What causes these sensitivities?

I have sensitivies to mold, chemicals, and electronics, especially my phone and computer. I've been having an upsurge since last Wed, after I tried to add Cordyceps. I haven't taken any more Cordyceps since then.

I have only had sensitivities this bad before when I tried cholestyramine for mold detox, and when I took minocycline for 7 days.

I've been trying to do Buhner's protocol for Lyme and Bartonella and have slowly been adding herbs. Right now the only herbs I'm on are knotweed, EGCG with quercetin, hawthorn, rhodiola, ashwaganda.

Does anyone know what causes these sensitivities? Will they stop? Does anyone else have this? Did you find anything helpful for these symptoms?

The sensitivities are one of the worst symptoms for me. When they get really bad, it makes me feel like wigging out and crying hysterically. It makes me feel hopelessness and despair more than other symptoms do.

dacarte3 said...
can you describe the sensitivities in more detail plese.

If I'm around mold or chemicals, I feel pain. It's an intense pain and comes in surges - kind of like electrical surges.

Years ago, I bought a pair of chrome plated sewing scissors and every time I used them my hand would just hurt. It wasn't an ache. It was a different kind of pain from anything I'd ever had before. A few years later I had allergy patch tests done and tested positive to numerous things, including chromium. I found out that you could have either allergies or sensitivities. Contact Allergies would have a delayed reaction usually 2 days later. Sensitivities do not involve an IGE mediated response, and the reactions occur immediately upon contact with the offending substance. I remembered the chrome scissors and realized it hurt my hand because I had a sensitivity to chromium.

If I'm close enough to fragrance to smell it, it usually burns my face. Sometimes I taste it in my mouth. I can feel sharp pains in my face or mouth. Sometimes it causes my chest to tighten up or makes me cough or feel like I'm choking. I have an extraordinary sense of smell and smell things in much greater concentration than a normal person would. When I was taking cholestyramine, that was the worst it has ever been. It was unreal, like something out of science fiction. I would be out for a walk and could smell the laundry detergent on people's clothes as they drove by in their cars with the windows up. The pain was awful - like raw nerve pain.

When I touch my phone or computer screen, I can feel electical pain in my fingers. It causes joint pain to worsen and my whole body to feel more inflamed and tense.

It's the kind of thing you probably can't comprehend unless you felt it yourself. It's hard to really explain.

It's not only chemical: it's ALSO electrosmog sensitivity.

Google about it, symptoms are quite similar.

According to dr. K, it has to do with heavy metals and toxins: the more heavy metals are in the body, you become like an antenna and capture all these EMRs.

I guess lyme neurotoxins or any neurotoxins (such as heavy metals) will not make the situation better but worse.

When you describe how your allergy / sensitivity symptoms get worse (with detox substances, or stuff that moves mold toxins and also heavy metals), it does seem it's the case.

Many people with lyme develop food sensitivities.

I guess, the more neuro toxin binders you take, the best.

Even though some binders also move a bit toxins, and you can have a bad reaction too.

When lyme disappeared, many food allergies disappeared, the electrosensitivity got better.

But with the years, as I stopped treating everything (including teeth), I got many food allergies back.

It also has to do with a porous gut (leaky gut), caused by ingestion of gluten AND grains (grains are hard to digest, it seems), and casein, and God knows what else.

Everything that causes you allergy, or funny reactions, may damage gut cells. Once damaged, it leaks big molecules into the blood and your body reacts.

We are doing a gluten free diet, now moving into a casein free and diminishing grain consumption.

I'm going to try to ferment some rice and see if it goes better.

Another wonderful thing I just found is glutamine or L-glutamine, an aminoacid said to repair leaky gut damage.

Look at Dr. Axe's information on leaky gut: he explains quite simply some steps to heal it (4 steps).

We're trying that now! Let's see how it will go.


As for electrosensitivity, I guess the more you avoid wifis and computers, cell phones etc, the best.

But there are still environment pollution that is hard to get away from.

If the bedroom is contaminated, it's very hard to sleep deep, and then next day, the Autonomic Nervous System is wired, like in fight and flight mode, since the morning!

It's not good for allergies and sensitivities, as it seems the body turns on to allergy-mode / inflammation-mode.

I'm wearing now a stone with Schumann resonance frequencies and that marks the best months of my life, for many years... I guess, since the start of the cell phone fashion.

I can relax again. If I take thte pendant off, I can feel this exact computer again, that I'm typing.

At home, I did a lot to stop wifis, changed our house phone, and barely use any cell phone, because I got freaked.

I know what you feel...

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to push heavy metals off my body. but it does look like it's a lifelong process, almost.

Post Edited (Jinna) : 9/9/2017 10:05:54 AM (GMT-6)

I agree with Peteza - it is the lyme.
I had untreated lyme for 19 years - I got progressive allergic to more and more foods, chemicals, allergens and emfs. At first it was the hayfever season - I could hardly breathe, then I started to get allergic to almost every food you could name - I was eating only sweet potatoes, I could take very few supplements then and then a new fresh hell.............I got sensitive to electricity. I noticed in the morning when I got up that I felt very buzzy and agitated near the fridge, I had to stop using a computer I could literally feel pressure around my heart...things just got worse and worse.
My allergies these days are mild................ the lyme is inactive, I can eat almost anything, and stay on the computer for ages. I got help from a kinesiologist for the EMS. But it didn't go completely until the lyme went. I had been taking detox products for years because I had a CFS diagnosis. But I don't believe my body was ever that efficient at detoxing. I have an ozone sauna now and the towel I am sitting on goes a bit brown with whatever it is that is coming out of my skin. And with all the money I have spent on detox products I would have sworn I had everything covered in that regard.

WalkingByFaith --

So sorry to hear your struggle. It does sound like a sci-fi movie.

I have similar issues, though not quite as severe. I become ill from blankets (if they have dust on them), wall paint, detergent, etc.

Have you ever done a parasite cleanse? I know that my symptoms got really bad when I was killing parasites but not detoxing well enough.

I also believe there is a connection between heavy metals and these sensitivities.

You mention the sensitivities getting worse when treating mold -- Could this be from killing mold and not eliminating it fast enough? Every time I do intense treatment and do not detox enough, I get horrific symptom exacerbation. If chemical sensitivities are your worst symptom, it could just be where your Herx manifests.

I'm sure you've been working to detox but maybe there is one pathway that isn't open enough, such as your liver bile duct. One supplement I know helps with this is called "TUDCA." It helps you produce new bile to move the old junk along.

Finally, with regard to the nerve pain itself -- I have heard wonderful things about potent CBD oil for nerve issues. I think there is one called "Charlotte's Web" which has cured nerve-related diseases. It might help you tolerate the pain better.

Hope this helps, these are just the first things that come to mind

Gh may be on to something . As i heard emf sensitivities are related to copper toxicity. For mold i wear thieves constantly and bvt is stronger than diflucan

https://electroplague.com/2013/06/03/video-mold-toxins-skyrocket-with-emr-exposure/

the video explaining exponential mold toxins when exposed to EMR.

It's short, just 5 minutes.

Very enlightening.

It also speaks about mechanisms of damage of cell communication (cell membrane and the DNA) through electrosmog.

"Exposure to electromagnetic fields in combination with chronic, low-grade infection explains the avalanche of children with neurodevelopmental disorders", he says.

No only children are affected neurologically.

Post Edited (Jinna) : 9/11/2017 4:26:12 PM (GMT-6)