Posted by bleauberry on December 16, 2007, at 18:31:57
In reply to Re: Piracetam+Risperidone- Autistic Study » bleauberry, posted by linkadge on December 15, 2007, at 23:15:40
Hi Link! Hey, good questions. Merc toxic diagnosis is not as easy as one would think.
Sadly, I am convinced metal toxicity is far more common than realized. People are being unsuccessfully or erroneously treated for autism, arthritis, intestinal issues, migraines, depression, anxiety, intolerances, sensitivities, schizophrenia, tremors, foggy-headedness, chronic fatigue, fibromylagia, allergies...when it is common for the root of it all to be the devil called mercury. Add a little lead to it and you've got a tough to treat patient, since lead magnifies mercury's toxicity by a multitude. Mercury was used in childhood vaccinations and it passes from mother to baby. Its constant vapor can be seen rising off silver fillings, and my dentist can verify it with a saliva sample before and after chewing a piece of gum for patients who are "on the fence" about whether to remove their amalgams or not.
The best diagnosis can be made with the book Amalgam Illness by Phd Andrew Cutler, who himself suffered mercury toxicity. The book is written mostly in doctor science language but can be understood by you and me. It goes over symptoms, lab tests, how to interpret hair samples, challenge tests, and of course the only safe effective way to chelate toxic metals, using old-time standards like DMSA, DMPS, and/or alpha lipoic acid.
For me symptoms alone were diagnostic. Two hair samples a year apart were diagnostic. People should not be misled though...it is not the amount of mercury in hair that is important, but rather the pattern of all the other metals. Mercury has footprint patterns of what it does in dispslacing other metals. My patterns were striking, with elevated mercury and lead just making the whole interpretation a piece of cake. Strange though the way mercury affects other metals, it is common for the most toxic people to show very low mercury in hair. The book explains in molecular/chemistry language why that is. Doctors Data is the only one that tests the entire range of metals crucial for the diagnosis. I had a number of routine lab tests out of range, more than is normal, and that is diagnostic. One must use the "counting rules" to do that. My DMSA challenge test showed a 70% increase of mercury excretion in urine and a 500% increase of lead. But anyone reading this, do not do the challenge test! Read the book first. There is a safe way to do it. The common one-hefty-dose method is dangerous with lots of horror stories on the net. I suffered for weeks after mine due to the massive redistribution of metals. The FDA has a test called urine porphyrin which indicates how much damage has been done by metals, but does not indicate the current toxic load of metals. By comparing various parts of this lab test one is steered toward which metal is the offender.
Genetics plays a big part in why some people become toxic and others not, and why some people can have severe symptoms at a certain level while someone else with a higher level will have no symptoms.
Anyone reading this, stay far away from cilantro, chlorella, saunas, magnetic clays, n-acetyl-cysteine, glutathione if you suspect you have metal toxicity. There are enough horror stories of permanent neurological damage caused by these things when someone has a high metal burden. They are dangerous for toxic folks. They tend to stir up the metals faster than they are excreted, which is very bad and makes you much sicker. For healthy people or minorly toxic people, they are probably ok to use, though no one has any idea how they work, what the active ingredients are, or what their half lives are.
DMSA, DMPS, and alpha-lipoic acid are the only chelators. Used improperly they will make one sicker. The key is to respect their halflives. DMSA must be dosed every 4 hours, DMPS every 8 hours, or alpha-lipoic acid every 3 hours...all in very small doses, and around the clock. This is very safe and very effective. Do not allow redistribution to occur, which will if the drugs are taken farther apart than their halflives.
ALA is the only substance that will remove mercury from the brain. DMSA removes from the brain of rats, which have a much more permiable brain barrier than humans. It does not remove mercury from the human brain. Proper chelation involves using DMSA for a few months to lower the body mercury, and then add or switch to ALA to get the brain mercury. If ALA is used too soon, it will transport high levels of body mercury into the brain. Not cool. Whenever I hear of someone having a bad reaction to trying ALA as an antioxidant or whatever, I immediately wonder about their toxic load. Hmmm.
Anyway, I'm off on a tangent here. To answer your question, multiple avenues were used to make my diagnosis. I wish I would have had the Amalgam Illness book earlier because I could have avoided dangerous diagnostic mistakes, and I could have understood better what all the lab and hair samples were saying. I could have gotten a year's jumpstart on this and avoided ECT and multiple drug failures.
Link, you like to read and do research. The book is I think $30 used at amazon. The first half of the book deals with amalgam history, politics, daignosis, finding a doctor, what mercury does. The second half deals with what supplements to take for various symptoms...you would love this stuff. It reminded me of you when I was reading it. All kinds of herbs, vitamins, minerals, drugs, etc for all kinds of symptoms, but more importantly, why to use them and what they do.
> Blueberry, I was just wondering if you have had any objective measures of mercury toxicity. Ie, has a hair analysis demonstrated murcury toxicity?
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> Not that I doubt you, but I am just wondering how somebody goes about determining whether one has elevated murcury.
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> Linkadge
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