Finally feeling good again after such a large amount of problems

Iv been feeling up and down for the last two months and now have stabilized feeling awesome for more than a week

I started out thinking the whole thing was IBS, the extreme constipation was treated using digestive enzymes and Betain Hydrochloride which took a serious load off my system since I no longer had to deal with the horrible abdominal pain, constipation, gas, bloating, and to an extent anxiety

after that was wiped out I looked into Andy Cutler as a result of a friendly individual on this board

Keep in mind that by this point I had tried parasite treatments which helped my constipation for a little but afterwards made it worse(not to say some people dont have parasites but I didnt), liver flushes(no noticeable alterations but I might not have done enough), colonics(actually did this one after I learned of AC but before trying his treatment, after each colonic(two total) I was unable to have a bowel movement for four days and in one case had to do an enema in order to relieve the buildup

I also visited a doctor named Jerry Tenant, he prescribed me a large amount of medicine but I dont think it did anything for me; once again this was just my experience, im not trying to put anyone down

Hydrocortisone and several different types of thyroid hormones including synthetic and bioidentical T3 did nothing whatsoever for me despite dosage

Trying to correct my circadian rhythm by waking up early in the morning did nothing

Giving up my computer and sleeping all day long were worthless

The answer for me is still somewhat of a mystery, I know what group of medicines worked for me but I dont know which specific treatment did the trick so I will list as many as I can:

first off, I had a hair test done through Direct Labs which showed that I'v had large amounts of copper in my system: mine is hair test 506 on this list http://livingnetwork.co.za/chelationnetwork/hairtest/hairtest3/


Iv been taking 100mg of zinc per day, I have taken several different kinds of zinc, the current one is zinc gluconate
I have taken several different brands and have noticed no difference between any of them

Iv also been taking 1000mcgs molybdenum with each meal, once again Iv taken several different brands, as long as they had good ratings I bought them

I also put a filter on my shower since I noticed that our pipes are copper and there are some green stains around my shower stall. In addition I installed a drinking water filter on my sink. It took me a while but I confirmed that both of them filter copper and lead by reading product description.

Im not positive that this was what saved me however, but I'v been doing this copper detox for about four months which is what everybody else has said is the time it takes to feel well. I plan to send out another hair sample to doctors data in order to verify that copper has indeed been the problem, I will post it on that website; course Im twenty now so look for a male that age, not that I wont post it in here if I get the chance

Anyway, Im not completely convinced without that hair test since something else happened to me recently that helped me a good deal:
Niacin, vitamin B3; It only works if I take it before going out for a walk, if I sit at home and feel the flush nothing seems to change in terms of my immediate perspective. Iv been taking 1-3 grams before runs, I prefer 3 grams with each walk but I have several large bottles of the stuff I bought online. Ill go running every night or every other night; each time I go out it's cold but the second the niacin flush kicks in my body feels energetic enough to block out all the cold and heat itself

its kinda like what I expected the thyroid hormones to do for my body temp, the hypothyroidism I had causing me to have a perpetually low temp. Now I never feel uncomfortably cold or hot. I digress, after those first few days of walking/running(depending on how I felt) on niacin I noticed serious improvement. The improvement came and went though

I cant tell if the copper detox completed, the niacin flush did something over time, or if the digestive enzymes/betain hcl protected my intestines from the leaky gut/IBS long enough for them to heal and get the whole system working smoothly. I also have no way of knowing if it has been some combination of the three

once again, I have taken multiple brands for each one of these medicines and they have all worked toward the goal as far as I can tell. Since starting enzymes/HCL i have had steady bowel movements no matter who produced it. Iv only ever tried flush inducing Vitamin B3/niacin so I cant advise non flush niacin or time release although I have heard that time release niacin is hepatoxic(look into it yourself)

Iv been taking Tyrosine and Phenylalanine for my energy and libido; however crude this may sound it is the only thing that has been able to give me an erection, it feels like its giving me something else to

Iv been taking Vitamin B multi supplements but I dont know if that has helped

Iv been taking Iodine and selenium but I dont know if they have helped

Iv been taking aniracetam(a nootropic[smart drug]) along with choline(which is needed to provide the fuel for aniracetam to work), iv also been taking ginkgo biloba(another nootropic). Those have been for the brain fog and to aid in my college performance

Iv been taking Fish oil for omega 3 since a lab test a while back said I was severely low in omega 3 and high in omega 6; iv taken fish oil for the last 3 months but don't know what role it has played in my treatment

The only actual supplement name I will give is NOW's Liver Detoxifier & Regenerator which I bought due to its combination of NAC, Milk Thistle, and Glutathione among other herbs. I had been taking those herbs separately and decided to buy them in a mix product instead of replacing them individually, although I guess if I had bought them individually I would have had three times as much as I do in this bottle for three times the price. Im not quite sure if it has made a difference but I have been taking it for the past two months or so and within that time I have seen the greatest improvement in my condition

I want to give my symptoms from before and what I still have now:

before:
extreme constipation
IBS
abdominal pain
bloating
mucous on stools
undigested food in stools
light sensitivity
chronic fatigue
adrenal dysfunction
hypothyroidism
weakness/pain
immune dysfunction(tests came back saying I had Epstein Barr Virus)
couldnt sleep at night, could barely stay awake in the day or think in day time for that matter
low motivation
low sex drive
extreme, sometimes delusional, paranoia
low self esteem
suicidal thoughts
depression
liver enzymes going up and down with a high billiruben count
severe brain fog/bad memory
headache
tired but wired

Symptoms I still have:
eye floaters
red eyes
vertical nail lines

might think of some more later, there have been so many


this has been my personal experience, Im in a rush to deal with school work right now so I don't feel like editing it
Ill try to keep up with this thread but these next few days are going to be busy, ill at least be back by the time my hair test returns

before I go I have a favor to ask, to those out there have you heard anything about a Doctor named Burzynski? He is said to have the most efficient treatment of cancer out there but there seems to be some controversy surrounding him, whether this is due to the fact that he has enemies in high places who want him shut up as he is a threat to their money making or to the fact that he is a fraud remains to be seen.
I'v seen the movie on the man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qG_ZWs04es

and it provides an overwhelmingly positive view of Burzynski while this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Burzynski

provides a completely negative view of him, it just seems so biased to the point of slander but I can't deny the possibility that it could be speaking the truth

I have a friend with cancer and would like to help but I don't want to lead them down the wrong path, the film seems like it displays a much more credible view as they have actual people coming forward and court battles(I think Burzynski won them all but it doesn't mention any of those he won on wikipedia) but I can't act unless Im absolutely certain.

Has anyone been to the Burzynski clinic or know another who has, I would like some evidence, some way of verifying the truth