You can try taking 'optizinc' which is supposed to not displace copper so wouldn't create as bad of a detox effect. i would assume that zinc is displacing other nasty metals which are then flushing out of your body. I had that happen to me too for awhile but now I can take zinc without any effect.

I would assume that this is part of your healing and a good thing. Only other thing I can think is that zinc is lowering your sodium, you could add a little Sea Salt to troubleshoot. Good Luck.

After my second hair test my program is now similar to Yours.
Zinc, Paramin, Megapan, Thyro Complex, GB3.
I have started with only the morning dosage and was not able to go to the three times daily thing yet.
My full dosage for zinc would be 2 - 1 - 2.

Maybe You just need to take it easy too and go with what ever amount You can handle.

I take the huge amount of 198 mgs of zinc per day as per the reccomendations made by wilson and roger. o - o This is because my extremely high sodium readings.

Nothing significant to report. My urine stills neon yellow... but im absorbing the supplements? I dont know.

indianagirl and Blistering Fate,
did You read this?
http://drlwilson.com/articles/copper%20elimination.htm

Indianagirl- I too had some difficulty taking the recommended amounts of zinc. I think for the first 4 months I took 32 mg from 4 limcomin. Months 5-7 I managed about 40mg from 4 limcomin and 3 megapan. It has been only in the last few months that I can take the 3 full doses of everything. My total is now about 72mg per day from 3 endopan and 3 megapan.

When I was going through a healing reaction I found the plain water enemas gave me great relief. I think the zinc just pushes out all kinds of toxins and metals. Here is an article from ARL on Metal Elimination.

http://www.arltma.com/Articles/ToxicMetElimDoc.htm

Sounds like a healing reaction to me as you were feeling much better and stronger before this happened. This used to happened to me quite often. It feels frustrating but really a very positive sign of healing I think.

Hi Indianagirl.

Here is my zinc story. About 1-year ago, after reading Ann-Louises copper book, I started taking zinc and switched to high zinc/low copper foods.

I felt horrible from the copper detox. I was unable to take and zinc for a whole year. If I did, I would get tired, have anxiety and insomnia.

Just recently, I started doing coffee enemas and saunas. Now..all of a sudden I can handle zinc.

I think the coffee enemas and saunas are helping to clear the excess copper....thereby making it easier my body to handle zinc, and the extra copper that it pulls out.

I didn't have time to read all of the other answers people posted. I hope you got some helpful answers.

Hi,

I took the Spectracell test which checks your levels of vitamins, minerals, antioxidents, etc...It actually looks inside the cells to see what your levels are, what's actually getting in. Not just your blood levels. Something like that. Anyway, I was deficient in a few things, one being Zinc. My doctor wanted me to take up to 90mg. Which is quite a bit. But she also suspected I might of had a bit of plyoria which causes low zinc and b6. Anyway, Zinc made me feel really good. I was using a natural L-Optizinc which is zinc bound to natural methionine. Anyway, it did give me some nausea for a bit after taking it. I've been on that high dose for several months or more.

Then more recently I started to have a lot more nausea, and became very numb/groggy during the day. I take a variety of supplements, and nothing really changed other than I did start taking some Pharma-Gaba which seemed to work great for anxiety, but it could have made me also feel groggy/numb if I was taking too much. Not sure. So, I didn't take any during the day.

I've also been taking Magnesium Chloride for some time as I was also tested low in Magnesium. And this also made me feel really good. But then this also seemed to make me feel a bit groggy during the day.

I didn't know what was going on. All my anxiety and panic was gone. I had some stress, nervousness at times, but even that was very low. I think I was feeling pretty calm and normal and some of these calming supplements became too much. I was more than likely saturated and didn't need as much.

So, I stopped taking the zinc, backed off on the magnesium except for some at night, no pharma gaba except at night....The nausea/malaise feeling I had was gone. And the groggy numb feeling lifted. I did start taking 500mg of l-phenylalanine again, which may have helped.

Anyway, all this to say is that I needed zinc, and I took fairly high doses of it, then I think it became too much. And I required a break, (or at least a dosage decrease) then most likely a smaller dose to maintain levels moving forward.

I've only been off it for a few days. I took one 30mg cap tonight after dinner and became sleepy. I hear zinc can make some people sleepy. It's supposed to be calming. So, I think I'm just at a point where I've reach saturation, a good level in my blood and don't require higher dosages any more. I will be talking to my doctor about it again soon.

Anyone else feel sleepy after taking zinc? Feel nausea? It made me nauseated all the time. But I took it with food which helped but...