Muscle pain flare after copper

I'm having a flare of migrating muscle aches, the pain is mostly dull, with some lactic acid-type burning. It started after raising my dose of supplemental copper from 2 to 4 mg (levels tested low).

My protocol is otherwise unchanged after several months. I suspect this is my b. duncani and not the copper itself, though I'm not having other babs symptoms. I'll ask my LLMD when they open Monday.

I supplement magnesium citrate, my mag levels are high. I plan to do IR sauna later today.

My copper level has always tested below the reference range, the last value was 48 out of 72-166, which was after 3 months of 2 mg copper chelate.

I take 25 mg zinc gluconate, 50 mcg of molybdenum, 100 mcg selenium, 350 mg magnesium citrate, 0.5 mg lithium occasionally, and 4-8 mg of iron; 8 mg of manganese was added recently. Zinc tests in the lower mid range, magnesium high range, and ceruloplasmin and manganese slightly below range.

Unfortunately I can't tolerate antihistamines, they cause significant memory impairment.

I'm leaning towards this being a herx rather than copper toxicity, The Role of Copper and Zinc Toxicity in Innate Immune Defense against Bacterial Pathogens.

I'm going to experiment with raising my zinc levels...this shouldn't be so complicated.

Edit: I just completed going over several years of labs, I made a spreadsheet with my copper:zinc ratio. It was always between 0.8-1 before supplementing copper, afterward it dropped to 0.67-0.8. Despite my copper levels being low, my body has been keeping a good ratio - more zinc is hopefully the answer.

Post Edited (acarined) : 4/20/2019 7:42:20 PM (GMT-6)