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@ourania thanks for your update. It sounds like you’ve had quite a tough time this month & I’m sorry to hear that.
I’m concerned to hear about your eyes & wanted to mention a couple of recent thoughts I’ve had. Eye symptoms are often where vA toxicity shows for me - conjunctivitis, gritty eye, floaters, pain, extreme light sensitivity etc. Both toxicity & detox symptoms have often been eye related. I’m beginning to think that this reflects a build up of retinaldehyde. I’m also wondering if mood issues are related to aldehyde build up.
As vA leaves the liver & goes through its various forms to be ultimately excreted there are a number of steps that can be genetically (or environmentally induced) slower than is helpful. ALDH is particularly prone to this & could lead to a build up of retinaldehyde & other aldehydes. I think I’m prone to this bottleneck & I wonder if you are too.
I need your blessings @jaj and @arena. It feels good to know someone is caring for me from afar. As to aldehydes, yes. This is maybe linked to the lifelong thiamine deficiency.
I had a very bad time for the last ten days because of a very harsh detox bout, which I believe was induced by raking about 20.000 mcg of biotin total segmented in small doses over a week. I took this because I thought it might help with my hair. Never again!
Well I now know for sure that biotin has something to do with retinoids. The detox symptoms are still on.
Biotin Beware!
@qurania thanks for the update , I hope you feel better soon ! My husband and I had a very bad / strong similar reaction to B1 , and we took 1/2 of the capsule ! But it caused insomnia , too much energy unable to sleep , itching , it was horrible !
thanks for the warning about biotin , I wanted to try it for hair too but no more ! I have just upped my zinc intake , hopefully it yields some results . Hair is getting better though . I also reacted badly to taurine this week , so stopped it , will increase red meat for now .
We are doing very very well with the mouth taping though , maybe some aldehydes are being detoxed through nose breathing
Results after 13 months
Reporting a week late because a lot happened.
Detox, not very pleasant.
I have difficulty breathing, lungs feel wrong, a bit like breathing water. This comes and goes. Quite a lot of fear/depression. Dry mouth upon waking.
BUT
All this suffering seems linked to a slow burning fear we had for the last seven years, an important problem with property/ war/ destruction/ exile etc.
Suddenly this was solved completely on 23rd December. All links dissolved, as though none of this had never happened. I cannot but notice that there is a relationship between the detox of a vitamin strongly linked to memory and perpetuation and the dissolution of what I could call bad karma.
Husband also had an amazing unexpected victory at work.
I am not used to it yet. There is a gaping hole in my worries. Maybe there is a gaping hole too in my stock of vA? It was violent but well worth it.
Otherwise, hubby sees more and more colors, our feet have become very small in our shoes, I am covered in strange little crusts that don't peel off (one just in the middle of my forehead arghh and very visible), we have just a little less appetite.
Good luck to all we wish you a beautiful year!
I totally see blockages in my life that are mirrored or paralleled with my health.
I also have crusts. It's tempting to hurry them along, they seem to eventually fall off on their own though. I sort of think they get itchy when it is time for them to go, and an small inadvertent scrach or rub will get rid of them when they are ready.
Thank you for the comforting words about the crusts @lil-chick !
Yesterday something strange happened. While we were watching a film, suddenly most myopia in my husband's left eye disappeared!!!!
At the start of the diet that eye was -3.50. It has improved to -2,75 going up and down during the last 13 months.
Last night it was -0,75!!!!!! This morning the myopia came back.
Nothing happened to the right eye.
There is HOPE!
Results after 14 months
Again a bit late as a lot happened. And the last two weeks were too hard and busy for me to write.
A lot of bad detox. But no despair for once. Just vague fear.
Itchy face, crusts coming up out of nowhere, stabbing pains al around, blurry vision, split nails.`The bad news is all this is also happening to my husband. I thought all was fine with him, that he was sailing smoothly towards all the improvements I see on him. But no! He has been hiding all the detox symptoms because he did not want to worry me!
I had a lot of yawning last week, I suppose the body trying to change sides from sympathetic to parasympathetic.
Something strange happened to my husband: he used to make holes in his socks very regularly, but not at the toes as I did, but under the soles of his feet. For the last year this had stopped but it started again. I suppose a kind of detox is burning the wool.
He has black bushy eyebrows now!
And I am growing a moustache at the upper corners of my lips. These hairs were soft and white, but now they are thick and black, and half-way through! That is the roots are black and the outwards ends are white, as if they had been dipped in bleach.
Also we sleep maybe 1/2 hour more every night.
Blurry vision, painful stiffness upon waking, no progress at all.
I am sick and tired of being sick.
The real improvement is mental I think. We are more positive, less autistic in our relations to others, have more energy to solve many small problems we have accumulated during the years. More lucky too, which I suspect is we are more able to shape our reality along the lines of what we want. This is delightful, because I got very worried feeling I had no control at all. Loosing my mind and my body by bits on a rudderless wreck.
Catching up with the past: many people we used to know have reappeared bearing incredible gifts, gifts that in fact remplace the work we were not able to do while we were sick! As though that time lost has been healed and restored! This is amazing, we are in a maze. What is this? Getting in touch with some form of quantic resonance/pairing? The mind boggles, unless as @renee said, we are on the way to become 11-years old again!
Hugs and good luck to all!
We wish you much improvement the easy way.
Such a well-written message about hard things to describe! I'm going to re-read it several times today.
You and your husband are so lucky in another way: to have ONE ANOTHER! 🙂