hadmattress

Hi there LauraMary, I have a theory as to why your child is regressing with his OCD. I'm a 27 year-old woman who has been self-treating late-onset Asperger's for about four years. I have to tell you an anecdote in order for you to understand my theory. Several months ago I began having a severe exacerbation of OCD, depression, tics, ADHD, compromised fluency of speech, body dysmorphia (feeling like I didn't want to be in my own skin), dizziness, ataxia, psychosis and forgetfulness only to discover that the man I had been living with was a clinical psychopath and had been using the neurobehavioral toxicology research I imparted to him against me by putting large doses of iron supplements in the food he cooked me. I got out of that situation immediately, but not without having suffered a pretty big hit to my mental and physical health. I normally have those symptoms, but not to the degree I was experiencing after the poisoning. I put myself to work figuring out how to eliminate the iron. Now, you should know that I have been using the Andy Cutler protocol to chelate mercury after removing my mercury dental amalgams. His protocol helped me recover drastically, but I hit a plateau. "Maybe a lot of the symptoms I have experienced are related to iron toxicity, considering the fortification of food using non-bioavailable iron and mercury's effect on iron metabolism." I researched, and sure enough, iron deposition in the basal ganglia is found in a lot of these disorders, including Tourette's and OCD. I started researching iron chelators and learned that tetracycline antibiotics form insoluble complexes with iron, hence why you are told to take iron separately from them. Minocycline can be used after a stroke to chelate iron, which protects the brain from neuronal death from oxidative damage, inflammation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21998050 So, I purchased minocycline in order to "clean up" my brain. Of course, iron feeds pathogens, which is how iron chelating antibiotics work-- they starve them out by sequestering the iron. Ferritin is not a good indicator of iron storage considering the body quarantines iron in the organs to protect itself during chronic illness and infection, so you can even appear to be anemic with iron overload (also copper deficiency which is sometimes (paradoxically) paired with copper toxicity due to biounavailable copper can cause iron overload). The body is refusing to give the iron to feed the pathogens, or cause further inflammation by releasing it into the bloodstream, but all this iron build-up in the organs is toxic. Here is the problem, Andy Cutler says that you MUST take any chelator at a very low dose on the half-life. Taking it at a low dose allows the body to eliminate the heavy metals in a way that doesn't overload your bloodstream with toxins, causing all sorts of unwanted side effects. Your body's detoxification system simply cannot keep up with a large amount of toxic metals circulating for a few hours. Taking the chelator on the half-life prevents the metals from redistributing. Think of a chelator as little hands that pick up toxins: if there aren't a constant stream of hands to hold onto the toxins, the toxins get dropped causing more damage to tissues. The more hands (i.e. chelator), the more toxins are mobilized from tissues and thus a greater toxic burden when the drug is eliminated. When I received my minocycline, I started taking very small doses (15mg every 8 hours approximately). Most of my symptoms were significantly lessened, but I ended up having a hypersensitivity reaction after a couple weeks, which is (I'm sure you know) not uncommon with minocycline, and so I had to stop taking it. I am going to order doxycycline and try again with that. At the moment I'm taking deferasirox, another iron chelator, which is working well (as evidenced by the fact that I'm writing this to begin with). I'm thinking that if you're dosing your child with a large dose once a day, the antibiotic/iron complex doesn't have enough time in the bloodstream to be eliminated by the liver, so it just redistributes. I can tell you that redistribution of heavy metals is one of the most painful, grievous things one can experience and can actually cause permanent damage. The fact that healthcare practitioners aren't aware of this is frightening. You may want to try keeping his blood levels stable with a small dose on the half-life. I'm not a doctor, but something like 15-25mg every 8 hours (you have to set an alarm during the night) worked really well for me.