By Ima Freeman
in Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Supplements,
For approximately two and a half years I was doing the Cutler Protocol for chelating the mercury out of my body, that was put there by having amalgam fillings.
I did not make a lot of progress and ended up with the same dose as I originally started. The side effects where severe though, especially mental, so I definitely had a lot of heavy metals.
Because of the slow progress, even after 80+ rounds, I worked on other parts of my health, which I know by now, I should have prepared before chelation, like my gut and liver health and combating parasites.
In a online course I did, chelation with cilantro juice was suggested. I was very skeptical of this, as I heard of adverse effects and it was very much advised against from Cutler Protocol folks. I even warned others against it
But because I was kind of desperate *trap alert*I thought of giving it a try. The guy teaching in this online course healed himself and others partly with the help of cilantro juice. The chemical chelators had strong side effects even on very low doses, so I was tempted to go down the cilantro way.
In the two months of taking small amounts of fresh cilantro juice every three days, I definitely felt some side effects, but phases of feeling better too.
In conjunction with the cilantro I took binders every day as well as vitamin C, E, magnesium and other helpful supplements.
After two months I ran into minor panic attacks in the evening.
They felt like my blood pressure was sinking too low and my heart rate was too low at the same time.
I stopped drinking the cilantro juice for a week and did a round of DMPS to clean my body.
Interestingly I had almost no side effects from that.
Then I wanted to proceed with the cilantro, so four days after the round I drank my standard dose of cilantro juice (30ml/1ounce) once. Two days afterwards I ran into stronger panic attacks and general unwellness that lasted for more than a week.
That marked the end of taking cilantro for me, as it clearly overstressed my body.
I figured that I will go back to the Cutler Protocol as it gave me strong side effects, but no panic attacks. I wanted to reach 100 rounds to give it a last try. Some people only feel lasting improvements after this many rounds.
The first one was not bad at all, but a few days afterwards I ran into having waves of anxiety in the evening while going to bed again. I woke up sweaty in the middle of the night some times.
I made rules not to go too far this time, but I kind of broke them, because I was eager to complete my goal of doing rounds.
For weird heart symptoms I even went to the hospital, to get it checked, but a ECG and blood work came back just fine.
After three rounds I felt quite dysfunctional again. I developed the paranoid fear that I got poisoned from someone at my work, while having no evidence at all. This was clearly a sign that I messed up my brain.
Then I got sick with the flu, like many of the people around me at the time. On the night of the onset I had heart racing, panic and neurological symptoms that lasted the whole night.
While sick, and I never was sick for that long before, I had pain and pressure in my heart region and went to the doctor for an ECG, which came back normal though.
In the month after getting sick I went to the hospital couple of times for heart attack symptoms like a numb left arm, pressure in the rib cage, heart pain and problems breathing, but ECGs, blood work and ultra sonic testing of the heart showed no evidence for heart problems.
My mental capacities went down quite dramatic. I often had phases of being confused and being overwhelmed with organizing my life.
Three weeks after the illness I got huge problems with insomnia. I did not sleep for three days and then only a little with help of sleep aids. The insomnia only went away after three and a half months.
My blood flow became noticeably worse.
Sex drive diminished almost completely.
My digestion, which was not the best before, became worse and I now get bloated after every larger meal.
The joy I have for life decreased quite a bit and I lost track of hobbies I had before.
For some time I had occasional suicidal ideation, but not anymore.
A symptom that I have since then is a pressure on my forehead which I guess is neuroinflammation.
Bloodwork I did showed low thyroid values, lower testosterone and lower vitamin B12.
I do a lot to get better, as I always try to improve my health.
Things do get better over time, but I still struggle with the trauma of all of that.
A big mistake I made was not listening to my body and keeping on doing chelation even though I had panic attacks.
The main mistake was using a technique I knew was heavily criticized with too little care.
It seems that I relocated mercury in more sensitive areas of my body and especially my brain.
Let that be a warning that detoxing heavy metals is no joke.
You cannot run away from a dysfunctional body as it is with you.
If someone has ideas how to recover I’d be happy to hear them.