Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Community Group
For those who have chemical and environmental sensitivities. I will be posting links to resources and information about this poorly understood disorder. Share your stories and information with us!
Hello, My username is marlea. Today is 4/2/2021. Since there is a response on here once every couple of years, I am going to leave my email address so that if you happen to see this, please email me so that we can offer each other support. marlea 1010 at gmail dot com.
I have MCS, and I have studied the work of Debra Lynn Dadd who wrote a book on how she recovered from MCS. Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and related allergies are caused by a strong chemical exposure (or series of exposures) and are also often related to trauma at the same time. You can get a chemical exposure by getting a pathogen exposure. For example if you are exposed to toxic black mold, the subsequent fungal infection will also provide you with it's by product of mycotoxins which are worse than the fungus/mold. The pathogens as well as the toxins also mess up your immune system.
To cure MCS you have to start hunting for the toxins in your environment. New carpets are very toxic. The fresh paint from a new apartment is very toxic. The electromagnetic fields from your refrigerator and microwave are toxic. The fumes from gas stoves are toxic. Polyester, dyes, and food additives are toxic.
1. So, step one of curing yourself of MCS is to hunt for the toxins in your environment and eliminate them. If you are in a new apartment with a new carpet, have the carpet sealed from outgassing with AFM Safeseal. If your new apartment is freshly painted, have the paint sealed from outgassing with AFM Safeseal. Wear shungite to protect yourself from EMF fields. There are other protective products on the market. Also avoid allergens. Buy natural fabric clothing.
2. Step two of curing yourself of MCS is to start detoxing your body. Taking zeolite on a daily basis will pull toxins out of you. Lugols Iodine is a good detoxicant which is healthy for the whole body. Lugols Iodine will kill a fungal infection. Look up EarthClinic in Bangkok or Walter Last to find formulas for making a boron solution out of borax and water. At the correct dosage this will kill fungus and build up your skin, hair and bones.
Isolation is another story. I know what I have to do to get physically well but trying to get out of isolation is challenging. Eating out is challenging with allergies and modified Paleo diet. It doesn't help that I got out of a Toxic relationship and moved out of town and out of state during a pandemic. I moved here to be close to my daughter but she has dogs and cats and of course I'm allergic to the dander.
I started going on a detox with MMS (miracle mineral supplement) which is Chlorine Dioxide. You mix drops of two ingredients which turn into a gas and then you add water to the gas and drink it. This gas gets into hard to reach parts of the body and oxidizes (kills) pathogens and neutralizes toxins. i took too much and I'm recovering from a really bad headache because of it. But I have been getting sick a lot because of all the trauma of all the change and a lot of exposures trying to get settled in this apartment. I had the carpet sealed and then the walls sealed. And I'm not using the gas stove. i need to get better at remembering to wear my shungite necklace to protect me from EMF and I still need to get a new carbon filtered shower head for shower so that I'm not showering in chlorine.
If you happen to read this, let me know how you're doing.
I'm hoping that if I get the new filtered shower head, slow down my detox ssupplements and remember to wear my shungite and stop wearing polyester, that I'll be able to get out more in the week or so and get out of isolation.
But I would still sure like to hear from someone else going through this!
I gave up checking this site because no one was writing, now I check in and 3 people have posted. Hi!
I would say that if showering in chlorine is a problem, that drinking it would definitely be a problem. That MMS does not sound like a good idea.
Take a look at my post from a few years ago, with the paper on intracranial hypertension. My experience is that MCS is not due to toxic body build up, and will not respond to "detoxing". But in fact., like medication induced intracranial hypertension, MCS is intracranial hypertension caused by pesticide exposure, as well as other chemical exposures. You remove the medication/toxin, and the symptoms abate. You re-expose and symptoms return. Unfortunately the chemicals that trigger us are ubiquitous.
Because of the increased intracranial pressure, the cranial nerves become swollen and "raw", producing not only the olfactory hypersensitivity but also auditory hypersensitivity. It has been shown that people with MCS also have hyperacusis. So even though my intracranial hypertension is better now and I don't have severe chemical reactions anymore that produce disabling brain fog and headaches, I am still unable to tolerate any chemical odors. It's like I'm being suffocated in a gas chamber.
I have never heard of using SafeSeal on carpet. I just would not be able to live in a place with new carpet. New meaning less than 6 years old.
I will try to check in more often now that people are finally coming around. you can always send me a private message and I think that alerts me on my email.