Re: parkinson's disease - part 2

Trapper,
thank you for this awesome post! It's obvious you've done a lot
of amazing work on yourself. Kudos to you. Your report of how polluted
the environment is in Alaska comes as no surprise, given what goes
on there, as outlined in this post. Interesting that the new N.D.
I've just started seeing, used to live in Fairbanks (and work there).
We didn't get into why she left. She's lived in a number of different
areas.
You mentioned you had your Amalgams removed and that it was the
"beginning of the end" for you. Does this indicate that your dentist
was not trained in the proper protocol in removing amalgams? I also
had a lot (more than you in fact, 14) and my experience was nothing
like yours, but I went to a dentist who specialized in biological
dentistry and at a time (1987-88) when no one else around was stating it,
he was totally against the standard policies of the ADA (and ran
into a lot of trouble for it, I might add). He did a beautiful job
of Amalgam removal and I did not experience one detox symptom from
my sessions, 4 in all, a different quadrant each time. He used
a rubber dam to do the work.

As for the fluoride, I agree with you it's impossible to avoid,
and since it bio-accumulates, the only way possible to get rid of
it would be to chelate it out w/ iodine. We've all been vaccinated,
and many of us have had anesthesia. I wonder if it is in novocaine
too? I suppose it is in the tooth whitening product which comes
along with the mold the dentist has made for the patient, as well;
dunno the name of it. I had it done, but the stuff tastes so toxic that
I didn't want to pursue it after the first couple of times,
several years back (before I started reading CZ).

We live in a custom-built house (done entirely by my husband and
his ex) and have no carpets except for some ancient Persian rugs
and one old carpet my husband got at Goodwill or some such. The only
new piece of furniture we have is a loveseat we purchased in a retail
store around 6 yrs. ago or so. I guess it had Scotchguard. Is it bad
only when it's new or does it keep on "giving" even after several
years? I bought a new car last summer, despite my best efforts to
keep my 15-y.o. Honda on the road, but after being nickel-and-dimed
to death (lots more than nickels and dimes :-( actually) I finally
relented and bit the bullet. I had the seats treated with the non-
staining stuff they give you the option of buying when you get a new
car, not knowing this about fluoride when I did so, but a year later
I do not smell anything anymore. I wonder how long that stuff stays
noxious for.

As for my husband trying any of the suggestions I have made for him,
he has pretty much made up his mind to go the medical route, so it
will pretty much have to take a miracle for him to ever reverse his
state of health, he's pretty far gone into Parkinson-land at this
stage. He is still quite strong, however, and works on his feet
all day, a full-time job, but that is taking its toll--more the
way the store is managed, however, than any of the physical stresses.
It's the psychological stress that is worse. He is also building us
a house addition at the same time as he works full-time, which is
pretty amazing, if you ask me. But he says he has lost strength and
dexterity, and his symptoms (the tremors) are visibly worse if he
even skips one day of any one medication. He's on Amantadine,
Stalevo, Mirapex and one other one, Trihexyphenidyl, which I am not
sure what it does. He also has a script for Wellbutrin as he said
he was feeling "flat" and needed some sort of support, but I don't
think he's taken it yet. Naturally all this is very hard for me
to watch, a confirmed Curezoner and natural healing aficionada
since I was in my late twenties (am in late fifties now), but he
has made his choice. If he were even to try taking iodine, he would
need to wean off all his meds; I'm sure his symptoms would get a lot
worse and he would get frustrated (and probably scared) immediately.
His gait is shuffling but he isn't losing his balance (yet). The
doc said the progression is very slow, thankfully. The thing that
bothers him the most is how difficult it is sometimes to get words
out; he wants to say something but cannot get the words to come
out readily, so the give-and-take of ordinary conversation is
halting, and if people don't know him and know he has PD (like
at the store where works) or especially on the phone, where he
cannot be seen, it is a source of great frustration. He calls
this "aphasia" but it is not a true aphasia. It's something that
I noticed about him years before he was diagnosed. We'd be on
the phone and I'd ask a question and there would be a long pause
before I'd hear a response, repeatedly. I thought it odd at
the time. The other thing I noticed was that it was harder and
harder for him to smile and laugh and the laughter sounded odd
or forced sometimes. That is another characteristic of PD. I
rarely see his smile anymore. It's all very, very heartbreaking.
Well, thanks for listening. Sorry if I've rambled on.
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