Thursday, October 30, 2008
Next toxic element test
Tomorrow I will be taking my next toxic element test. I'm a little apprehensive, but at the same time a little excited. If you've kept up with my blog, you'll know that the last six weeks on DMSA hasn't been that great. Tomorrow I need to take 4 times the amount than what I was taking on any particular day during chelation - all at one time. It does concern me a little that I could feel as bad (or worse), than I did over the last six weeks. But, I am a little excited because after the last test I had three awesome days of feeling almost 95% well. Needless to say, I'm a little torn. Regardless of the outcome, I need to do it. We need to know if this protocol is working to rid my body of the toxic metals that have made a home there.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Almost done...
I have one week left of DMSA chelation. I then will be taking another toxic element test, as I mentioned in my previous post. We're hoping to find that the chelation worked, but we won't know for about a month - it takes that long for the results to come back.
The detoxification is going okay. I've had symptoms reappear that once were gone, and other ones are exacerbated. I've had horrendous headaches, the irritability comes and goes, I'm fatigued beyond what anyone could imagine, and I've been so off-balanced I feel like I'm drunk. Those are the main ones, but there are others as well. In a way, I was prepared for the symptoms I had at the time I started chelation to get worse, but I never expected symptoms to return. It's been difficult at best to relive the last 3 1/2 years all over again.
My last visit to the ND found that my kidneys are having some trouble with all of the work they have to do to filter out the extra barrage of toxins moving through them. It wasn't surprising to hear. Even though I tried nutritionally getting my kidneys prepared, it still is a big process to filter through more than they have ever before. I plan on giving them an extra nutritional boost during the next month while we wait for the test results just in case we do another round of DMSA. I don't need my kidneys failing!
I am dealing with one of those nasty headaches today. Nothing is touching it, and it's very aggravating. It just makes me want to crawl into bed and not come back out until I'm healthy again! Unfortunately that is not an option.
The detoxification is going okay. I've had symptoms reappear that once were gone, and other ones are exacerbated. I've had horrendous headaches, the irritability comes and goes, I'm fatigued beyond what anyone could imagine, and I've been so off-balanced I feel like I'm drunk. Those are the main ones, but there are others as well. In a way, I was prepared for the symptoms I had at the time I started chelation to get worse, but I never expected symptoms to return. It's been difficult at best to relive the last 3 1/2 years all over again.
My last visit to the ND found that my kidneys are having some trouble with all of the work they have to do to filter out the extra barrage of toxins moving through them. It wasn't surprising to hear. Even though I tried nutritionally getting my kidneys prepared, it still is a big process to filter through more than they have ever before. I plan on giving them an extra nutritional boost during the next month while we wait for the test results just in case we do another round of DMSA. I don't need my kidneys failing!
I am dealing with one of those nasty headaches today. Nothing is touching it, and it's very aggravating. It just makes me want to crawl into bed and not come back out until I'm healthy again! Unfortunately that is not an option.
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