Chemical Exposure Story
Hi Cort, Hi All,
I had a chemical exposure experience a couple years ago that gave me some insight into some of my own hyper-reactivity. I posted about it on another board and thought I'd paste it below.
Lisa, I too have had good success with using Perque B-12 to calm down my system. The trick is to remember to use it when necessary.
Best to All, Wayne
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Hi revicg,
I’ve had extreme MCS/EI in the past but I’ve improved somewhat over time. I’ve wondered a lot as to how a person could be so sensitive to such small amounts of exposure. I had an experience about a year ago that gave me some insight (for myself).
I was in the waiting room of the chiropractor/naturopath I go to who also does cranial sacral therapy. Before I knew it, his wife was spraying some “spot remover” on the carpet in the hallway. At the same time she was musing “Hmmm, I just remembered that some people can be sensitive to things like this”.
Well, about the time I started to reel from it, the doctor came out and escorted me into his office. I told him I could still smell the chemicals and I was getting sicker by the moment and getting so dizzy I absolutely had to leave.
He persuaded me to go with him into a back room that was still clear. I was very reluctant to do so because I did not want to waste a cranial/sacral session at a time when I was feeling extremely ill. I’m glad I did however, because within seconds of him putting his hands on my head, my symptoms began to wane almost immediately. Most symptoms were gone within a minute. I could hardly believe it as an exposure such as that would normally take me at least hours to start recovering from and sometimes days to get back my equilibrium.
What I learned is that the exposures I experience seem to primarily affect me neurologically. And I’ve come to believe that so many of symptoms we with CFS/FM deal with are neurological symptoms. Dr. Jay Goldstein’s drug therapy seems to have been specifically developed to alter/modulate neurological responses.
More natural therapies such as the cranial/sacral I mentioned and some of the NAET experiences others have shared seem to also modulate neurological responses. It appears in most cases that these all seem to be palliative measures and have to be continued indefinately to sustain any improvement we may experience. My goal is to try to correct what is making me have such extreme neurological responses in the first place. To that end, I am slowly starting the methylation cycle block therapy.
Regards, Wayne
P.S. I had an experience a couple of months ago where some cooking done in the house was bothering me on a particularly sensitive day for me. Hours and hours later when I no longer was smelling it at all in the house, I kept waking up in the night smelling it over and over again.
Felt like another indication to me that this is primarily neurological, with "imprints" being able to linger around long after one removes themselves from the exposure. Massaging up and down my spine seems to relieve some of these episodes for me.