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.
