During this years-long and on-going search for what-all-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-Robyn, I’ve had my heavy metal levels tested. ( Just for fun, we should ALL do it, yes? Especially now in this day and age and having grown up near the Willow Grove Naval Station, when we’ve all been exposed to some extent or another….) My own tests indicated elevated lead and mercury counts.
(There are three categories: “normal”, elevated, and high. I’d always assumed “high” meant dead, but I’m no doctor….No, actually, I believe high is when they try chelation therapy to get it out of your body.)
It was suggested to me at the time of the test that I have all my mercury amalgam fillings removed and replaced. THANK GOD I knew a dentist I could talk to – he said that the mercury is stable unless you disturb it by removing it and turning it into dust that you breathe in and swallow … and it costs LOTS of money to do what they suggested (which I no longer had by then anyway). Needless to say, it didn’t happen.
I always wondered where those elevated numbers came from – I mean I don’t even eat sushi! But now I know: the Navy!! I think they owe me an additional disability pension, don’t you? I mean, I’m sure those elevated heavy metals don’t help whatever/all else is going on inside me!
This is the same doctor, btw, that “treated” my tick-borne disease (NOT Lyme) without knowing or admitting that he didn’t know how to do so. (But he WAS a great nutrition guy!) Years later I saw him as a nutritional consultant, by accident, on one of those national morning shows – I threw up a bit in my mouth, and I’m pretty sure that’s not a part of ANY protocol!