Update: After writing it all out last night and realizing that my recent
symptoms were most likely from mercury redistribution, I took additional
guafenisen and glyconutrients. My headache -- which had not substantially
improved in response to ibuprofen and antihistamines -- improved dramatically
within minutes. Shortly thereafter, I went to bed. So, a few additional
realizations:

A) Historically, I am not a morning person and I am usually much more productive
in the evening. This has not been true in the last few days or couple of weeks
or so. I have really been dragging in the evenings. This morning I feel much
better -- much more clear-headed and the like -- than I usually do in the
morning. I think that my lack of productivity in the evenings here lately is
due to mercury leaching out of my amalgams in the hours following lunch. My
evenings have been really crappy here lately -- which has been extremely
frustrating since I count on getting things done in the evening, after taking
care of myself all day makes me functional enough to work.

B) The metallic taste in my mouth is much reduced this morning.

C) I have had more viral issues in the last couple of weeks, unusually stubborn
ones which have not cleared up in response to the things which usually work.
Improvements have been short-lived and it has been kind of a cyclical thing --
getting better, then worse. I have less of a sore throat and other viral
symptoms this morning (and normally mornings are when I am at my sickest).

D) Looking back on it, I was more clear-headed yesterday prior to lunch and
really went downhill afterwards -- again, the opposite of "the norm" for me.

E) I realized last night that I have recently been taking two hot baths a lot
of days instead of one. I didn't feel well and the hot baths helped (but not
enough). I know hot baths help the body purge things through the skin.

F) My period started last night following a hot bath and I had some cramping in
the evening. These are both unusual for me. When I get a normal period, I
usually wake up with it in the morning and, although I had a lot of cramping and
other problems when I was younger, cramping is unusual these days. Both the way
my period started and the cramping are consistent with other times when my
period was apparently part of a purging process.

I think one thing I can suggest for others is that if you have a bad reaction to
cilantro, taking guafenisen (and/or glyconutrients) may ameliorate that. I felt
worse in some ways for a few minutes but it was in a manner which struck me as
"purging" -- coughing hard, for example. My headache was much reduced,
surprisingly quickly. Of course, I went to sleep shortly thereafter and slept
well, so I was not awake to observe anything more than that (however, sleeping
well is a pretty significant thing for me by itself, so I think that alone says
something). Guafenisen is known to purge SOMETHING (I do not know what and
can't remember if it is known) from the body in fibromyalgia patients and is
apparently one of the few things known to actually improve the condition of
fibromyalgia patients over the long term. And it is an expectorant -- ie it
promotes the lungs purging things by coughing them up. I did briefly have a
rough cough last night, just before falling asleep.

I also wonder if guafenisen might ameliorate redistribution after that "last
dose" that Moria was talking about in a recent e-mail (yesterday?). Thinking
back on it, I believe I was taking guafenisen when I began eating at this
restaurant, I was just doing so on an "as needed" basis. I then ran out of it
and a few weeks later began to get sick. I went to the ER at the beginning of
November to specifically request guafenisen to avoid ending up on antibiotics.
I was given a month's supply and slept a GREAT DEAL that month -- saying things
to people like "I have been asleep all month". A talked to a friend of mine
about this and she made me hand-packed guafenisen capsules without any dyes or
additives. I received the package when I had only 2 or 3 pills left from my
prescription. So when I say I took guafenisen for 3 months, really, I am saying
I took it very consistently during that time. Since then, I have resumed taking
it "as needed" -- and I have taken it more consistently
in the last 2 or 3 weeks as well, because I seemed to need it every single day.

There are other big (positive) changes in my life and in my physical health
since moving to a new apartment in May. I don't really know what to say about
that aspect of it but it seems like a combination of things is going on here.

I hope that information is useful to a few people. It has been very useful to
me to write it all out and, in the process, think it through somewhat.



















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