Posted 7/23/2014 2:07 PM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone,
I'll first type by saying something I've had success with recently which is Calcium Bentonite clay mixed with apple cider vinegar. I recently had a flare up of really horrible knee pain where If I went on my bike, It feels as though my knees are coming out of the socket with each peddle. Walking was uncomfortable. I also felt it somewhat in my elbows.
Anyway, I tried the clay mask over my joints and face. Now this is where I'm confused! I have NO brainfog when wearing the clay all over my face and I actually, dare I say it, feel somewhat NORMAL. So the next time I tried the clay I layered it heavily over my neck, head, hair, chest, back and all over my arms. My mind was so clear and quiet while I have this stuff on. My knee pain hasn't come back yet and it's been just over a week. What's happening do you think?
A quick background on me, and maybe you could advise me? I would be grateful.
When I was 11 me and my friends would often play in the woods and one day we thought it would be a good idea to drive our bikes through the lake meaning we were fully submerged to chest height. I came home 4hours later and my dad saw I had a fully engorged deer tick on my side (I still have a mark that hasn't healed from the tick, and this was 13 years ago). For a few years I was fine with no symptoms went on with my life but around age 13-14 I developed acne and fatigue, but I shunned the fatigue and believed that I was being lazy(I was very wrong).
Fast forward a year I was holidaying Sardinia and we took a boat out to a nearby island where there were many boats and I swam in the sea around the boats. 2 hours later my back was covered in cysts red/purple, the worst cystic acne possible. I think I must of absorbed something my body couldn't filter quick enough (the pollution from the boats? I have no idea). I was starting to get pretty depressed with acne on my face, fatigue and now a back full of acne. Maybe the stress on my body made the earlier tick bite become active?
Again I carried on like everything was normal but my confidence was at a all time low (was very confident prior to all of this) and I started to get panic attacks in college, fatigue, eye strain, a heaviness in my forehead that made me feel like closing my eyes all the time. The last panic attack I had was the the final straw for me as I couldn't go on living like everything was normal.
So since then (2007) I've been struggling with ever changing symptoms which means no one believes me, every GP I go to offers 'Talking Therapies'. The first time I actually agreed, as I was very down and depressed (had a lot of stress in my life let alone my problems). It felt good to get rid of emotional baggage however it did not change my physical symptoms.
It's so hard for me to pin down my symptoms as there are so many that seem to change each month. I'll do a list of the symptoms:
1) Weakness, e.g. My main symptom that i've figured out is defiantly muscle weakness ESPECIALLY when i hold things above my head. My mum asked me to hold up the curtain pole to take down the curtains, 10-15seconds later I had to let go and I slept for 30minutes/1hour.. It's just ridiculous.
2) Daily headaches which have now been gone for quite sometime after I attended a chiropractor, she said I was the worst she has seen in her career in terms of stiffness/tightness.
3) Forearm/wrist/hands weakness/pains. I'm not sure where it is preciously but sometimes It feels in my bones or in the center of my hole forearm. I used to be in huge amounts of pain in these areas where I would in bed with ice packs for the day. It's nowhere near as bad now, but i still feel weak.
Something that has started recently which I have no idea what it could be, is electric shock type pains in my forearms. For example, I will be sitting down and go to grab a drink and get a shooting electric feeling which isnt painful but its uncomfortable. Recently I'll be going down the stairs holding on to the railing and will feel as though my feeling is lagging behind.. for example I'll put my arm on the railing, step down then move my hand further down the railing and my arm will still feel like it is a second behind were my actual arm is. confusing.
4) My face feels like it is drooping/puffy/fat but occasionally I'll wake up and feel like my face is normal.
5) constant red eyes this year.
6) My overall appearance is horrible, can barely recognize my self in the mirror.
7) On & off pressure on the bridge of my nose and makes my eyes feel sleepy (which is non existent when wearing a calcium bentonite clay mask)
8) Brainfog (which is no existent when wearing a calcium bentonite clay mask)
9) I lose my temper in seconds now, I have no patience anymore and just generally can't be bothered to talk to people - it's too much effort. Adrenals? In stressful situations I get dizzy and have to sit down.
10)Recently what has worried me is I find it effort walking up stairs, especially in my knees and sometimes get out of breath. I'm not overweight I'm 180lbs 6ft tall.
11) Sleep-wise In the begging I could sleep continuously, then later developed into insomnia for weeks at a time and now for the past year I've been sleeping fine.
This is the frustrating thing, they come and go like number 10 so I have no idea what I should be doing. Sometimes I feel fine other than just not feeling right (fatigue with some weakness & number 5/6/7). the only way I can describe my overall body is I feel like a 80 year old.
Probably missed some symptoms. If you have a similar predicament you will understand what I mean
Chiropractor - I was the most tense patient she has had in her career in terms of shoulder/back/chest/neck muscles. I no longer get daily headaches.
Probiotics - It worked for stopping bloating. I took and still take kefir, in the beginning I got an instant reaction and felt a pull towards having more as If my body needed it. I can now take litres of kefir along with 10 tbsp of the grains without reaction.
Psychologist - Every doctor ends up telling me It's anxiety and that I need to talk to some one, so being desperate I did and after 6 sessions even though It was beneficial in some ways It had no effect on my symptoms
Iron/b12 testing - Both came back above average, I was hoping it would be b12 deficiency seeing as I'm vegetarian/now vegan my whole life. However my result came back as 997(b12)...
Night time rituals and going to bed before 9pm - It helped fall asleep, however I still wake up un refreshed.
Lightning process - same as psychologist.
Tapping - same as psychologist
2 Liver flushes - caused more harm than good. My eye issues started after doing this stupid thing - what can I say I'm desperate and no one believes me. & i have a line through my finger nails that is blue since this
I don't eat dairy anymore.
I started to believe people telling me 'you just need to get going! once you start exercising a little bit you will be fine'. I completely crashed after 2-3 weeks and have gone backwards. Note to self, listen to your own body.
Currently trying no ********** to see if it helps. again I'm desperate. Read it can keep adrenals from recovering.
Probably have done more stuff but can't remember right now.
Now I don't know what to do, do you think I could have Lyme? Heavy Metal toxicity? (I did a home urine test kit that showed I had lead in my urine, but I don't know how legit they are) Adrenal fatigue?
I appreciate any advice or help.