I have read many blogs and most of them stop, and you always wonder why. Are these people healed, what are they doing now. I thought when I write my blog I will not stop. But what actually happens is you get swallowed back into the swing of life, this is after all what it is all about.... Living! Which is why I have not written for over a year.
I joined a run club. I was scared at first, I thought they would be super fit people who would never understand fatigue. What I actually found was the most amazing people I have ever met. They have never once told me I was mad or its all in my head. A lot of them have struggled through their own problems like cancer, children with rare disorders with no cure, comas, heart attacks being in a wheel chair but they still get out there and try their hardest to run, they understand struggle and determination. They have been the most supportive and encouraging people I have ever met. The coach of the the run club, who is a mother of a child with a rare syndrome with no cure decided to organize a 1/2 marathon to raise money for families with sick children. This is why I decided to try for my first half marathon, it was a great cause and sums up all the amazing people out there who despite their own issues wants to help others, just like in the mercury detox community, people on the message boards are there helping others despite feeling like they would like to lay down and die.
On October 26th 2014 I ran my first 1/2 marathon in 2:08:44 I was totally amazed by my time. The whole way round I was ready to burst into tears because I just couldn't believe where I came from when I first went down into deepest darkest hell on 1st June 2012.
Since then I have run 7 more 1/2 marathons, my fastest time was 2:02:59 which I was ecstatically happy about. I also ran a 15k over bridges. I remember when a slight incline would give me such bad cramps in my legs, like stabbing pains but I was over-taking everyone up the bridges! I now have a medal for every tooth that was poisoned by mercury. It feels easy after chronic fatigue from the mercury, I will have to try for a marathon and see how that compares to mercury poisoning!
Every day I still get stronger. I still have some issues with my shoulder .. more on that later. I have never been healthy so I have no idea what healthy really is, what do "normal" people feel like. Every day that I get stronger I realize how ill I was, how did I do it for my whole entire life.
I started working with a functional medicine Dr. I had all my hormones tested and a full nutrient evaluation (nutraeval by Genova) which showed I was still a little nutrient deficient and also markers for bacteria. My Dr then ordered me a SIBO (small intestinal bacteria overgrowth) test which came out as severe positive for Hydrogen. I don't have the typical symptoms for SIBO (no bloating / gas etc) but my bowels do move slower than they should so this was a real surprise. I guess all those years of mercury pouring down my throat has done substantial damage to my intestines. I also had a lot of antibiotics when I was a child which would have also damaged my intestinal tract.
Currently as well as working on SIBO I am balancing my last hormonal problems. My thyroid is back into the correct values, TSH is still slightly elevated at 3.45 but if you read my prior posts you'll see that is not as important as T3/4. My adrenals have improved immensely they follow the correct curve but it is now slightly above not below. My testosterone, DHEA and pregnenolone are all low and I am supplementing with pregnenolone and DHEA. Pregnenolone is the bodies pre-hormone so my body should be able to make any missing hormones from this.
Symptoms Remaining:
My shoulders still crackle and hips crack but the mummification stiff feeling has gone.
Visual snow it still there a tiny bit, I mainly only see it if I look into the blue sky and if I have to get up in the night but I have to make the effort to see it. I am still having some issue with playing the piano due to this problem.
Memory - its so much better, all my memories are coming back and I can remember telephone numbers and appointments. Sometimes if get tired, like when I am running I sometimes go back into zombiness and lose count (like for example doing hill repeats I lose count to how many I have done)
Most of this is to do with the brain which is the last place to get the metal out of so I just need more time.
Orthogonal Chiropractor:
What I could not understand is why my shoulder would not recover, I was doing my exercises and I seemed to be stuck. My functional Dr recommended a Orthogonal Chiropractor (specialist in necks). So I went out of curiosity and desperation of wanted to fix this stupid shoulder. So I went there in May 2015 and he assessed me. He kept insisting I had been in an accident and I was thinking this Dr is crazy. My reflexes in my left side were weird, my arm just sort of darted out at weird angles. I was putting 14 more lbs on my right side than my left even though I thought I was standing straight. I still fall over when I close my eyes. He then took me through for an x-ray and then that is when it was quite clear. I had a moderate to severe misalignment in my neck at the Atlas (very top of spinal column) and my body was completely wonky as a result. The chiro showed me 3 points where I must have had 3 accidents. My Chiro Dr doesn't understand how I could be running. Guess I am just badass determined.
So I called my Mum and said this crazy Dr says I have been in an accident and she says well yes. Without me telling her the Dr said 3 accidents she told me about 3 accidents. Apparently I fell out the crib, was dropped and there was a car accident. It was a head on collision probably about 30 - 40 mph. In those days 1980s we didn't have seatbelts I am surprised I didn't go through the windscreen and die. The police told my Mum to go to hospital but she refused and thought because I looked alright I was fine. As I grew up my parents always called me a hypochondriac. I guess nowadays they would be arrested for child neglect for not taking your child to hospital after an accident. When my Mum dropped me she took herself off to hospital for her sprained ankle but didn't take me.
I am angry and I don't really know how to process this, I want to put it all behind me but I can't. Maybe if they apologized but they still don't think that they made a mistake. My Mum just thinks that my neck is all in my head. Maybe she feels guilty and doesn't want to admit she did a very bad thing and as a result I have suffered for 37 yrs terrible pain, maybe she doesn't give a ....
This isn't like mercury poisoning there is no doubt from my x-ray its a classic textbook case of whiplash injury, this is my Drs diagnoses.
I have never really felt love for my parents and now I have a reason to hate them, have I subconsciously been blaming them all along? The bullying words such as hypochondriac surely didn't help either.
The first time the Chiropractor corrected my neck he had to help me up as I could literally feel the rush of blood into my head. I had to wear a neck brace for the evening. Driving home with a neck brace on was challenging. It was very sore. I went to lay down in bed a few hours later and I could literally feel the severe pain creep up from my left shoulder into my neck. Now my neck hurt but it was a new pain and it felt right. I know I sound like a crazy person again but it just felt right like this is where its supposed to hurt. I have been going back every 2 weeks for the last 6 months because I have been like this for 37 yrs my body is very stiff and frozen. My neck is back in alignment and I am working with my Chiro and the massage therapist to unstick all the areas that were wonky and had gone stiff in order to compensate for the severe misalignment. My pain levels have gone down dramatically I feel like my areas of chronic pain are decreasing so the pain is in specific points in my arms shoulders and hips rather than widespread. I have started Yoga as part of my rehab and really enjoying Vineshya and Yin yoga styles. The Yin is to stretch the fascia and ligaments out and it really works on flexibility. The Vineshya is quicker asanas (order of movements) so helps me get more loose. I also do some very boring daily neck exercises!
My Dr says this is the cause for a lot of my health issues and then with the mercury on top it was a recipe for disaster.
Since then I have run 7 more 1/2 marathons, my fastest time was 2:02:59 which I was ecstatically happy about. I also ran a 15k over bridges. I remember when a slight incline would give me such bad cramps in my legs, like stabbing pains but I was over-taking everyone up the bridges! I now have a medal for every tooth that was poisoned by mercury. It feels easy after chronic fatigue from the mercury, I will have to try for a marathon and see how that compares to mercury poisoning!
Every day I still get stronger. I still have some issues with my shoulder .. more on that later. I have never been healthy so I have no idea what healthy really is, what do "normal" people feel like. Every day that I get stronger I realize how ill I was, how did I do it for my whole entire life.
I started working with a functional medicine Dr. I had all my hormones tested and a full nutrient evaluation (nutraeval by Genova) which showed I was still a little nutrient deficient and also markers for bacteria. My Dr then ordered me a SIBO (small intestinal bacteria overgrowth) test which came out as severe positive for Hydrogen. I don't have the typical symptoms for SIBO (no bloating / gas etc) but my bowels do move slower than they should so this was a real surprise. I guess all those years of mercury pouring down my throat has done substantial damage to my intestines. I also had a lot of antibiotics when I was a child which would have also damaged my intestinal tract.
Currently as well as working on SIBO I am balancing my last hormonal problems. My thyroid is back into the correct values, TSH is still slightly elevated at 3.45 but if you read my prior posts you'll see that is not as important as T3/4. My adrenals have improved immensely they follow the correct curve but it is now slightly above not below. My testosterone, DHEA and pregnenolone are all low and I am supplementing with pregnenolone and DHEA. Pregnenolone is the bodies pre-hormone so my body should be able to make any missing hormones from this.
Symptoms Remaining:
My shoulders still crackle and hips crack but the mummification stiff feeling has gone.
Visual snow it still there a tiny bit, I mainly only see it if I look into the blue sky and if I have to get up in the night but I have to make the effort to see it. I am still having some issue with playing the piano due to this problem.
Memory - its so much better, all my memories are coming back and I can remember telephone numbers and appointments. Sometimes if get tired, like when I am running I sometimes go back into zombiness and lose count (like for example doing hill repeats I lose count to how many I have done)
Most of this is to do with the brain which is the last place to get the metal out of so I just need more time.
Orthogonal Chiropractor:
What I could not understand is why my shoulder would not recover, I was doing my exercises and I seemed to be stuck. My functional Dr recommended a Orthogonal Chiropractor (specialist in necks). So I went out of curiosity and desperation of wanted to fix this stupid shoulder. So I went there in May 2015 and he assessed me. He kept insisting I had been in an accident and I was thinking this Dr is crazy. My reflexes in my left side were weird, my arm just sort of darted out at weird angles. I was putting 14 more lbs on my right side than my left even though I thought I was standing straight. I still fall over when I close my eyes. He then took me through for an x-ray and then that is when it was quite clear. I had a moderate to severe misalignment in my neck at the Atlas (very top of spinal column) and my body was completely wonky as a result. The chiro showed me 3 points where I must have had 3 accidents. My Chiro Dr doesn't understand how I could be running. Guess I am just badass determined.
So I called my Mum and said this crazy Dr says I have been in an accident and she says well yes. Without me telling her the Dr said 3 accidents she told me about 3 accidents. Apparently I fell out the crib, was dropped and there was a car accident. It was a head on collision probably about 30 - 40 mph. In those days 1980s we didn't have seatbelts I am surprised I didn't go through the windscreen and die. The police told my Mum to go to hospital but she refused and thought because I looked alright I was fine. As I grew up my parents always called me a hypochondriac. I guess nowadays they would be arrested for child neglect for not taking your child to hospital after an accident. When my Mum dropped me she took herself off to hospital for her sprained ankle but didn't take me.
I am angry and I don't really know how to process this, I want to put it all behind me but I can't. Maybe if they apologized but they still don't think that they made a mistake. My Mum just thinks that my neck is all in my head. Maybe she feels guilty and doesn't want to admit she did a very bad thing and as a result I have suffered for 37 yrs terrible pain, maybe she doesn't give a ....
This isn't like mercury poisoning there is no doubt from my x-ray its a classic textbook case of whiplash injury, this is my Drs diagnoses.
I have never really felt love for my parents and now I have a reason to hate them, have I subconsciously been blaming them all along? The bullying words such as hypochondriac surely didn't help either.
The first time the Chiropractor corrected my neck he had to help me up as I could literally feel the rush of blood into my head. I had to wear a neck brace for the evening. Driving home with a neck brace on was challenging. It was very sore. I went to lay down in bed a few hours later and I could literally feel the severe pain creep up from my left shoulder into my neck. Now my neck hurt but it was a new pain and it felt right. I know I sound like a crazy person again but it just felt right like this is where its supposed to hurt. I have been going back every 2 weeks for the last 6 months because I have been like this for 37 yrs my body is very stiff and frozen. My neck is back in alignment and I am working with my Chiro and the massage therapist to unstick all the areas that were wonky and had gone stiff in order to compensate for the severe misalignment. My pain levels have gone down dramatically I feel like my areas of chronic pain are decreasing so the pain is in specific points in my arms shoulders and hips rather than widespread. I have started Yoga as part of my rehab and really enjoying Vineshya and Yin yoga styles. The Yin is to stretch the fascia and ligaments out and it really works on flexibility. The Vineshya is quicker asanas (order of movements) so helps me get more loose. I also do some very boring daily neck exercises!
My Dr says this is the cause for a lot of my health issues and then with the mercury on top it was a recipe for disaster.
