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Hv,
I have mentioned this several times over the last few years, finally posting images - can't take anymore. What is it?
THANK YOU ~
seek2clean
I have some questions first. The pics are not real clear, but it appears like there is welting. Are the welts resulting from the scratching or are the affected areas raised before scratching? Also, is there any dryness to the areas or redness before scratching? Does anything seem to make it better or worse? Any changes in your life around the time this started such as excess stress or started on any medications?
Pardon the photos- took them myself. This is too embarrassing to get help with photography. I feel like a leper.The variety is amazing. i don't relate to welts with this - had raised hives as a kid - this is not that. The itchy can be a spot where nothing appears until I scratch the itch, like it is down deep and then surfaces, but MOST show up randomly with an obvious rough, crusty head that cannot be scratched off, or open. Occasionally minimal scratching produces blood, which reveals a crater. Some times a bloody ooze instead of a spot. No welting, even when I scratch.
This part sounds a lot like a staph infection.
Some itchy spots will stay for a long time, relentless - or can be crusty, white dot or cluster of dots, or a darkened patch with layers, and may eventually disappear leaving a white circular scar. It scars like active ringworm looks, but does not look like ringworm when it appears. Scars are white circles, dark center. The back of my neck is full of unsightly scarring - cannot wear my hair up off neck in public. Some of this in the scalp are gathered in clusters/tracks and never move - a group has been at the back occipital area for over a year, another cluster on the left side, bony ridge above ear also been there a long time, broken hair is from scratching, not from the crud - hair grows through it and around it just fine - others will pop up, hang out awhile and go away, only to pop up nearby. Behind ears is constant.
It took a long time for it to creep past the hairline - stayed off face for first few years, now can be found even on upper eyelids, travels down to shoulder blades, but never farther. I have very fine patch of villous hair at left temple, clearly beyond normal hairline, where a cluster of 6-7 white crusty dots lives and torments me. Another very dark patch at cheekbone in front of left ear has the layers and dry, white itchy and ever present. this is all non-greasy, no pus. The stuff in the ear cartilage has been slowly coming off in layers with rotating H202/diluted SSKI. Last week the ear lobe became swollen internally, hot, like infected and a new spot started on the soft lobe. I applied SSKI/ peroxide several times a day - the lobe is ejecting crap out of the spot, the spot comes off in layers, the crater is left and will probably scar like everything else. I find black specks and glittery stuff on my face frequently. Have pulled out of scalp what resembles collembola on occasion. I had a dowager's hump that is gone - same area of concentration at neck. Sometimes washing there produces dark crud on washcloth.
Rubbing, scratching these head/neck areas produces a clod of sinus junk that I spit all too frequently and cannot get the connection??? Do I have a severe infection??? Or Morgellons? How does rubbing my head make my sinus give out gunk? My sinus are not outside my skull....I do not have your expertise, but do have a background in anatomy/physiology, so this does not make sense to me, one who knows a tad about the body. How, why?
The rubbing and scratching would increase lymphatic movement, which would increase sinus drainage some. The other contributor would be the scratching could be stimulating a histamine reaction that would also increase sinus drainage.
I hear with all of this, all the time, every day, a crackling, crunching sound that is maddening, like popcorn sound the neck makes. My ears are blocked - too soft-spoken these days they say. LOL! Can blow through pinched nostrils and get the stuff to move and open briefly.
I included earlier posting in this thread, which outlines some chronology of life-changing stressful events, which occurred prior to, and at the onset of this:
Husband died of CANCER 2001 - got to see the AMA in actions - BASTARDS!!!!!
***2002 stopped drinking/sober still - Chinese Medicine Woman performed miracle with acupucture/herbal teas - ended lifelong asthma/allergies... no more inhaler/nebulizer*** I relocated, discontinued treatment...
have NEVER had an asthma or allergy episode since!(unless allergies have changed face??)
Menopause Nov.2003- without incident - no typical symptoms - menses just stopped!(NO HRT'S) Life-long migraines disappeared - HURRAY! I believe the teas and acupuncture on board during peri-menopause made the transition easier.
Spring 2004 - a face-breaking sinus infection (may still be there?)
A bad fall Dec. 2004 - knee break/concussion/antibiotic with 6 months crutches/cane - lack of mobility may have stagnated lymph. (That was antibiotic #52 - NONE since.)
Head injury was over-shadowed by knee. Skull plate shifted, eye socket changed shape - photosensitivity was actually my first symptom. I was better than I have ever been in my life right before I fell...(have not been that good since, close right now if it were not for this ITCH!)
May 2005 threw cane away, did major landscaping soil/sand/rock - built pathways to not fall down again and two strong knees!! Noticed CHEMTRAILS over Colorado, cat got sick - same skin stuff, almost scratched his face OFF - I got it next. He died a year later and I almost did too. With this came severe malabsorbtion, muscle wasting, weightloss, insomnia, could not urinate with any force, thyroid symptoms, diabtes symptoms, heart attacks, tinnitus, blepharitis, candida, parasites, Extreme fatigue, etc. A family split at this time did not help anything.
Creepy crawlers coming out my skin....I saved many.
Have you been anywhere that may have chiggers? Like Florida? Otherwise you can send a sample of what you have collected to the Smithsonian Institution for identification.
Had HOT, painful kidney or liver around this time, night sweats, woke at 3a.m. to urinate every night. stinging, itching, ears, nose, anus.
Oddly, my vagina is the only place on my body that has had no trouble since Menopause!!?? LMao ...
Had tubal ligation 1989 - everything else intact. Could never take Birth Control Pills, tried briefly in 1971 and again in 1980 - had bone marrow issues quickly - docs said none for me - I am the potential stroke victim. Had Copper-7 IUD for 7 years.
I found CZ 2006 - fixed MOST of this over the years - still deal with internal bugs - have definitely gotten rid of tapes, flukes, and another I cannot i.d. - or at least lightened the load. But, I NO LONGER have heart episodes, or tinnitus, or muscle wasting, or weightloss, or extreme fatigue, or....
I submitted to blood panel and colonoscopy in 2008/2009 - showed anemia B-12/folate, slightly elevated eosinophils, Colon POLYP 2.5 cm removed/minimal diverticuli. My four healthy, breastfed, grown children made me do it, to ease their fears. (I gave birth to three in three years in the 80's - was anemic then, could this have contributed to anemia now?)
There are various forms of anemia with various causes. It would help to know more about what form of anemia they found.
I have done NONE of the AMA Pharmas since last '04 antibiotic, after a life of amoxicillin, albuterol, ETC.
ALL that plagued me has become minimal, or gone away except for this scalp/skin thing - EMF's make it crazy, a bowel movement makes it crazy. If I stayed in a tub of Epsom, H202, borax, Acv it would never itch, but I have to come out some time...No oil, no tea, no anti-fungal, no natural antibiotic, no nothing makes it stop. It may be ongoing parasite, gluten? Maybe my colon is trying to tell me something. I am again giving the long version with as much detail as possible - to help you help me. I will take better pix if necessary.
It sounds like you have several different things going on. Again, part of it sounds like a staph infection. It is hard to say what the things crawling out of the skin are without pics or some other form of identification. It also sounds like you are having histamine reactions.
Thank you Hv - your methods are some of why there are NO LONGER as many problems. I have been reading, researching CZ since 2006 - tried many different things. My current routine is outlined in one of the threads I included. I have had a GREAT lot of stress in my life Hv, but have found a calm these last years, only interrupted by the insanely, endlessly, itchy scalp. There is no way to express my gratitude for CZ as a whole, and especially your help.
I have some recommendations for you. First of all the massive amount of stress will have taken a great toll on your adrenals, which in turn would increase the risk of histamine responses and will contribute to immune suppression. Therefore, the first thing I recommend is to focus on rebuilding your adrenal glands:
http://curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1527351#i
Adding some nettle leaf and coleus forskohlii will help even more to reduce the histamine response. Adding trimethylglycine (TMG) can also help with reducing the histamine response.
Send off whatever is crawling out the skin to get them identified.
You can also try applying a mixture of neem oil with a little coconut oil to the skin, which will help kill any skin parasites.
For the head and neck area, which sounds more like a staph infection, I recommend washing the areas several times a day with Betadine soap. You can also use powdered ginger moistened and applied to the areas for 20-30 minutes daily to help with reducing the scarring.
And finally I recommend 1,000mg of glycine 3 times daily at least 30 minutes before meals. This should help reduce the itching feelings and glycine will help with the healing process.
Thank you Hv!
Staph infection is possible. I neglected to include my career as care-giver - am doing good to get the aforementioned information lined out. Brain Fog took its toll and wiped out many months of my life - has been difficult getting back on track - wish I would have documented all this, but I had FOG - could not even read much less work a normal job at the worst of it. I have been a hospice care-giver throughout the last several years, just to ice the stress cake. One of my clients had staph, dressings changed on rotting legs every day by invincible me. They whispered MRSA around there - don't know for sure. I ignored it, did what I hope will be done for me. Hospice environment has been such an integral part of my life I did not think to include it??!! Not when there is so much communicable everywhere.
If there were a mean bone in my body I would wish brain fog on my enemies, but there isn't sooo... Laguna Beach, Ca. and Las Vegas, Nev. were my only trips in these last 9 years. However, my mother visited 2005 and her luggage in my living room right off a Vegas plane has always been an intuitive thought. Cat got sick next day and then me, the rest is history... some say her negative energy remained. I am familiar with chiggers - had them as a kid, scabies also - feels like chiggers or scabies, but does not behave like them. Chigger treatment was the first thing I tried when this started on neck - did not help. If it is staph why does it stay on my head/neck/shoulders?
The collection of creepy crawlers are, for the most part, past tense. I live near CSU - a Colorado University with an Agriculture Dept. - have thought of taking my colorful samples to them, will consider Smithsonian. I have not extricated a menagerie in a while - they were present/part of the onset of all this.The black specks, glitter are current. Sometimes they come out of my nose when I blow. It feels like things are crawling beneath my scalp - sometimes in the quiet of the night, laying very still it feels like a very big thing starts roaming - could be wandering lymph?(That would be nice!) Also in my history is a father who died of a brain tumor at 57, my same age - a very large blastoma - so you can imagine my concern! They thought they were treating a sinus infection !!!!! They will never touch me with chemo, radiation!
The crap I get from sinus is curled up, wound up tight cottage cheese looking - or just a mass of slimey clear/yellowish - or out my nose comes rubbery white, occasional green chunks, bloody from a nose polyp I think, can feel it from the outside, like a rock in my nose. Sometimes sinus curled up junk will just fall out of my mouth with little help after a head scratching frenzy - definitely not lung junk. I do not cough - at all.
Histamine reaction would be my favorite choice. As I mentioned, the lack of allergies/asthma is indeed miraculous, but I have wondered if I am simply reacting a different way now. Back to the lack of good immune from birth...I was so reactive as a young person I could have been the girl in the bubble. Although now I can put a lilac right in my nose, pet a dog, walk through ragweed, live with dust, somewhere the allergies may be alive and well??? The EMF's making scalp crazy I sorta get, but the bowel movement crazy I would love to understand?
Still have long-time broken molar/amalgam in my mouth, with more pieces coming off - may get that out asap - may get ALL teeth out? There are 7 more 60's amalgams in my mouth. i am less concerned about decades old mercury than bacteria. I hate the idea of dentures, but cannot afford the one tooth at a time thing either - this stresses me ! A dentist would say I have beautiful teeth worth fixing, blah, blah, but dentist doesn't have my budget (thank the brain fog). There is no coverage for dental/medical in place of any kind - this helped me look for alternatives, which I find more valuable than my college education, but somebody has to fix or remove this tooth, where I am sure a pool of bacterial is all cozy.
I continuously see sesame seed type stuff in stools - almost daily for months, and actual worm/s periodically - flukes rarely now. Is my body getting rid of this stuff, or am I kidding myself? The magnitude of their ability to reproduce has me wondering if I need to to something Big to get them gone?
Will get Betadine/Ginger, Neem/coconut oil, Glycine, TMG going on.
I have NETTLES, LICORICE ROOT, AMLA on board. ( I may not be taking enough of anything. )
I have Coleus, Bee pollen around here - will add to protocal again.
I will try to stop scratching my head, but it is SOOO itchy... if I have any stress right now my scalp is #1!!! The cumulative effects of endless stressfull life events outlined cannot even be calculated, much less the years before, but adrenal crash is most likely what happened when no bodily system was functioning well and death was near. Somewhere in the mid-90's I had a spell where I could eat and eat and never feel full, like there was a gaping hole in the middle of me - every exertion produced extreme fatigue, and I was wasting away. This subsided finally, followed by extreme vertigo for a couple years. I attribute that time to some serious adrenal/thyroid trouble. It was also the worst peri-meno phase.
I DO nOT have this same stress level these days. I have come from HELL circa 2005 to this level of peace/wellness, and am determined to become as healthy as possible nearing 60 years on this planet.
In 2002 early sobriety detoxing I had profuse(20+times a day! )black tarry stools episode for 3 months, while stool samples were inconclusive( how can BLOOD be inconclusive??This is yet another reason they don't get to touch me.) Liver enzymes were amazingly normal at that time.
I have felt internal bleeds from time to time (not often)since then, sure enough shows up in stools.
I can scan the results of 2/'09 Blood/Metabolic Panel-4/'09 Colonoscopy-6/'09Gluten and other stuff, and P.M. them to you Hv - if those numbers will help. If I am reading some of this right it looks like I was tested for gluten, and it says negative, but you may see from these results what is escaping us all.
M.D. did not name a form of anemia, just that RBC's were too large and too few, and that injections were an option I declined and began methylcobalamin B-12, not knowing the full range of B's were necessary, so subsequent blood work 3 mths. later showed further loss. Since then ('09) I can tell by how I feel that keeping all the B's on board has made a difference. Everything you have suggested over the years has given me good direction, some about what not to do - so I guess I am not fasting, or flushing? I have gone from 105 pounds to 125 pounds @ 5'6.25" in last two years of working with your porotcals - still pretty small when I used to be 5'7.5" and carried 140 pounds easily, but I am actually in good shape for one my age - friends my age are on 5-7 meds already, walking with canes, full of arthritis, stents, thyroids removed, etc. I refuse .... I am saying NO to heart disease, cancer, and the AMA, etc.
Thank you profusely ~
seek2clean
Staph infection is possible. I neglected to include my career as care-giver - am doing good to get the aforementioned information lined out. Brain Fog took its toll and wiped out many months of my life - has been difficult getting back on track - wish I would have documented all this, but I had FOG - could not even read much less work a normal job at the worst of it. I have been a hospice care-giver throughout the last several years, just to ice the stress cake. One of my clients had staph, dressings changed on rotting legs every day by invincible me. They whispered MRSA around there - don't know for sure. I ignored it, did what I hope will be done for me. Hospice environment has been such an integral part of my life I did not think to include it??!! Not when there is so much communicable everywhere.
Do you have access to an ozone unit? This will kill MRSA and ORSA.
If there were a mean bone in my body I would wish brain fog on my enemies, but there isn't sooo... Laguna Beach, Ca. and Las Vegas, Nev. were my only trips in these last 9 years. However, my mother visited 2005 and her luggage in my living room right off a Vegas plane has always been an intuitive thought. Cat got sick next day and then me, the rest is history... some say her negative energy remained. I am familiar with chiggers - had them as a kid, scabies also - feels like chiggers or scabies, but does not behave like them. Chigger treatment was the first thing I tried when this started on neck - did not help. If it is staph why does it stay on my head/neck/shoulders?
There could be a couple of things contributing to this. One could be makeup, which is a common cause of bacterial overgrowth/infection. Moisture could also be a factor as well as anything damaging/irritating the skin in the area including soaps.
The collection of creepy crawlers are, for the most part, past tense. I live near CSU - a Colorado University with an Agriculture Dept. - have thought of taking my colorful samples to them, will consider Smithsonian. I have not extricated a menagerie in a while - they were present/part of the onset of all this.The black specks, glitter are current. Sometimes they come out of my nose when I blow. It feels like things are crawling beneath my scalp - sometimes in the quiet of the night, laying very still it feels like a very big thing starts roaming - could be wandering lymph?(That would be nice!) Also in my history is a father who died of a brain tumor at 57, my same age - a very large blastoma - so you can imagine my concern! They thought they were treating a sinus infection !!!!! They will never touch me with chemo, radiation!
Again ozone is excellent for sinus infections and is the best thing for brain malignancies if present.
The crap I get from sinus is curled up, wound up tight cottage cheese looking - or just a mass of slimey clear/yellowish - or out my nose comes rubbery white, occasional green chunks, bloody from a nose polyp I think, can feel it from the outside, like a rock in my nose. Sometimes sinus curled up junk will just fall out of my mouth with little help after a head scratching frenzy - definitely not lung junk. I do not cough - at all.
Histamine reaction would be my favorite choice. As I mentioned, the lack of allergies/asthma is indeed miraculous, but I have wondered if I am simply reacting a different way now. Back to the lack of good immune from birth...I was so reactive as a young person I could have been the girl in the bubble. Although now I can put a lilac right in my nose, pet a dog, walk through ragweed, live with dust, somewhere the allergies may be alive and well???
Allergies can occur to most anything and can manifest in various ways.
The EMF's making scalp crazy I sorta get, but the bowel movement crazy I would love to understand?
I have no idea on that.
Still have long-time broken molar/amalgam in my mouth, with more pieces coming off - may get that out asap - may get ALL teeth out? There are 7 more 60's amalgams in my mouth. i am less concerned about decades old mercury than bacteria. I hate the idea of dentures, but cannot afford the one tooth at a time thing either - this stresses me ! A dentist would say I have beautiful teeth worth fixing, blah, blah, but dentist doesn't have my budget (thank the brain fog). There is no coverage for dental/medical in place of any kind - this helped me look for alternatives, which I find more valuable than my college education, but somebody has to fix or remove this tooth, where I am sure a pool of bacterial is all cozy.
Trapped bacteria is a possibility, but don't fall for all the mercury amalgam hysteria. As I have posted in the past most of the mercury is gone from amalgams in the first 2 years after being put in the mouth. And any traces left would readily bind to metallic binders such as algins, pectins and phytates that will prevent absorption in to the body. So there is a lot of hype but very little facts behind the amalgam hysteria.
I continuously see sesame seed type stuff in stools - almost daily for months, and actual worm/s periodically - flukes rarely now. Is my body getting rid of this stuff, or am I kidding myself? The magnitude of their ability to reproduce has me wondering if I need to to something Big to get them gone?
Without identifying what is actually in the stool it is hard to say what those are. It could be anything from undigested cellulose to parasites. But you are in an area where parasites are not a big factor unless maybe you are picking them up from your pet. If by some chance they are intestinal parasites then diatomaceous earth would be a good way to destroy them. Raw pumpkin or papaya seeds are also good choices.
Will get Betadine/Ginger, Neem/coconut oil, Glycine, TMG going on.
I have NETTLES, LICORICE ROOT, AMLA on board. ( I may not be taking enough of anything. )
I have Coleus, Bee pollen around here - will add to protocal again.
I will try to stop scratching my head, but it is SOOO itchy... if I have any stress right now my scalp is #1!!! The cumulative effects of endless stressfull life events outlined cannot even be calculated, much less the years before, but adrenal crash is most likely what happened when no bodily system was functioning well and death was near. Somewhere in the mid-90's I had a spell where I could eat and eat and never feel full, like there was a gaping hole in the middle of me - every exertion produced extreme fatigue, and I was wasting away. This subsided finally, followed by extreme vertigo for a couple years. I attribute that time to some serious adrenal/thyroid trouble. It was also the worst peri-meno phase.
I DO nOT have this same stress level these days. I have come from HELL circa 2005 to this level of peace/wellness, and am determined to become as healthy as possible nearing 60 years on this planet.
In 2002 early sobriety detoxing I had profuse(20+times a day! )black tarry stools episode for 3 months, while stool samples were inconclusive( how can BLOOD be inconclusive??This is yet another reason they don't get to touch me.) Liver enzymes were amazingly normal at that time.
Black tarry stools can only be one of two things. A bleed from higher up in the intestines or taking too many iron supplements. If there was a bleed though then you would likely have become anemic from such loss. Was your hemoglobin and hematocrit normal?
I have felt internal bleeds from time to time (not often)since then, sure enough shows up in stools.
I can scan the results of 2/'09 Blood/Metabolic Panel-4/'09 Colonoscopy-6/'09Gluten and other stuff, and P.M. them to you Hv - if those numbers will help. If I am reading some of this right it looks like I was tested for gluten, and it says negative, but you may see from these results what is escaping us all.
They may help. But regular colonoscopies are pretty limited. Capsule endoscopy would be a better choice in case there is something like Crohn's or ulcerative colitis causing the problem.
M.D. did not name a form of anemia, just that RBC's were too large and too few,
That would be macrocytic anemia, which has a number of causes.
and that injections were an option I declined and began methylcobalamin B-12, not knowing the full range of B's were necessary, so subsequent blood work 3 mths. later showed further loss. Since then ('09) I can tell by how I feel that keeping all the B's on board has made a difference. Everything you have suggested over the years has given me good direction, some about what not to do - so I guess I am not fasting, or flushing? I have gone from 105 pounds to 125 pounds @ 5'6.25" in last two years of working with your porotcals - still pretty small when I used to be 5'7.5" and carried 140 pounds easily, but I am actually in good shape for one my age - friends my age are on 5-7 meds already, walking with canes, full of arthritis, stents, thyroids removed, etc. I refuse .... I am saying NO to heart disease, cancer, and the AMA, etc.
A positive attitude is a great help as is not stressing over things.
There is still limited information to go on, but it looks like you are heading in the right direction with what you are doing. Keeping a journal of what you are doing and how you respond or do not respond will also help with narrowing down what may be happening.
My neck/scalp started when I was Interior Design consultant in a large furniture store for a year '03/'04 - processed/displayed/sold lots of furniture and I knew we were in trouble as a country because the furniture industry had begun sending everything off-shore, only to return labeled Made In CHINA. Exposure to 10,000 sq.feet of Chinese made furniture is where the skin stuff actually started - at the same time Menopause, and episodes of not being able to swallow - choking on food.
If the products contained xenoestrogens, which is highly likely, this could have led to hypothyroidism that could account for the choking from a goiter.
Found a note on side of paperwork, yes Macrocytic Anemia. I have not taken iron supplements since pre-natal vitamins during 80's multiple pregnancies/hemorraging, so I must be bleeding...had duodenal ulcer in the 70's Wonderful Wino phase, fixed with tagamet. Suspect h. pylori/SIBO still - will try mastic gum when budget allows.
Actually your macrocytic anemia was likely a side effect of the Tagamet you were taking. Tagamet is a proton pump inhibitor, so it decreases stomach acid levels. This in turn blocks the absorption of various nutrients, including B12. B12 deficiencies can in turn lead to macrocytic anemia among various other problems.
WOW - the power of xenoestrogens - be on the lookout!
I will be reading about this.
Yes, xenoestrogens are very powerful. On average they are around 30,000 to 100,000 times stronger than the body's own estrogens, which is why they are o disruptive to the endocrine system and so dangerous.
Okay now things are starting to make some sense - the choking episode was early into the furniture deal - week one - also MENOPAUSE occured that same week. STOPPED, in the middle of a period, never to be seen again... I was 50. I wonder if menses would have stopped so abruptly in an environment without xenoestrogens??
This is more evidence that xenoestrogens are playing a role. Menopause is normally a gradual transition, not a instant change. Something really strong would have to have messed with the endocrine system for this to occur so quickly.
Oddly I have felt faint stirrings on occasion of uterine activity, as I have regained balance in my body - like menstruation trying to start again. The skin thing started on my back/neck during that year, crept into my scalp where it remains.
There were weird things at the same point in time like both pinky fingers were locked in a bent position upon arising in the morning. I straightened them, they would snap back to bent. This went on for months. Also, both feet felt like the soles had become really thin - like I was walking on bones with no skin, but I attributed this to the 7- 10 miles it took to walk the store selling furniture every day - literally walking my feet off. Then I fell '04, a month after the job ended, took the last antibiotic, and the rest is a nightmare I am happy to be waking from.
Rolling the camera back farther...
How does the body become and remain anemic for 30+ years from one round of Tagamet? Oh maybe because A DOCTOR also advised the antacid TUMS, said it was also a good way to get calcium - I popped way too many of those along with the other PHARMA crap, and oh yes, some Prilosec in '02 for profuse black, tarry inconclusive stools. Bwahaha THEY are NEVER touching me again!!!!....! This is year 7 with no prescription Pharmas on board - nothing but herbs and supplements.
There could be other things at play as well such as a lack of intrinsic factor. But more than likely it is simply the lack of stomach acid. Vitamin B12 is acid dependent for absorption and so requires sufficient stomach acidity to be absorbed. But you have several things going against you here. First of all stomach acid naturally declines starting around the age of 40. Since you already past the age of 40 that is one factor. More importantly though B12 is one of the nutrients needed for the production of the same stomach acid that is needed for proper B12 absorption. So you have created a catch 22 situation. By using Tagamet and antacids you have prevented B12 absorption, which in turn has prevented the proper production of stomach acid, which further decreased your absorption of B12...... And all this in turn would lead to the macrocytic anemia.
My suggestion is to get some sublingual (absorbs under the tongue) B12 in the form of methylcobalamin and dissolve one of these a day under your tongue for a few weeks to see how you feel. If you can find one with B6 and folate combines since these are also acid dependent for absorption. You will not need to do this forever since these B vitamins are actually stored by the liver. After a few weeks or so when you build up your stores then you can cut back to maybe once a week. I think that a lot of weird sensations you are feeling are likely due to deficiencies of the B vitamins. So I recommend you give this a try and again see how you feel in a few weeks.
am SO grateful for the beautiful information available here, and also for the nightmare that woke me up... made me seek and take responsibility. Thank you Hv.
Your welcome.