Week by Week Diary:
Week 1 - The first 2 weeks was pretty hectic due to life (work, friends hen do) so I was feeling quite tired.Started taking 1 seagreen tablets twice a day as my dentist instructed (Dr. Levenson protocol)
Exactly 1 week after my final removal my right eye went bloodshot but luckily only lasted for a day.
People commenting how radiant I looked after sauna at my friends hen do (supposed to be really good for us mercury poisoned folk). Skin did feel really good.
Week 2 - Work was crazy, felt exhausted / rough. Also had a massage, helped relieve these really bad rib pains I had been getting and were waking me up in the night, shoulder much better. Made me more tired!
Upped my dose to 2 seagreen tablets twice a day as my dentist instructed (Dr. Levenson protocol). Started to take turmeric for my recurring boil infections. But also it's supposed to be good for the liver, bonus!
Weekly 3 mile run 11 seconds slower.
Week 3 - I got bad period pain, which was weird because I had no pain whatsoever for the last 4 months. Felt quite rough some evenings but no "waking up and wanting to die at 5am in the morning" attacks. Friends wedding next week worried I won't be able to enjoy it so booked emergency reflexology session concentrating on my adrenals and thyroid. My reflexologist is impressed with my improvement.
Finally had time to start looking into detox methods. Started listening to lectures by Chris Shade on you tube/mercola. The more I learn about how mercury messes up your body the more scared and angry I am!
Week 4 - 5 - I made my running target, which is my pre wisdom tooth operation time. I couldn't believe it I finally done it! Only took a year and £2.5k worth of dental work!
Had my friends wedding had a great time was dancing on the dance floor! I was so exhausted for the whole week afterwards too much excitement for my adrenals!
I started taking milk thistle this week.
Week 6 - Had a really good run was 40 seconds faster than the week before definitely feel new blood cells that actually work.
Blister in my left eye has gone and yellow is a lot less, I think it's the milk thistle.
Week 7 - I actually went to a music festival. I stayed in a hotel too sick to camp, need my hot showers every day to loosen up my muscles. But I passively smoked who knows what and I didn't cough once. Normally I would be hacking my lungs out. Managed 2 sensible beers each day, no funny turns which was great as was eating really bad food. Was exhausted after the weekend.
I also started olive leaf extract this week for nasties such as bacteria, candida etc
Week 8 - Had my regular massage this week. She said my shoulder a lot better lot more flexible. So I got her to work on my left arm which cramps up every time I try and play the guitar. Well she said so many knots that I will probably get bruising (and I did) so no wonder I can't play! Had a go on the guitar... much better.
Started taking Zeolite Clinoptilolite (there are many zeolites you have to get the good, but expensive stuff). First couple of nights was disgusting made me feel sick but grown to like it, think my body knows its good for me... I think I am feeling much better (yesterday did gardening, housework, laundry, hand washing, supermarket shop, played guitar... thats a lot for me!), we'll see if the improvement continues!
Here is link that explains how it detoxes Mercury, Lead, Tin, Cadmium, Arsenic, Aluminum, Antimony, Nickel and all other toxic heavy metals:
http://www.yourncdinfo.com/clinoptilolite-affinity-schedule.pdf
Running
Here is a graph of my running times to show how they are improving:
Temperature testing
I have been doing my temperature charts on and off throughout this period. I decided that I want to learn what my issues are before deciding to go down which detox method. Andy Cutler says no chelating is better than wrong chelating. I don't think you can detox effectively unless you know your issues. Dr Rind tells you now to record your daily average temperature. Take 1 3 hours after waking up and 2 more at 3 hour intervals then use that to do average.http://www.drrind.com/therapies/metabolic-temperature-graph
So I was expecting my temperature to be erratic but low to indicate adrenal gland fatigue. But what I found was every afternoon I was running a low grade fever. So now I am thinking my weekend immune system means that my immediate problem is evil infections. I have had recurring boil infections for 18 years (That's not a typo)! I have started taking turmeric and olive leaf extract to try and kill these residual infections off. The lump that my dr told me was a scar that would never go has started decreasing in size.
I need to continue taking my temperature to get better data on what is going on. I am doing 2 charts below is the data so far.
1) Taking temperatures throughout the day (it is supposed to rise after waking, stabalise in afternoon and then decrease ready for sleep). I started to take temperature first thing when I woke up (to check for potential thyroid problems) but that seemed erratic, then I had funny turn and found my temperature drops by 0.5 C. Then I started taking at night when I crashed out or felt wide awake. I only started doing this out of interest but found it revealing.
2) Daily average temperatures as per Dr Rind - this implies Adrenal fatigue as erratic.
Hair testing
I have ordered a hair test not because I am trying to prove mercury poisoning, most people who are poisoned are so because they are unable to excrete the Mercury therefore the test will show up as minimal amount, therefore the test is pointless for this. However a hair test will tell you what mineral deficiency you have as a result of the poisoning. It might also come back with inaccurate results as Mercury disrupts the processes in your body leading to mineral derangement, so you have to be careful when interpreting these tests. I think it will give me insight into the things I need to fix.http://www.novadetox.co.uk/acatalog/hair-mineral-analysis.html
Thyroid test
I have booked an appointment next week to see my dr to ask for full thyroid tests.TSH (the standard only test they do) will not tell you if your hyper of hypo thyroid. TSH is a PITUITARY hormone. TSH is like a messenger sent to knock on the door of the thyroid. If the thyroid not working the TSH keeps knocking but doesn't mean that it is doing anything, therefore you can have high value because the TSH is not going anywhere.
So you have to ask for TSH, T3, T4, free T4, antibodies, hashimitos and hormones. See what I can get out the NHS, it's a challenge that's for sure!
Stop the thyroid madness website has great information on this:
http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/
