What is this?

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Hi All

I met someone on-line that has these symptoms. I think it

is mercury poisoning. If any one has any ideas I/we would like to

hear them.

So what is it, what tests are good to do, etc. -

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Maybe we can reseach your problem over time?

I don't know. I've been researching it off and on for years.

Exactly what my problem is is a complete mystery as it doesn't

particularly fit the mold for any diagnosis. Pretty much any

mental problem a person can have, there are like a dozen

symtoms, and each problem has a specific combination of those

symptoms to indicate it. I don't much fit the symptoms of

bipolar any more than I fit the symptoms of a migraine. I

actually have most of the symptoms of migraine, absent the

headache, and " painless migraine " actually returns 500 results

in Google, so it's apparently not completely unheard of either.

(and come to think of it, perhaps that's why over the years I

haven't managed to find any medication that successfully treats

it, a migraine without a headache is probably the last thing a

doctor expects to encounter) So I don't know, last week I was

thinking bipolar, this week I'm thinking migraine, but I really

have no idea.

Every doctor I've ever been to has come to the conclusion that

it is plain vanilla depression, but that doesn't account for a

lot of my symptoms, and the medications for it aren't any help.

In particular, last November I came up with a theory as to a

possible cause for my depression, which amounted to little more

than what I watch on television, and simply not watching so much

stupid shit on television has been the best treatment for it

I've ever discovered.

> We could look at this from the drug standpoint or the natural

way.

It really makes no difference to me, I'd be happy with anything

that would work, but it's worth mentioning that I went through

about a dozen different medications when I was seeing a doctor,

of which they all either didn't work, or caused some other

side-effect such as sleeping that is even more excessive than my

already excessive sleep. I also at one time had a collection of

dietary supplements that would rival a drug store. Most of them

obviously didn't do anything, though I had some luck with GABA,

DMAE, 5-HTP, Choline, Magnesium, Potassium (from orange juice,

the supplents in stores contain too little to be effective), and

vitamine E, though none of them had a long term effect,

otherwise I would still be taking them.

At one point in time, sometime last year, I decided to have a

look at why I sleep so much. This too seems to come in phases,

some weeks I'll sleep 13 hours a day, then others I'll sleep

only 6. Generally when sleeping 13 I'll feel like getting out

of bed, but simply be unable to, and when sleeping 6 I'll very

much want to go back to bed and get some more sleep, but be

unable to. To try to figure this out I put some of my

electronics knowledge to use and built some test equipment to

test wether I had one of the many sleeping disorders. With a

breathing monitor I was able to determine that I do not have

sleep Apnea, but I ultimately couldn't figure out a way to build

any other test equipment without money I didn't have, so I

couldn't test for anything else. I did also create a heart

monitor, and with it I could see that I seem to have an ordinary

EEG, except that my heartrate is rather irregular in that it

will beat regularly at 70 beats per minute, then suddenly pause

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r a

period about one and a half times the normal period between

beats, and then continue like normal. I also noticed that my

heart rate ocassionally increases for seemingly no reason at

all. In paticular, I once awoke for the simple reason that it

felt as if my heart was about to beat itself out of my chest (I

actually remember being asleep and thinking " I should wake up

and see what the hell is going on " ) and then I looked on the

computer, and sure enough for the last few minutes my heart had

been beating about twice as fast as usual. I have no idea why,

I obviously wasn't having a strange dream as I remembered simply

thinking to myself and not even having a dream when it occured,

and waking up didn't immediately cause it to knock it off.

So overall, I don't have a clue what my problem is. All I know

is that I'm prone to excessive and inappropriate emotions as far

as being happy and sad goes, I go though phases of sleeping too

much and sleeping too little, sometimes I can do things (such as

computer or electronics projects) that are so amazing I amaze

even myself while other times I feel as if I can hardly think at

all, sometimes I want to do nothing but eat, while other times I

won't bother to make myself something to eat until I'm about to

pass out from hunger, and there's also the heart problems I was

talking about.

Also, on two occasions I've had this sort of visual problem

which I have no idea what it was, but it started out as just a

small blind spot nearly in the center of my vision. I was

watching television when I noticed that occassionally it looked

as if someone on television was missing one of their eyes.

Eventually I realized that it was a blind spot. You may or may

not know that everyone has a blind spot in each eye, off to the

side somewhere. You can't see it because your brain fills it in

with whatever colors surround it, so for the most part it always

looks as if it isn't even there. Of course, my new blind spot

wasn't that spot, but was a new one. Anyway, it was being

filled in in the same way, with the colors that surrounded it,

and so when I was looking at someone's face, the spot covered

one of their eyes, by brain filled in the spot with the color of

thier skin which was surrounding the spot, and so it looked like

they were missing an eye. Over the next hour th!

e spot

slowly grew larger and larger, growing outward in a ring

pattern, but only ever appearing on half of my visual field, but

in both eyes. Eventually as it grew larger the colors my brain

was filling it in with began to look a bit odd, as it's one

thing to fill in a little spot, but something else to fill in a

large cresant shape, but eventually it expanded beyond my visual

field and I couldn't see it anymore. Just writing about it is

making me feel like it is happening again, but I can't confirm

that I have anything now except for the one blind spot that is

supposed to be there. You can't see the normal blind spot

without closing one eye because your brain will simply fill it

in with whatever you see in the other eye, but with the problem

I had, the blind spot was in the same position in each eye's

view (which indicates it was a problem somewhere in the brain

and actually had nothing to do with the eyes) and so I could

notice it even with both eyes open. I tried searching !

for

information on the internet, the closest thing I could find was

talk about aura that some people see when they have migraines,

oddly enough, but again I didn't end up with a headache later,

whereas what I read on the internet said that such visual aura

usually precede a headache by an hour or so.

So, like I said, I don't know what my problem is. I have enough

symptoms that I could have any number of things wrong with me,

and I also lack enough symptoms that any number of those things

could not actually be what is wrong with me. So with no money,

and no nearby doctors that seem to have a clue that anything

besides ordinary depression is the problem...

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