Re: Is There Anyone Who Might Help Me?

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Are you sure that all amalgam has been removed from your mouth even

under crowns?

Talk to the doctor who is prescribing the armour and ask him what he

is willing to prescribe to support your adrenals. Tell him that you

heard (and I believe it says on the armour product information) that

the adrenals are supposed to be treated first before the thyroid.

Then you need to start supplementing.

The first 2 are oil soluble so can be taken once a day:

Cod liver oil or flax seed oil - 1-2 T per day

vitamin E - 400 to 800 iu per day

The following should be divided over 3-4 doses per day, usually with

meals.

Vitamin C - start with 1 g per day and gradually increase to about 6 g

per day. If your bowels become loose you have reached 'bowel

tolerance' - stay at a dose slightly lower than that.

Magnesium - buy some pharmaceutical grade epsom salts and use about

1/4 tsp per meal on food.

milk thistle extract - 1 capsule with each meal

vitamin B50 or B100 supplement

zinc - 50 - 100 mg

molybdenum - 250 - 500 mcg

chromium picolinate - 200 mcg with each meal

Once you have a supplement routine email me and I'll help you to

determine if you need to make any changes to your diet. It is quite

incredible how much symptom relief a person can get from dietary changes.

Don't worry about chelation. Many people start at very low doses.

12.5 mg per dose is reasonable or even start at 5 mg per dose. When

you go to purchase ALA or DMSA be sure to purchase small amounts like

25 mg per capsule so that it will be easy to split.

If you have insurance that will pay for a psychologist see if there is

anyone in your area who does EMDR (eye movement desensitization

reprocessing). It is a powerful technique.

Stay away from chemicals! Get rid of all chemicals from your house,

stop eating food that has chemicals on it, and get rid of lawn

chemicals. Eat lots of grapefruit and drink grapefruit juice.

We have been in similar situations at one time.

J

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> I have known for at least two years that I need to chelate. I had

my fillings removed about a year ago.

>

> I had to turn Andy's book into the library today because I had

already renewed it before, and it was borrowed from the state capitol

library. I couldn't renew it again. I don't have the money to buy

the book.

>

> I tried with all my might to synopsize everything in my head, to

try and make it more simplistic, to figure out a plan of action . . .

but I just cannot think. I have to face I am ill. I am hanging by a

thread, and I am crying as I write this.

>

> I just don't see how I can go on like this much longer. This

situation has been going on since I was just a young girl, maybe ten

when I got my fillings in. Maybe mercury is not my only issue, I

don't know. I found out I was subclincally hypothyroid and started

taking Armour. I was recently diagnosed as having PTSD. I simply

cannot take any more stress mentally, physically or emotionally.

Every second of every day seems stressful to me, although I will admit

that I have had to undertake things that those around me never had to

face. I have had so many bad things happen to me in the last year,

and in my condition, it is just more than I can take. I am 43, and I

have tried to hang on since I was a child, probably after getting my

fillings in. I am so sick and weak and frail right now that I can

barely figure out how to take care of my child, to get through each

day, to eat and sleep. That is all I can manage.

>

> I am so sensitive to chemicals that just had to put an anti-fungal

on my lawn, and I am sick and can barely hold any food down. I know I

will be highly sensitive to chelation, so I have been scared to do it.

I am afraid of the reaction my body will have, and I am afraid it

will make me worse than I already am. Maybe I should start on a

child's dose and try to get into the chelation group for children? It

just seems like any task right now is too big for me to handle, I

don't know how to explain it.

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> In any event, I don't think I can take the dose to start out that

everyone else takes, and I don't think I can take both DMSA and ALA at

the same time, at least not in the beginning.

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> I just don't know what to do, and so I put it off. I know if I

don't do this, I might give up any quality of life, any hope of

anything. All I know is, I cannot continue this way. I cannot take

another day; if this is how I have to live my life, I just cannot do

it anymore. It has been constant traumatic circumstances for 15

years, and I should have given up a long time ago already.

>

> If there is anyone in the group who can write me on-list or

off-list, just to give me some ideas of how I can chelate starting out

small and slow, just so I don't have too terrible a reaction, just so

I don't get terribly sick and worse than I am . . . I would appreciate

it so much. My son needs a mother.

>

> Thank you,

>

> Diane

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[Guest guest]

IMR>>>>>Don't worry about the Amalgam Illness book. It is great that

you read it and got a bit more of an understanding that before

reading it, but you can chelate without the book. Ask for help here,

and use the files section.

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> I am so sensitive to chemicals that just had to put an anti-fungal

> on my lawn, and I am sick and can barely hold any food down. I know

> I will be highly sensitive to chelation, so I have been scared to

> do it. I am afraid of the reaction my body will have, and I am

> afraid it will make me worse than I already am. Maybe I should

> start on a child's dose and try to get into the chelation group for

> children? It just seems like any task right now is too big for me

> to handle, I don't know how to explain it.

IMR>>>>>>>>Been there, Diane, you are not alone. has some very

good advice for you. Get started on the supplements and plan on

starting with DMSA alone and in very, very tiny doses. The ALA can

come later when you start doing just a little better.

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> In any event, I don't think I can take the dose to start out that

> everyone else takes, and I don't think I can take both DMSA and ALA

> at the same time, at least not in the beginning.

IMR>>>>Correct.

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>

> I just don't know what to do, and so I put it off. I know if I

> don't do this, I might give up any quality of life, any hope of

> anything. All I know is, I cannot continue this way. I cannot take

> another day; if this is how I have to live my life, I just cannot

> do it anymore. It has been constant traumatic circumstances for 15

> years, and I should have given up a long time ago already.

>

> If there is anyone in the group who can write me on-list or off-

> list, just to give me some ideas of how I can chelate starting out

> small and slow, just so I don't have too terrible a reaction, just

> so I don't get terribly sick and worse than I am . . . I would

> appreciate it so much. My son needs a mother.

IMR>>>I have shared with you my experience before, because I too, had

to start with micro-mini doses, but even those tiny doses helped to

begin bringing me out of it. What I did was take a 24 ounce glass of

water and put (1) 100 mg capsule in it, and stirred it up well. Then

I took one very tiny sip of that liquid and that was my dose. That

was ALL I could handle to stat with, and even that was hard for the

first few doses, but quite quickly it got better and started helping

me to feel better!

I have never gotten the small capsules like suggests, because

of the added cost, but she may have a point. I think you can do just

as well with the 100 mg caps, and I do so because money has been such

an issue for me.

DIane, what is going on with your adrenals? If memory serves me

correctly, they simply did a blood cortisol test before and after

your last surgery and said you were " fine " . However, by everything I

know about you and what you have said, it sounds to me that you are

LOW in cortisol, and that alone could be causing a LOT of your

symptoms. You need to go by symptoms, as with mercury toxicity, the

tests are not the end all, and the blood cortisol tests they did mean

almost nothing at all.

Your doctor quite possibly will not help you with the adrenals. Go to

http://www.drrind.com and read up on taking your temperatures to see

if you are having cortisol problems. Fluctuating temps will be a tell

tale sign, along with the weepiness and feelings like you " just can't

take another minute that " you are already experiencing. I too crashed

after much of life's stress. You are not crazy. You are not alone.

You can get better again, but it will take time.

You can plan on having to treat your adrenals on your own, unless you

get very, very lucky and find a doctor who understands. Most do not.

So read over the Dr Rind site....I think you will probably find that

you are hypoadrenal. I know you tried a littlle H/C for a short

while, before they made you go off it for the surgery, but it can

take more than a few weeks at a small dosage to start feeling better.

Both and I can give you the web address where you can order

hydrocortisone or prednisolone, if need be. I know things are really

tight for you as well. Fortunately adrenal support is quite inexpensive.

~Inga