Improper chelation story
Video/YouTube link to my improper chelation story:
https://youtu.be/NBXxPHp04js?si=mmatTxCPG3ULj08_
I wrote this to be shared so other people know what can happen if you do improper chelation. It’s. Re write of what I wrote at “summary”
I’ve added it in here:
I wanted to write up my experience for a few reasons. One being that I want to help and warn other people what can happen to you when you take random detox powders and the chemically wrong chelators, and what can happen if you take the correct chelators improperly.
I want to stress and emphasis that improper binders and even correct chelators are medications that can be extremely dangerous if used incorrectly and need to be respected with the highest reverence. It's serious stuff. You're dealing with chemistry. What happened to me was real, and it should never have happened. Naturopaths, scientists , functional medicine doctors and the medical industry in general are letting people down by ignorantly allowing the wrong information to be presented to the public about how to chelate and detox. And moreover, there isn't enough correct information about it made available.
Through my awful experience, thankfully, I was able to find Dr. Andy Cutler. But it was only after detoxing wrong that I found the correct scientific information. Finally, it made sense why I got so sick from taking improper detox binders and a challenge test. It was because I had a high body burden of mercury, and improper chelation was ripping mercury atoms out of one cell, and putting it right into another, into a more sensitive area.
So, how it all began. Here's some background information:
I became housebound, lost the ability to drive a car, to finish my degree, unable to work.
The symptoms that began were:
-unbalanced
-severe brain fog
-hard to focus eyes
-severe reactive hypoglycaemia (having to eat meat every two hours)
-faintless
-weakness
-severe light sensitivity
-sore eyes
-Headpressure
-memory decline
-drunk like feeling
-cognitive decline
-body pains (like my cells hurt and are grey)
I basically lost everything on March 14th 2020. I was sitting in class at university when a dizzy spell hit me. The room began to turn and spin, a fuzzy drunk like state came over me, I became unbalanced, my brain turned to mush, I felt sick and nauseous, I felt faint. The thing is.....these symptoms never left. Even when the dizzy spell subsided.
Prior to March 14th 2020 these symptoms began to creep in slowly like a fog. Occasionally I would get dizzy spells. Maybe even a year or two prior to March 2020 but I was able to push through. I felt unwell but I kept ignoring these symptoms. But then it hit. My bucket filled up . I became sick.
After a neurologist
Cardiologist
Over 40 blood tests
MRI
EEGs
Psychiatrist
CT scan
Ultrasounds
Immunologist
Vertigo specialists
Multiple gps
2x Gastroenterologist
Colonoscopy
2x endoscopies
Chiropractor
Physio
Naturopath
After doing all the gut protocols and having my microbiome test look much better on paper, he was out of ideas. Even though all these protocols trying to fix my gut and other things that drs had tried there was no change in my symptoms. I didn't feel better, I didn't feel any worse.
Then the real story began.
He ordered me a hair analysis test for heavy metals.
At this point I was very emotionally flat. I didn't think much of this new direction and I began having thoughts that I am never going to make it out of this. Hope was fading.
So I did the hair test and we got a phone call from the naturopath. He said my hair mercury came up with 3.073 ppm. (When you learn about Andy cutler you'll learn that not all toxic people have a high Mercury bar. But in my case I did).
The naturopath told us that this is a significant result and he would be posting me supplements so I can detox.
Mum and I looked at each-other and I was so happy. I finally found it I thought. This is it. I'm going to get better.
The supplements that arrived were Matric Phase detox powder and modified citrus pectin powder. He also suggested I take some supplements like magnesium and zinc.
So I began taking these powders at the beginning of September 2021.
I didn't ask any more questions than necessary; I didn't get any data or explanation or basic scientific method on how this was going to detox me. I just trusted the naturopath.
So I began taking the powders as directed.
Then it began about a month or so later.
I would be sitting down then all of a sudden BAM! The room began turning and spinning. I would hold onto the closest thing to me. I would stagger to my bed and lay down. The room would feel like it was turning on its side. An intense panic would come over me. Like a sense of anxiety and doom I had never felt before. I would focus on my breathing and my mum would come and hold my hand and look down at me worryingly. What the hell is going on? I then began to feel this weird sensation in my head, in my brain, a pulling tingling feeling. All I could do was lay in bed and try not to think I was dying.
These episodes would last for hours. Then afterwards I would feel worse for a few days to a week.
The crashes began to get worse. I began to feel this weird inner vibration inside my body, a fuzzy electrical feeling in my teeth, a sense of doom I had never felt before.
My mum said multiple times "I have a bad feeling about these detox powders. I don't want you to take them anymore."
But in my head, I thought I had to keep taking them to get better. This was the only way. I couldn't find anymore information about detoxing online and the naturopath said he checked with a functional Dr and these powders were correct. So I trusted them.
The Matric phase detox powder contained 21 ingredients.
Of these 21 ingredients the ones of the most interest as I'll find out later were:
This is per serving- (one teaspoon).
-Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM) 100mg
-Alpha Liapoic Acid 25mg
-Spirulina 640mg
-Chlorella 100mg
-coriander/cilantro 50mg
I began getting much worse, the crashes more frequent and horrific that I had to stop the powder, about 11 weeks after I started it. Even though I wanted to "keep going" I just couldn't. It was pretty clear to me that something was very very wrong.
I went to a different functional doctor and I told him what happened. He didn't have much to say other than saying I should do a challenge test and then we will know for sure how high my body burden of mercury actually is. (Absolutely wrong information as it turned out but I didn't know this as the time). It turns out taking a massive dose like that just embolizes huge amounts of mercury and makes your body turn into a shaken-up snow globe.
So it's now December 2021 and I had been able to get back to my baseline level of sickness to where I was before the detox herbs.
The doctor prescribed me DMSA 1,500mg for a challenge test. I had to take the medication and then pee into a container for the next 4 hours.
So I did the test roughly on the 17th of December.
Everything was as okay. Until about 4-5 days later.
I got hit, with the most extreme drunk like disabling brain fog. I stumbled to my bed and laid there trying to just breath. It felt like the ground was going up and down. My mum was sitting by my bed holding my hand "what is going on !?!" We were both saying.
For about 9 days I was completely bed ridden. My mum had to bring me food and water. She had to help me up to eat. She was crying, I was crying. I couldn't go for a shower as I felt like I couldn't walk properly. I couldn't stand. As I took a step it felt like the ground was going up with my foot. The weird fuzzy feeling I got with the herbs increased. I looked at the ground and it literally looked like it was moving up and down. I could feel tingles inside my brain, as if wind was touching my open brain. I felt a feeling of panic, anxiety and fear. I would jump at sounds and noises, as if the sound carried inside my body. I felt so ill all I could do was lay there. When I looked around especially outside it looked like I was awake in a dream. Everything didn't look quite real. I felt like I was in pain, my whole body hurt. Colours looked funny. I felt too sick to even try and watch a movie. I felt an internal vibration in my body. I felt a fuzzy feeling in my teeth. As I lay there it felt like I was falling. This lasted about 9 days before I even started to came out of it. These 9 days felt like they lasted a month. It was about the 6-7 day in that the symptoms were at their most intense. I was getting ready to die. I was mentally preparing myself to say goodbye. I was kicking myself mentally for what this had done to my mum. Seeing her have to watch me get this sick. In my head I was playing back memories and experiences in my head. Trying to experience the good times one last time and in my heart saying goodbye to everything and everyone I loved. I really thought it was the end. It was over. But by the 9th day, I noticed I was able to sit up for a bit longer. I tried to stand, I noticed I could walk to bathroom without holding onto the walls for support. Slowly slowly slowly I was coming out of the crash. I then spent my entire days researching about what had happened to me. I found Andy Cutler chelation from reading comments under videos about detoxing and mercury. It was really by a fluke. But it turned out that improper chelation is rampant, and it has hurt a lot of other people too. Everything Andy said about improper chelation and challenge tests were 100% correct. I know because I lived it.
I wasn't alone. All this time I felt so alone, that I was the only one who had this illness, that there wasn't information and help out there. But that wasn't the case.
It was about the 12th day that I messaged Rebecca from Maybeitsmercury for an emergency zoom call. I told her what had happened.
She gave me advice and I began researching ACC thoroughly. I wish I had known about ACC before I touched any detox protocol. I am currently in a very very long horrible dump phase and I believe my chelation journey has been made harder due to improper chelation.
From ACC a lot of things began to make sense.
I used to drink Chlorella every single day when I was a teenager because I thought it was good for me. I had no clue it was a weak dangerous binder.
Also when I did the herbs my liver enzymes shot up from 31 to 90 for the ALT & when I did the challenge test my ALK phos shot up from 20 to 50.
It really was causing a lot of damage.
So let this little story be a cautionary tale. I truly believe that naturopaths, and functional drs, MDs don't have the qualifications to hand out molecules that move heavy metals around. I see often of people giving these types of detox protocols good reviews and people saying they did these with no side effects. In my own personal opinion, I believe that there is a lag in side effects. As you saw with me I was already so so sick but it took a month to have any adverse side effects. Also I think the higher the body burden of metals the more clear the side effects are. While a lot of the time with the general public they cannot clearly link these powders and herbs to side effects and symptoms. So the damage continues unknowingly.
Chemistry and pharmacokinetics is an extremely complex and huge area of expertise. Don't f@*k with chemicals is what I've learnt from all this. Don't trust anyone just because they have a title. And neither should you. Be smart. Read a lot. If it doesn't make sense don't do it. Read more. Read read read.
Thank god for Dr. Andy Cutler and thankyou Rebecca.
And thankyou mum. You held my hand the whole way through this. Thankyou
Georgia
20 months in dump and counting
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