It has been two weeks since I started working my plan to recover from this Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) bump in the road.    I feel that I’m at 80% to 90% capacity a lot of the time.  Over the last several days I have even had a few hours here and there of feeling fully normal again.  For the most part each day has been a little better than the one before.  I feel pretty good the majority of the time in most places, but there is still farther to go. I have cleaned my environment as well as is possible for the time being but it looks as if a little more effort is called for.

 

The work location was still presenting a significant MCS challenge for me.  I had to put more effort into it.  The MCS triggers released in the changes that were done were still taking their toll on me, especially after a few hours of being there.  I was hoping that it would just ‘air out’ but with no luck.  I came in last night and did more to reverse the ‘work’ that was done to it some three weeks ago.  Today things are much better but not quite where I want them to be.  Let’s hope that this time a little more surface cleaning and a little more ‘airing out’ will do the trick over the next few days.

 

The bedding is much better but also not quite what I would want.  Sending everything through the laundry two weeks ago worked pretty well but more is needed.  I suspect that if I just wash the bedding again things will be good.  Of course I am doing the washing method mentioned a previous post, a way that I know will strip off just about any MCS triggers.

 

Thankfully the dental work that was done is presenting no further problems.  Out of everything this one is a done deal.

 

The part of my recovery plan that I want to sing high praises for is the Heavy Metal Detox program.  This has been a huge contributing factor to my feeling better each day.  Getting MCS triggers cleaned out of my environment will assist in keeping me from taking in new triggers.  But cleaning myself out from the inside will give me greater resistance to the triggers that do cross my path.  If I am honest with myself it has probably been about a year now that metals have presented a significant issue for me.  Coming into contact with even the smallest amount of any low quality metals that haven’t been fully sealed in has caused an often severe reaction.  Up until now avoidance has been sufficient to stop any reaction.  With this new bump in the road more was needed.

 

I picked up the “Renew Life - Heavy Metal Cleanse” from my local Whole Foods.  I was thinking about getting a digestive/liver cleanse system that I have had luck with in the past but something in me said no, I should get a heavy metal detox.  At first I thought about getting both but the lady in the vitamin/supplement section said it would be better if I got only one at a time.  She said that it is a system that she has used and had gotten great results with.  I decided to give it a try.  The system  consists of two parts; the first is a multi vitamin to support the body while it detoxes, the second is a supplement consisting of several plant extracts that are meant to bind to the metals in our bodies and assist in flushing them out.  Another part of the program is to drink a lot of water each day.  The amount recommended is to take your body weight in ounces and drink half that number of ounces each day.  For instance if someone weighs 200lbs then they should drink 100oz of water each day.  At first I thought this would be a bit difficult to keep but there is something in the program that is making me extremely thirsty.  Drinking over 12 cups of water each day has been no problem.  In fact I have probably gone over the recommended amount each day just due to how constantly thirsty I have been. 

 

One item that kept coming up over and over again when I was doing research into heavy metal detox programs was cilantro.  Each information source recommended that I eat at least two table spoons of cilantro once to twice a day.  I have a friend who loves to garden and this year she grew some cilantro.  I told her what I was doing and she was nice enough to give me the entire crop from her garden.  I will picking up a few good sized hand full’s of freshly picked cilantro from her this evening.  I am looking forward to seeing if this helps.

 

I have no empirical method at my immediate disposal to confirm that I have been getting metals out of my system.  But I can say with certainty that I have felt better each day I have taken the supplements in this program.  If metals are a MCS trigger for you this may be something that you might wish to consider. 

 

A good question at this point may be, what if my present plan of action does not get me back to where I want to be?  Honestly I’m not too worried about it.  I have enough experience with MCS to know that there are several strategies I have at my disposal that I can employ.  I can, and most likely will, try the digestive/liver cleanse that I have done in the past.  I can continue to clean my environment.  I can set appointments with the Homeopath and Naturopath couple that I have discussed in past posts.  I can even try fasting and eating purely organically again to clean out my system. 

 

One very wonderful thing about the last five or so years is that there is a lot more information about MCS available.  When MCS first started for me I was alone and had to largely discover what worked through intuition or trial and error.  Discussing MCS with people, even health care professionals, would all too often bring blank stares, disbelief and arguments of how it was all in my imagination.  Now there are massive amounts of material on the subject.  This material has not only increased MCS awareness but can also give us direct instructions, or at least give us clues, to creating our own recovery.  Even If I exhaust my personal knowledge base on how to recover from my present MCS setback I have total faith that the answer is available.  If I have a true desire to recover my health and have sufficient belief that it is possible I know from experience the answer will appear.