4 to T3. I also took 200 mcg a day of selenium supplements, but then later switched to eating brazilnuts instead(they are very high in selenium). I eat just 3 or 4 brazilnuts a day. Eating too many brazilnuts can give you a selenium overdose.
I used Source Naturals Potassium Iodide tablets. Some people use Iodoral, however that is much more expensive.
http://www.iodine4health.com/ Very interesting!... since a friend who is an osteopathic doc had cfc for 12+yrs got treated successfully by osteopathic massages and physical manipulation, something to do with getting lympathetic symptom,parasympathetic function starting again to properly release toxins etc
He also diagnosed myself with cfs but i found out couple
yrs later like yourself it was really mercury at fault...
He also treated a woman with mercury poisoning from several fillings with ttwice weekly osteopathic techniques for a lenghtly period and shes been doing fine now and got majority of her health back.
Unfortunately i did not respond to it and once left me very ill for several weeks
Jk you said you did blood tests, could you list all your blood test results for me too look at??Or could upload if easier and score out the personal details like i donebelow.
Did your doc do any saliva cortisol tests or urine+blood hormonal tests too see how fast your body is metabolizing your hormones?
Cfs symptoms was most likely caused by mercury shutting down/plugging up your hormone glands, altering the hpta and hormone receptors giving the extreme fatigue symptoms plus lowering liver methlyation status, lowering liver bile then cholesterol, causing possibly fatty liver or liver to be backedup and toxins,hormones,fats,bacteria not being flushed out properly etc (no cholesterol no hormones, wonder what your cholestrol profile is like?), as well as adrenals+thyroid lowering metabolism,energy output then causing gut dysbiosis, candida etc at least my case and several others i have read. (im sure you know all this but just incase!)
I been through this all and had no idea what the heck was wrong with me .. went suddenly from being able to train twice a day, boxing,mma, weights, very low bodyfat percentage,
very hig energy,libido etc, put on muscle very easily,could eat everything, healthy, junk and not put on any fat etc stay up late go clubbing, drinking, had great social life,
many friends n healthy female relationships, rarely got ill etc then suddenly energy lvls dropped which led to hermit lifestyle, symptoms began, body started too change dispite still training,eating bettr than ever before, then at
worst felt like dying from every symptoms under the sun
and slept 16+hrs aday, only left house if had too maybe handful of times a yr,mostly stayed in bed and doing nothing since couldnt.
Once i found out my adrenal hormones and male androgens were all bottom, then doc started me on natural protocol too restart whol endocrine system but
after 5mths no improvement at all then got put on
cortef+preg td cream, the fibromyalgia+cfs symptoms dramtically improved! Along with finding out was hypothyroid and hypogonadism then started on
thyroid and trt and finally cfs like symptoms started to lift of had some energy after yrs of nothing! First noticed mental brain fog, cloudy vision, sensitivty
too light and so many other symptoms improved and then later on body started to burn fat again and lost a good 21bls from increasing the low hormone output.
Began to have interest from increase energy
for a social life and had enough energy too train several times a week, finally!
Jk would highly recommend these tests if not already done:
adrenal hormones
saliva cortisol x4 aday every 4hrs (must be saliva and def not blood due to white coat syndrome giving temp false cortisol spike)
acth blood
pregnenolone blood/urine
progesterone blood/urine
dhea blood/urine
aldosterone blood/urine
If can do both even better since blood will show how much is present and urine how fast its being metabolised.
Thyroid
free t3
free t4
tsh
reverse t3
total t3
total t4
testosterone
estradiol
since mercury lowers liver bile which then backs
up total estrogens. Estradiol the strongest effecting estrogen
then increases and thus lowering testosterone giving brain fog, weight gain, bloat, water retention, lowered libido, general fatigue etc
LOL another thing we got in common .. my doc had me on 50mg of idoral for 6mths since it was extremely low, finally got it to mid range! wow ..i was also
placed on selenium at exactly 200mcg a day and still am!
We tried increasing Vit d3 which was also extremely low due to new hermit lifestyle n lack of sun and was put on 14000iu which got up to 75 scale 20-93. Didnt increase thyroid or testosterone to make a difference.
Doc says mercury was at fault
for lowering all these minerals and hormones, i dont see anything else that would have caused this at such young age considering having just had great youthful health before.
My iodine intake atm
is 12.5mg from idoral but your source Naturals Potassium Iodide tablets
are much cheaper than mine a 3rd of price! .. meh just placed an order for
180 tabs of iodoral 3 days ago at 35bucks, nvm
will use the source naturals next time!
*thumbsup*
Even tho got these levels up i was still a hypothyroid, temp was very low, lowest my doc seen so was put on armour thyroid med only after adding in adrenal hormones so the thyroid med
could be absorbed properly and not end up pooling up in blood
and cause side effects. Worked up to 2grain slowly and now mid range.We are aimming for top range too
get best from metabolism which doc says will help fix rest of gut issues, bloat,inconsistent bms, random indigestion, random change in body temp etc
If my free t3+freet4 lvls have dropped from upcomming blood+urine tests
then i think will have to be on armour thyroid for life
and even increase the dose dispite getting mercury out.Andy Cutler dispite successfully treating his mercury still
has to be on trt,cortef,preg and armour thyroid.Although i read a couple
people successfully weaned off cortef adrenal hormone but not much on thyroid meds, trt etc
JK you nailed it again, you are awesome!!
I made a topic in the freq-dose-chel yahoo grp on Fri for some help
with my inconsistent hair+urine results but still no reply but anyways you are 100% right with the low copper!
Have a look here on my low copper and other inconsistencies:
urine:
http://i55.tinypic.com/2hfhxtd.jpgcomplete hair test:
http://i54.tinypic.com/nvtthl.jpgurine aminos:
http://i52.tinypic.com/312fltf.jpgurine vitamins:
http://i54.tinypic.com/2ag0xso.jpg I dont think i supplemented with copper since i read on how it make ppl with mercury even more toxic and AC himself says to never supplement with copper so i never touched it even tho my levels are very low! I think doc mayb missed out something here with copper, possibly due to his own experience and other patients didnt do too well with small dosing...
I think from early
teens of supplementing 50mg of zinc daily until mid 20s messed up my low copper.Would explain the random nosebleeds, random cold brittle hands n feet yet warm body.Jk whats your opinion on copper supplement and any
issues/sides i need to watch out on?? Whats a good dose to start on??Any good links too read up on copper, Thankyou!!
Also what do you make of the vastly contrast in the hair and urine results??
I read that hair is more accurate since it relate too body burden but then
i read urine is more accurate for some since it shows how much is being passed through, altho my doc says hair is more accurate than urine since is hows 1 month of results where urine is a spot temp result...
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> Some inconsistent examples from my hair+urine test :
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> Very High Top of range calcium from hair
> extremely Low bottom range calcium from urine
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> Very High top range zinc from hair
> low zinc bottom range from urine
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> Low magnenese from hair
> healthy magnenese from urine
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> Very Low chromium from hair
> very healthy chromium in urine
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> Healthy selenium in hair
> Very selenium low in Urine
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> Very low molybendum in hair
> Very healthy molybendum in urine
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> Very low in red Lithium in hair
> Very healthy lithium in urine
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> Very low sulphur in hair
> healthy sulphur in urine
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> Very low iodine in hair
> healthy iodine in urine
Would greatly appreciate your knowledge and advice here, hopefully there was least something
useful you have taking from my mine above as well:)
