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Posted 8/10/2011 3:39 PM (GMT 0)
cry   skull wink smilewinkgrin turn yeah What a ride! I have not posted here for about a week. I guess I was trying to 'forget' my Lyme for a while and focus on trying to get back to 'normal' life. Some wild things have happened to me over the past 10 days or so. Here's the story and maybe it might help others here. I have Lyme - no doubt at all but now we believe it is just a background bacteria taking advantage of a more systemic problem with me over the past 6 months. Here's why we think that:

My symptoms began showing up in early March and progressively worsened until I tested positive for Lyme on 6/10/11. I had had a bulls-eye rash show in mid-to-late May to indicate the Lyme possibility. Upon starting Amox for a couple of weeks, all my physical Lyme symptoms cleared leaving me only with neuro symptoms of fogginess, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, you know the routine. I found an LLMD and started seeing her on 7/6/11 and she immediately put me on Ceftin/Biaxin pulsing every 2 weeks with Ceftin/Flagyl. I did okay on the former but have had trouble tolerating the Flagyl. Herxing, detoxing, supplementing, I was doing EVERYTHING to try and push through this! Even started the coffee enemas (which, BTW, are greatly helpful and I encourage all to try them in their detox regimen).

I began to have more and more "issues" however, some very severe which I attributed to either herxes and/or Flagyl reactions. I found out this was only partially true...I'll continue in the next replay post to brreak this up a little.

Posted 8/10/2011 3:54 PM (GMT 0)

I was having such a rough time that the LLMD started to give me IVs of nutrients and liver support - B12, magnesium, selenium, taurine, glutathione and heperin. These helped a lot but wore off quickly. I even test positive for mononucleosis!) I was up-and-down and felt like I was losing ground.

Okay, fast-forward to last Thursday...I felt pretty good in the AM (I had taken off work for the week to try and get a better handle on things) and went to have a tooth fixed. The tooth had cracked in half this past March but it was back in my mouth so not able to be seen easily, so I had WAITED to have anything done. Since I have Lyme (and also mono by this point), I decided to go to a biological dentist who specializes in non-mecury and other non-toxic materials. The tooth that had cracked had exposed a large amalgam filling and I wanted to get it out and replaced with something else. The dentist performed the procedure - it was over at about 4:00 in the afternoon and my spirirts were high. By 6:30pm, I was is a MAJOR episode of what I can only describe as a mini-seizure! It lasted 2.5 hours and I truly thought I was going to die.

The next day, a similar event in the AM but not quite as bad - I could not drive so my parents took me to the LLMD where I received every form of IV she had. She thought that the removal of the filling had poisoned my system and since I was already on toxin-overload had caused a major toxic reaction and sent me for a blood test. I felt a little better by the afternoon of that day. By the next day - Saturday - I was feeling very good - the best I had felt in weeks! I even played golf with my wife in the afternoon! What a difference a day makes! Sunday was still good but not as good. I went back to work on Monday and Tuesday this week and struggled through a fairly frequent cycle of feeling very good to feeling pretty bad. Today, I am feeling the same however, each day seems a little better than the last!

Today, I went back to the LLMD for the results of my latest blood test. Verdict - HIGH MERCURY TOXICITY (blood levels). Not good, but something we can work on now! The goal is to get this stabilized back to lower levels (I have been taking EDTA and chlorella).

Posted 8/11/2011 12:11 AM (GMT 0)
Well yazzer,

What a harrowing experience! I am so glad you are on the mend now.

Here's to your continued recovery.
Posted 8/11/2011 3:10 AM (GMT 0)
 

Wow, Yazzer!  I had heard of people (primarily Autistics) having seizure-like reactions from mercury detox that's done too fast, but this is the first I've heard of it happening from getting an amalgam taken out of a tooth.  Did the dentist use a bumper and other precautions to keep you from swallowing the mercury?  I'm sorry you had such a harrowing experience!  It's good your LLMD knew what to do!

Posted 8/11/2011 9:53 PM (GMT 0)
Yeah. The dentist used precautions but I think since my mercury level was high to begin with because of the exposed filling next to the gold crown for 5 months, the slightest bit of vapor I breathed in tipped the balance the wrong way. Plus, my liver was already dealing with toxic overload from the Lyme. It was crazy.
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