Wow. Thanks for the help. Like seriously, I appreciate it. How many rounds of chelation have you done
@Unim ?
As of yet I am not bed ridden, and my brain fog sort of only became a real problem around 2010. Around this time I was super stressed quite often.
The private doctor wasn't pushing for tests, in fact I was. And thanks for telling me about how the metal chelation should be done. I will have to talk to him about the urine test still.
As for prozac. I tapered off it back in 2013...I think it was around 2-3 months of tapering. I didn't feel much different from before or after I stopped taking it, but I did get really depressed before I did stop. Had some horrible anxiety afterwards and heart palpitations, but they have calmed down now (But flared up lately when I became deficient in electrolytes).
I will temporarily go back to eating foods with carbs to avoid worsening my adrenal fatigue. That may explain why my acid reflux started up again after following the candida diet for 2-3 weeks (could have been that I was becoming super deficient).
Currently not on any other form of prescription medication and won't plan on taking any other antidepressants for as long as I live, don't want to get side effects from some other one lol. And my condition wasn't anywhere near as bad in the year after I stopped Prozac, so I don't think the Prozac is responsible for my current poor health.
My liver seems to stop producing bile whenever food is cut from my diet. If I cut gluten from my diet, or just reduce sugar and carbs, my stools stop looking brown and become yellow or clay coloured. Moment I reintroduce gluten, bile is produced.
I hope you get proper success with chelation someday. I was taking a lot of Zinc and Vitamin C earlier on in the diet. IT was at this time I noticed blips in my mental and cognitive state (reduced apathy, less derealization, better mood, slightly more optimism, head felt more alive) and started to get detox symptoms. Keep in mind I this was only back in October.
Perhaps the Zinc was pushing out mercury, which is why I had the die off type symptoms. I took a lot of Zinc and B6 with molybdenum a few nights ago and I got similar symptoms (with tingling in my hands). I also had two vivid dreams in a row...which is a sign of pyroluria. Poor dream recall is something that's been on and off in my life.
The doctor I am seeing specialised in Methylation, I followed the practitioner list link on
@caledonia 's methylation guide.
http://www.atnutrition.org/
He also orders 23andme tests. He also seemed worried about the restrictive diet I was on and told me it's a bad idea to cut too much out of my diet if I have all these health problems...I have a really good feeling about him, but what do you think? He was aware of Phoenix Rising too.
I believe a chunk of my brain fog is to do with adrenal exhaustion, I don't get as much of a stuffy feeling in my head these days. More of an extreme apathy that prevents me from focusing on things very well. It was also considerably better earlier this year when I let my adrenal glands rest. So it's been getting worse very slowly. Never had fillings but ate a lot of fish and had vaccines growing up. Had a tetanus shot in 2013 too >.<
I am hoping I can find someone who specialises in heavy metal chelation who can guide me back to full health, or at least so close I don't mind it anymore. I think I can make a good recovery as long as we address these problems in the next few months.