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Renee Mauser
LPN
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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For three long years I suffered
over forty symptoms of a devastating illness which kept me a bedridden invalid.
My symptoms increased in severity with each passing day. I experienced severe
stinging headaches, mental confusion with every thought process, speech
problems, including slurred words and difficulty recalling words in conversation.
I also experienced other Alzheimers-like symptoms such as, not being able
to read past the fifth word without losing comprehension of the first four
words, and not being able to tell how many cents were in a particular coin.
Many trips to the doctor during those early days were very frustrating because
I was not able to recognize my surroundings, which should have been obviously
familiar.
My central nervous system was affected greatly by smells and was not
able to tolerate strong toxic fumes of paint, gasoline, varnish, rubber,
and so on. The smells would literally make me experience an increase in
all my symptoms, primarily the headaches and nausea. My CNS system was
even affected by sounds, lights, and certain colors. Again, any intense
level in these categories would put me in a relapse state, where I would
be unable to even walk to the bathroom by myself, or sit up to feed myself.
Severe muscle, joint and bone pain rendered me immobile! Weakness of my
muscles left me very limp, and barely able to raise my diaphragm to breathe.
The ringing in my painful ears was constant, and it deafened me to the ring
of the phone, the sound of the TV, or normal conversation. I later would
find out that I was slowly losing at least 30% of my hearing in each ear
and would spend the rest of my life protecting my ears with ear plugs or
go completely deaf!
I suffered daily fever and chills and I would wake up in a cold sweat,
which would later turn large areas of my body into stinging rashes. I
experienced nausea, digestion disturbances, and malabsorbtion of my food.
Sore throats were daily, and so were swollen, painful lymph nodes. The
most upsetting symptoms were sleep apnea, (when I would actually stop
breathing during sleep) and premature ventricular heart beats, or PVC's,
when my heart would stop momentarily over 2,000 times in a 24 hour period.
This condition was accompanied by horrible chest pains and shortness of
breath.
My symptoms grew more and more severe and my life was slowly slipping
away, until I found out about mercury toxicity from dental amalgam fillings.
I decided to request the removal of all my mercury fillings, replace them
with nontoxic ones by a trained dentist, and follow up the procedure with
a detoxification program to help pull the poison from the tissues of my
body. After one year, I was 85% healthy, and with each passing year I
became more and more healthy. I will always have some weakness in my immune
system which haunts me with recurrent Candidiasis. My thyroid gland was
completely destroyed by the mercury, and of course, my poor ears, but
I am a functioning human being, with lots of energy and I now travel and
speak to large audiences on this subject. I have been personally involved
with helping over 250 victims of mercury poisoning from their fillings
and I have become a registered lobbyist in our state and started my own
Political Action Committee to reform the dental laws in my state which
are unique. My state of Iowa has the only Administrative Rule in the entire
country that mimics the ADA Code of Ethics, which restricts the conversation
between the dentist and a patient. I have spent the last five years of
my life trying to save people from experiencing the misery I suffered
because of mercury fillings. I will continue to fight until we have safe
dental care in my state and the country, and until mercury free dentistry
is allowed to be practiced without dentists fearing the loss of their
license. I thank Mary Davis, and the good Lord, for saving my life with
the knowledge and courage to fight this monster.
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