You sound just like I was….at your wits end! What a ‘mare. I tried a zillion things to get better and I was basically still sick after everything. Well, I thought I had tried everything back then too….but when I really started learning about alternative health I realised I had just seen the tip of the iceberg. Keep looking because you will find the answer sooner or later(bowel cleansing needs to be TOP of your list). I only got better after I did bowel cleansing, but when I did finally turn the corner….that was a happy happy moment in my life when I realised I was finally getting better after all the efforts I made. That feeling of healing was awesome. Keep looking because you WILL find it too. I think that I have now done everything possible to get better…and I am now better;-)
Condition: my life slowly fell apart over 12 years, gradually getting worse and worse. Doctors made things much worse with their actions and inactions and/or told me i was not ill!
I had multiple food intolerances and was intolerant to all food except salad. I ate salad only for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 8 months in 2007. I also could not eat anything from the nightshade family (tomatos) which is incredibly hard to avoid. If I ate even one mouthful of, for example tomato, I was even sicker for another 7-10 days. Major digestive pains 27/7 and major pains in my muscles, especially my lower back.
Multiple chemical intolerances, smelling perfume made me sick for 7-10 days as above, household chemicals in toilet cleaners ditto. Tobacco smoke ditto. Toothpaste which chemicals ditto…..basically I reacted to everything.
I was depressed, mega digestive problems/pain, constipation, major bad back in constant crippling pain 24/7, massively underweight, ringing in the ears, constantly prone to injury and generally completely screwed up with life gently slipping away. life was utter utter misery and I thank my lucky stars I was strong enough to keep looking, learning and to be able to eventually get better.
Recovered? yes, almost completely now. i still have a few things to sort out but those things take time and cannot be speeded up. I have zero pain, am fit, gaining weight, all food allergies are gone, happy and looking forward to the future again. Life is very much back on track.
Re mercury and your hair test.
Some people are able to naturally excrete mercury from their body and will never have a long term mercury problem…because they are capable of excreting mercury. If they did a hair test after they got mercury exposure, it would show high mercury being excreted from their hair. Lucky them.
Some people are NOT able to excrete mercury from their bodies. When the mercury goes in, their body kinda freezes up, like a rabbit in the headlights, and rather than excrete the mercury, it stores it. Stores it wherever it can. Mercury is super toxic and extremely damaging for the body and sometimes it is too much for the body to excrete so it just gets stored. When those people do a hair test, the hair test comes out very low mercury or no mercury.
What that means is that if a hair test shows no or low mercury, that does not necessarily mean no mercury in the body….it could means either
1) there is no mercury,
or
2) that person is incapable of excreting mercury. And has a mercury problem.
So, what you must do is look at the hair test for tell tail mercury problems signals, of which there are plenty…but it’s pretty tricky for the layman to see. I am a layman and I can see it now that I know what I’m looking for. Its easy when u know how, kinda thing.
Andy Cutler wrote another (long) book about Hair tests and he explains how to read them to be able to tell.
As you know, mercury contamination could come from many many sources: amalgams, flu shots, allergy shots, vaccinations, just being in a dentist office, contact lense solutions, broken thermometer in a house you moved into….the list is long and many people never figure out where they got contaminated.
I you still have the hair test I could look at it if u want.
Bowel cleansing needs to be top of your list.
Good luck
Sunshine