I have been under treatment since May 2006 to counter the affects of MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity). The treatment is NAET (Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Treatment) . It is working.
I no longer get violently sick when exposed to most fragrances and cleaning chemicals. Emphasis on MOST. Since at any time I can run into a new variety of chemical formulation: either new on the market or ‘new’ to my NAET treatment: and it will toss me back into a very painful period – from 3 days to a couple of weeks – before my system regains control.
Today, I can actually tolerate being in close proximity with a whole array of chemicals without getting violently sick. Exposure to most chemicals is now more a matter of being uncomfortable. Because I have become hyper sensitive to the fragrances, what most people consider a wonderfully fragrant perfume, cologne or other personal care product, for me is a gag-reflex, congestive, air-way clogging experience. Not something one would choose to be exposed to. BUT, quite unlike just 6 months ago, since the last four NAET treatments, I have NOT gotten sick due to exposure. This is NEW.
I have had a number of people ask, “Well if it doesn’t make you sick anymore, then why don’t you resume social contact activities?” My reply is simply this. For me, reverting back into the constant exposure to the chemical swill, is no different from the person with an addiction who avoids – for the rest of their life – whatever they are have as an addiction. Just as a person is never cured of an addiction, the MCS person – once the barrier of the bodies immune system buffering is broken – there is no cure that would allow re-exposure without very costly results.
Just because I don’t currently get sick from exposure to the chemicals does not preclude it won’t happen again. The NAET treatment eliminates an allergy reaction to whatever the treatment is for. NAET removes the negative reaction the body takes, thus allowing the body to begin a healing process. NAET is NOT a cure! It IS a restorative process, offering the bodies immune system a path BACK to health. Change paths; veer off the path toward health and immune system restoration; and you’re right back on the path to illness.
Here’s the real kicker.
Incursions are accumulative: each one building upon the previous: destroying the immune systems ability to buffer chemical exposures. So that one day the entire system crashes and the person is no longer capable of tolerating the chemical assault.
Coming back is a long process which requires avoidance of all the foreign elements that caused the problem in the first place. In today’s society this becomes more difficult with each new fragrance product, cleaning chemical and now – genetically modified products – that come to market. Avoiding the chemical onslaught becomes more difficult each year. The number of places, on planet earth, where a person can go for relief, shrinks each passing year.
So, for now I will continue to be a FRAGG AVOIDER. Being isolated from the majority of society is my desired path, but it’s the path I am on now. I can either walk the path or set beside the path, drown in self-pitty and disintegrate into a drain on society. That’s not my style.
This is my style. Writing about the problem and the changes needed. My style is kicking up the dirt until someone is willing to filter the air.
My access to an enjoyable time with other people and with the outdoors is now a compromised condition at best. In most, that access is gone. So. there’s no chance in HELLO that I’m going to keep quiet about it. I’ll take my medicine, but everyone who is responsible for the chemical swill we are forced to live in will hear about it, too.
YOSAKIME !!!!
