Chelation Therapy: Day 5

  Most of my friends and family know that I've gone through quite the little journey for a while now. Starting with discovering food allergies and vitamin and mineral deficits. Come to find out very recently that it's lead and mercury poisoning- the reason why I have the vitamin and mineral deficits. It's been a big deal to wake up every day with upset stomach, low energy, headaches, migraines, body aches, you name it. That general heavy feeling of "I really don't feel well, I don't know why, and this is just never going to end, is it?" has been exhausting to say the least. I could function even if only doing the bare minimum on a daily basis. I did still have a sense of humor most days. A few weeks ago I was in bed a lot. I could get up and get lunches, get the kids off to school. But everything took so much effort and energy. Even just THINKING about leaving the house would be enough to make me feel like I needed a nap. By lunch time I actually did need a nap. No fun at all.

  So here we are, 5 days after starting chelation. Basically chelation is the process by which you ingest a supplement- either DMSA (there are others I can't even name) or in my case a blend of herbs, vitamins, and minerals that help to flush out the heavy metals. When I say flush out, I mean it. There's lots of fiber consumption, lots of water consumption- 64 ounces MINIMUM. Lots of making sure I've got the right combinations of things to facilitate this whole process. Make sure I take my vitamin D with my fish oil and my iron supplement with citrus- make sure I get in that 4-6 tablespoons of chia seeds every day. Sounds easy? It's not. Those little things swell in your stomach and you get very full very quickly. Your orange juice will turn to pudding, your smoothies to porridge. You can also do saunas and colonics to speed up the process. I'm all for the sauna. Someone else can have the colonics. 

  I'm happy to report that so far so good- mornings are no longer the awful dreaded event that they were a week ago. It's no longer instantly too bright, too loud, and feeling like I'd just been beaten with a bat upon waking. In a few days I up my dose of supplements. I'm hoping to take a sauna or two very soon. I'm fortunate to have two friends that have them at their homes and I've been invited to enjoy. Maybe I'll bring a jar of jam or two as trade. Drawbacks? Well, there's all the stuff I have to take- around 13 capsules a day. There's the chia and finding new things to do with it. I get bored very quickly you see. And there's the smell. I don't know if other people can smell it, but I can. It's like dirty gym socks have been shoved up my nose- sweaty locker room smell- especially first thing in the morning. Better than smelling like rotten eggs like with the DMSA. But nothing terrible as far as side effects (yet).  We shall soldier on and hopefully continue to see positive results!