Congratulations on your progress.
It would be interesting to know how much mfolate is in your *excellent* diet.
Your genetics explains a lot about your symptoms. I have seen it written that even those with your COMT panel try to ease into mB12....and Mg is your friend.
Thank You, it has been a wild ride, the mfolate is probably only like 10mcg, I cannot find the paper with the mfolate content of fruits and vegetables but there is some I recall 1-2 mcg per serving of most green stuff and raw dairy.
mB12 has been the most powerful thing I used, it was like being on marijuana, which I used when I was 13 or so in the boy scouts, haha... made my vision grainy, twitching all over, heart pounding, but it went away completely... Never had a desire to use marijuana again...
I haven't taken mB12 since April or so, but it had a severe reaction with the pounding heart, floater popping up in my left vision, derealized, grainy vision accentuated... A lot of doctors will dx panic disorder for grainy vision, but some research indicates that it is a lack of oxygen to the cells of the retina, optic nerve or vision processing areas of the brain... Seems modern medicine hasn't found a treatment other than Klonipen, seriously...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow
There currently is no established treatment for visual snow. In
HPPD,
clonazepam has been recommended as medication of first choice in patients seeking medical help.
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So what are you doing about your possible metal intox? By now, you know that your testing points to disrupted metal metabolism and that your hair values can not be taken at face value. Have you considered going to Yahoo's FDC site and have someone read your results? My brother, Brian "resides" there and would be happy to help.
My biggest metal on blood testing was Aluminum and I used to polish, machine, grind Aluminum parts all day for months, seems Aluminum is best detoxed with Silica.
see 47 minutes
there are countless NCBI articles that state relapsing MS, Kidney disease are caused by Aluminum and others that show silica and organic acids made by fruits and vegetables being more effective than EDTA chelation, the plants and animals also depend on silica and organic acids for detox of aluminum...
Also aluminum makes copper unavailable, I have several of the Wilson's disease genes, which confer bacterial resistance to things like Lyme, but make me susceptible to Aluminum along with A1298C BH4 / ammonia problems that can explain the post-meal ammonia like symptoms, not only does silica (bioavailable monomeric silicic acid) remove Aluminum it also increases ceruloplasm (wilsons disease issue) and improves copper biovailability, which is criticial for general immunity, sulfur tends to deplete biovailable copper as well as organic acids, so the yin in them I am avoiding until I become more balanced....
In your first message you said you were waiting on a porphyrin test. Did you get the results? (Although porphyria
dx can be hard to get.)
The porphrins are at the bottom of page 1...
When I came down with terrible joint and tendon pain (I had been eating liver), I found some online books that explain the metabolism of purines and the issues that retained uric acid causes. Getting out uric acid can relieve most other toxicities, including metals and pathogens, which is probably why the mushrooms that I mentioned relieve so many symptoms.
Mushrooms are a critical detox of negative ions like Bromide and Fluoride, they are loaded with chitin, the Chinese have a big problem with Fluoride poisoning and are looking at penguins who eat artic krill that are loaded with fluoride and believe they detox it through the chitin shell in the shrimp, mushrooms have the same chitin and it is an "anion exchange resin" like a "cation exchange resin" for positive ions like metals, biotoxins, dioxins, etc, for example cholestyramine, EDTA, citrate and others to some extent.
http://www.fluorideresearch.org/432/files/FJ2010_v43_n2_p108-118.pdf
Uric acid is a big one, beer, meats and fruit/fructose seems to be the triggers for that and it causes all kind of damage in the body, gout, aging, alzheimers, diabetes, heart disease, inflammation, etc.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/13/richard-johnson-interview.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...-acid-levels-may-forewarn-dementia-risks.aspx
Also two big things I am working on include solvent exposure... thinking car leaks gasoline into cab, wife always notices and I feel bad when I go out, considering a meter for it, possibly MCS symptom... but organic acid test showed xylene exposure so high metametrix's instruments could not measure it...
Also, thinking I have diastolic dysfunction, my best early doctor suggested a cardiologist which I did not want to go to, only 30 and autonomic dysfunction my early doctor suspected is untreatable, but he also thought solvent/heavy metal exposure explained my symptoms...