I'm livid.

Watch these videos and read the information. Looks like we have to take it into our own hands to make sure ourselves and the ones we love do not get amalgam fillings!

Adrenal fatigue and neck issues...

I'm beginning to think I will always live in a world of perpetual fatigue. It feels like a never-ending battle somedays! Over the last couple of weeks it seems to have gotten even moreso, and I'm guessing just by my other symptoms that the adrenal fatigue is back in a big way. Unfortunately I don't have the time to deal with it. Life is so busy right now, and there's so much to be done. I think if I could have a week of lazy days, long sleepy nights, and sleep-in mornings along with good nutrition, no stress, and someone to make meals for me, I might be able to heal my adrenals, but with being a stay-at-home year-round homeschooling mom, that's just not going to happen. Plus, it's summer, a very busy time for us.

My neck is also still a bother. Between the car accident I had fourteen years ago (whiplash) and the trauma from the tooth that went bad and had to be pulled, my neck has been through enough to probably cause me problems the rest of my life. When my neck is in adjustment I have less off-balance and dizzy feelings, but when it's out I feel very unstable and have lots and lots of headaches. Today is one of those days. My neck has been out since yesterday morning and I have constant pain and a nasty headache. There is also a pulsating feeling from one of the nerves being pinched in the back of my neck and I can feel every pulse...it feels very irritating.

Believe it or not, things are looking up. I don't feel half as bad as I did a year ago, and not even close to as bad as two years ago. I don't even want to discuss three and four years ago!

Some improvement...

Things have yo-yo'd a lot for me over the last few months, and I apologize for not getting in here. I have felt a lot better than even six months ago, but I am still far from great. Our spring has been super busy, and when I've had good days I've used them to their advantage as much as possible.

One new thing that is good, but also unfortunate, is that I found out through my own 'testing' that chocolate has been giving me the extreme sinus headaches that was causing me so much pain. I stopped eating a lot of chocolate about six months ago and noticed a difference in how I was feeling, but I didn't think to get rid of it all. I still ate chocolate in my morning Vitashake, but that was the only place I was getting it. I ran out about four weeks ago, and have been chocolate free for that entire time, and boy there is such a difference. I've also had a lot less off-balance/dizziness, although when it comes back it comes back pretty strong but lasts for a short time. I have no idea what the connection is, but it actually was a fluke that I even stopped eating chocolate completely, and after a couple of days went by and I didn't have any, I noticed my headaches getting less and less. So I determined to stay off completely, and during the last four weeks I've only had a few sinus-type headaches, and they were very mild compared to what I had before. One night I had a 'white' kitkat, made with white chocolate, but between the layers there was still regular chocolate. That night I woke up with that same sinus pain and pretty much knew it was because of the chocolate. I am SOOO bummed. I love chocolate. Brownies were my all time favorite dessert. The hardest part is that my family loves chocolate and we constantly have chocolate around. I know I will have to learn to go without if I don't want the headaches, but oooooohhhhhh, I so miss it!

Not much new...

Things haven't changed much since the last time I updated. I am finding that fact a bit discouraging, but also encouraging, because that means I haven't gone backwards in my journey. I have not taken my next toxic element test yet. Not because I don't want to, but because I haven't gotten to the particular clinic that I need to, to get it. With not having the ability to drive any long distance it makes it a bit difficult, since the clinic is in the next town over.

We have recently been able to get a hold of lead testing kits and decided we'd at least figure out where that heavy metal is coming from. So far I've been able to test 3 items, and 2 looked to be positive for lead as far as I could tell. I'm not really looking forward to finding out more if I could find 2 things in a short amount of time. I checked with our city to have our water tested and they basically refused, which was a bit frustrating. Now we'll have to go through another means to test our water, which may cost us to do.

I don't have much more to share at this time. I just know it has been awhile and felt if there's anyone out there who's been keeping up with this, you might be curious as to how I am doing. Thanks for checking in!

Irked again.

Here's the latest information I came across. Everyone at the FDA should be fired and it should be completely revamped. Not just for this particular article and their purposeful secrecy about it from the public, but how can they be so stupid, period? They are putting millions of innocent people's lives at danger every day by allowing harmful substances to be used in medicine and in the marketplace. When is the insanity going to stop?

Thinking things through...

It has been just a little over three weeks since I finished up the last round of chelation. I've noticed a lot of ups and downs during this time, mostly downs. Lots of headaches, extra fatigue, just an overall feeling of unwellness, off-balance and dizziness, and some irritability has creeped back in. I don't know if it's good to be feeling so bad yet - is it that my body is trying to adjust to the lack of heavy metals in my system or are heavy metals being introduced back in because we haven't found where they are coming from yet? In any case, I've been trying to maintain a small level of activity so that I can rest when I need to, although being a full-time wife, mom, and homeschool teacher has it's responsibilities that don't allow huge amounts of time to 'work' on healing. It also seems the weather affects me greatly. Seasonal changes especially cause fluctuations in how I feel, and having SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) stemming from the HMT does not help right now with it being winter. I'm hoping that will eventually change as I continue healing.

I will be retesting in March, and I'm guessing I will have another round of chelation in April-May. In a way I'm wanting to do it all sooner because I think overall things are getting better. It's just hard to see that some days when I still have symptoms that feel more overwhelming since I've become so sensitive to everything during this time. I just keep thinking if I could remove all of the toxins faster I could really concentrate on getting better right away rather than this constant 2 steps forward- 8 steps back yoyo that I'm riding on. I would probably have 30 steps back, but then I could take each step forward without having to worry about going backwards again. I know that's not a safe way to go, however, and I need to be patient. It took several years to build up the amount of toxins in my body...it will take just as long if not longer to get them out. I need to let my system heal slowly so that it can heal properly.

A newsletter from Dr. Hal Huggins

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Newsletter from Dr Huggins February 2009

The past few years have been spent examining diseases and associated chemistries controlled by dental materials beyond just mercury. 35 years ago I made a huge mistake. Armed with 12 patient cases, I went to the dental associations asking that mercury be banned due to its obvious poisonous consequences. There were consequences, none of which reduced mercury consumption. Personal consequences resulted in assaults that I had no idea my parent organization would launch, especially when the “code of ethics” spelled out, “If you discover anything that concerns the health of the professional, or the public, you are required to expose that information to the professions and the public”. Sounds pretty responsible, but it was not true when evaluated against liability, financial loss and professional embarrassment. I feel exonerated to a limited extent by the recent admission of the FDA that there were reasons why they limited mercury in all areas of public exposure, except dental fillings, and I was pleased that they stepped in the right direction by saying mercury amalgam fillings should not be placed in pregnant women and children. I’ve always wondered why pregnant women are so special. Why should I not be protected as well as they? Today, there is another problem to be confronted. Toxins from root canals, implants and cavitations provide even longer acting consequences than mercury. This time I shall share my findings with non-political entities to turn discoveries and observations into scientific research that can improve the health of the planet far more than providing government paid drugs to cover up symptoms. By mid February, press releases will be sent out telling of some of the 40 most influential chemistries I have monitored during the past 40 years. 200,000 data points have suggested to me that mercury is not the only dangerous dental material. Porphyrins, spinal taps, cholesterol, white blood cells and albumin have been great teachers to demonstrate how influential toxins from dental procedures can be. You, the public should have a choice. You may choose to smoke, consume alcohol, drive too fast – but! You know the potential consequences. How many people know the consequences of housing the 40 anaerobic bacteria in implants, the 60 in root canals, or the 80 in cavitations? How many know the adverse consequences of trying to fight these microbes with antibiotics? Should you be told the consequences, or just accept the fact that dentistry has raised the requirement bar of 30 million root canals per year up to 60 million per year. Why the increase? Did they stop making tooth brushes? When would organized dentistry get around to telling you that these bacteria (found in 100% of the samples tested with DNA identification methods) are more damaging than smoking or drinking (or cocaine)? Watch for information as it hits the media, and please let us know what you saw and where you saw / heard it. This will assist us in getting this important message to the most valuable listeners. You.

Family test results

My family's toxic element screening results came back yesterday. I was a bit surprised by the variation of toxicity they have. All four of us have tested high in lead. It's strange, considering we live in a fairly new house, only ten years old. There's no paint chips from old paint anyone is eating, we get our produce and meats from various places, and we haven't gardened any fruits and vegetables in our yard. Because the kids have never chewed on their toys, we don't believe that could be a problem. The only thing that's the most common is our water supply. I will be contacting someone to come and test our water soon.

Now what perplexes me the most is that Peanut had high levels of metals no one else had. According to her results, she should be sicker than me, and she seems the most healthiest of the four of us. She was off the charts in tin. She was also high in platinum, ribidium, thallium, and borderline in antimony. Doshi was low toxic in tin, and borderline barium and thallium. All four of us were high in mercury, Sparky just over toxic, and the kids just under toxic. I have been just under toxic since starting chelation, but I was over toxic to begin with.

I am still in the process of chelation with DMSA. I have 1 1/2 weeks left and then I retest in 2 months. Sparky and the kids will begin 6 weeks of chelation and retest in 3 months. I am very thankful we did the testing on them all, and that there's something we can do to right the situation. The hard part is finding the cause of it so we can stop it all from happening. The kids' level of mercury was from passing through the blood-brain barrier in utero from Sparky's and my high levels (yes, sperm carries mercury with it) as well as from the environment in which we live. Their levels will probably rise again some in the future, but hopefully not to the levels they are now. As for the other metals, we are a bit more confused. We don't know where they are coming from, so we will be working on figuring that out in the days and months to come.

Chelation and me: things are going okay. I have had some rough days with severe stomach cramping and 'pulling' headaches. I am learning to limit my activities for Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during this time just because I don't know how I'll be feeling. On the upside, between physical therapy, the chelation, and sinus rinses, my off-balance and dizzy feelings have gotten much less. I am hoping that I will continue in an upward turn in that and hoping in a few weeks I can feel confident enough to drive again. I do still have a lot of back and neck muscular pain yet however, but hoping that will soon get better as well.