Latapy - Hair Analysis + Some blood tests

[Latapy]

I've done the hair test in February 2017 when I was on that alternative physician.

Back then, I started doing IV chelation therapy with EDTA, IV Ozonotherapy, infra red saunas and also taking this supplement (Zinc, Selenium, Magnesium, and some vitamins) - RPC Multivitamin dietary supplement liquid with antioxidants, immune system and metabolism support | RPC Multivitamin - when I was with her.
As I've said it in my story, I couldn't handle the IV treatments and the way I felt was being treated there, which would make only increase my anxiety and stress levels.

The lab results are from August 2016.

Both quite old, I know. At the moment, it will be hard for me to get any new test, because I lost my insurance after reaching 25 years old and being unemployed doesn't much help regarding money... But I plan getting a new hair test any time soon (even though all my symptoms remain the same since my last one).

 

[Canari]

So your are too high in mercury and in copper...
Any idea about mercury? Amalgams?

you would have to say what is not in the range about the blood test, it is not easy to go through the 4 pages.... and what is not ok is not highlighten.

 

[Latapy]

So your are too high in mercury and in copper...
Any idea about mercury? Amalgams?

Well, that's an interesting question.
No amalgams... The only two things that come to my mind are:

- My mum had amalgams when I was born. It is said that mercury can pass to the baby
- When I was a kid, I remember breaking a mercury thermometer and started playing with the mercury spheres with my hands... I was a kid... I didn't know that it was toxic. Not sure if this could have been the cause of mercury toxicity till now, after so many years. But, who knows...

you would have to say what is not in the range about the blood test, it is not easy to go through the 4 pages.... and what is not ok is not highlighten.

That's the thing. My labs are all supposedly fine and in the interval range. Why do you think all doctors would say "it is all in my head"?
I mean, there are some values that deviate a little, but I think they won't tell much about my issues...
Reference intervals vary according laboratory to laboratory also.
I've just put here my last blood tests in case someone had a better understanding to interpret the results.

I can still point what are the values that are not in the reference range, if that indeed helps:

- RBC: 4.19 x10¹²/L ----- 4.50 - 5.90
- MCV: 101 fL ---- 80 - 100
- Prothrombin time: 13.4 sec. ---- 9.3 - 11.6
- Vitamina D3 (25-hydroxycholecalciferol): 24.5 ng/mL
- Bilirrubin in urine: 0.2 mg/dL ----- Negative

The thing is, checking my other results before this last blood test, they would sometimes differ. And my issues always remained the same. I think they don't tell much after all...
The only one thing that seems to always remain above the reference range is Prothrombin time for some reason. Of course, my Vitamin D levels had probably been always low too (though, don't know if this matter much here on Hackstasis, if I recall it correctly).

 

[HerrFisch]

You got pretty high calcium, so vitamin D could be low on purpose.

By the way, did I miss the part where you wrote what your problems are? Can’t find it.

you got pretty high copper levels just like me. I got them lowered to half in about some months with carnosine (histidine) and zinc. Now I’m using lysine, potassium a little carnosine and zinc.

„Its all in your head“ - got that told a lot as well. they just don’t know what to do next.

 

[Latapy]

You got pretty high calcium, so vitamin D could be low on purpose.

Yeah, I remember reading that: Vitamin D could be low since I have high calcium.
Although, I find it interesting that Vitamin D is the number one thing that all alternative doctors I've visited recommended me first. Actually, when they see my D levels, they were always like: "Well, of course you have low Vitamin D!"

By the way, did I miss the part where you wrote what your problems are? Can’t find it.

I have a link on my signature that directs you to my thread where I talk about my story.
I still didn't complete it... There are things that I still want to add, but I am seriously battling with massive brain fog... I just postpone and postpone. Which is a vicious cycle since, then, I can't help myself.
I have been having less brain fog lately, so I am trying to see if I can write more here.

you got pretty high copper levels just like me. I got them lowered to half in about some months with carnosine (histidine) and zinc. Now I’m using lysine, potassium a little carnosine and zinc.

Yeah, I've read you have also pretty high copper. I've been trying to follow your log, but there are a lot of things I don't understand. It's also very hard for me to connect all the dots. Feeling so spaced out, everything seems very confusing. Supplementing myself when unable to think by myself seems very unwise sometimes. I know I can harm myself more as I did in the past. Unless I get the step-by-step very clear. Plan to do the Electrolyte Protocol, but I still have some doubts and wanted to understand my situation a little bit better.

„Its all in your head“ - got that told a lot as well. they just don’t know what to do next.

Every single time. I think hearing that made me even more depressed and sick. And back then, hopeless, of course.

 

[HerrFisch]

@Latapy

So did you start anything to lower your copper and mercury yet?

 

[Latapy]

@Latapy

So did you start anything to lower your copper and mercury yet?

Thank you for your question!
I am trying to see if I can keep up with the pace of the forum, to not make repetitive questions. I have been reading information, every other thread as much as I possible can. Not easy, when you have severe brain fog and lack of comprehension skills. All seems very confusing to me. Most of the times, I have serious difficulties to understand what I am reading.

Regarding your specific question, well, avoiding copper was the first thing I started to do once I got the hair test. Now, I still didn't start to supplement myself like you are doing, because I really must understand it, otherwise I can see that I could potentially do even more damage to myself (as I already did in the past). And as gbolduev points out "It could be dangerous".
But it seems that your log and @Raincoast's log might be a good guide for me to start since we have high copper in common. Although, there are some differences: like, I have severe IBS-C, you have IBS-D, right?
Another (big) difference is that I have high mercury levels which you guys don't have... I hope that upping my gluthathione levels with the electrolyte protocol will solve this by itself. Not sure about it though...
I'm also planning to start a log here once I feel like I understand a little of what is being said and be able to fully apply it. And to get some help too.