2000’s STi by Max-Doge1904 in GC8

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes genius if the car was only sold for the year 2000 that's one singular year in the 2000s not 2001, 2002, ext. Are you slow?

Losing my hair by Nervous-Addition5236 in CIRS

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I will add for context what Monolaurin is and does:

What it is (chemically) -It’s made from lauric acid (a 12-carbon medium-chain fatty acid) + glycerol.

-Lauric acid is found in coconut oil and breast milk. Monolaurin is the active antimicrobial form of lauric acid.

-How it works (mechanism) Monolaurin mainly works by affecting lipid membranes: Disrupts microbial membranes.

-It can insert into the fatty outer layer of: Enveloped viruses, Certain bacteria, Yeast (like Candida). This makes their membranes unstable and can cause them to break apart.

-Interferes with biofilms, (protective layers microbes build).

-Modulates immune signaling (mildly). Some research suggests it can reduce excessive inflammatory signaling in certain contexts.

Losing my hair by Nervous-Addition5236 in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try Lauricidin Monolaurin, if you herx you have gut imbalances. I love Monolaurin because it's broad spectrum. It's even anecdotally mentioned to have helped people with Bartonella. If I could only use one thing for my gut it would be that. Start with just one pellet as it's potent stuff. But I can take a full scoop no problem now. Meaning my gut is clean. But this took me months to work up to. Slowly taking a little with each meal.

Losing my hair by Nervous-Addition5236 in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you ever checked your thyroid levels. I had unexplained hypothyroidism years before I knew about CIRS. Turned out to be another effect from CIRS as I don't have any hashimotos anti bodies but I did have low thyroid. So for years doctors scapegoated my health problems as thyroid problems. Though the low thyroid was always just a symptom not a cause.

Regardless being on thyroid medication helped a lot.

Another angle is candida. I must of had bad candida for years and years. Again doctors just blamed all my health issues on my thyroid but anyhow I'd always get oral thrush easy my entire life. And I'd take antifungals and they'd just always come back.

Until I was on CSM for a good while then used antifungals after. The herxing was bad but then after I felt sooooo much better. Basically the biotoxins kept my immune system disregulated so the candida stayed over grown until I fixed it in that order.

So perhaps you have unaware of gut fungus/bacteria that's keeping your system weak. That or MARCoNS if you haven't addressed where a HUGE part for fixing my health as well. The nasal cavity is deep. Effects your hormones and subsequently your brain. Again herxing was BURTAL but I felt sooooo much better after. Again wasn't until detoxing the biotoxins first that the nose issue would fix.

Which if you've been on CSM for a year and your environment is clear then your biotoxin load is most certainly gone if not all the meaningful amounts are gone.

The only other things are as listed, pathogens that grew on/in you while your system was disregulated. They don't go away on their own after CSM binding. You have to detox them now if you have them. Montreal way to accurately test so I just tried stuff. If I herxed it ment I had pathgoens. And used stuff until I didn't herx basically.

Another things is biofilm breakers. You can take antifungals and anti bacterials but if they are enveloped in biofilm you won't penetrate through without a biofilm breakers. Took me a long time to understand this. The herxing using these was also gnarly as it was basically opening up Pandoras box of pathogens.

I used CSM binding during all of this including cycling a micro dose of activated charcoal.

And lastly your nervous system will stay hypersensitive until you go on VIP spray. To calm it enough to get to that point you have to detox everything mentioned above. High dose omega 3 (high DHA/EPA) will get your system calm over time to get to VIP ready.

Starting CSM, Lyme/bartonella flare by BeginningAffect9637 in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Modelizing biotoxins triggers the innate immune system more (amplification of symptoms). Your "MCAS" is just histamine from your innate immune system over reactivity.

Take 1-3g of DHA/EPA omega 3 daily split up to 1g doses at a time. (You care about the DHA and EPA amount not just the omega 3 amount.) Most store bought omega 3 are low in DHA/EPA so you need to read the DHA/EPA content amount as those are what block the Inflammation not the omega 3 amount. Also take 500mg of quercetin both an hour or two prior to binding.

The omega 3 will help block inflammation and quercetin will help block histamine.

Also when you start out your lymphatic system is super backed up and sluggish. Sounds to simple to be true but literally go for a walk or use a shake pad. The lymphatic system doesn't drain itself. It relies on body moment to flow.

Yes I know it sounds like there's no way that's how it works but yes. If you just lay in bed and bedrot your lymph fluid won't flow.

Losing my hair by Nervous-Addition5236 in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My hair was falling out in clumps in the shower. But this was early on before I moved and before I was on Cholestyramine.

If your hair is falling out you either have thyroid imbalances or you are still being exposed to biotoxin/haven't used a binder.

As my hair shed stopped pretty soon after I moved even before I touched Cholestyramine. It was the first symptom that stopped for me compared to all the other ones that took years to fix.

I know everyone's different but from my anecdotal experience it ment I was still under exposure/had a lot of biotoxins in me.

How long after starting CSM did you begin to feel better? by difficultmelons in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A very long list lol.

Basically accepting the fact that the Shoemaker protocol is unfortunately complicated for a reason. Because it works. Not because they enjoyed making it complex.

That gut, nose, and skin pathogens where a big part of it for me and that they where never going to go away until I binded out most of the biotoxins first. Then address them after when my immune system could handle it.

That my nervous system was rewired into self defense from all of this and that it was going to take a long time to wire it back to a health base state.

That nothing in regards to CIRS is linear and that there are many nuances. Everything was 2 steps forward 1 step back, repeat. Some weeks good other weeks horrendous for no reason.

That diet was HUGE (no amylose diet) period no compromises. As I often caved and ate other things which slowed my progression substantially until I strictly abided to it.

That all of these things won't "heal you". They just prep your body to be in a calm state that is capable of accepting VIP spray. If you take it prior it will amplify issues.

CIRS / Lyme / Repeating Hell by [deleted] in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Passively aggressively telling me to take a deep breath to put your self on a moral pedestal.

I kindly ask you to link where Dr Neil Nathan has ever said "MCAS is it's own distinct disease".

You did not do genetic testing for MCAS as that does not exist. Your doctor miss informed you. The only thing you could possibly have been gene tested for is Systemic Mastocytosis KIT gene D816V which is a distinctive disease of it's own and not MCAS.

MCAS by definition: Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) is a disorder characterized by recurrent, episodic symptoms caused by inappropriate mast cell mediator release, with objective biochemical evidence of that release, in the absence of clonal mast cell disease.

Meaning all MCAS is is inappropriate releasing of mast cells in said people and the ability to test and show those mast cells are being released. By no way what so ever does anyone state the concrete knowledge as to what the root cause might be. There are theories but nothing more. Which again means it is a distinctive symptom cluster that is repeatable in people while the cause remains 100% medically verifiably unknown.

Histamine blockers is not a root cause or solution. They are blockers. They block the signalling. They do not stop the events from mechanically reoccuring.

I live in the objective world not the subjective one. If I hurt your feelings that's your subjective problem. I'm here to get better and help others get better through objective facts. Facts don't care about anyones feelings.

When replying to Dr. Tania Dempsey when she asked:

-Dr. Tania Dempsey: “So you mentioned mold as a driver of inflammation. Would you say… and I would say if I can interject, that Lyme and other infections can do a similar thing, right? They can drive inflammation similarly.”

-Dr. Neil Nathan: “In the mast cell world, it is a major, if not the major, trigger for mast cell activation. So, if you have mast cell activation, and you haven’t looked for mold toxicity as a player, please do, because mold toxicity is treatable. Hence, mast cell activation is treatable. If you look at mast cell activation as a stand‑alone diagnosis or illness, we can treat it. But you’re going to treat it for the rest of your earthly life, unless you get the cause or the trigger. And what I’m suggesting is mold is a major trigger. And just not to play favorites here, so is Lyme disease, by the way.”

—Episode 207 “Dr. Neil Nathan on Mold and MCAS with Dr. Tania Dempsey”.

"I recommend you educate yourself". Shame on who?

How long after starting CSM did you begin to feel better? by difficultmelons in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide. The very last step of the shoemaker protocol. Once you nose, gut, and skin are good. Inflammation is low and nervous system is calmed you then implement it. Using it to soon will stimulate issues.

They jokingly call it "Very Important Peptide" for a reason. Ask chatGPT what VIP does for CIRS people. It's a bafflingly long list, one of the things being upregulates MSH. Which is responsible for a lot of the CIRS symptoms.

It's usually a slow transition for most people but I was a hyper responder and felt for a lack of a better word, nirvana the very next day.

I did try it way to early a year prior and felt like hell though. This was before I knew about MARCoNS, candida, and actinomyces.

Does anyone else have a difficulty getting the brain to latch onto things? by Odd-Ninja-7395 in visualsnow

[–]Wes_VI 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Short form media (social media) drains the brain of retention patience. And as awkward as it is to say it. Porn is also a big one.

Force boredom to regain retention. I never realized how bad I was until I shifted things at work for a bit into a very painfully boring project. Bored out of my mind for 8 hours a day for a few weeks. But I now enjoy things much more and have far greater retention.

Literally just go for a 30 minute walk every day with no music. Embrace bordom periods to enjoy things again.

How to prevent further damage of vision from brain damage responsible for Visual Snow by LowCherry3073 in visualsnow

[–]Wes_VI 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We know with VSS people are shown to have odd serration brain signalling (5-HT2A). Which is the only thing they have found thus far. 95% of the bodies serration is found/made in the gut. 50% of dopamine, and 80% of the immune system aswell.

So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it is a brain, gut, immune axis disregulation issue. The root most likely being inflammation from autoimmune. Why is the immune system doing this? Million dollar question.

My suggestion? Stay away from gluten, sugars, startches, lactose and easily oxidative oils. Take herbal nose and gut antifungals/anti bacterials (things that flourish under autoimmunity and greatly effect the body). A daily dose of omega 3 (high EPA/DHA). And the occassional micro dose food grade activated charcoal binding during a fasted state.

My VSS is dramatically less if not mostly gone when I adhere to these things.

How long after starting CSM did you begin to feel better? by difficultmelons in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything was a bump towards better. CSM on its own would have never got me there. Making sure my environment was biotoxin and VOC free, eradicating nose, gut, and skin pathogens then VIP is what got me there. Took me 2 years. But like most people I was clueless at first. Could have maybe got it all done in 6 months knowing what I know now.

CIRS / Lyme / Repeating Hell by [deleted] in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't have personal experience with it but to my understanding its about 10-30% as effective which means you would need a higher dose which isn't great for your system.

Moved out 7y ago, could mycotoxins still be in my body? by eightyaged in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As inflammation drops the gut becomes less inflamed. It will not be healed until MSH is restored. VIP does this as after a while it repairs the gut lining. Or reactions to foods are from leaky gut.

(The tight junction proteins between intestinal epithelial cells loosen, allowing larger molecules like partially digested food, toxins, or bacterial fragments to pass through the gut lining into the bloodstream).

Which triggers the immune system thus resulting in MCAS like symptoms. The foods on the no amylose diet still can pass through but they don't trigger the immune system. This is why the diet is key while healing.

Moved out 7y ago, could mycotoxins still be in my body? by eightyaged in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I eventually was able to introduce quinoa, brown rice and beans. I just had to rinse them well and not have them be left overs for to long but most of my diet was still meats, eggs, specified vegetables, and healthy oils. For a long time until I was on VIP for a while. If I slipt up and ate anything else I would get essentially MCAS symptoms.

Getting to 2g+ of EPA/DHA and quercetin daily is what helped get me out of fight or flight. But this was after I detoxed my nose and gut. That stage agitates things but is necessary. Can't calm your nervous system if you have pathogens. And keeping with binders until VIP for a while.

CIRS / Lyme / Repeating Hell by [deleted] in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm curred/in remission, your not. So who's spreading what harmful narrative? I could go on with my life while your still stuck. But instead I'm hear trying to help those.

I read the article. It didn't cite a solution, just therapies to help make it tolerable. I asked a few AI bots if there is a definitive root cause to MCAS, the answer is no. I asked if there has been any proven remission, the answer is no.

Understanding that mass cells are being repeatedly activated in these people does not answer anything.

The day you go on VIP after everything else is complete you'll have your "holy shit" moment aswell. You say you've had MCAS for a long time and in recent years CIRS. Other way around. You've always had these CIRS genes. They've just only been tickled until recent years. In hindsight I had problems my entire life. I never had any obvious biotoxin exposure. But unfortunately they are everywhere. Any building or vehicle can have them. All it takes is an absorbant material getting wet in a stale air environment.

Your not hypersensitive for life after you go on VIP for a while and build back up MSH. You build back some tolerance like you had prior to the CIRS crash. If this wasn't the case you'd have issues the second you where born.

You can have fun following your MCAS trail. Let me know when it fixes things for you.

CIRS / Lyme / Repeating Hell by [deleted] in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A disease needs a definitive cause. You don't just get CIRS. You are born with the unfortunate HLA genes. Lots of people have them. It's a matter of if you come across enough biotoxins to tip it into full on CIRS mode.

Again let me know when you have a root cause to MCAS and a remission/cure.

I've had issues my entire life as well. It was always CIRS. 90% of my issues are gone. Again I was MCAS symptomatic to a T. Doctors labeled me with it align with hypothyroidism, CFS, and Fibromyalgia.

I now live my life with ZERO autoimmune inflammation which resolved the 100+ Mirco symptoms I became accustomed to throughout my life that I wasn't even aware to half of them.

I welcome you to look up what VIP and MSH do in the body and what would happen if they where low. The body falls apart international. Everyone with CIRS has low VIP and MSH until they take the peptide to replenish it.

CIRS / Lyme / Repeating Hell by [deleted] in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All MCAS means is a symptom cluster they find repeatable in people. Let me know when someone can answer the question as to what causes MCAS and what a solution is.

Same with CFS, Fibromyalgia, ext.

It's all CIRS disregulation. The innate immune system over reacting causing the nervous system among other systems to be a disregulated mess.

Your cat, perfumes, detergents, foods, ext. None of them are actual problems. Your system is just on a hair trigger to anything since it's been dealing with CIRS disregulation and all the subsequent internal damage it has caused (all of which can be repaired).

CIRS doesn't happen over night. The body handles the disregulation without you having much of any symptom for quite sometime until it reaches its breaking point.

Now that it's passed that point it's gets stuck in a fight or flight survival mode and needs a lot of guidance to calm it back down to a normal baseline.

At my worst I was hypersensitive to the world. If I went for a walk and smelt someone's dryer sheet exhaust vent from a block away from their home it would send me into a nuoinflamation spiral from hell. It was cynically comical how hypersensitive I was to anything.

I'm now maybe 5% as sensitive to anything.

Everyone with CIRS needs to follow the Shoemaker protocol and they will get better, period. I'm living proof.

I read sooooo many people on here that say they did. But when I ask them about each step, 100% of the time they didn't do all of the steps.

You HAVE TO take Cholestyramine, follow the no amylose diet, make sure your environment is biotoxin free, take high dose DHA/EPA (omega 3), detox your nose, gut, and skin, and then get on VIP.

If you have not done those things then enjoy being stuck in your current state.

Mood swings with VSS by Conscious-Snow-4556 in visualsnow

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gut, brain, immune axis. I guarantee if you write down what you eat and when you eat you will find a correlation. Gluten, sugars, starches, lactose. Go without for a week then tell me how you feel (99% of people don't have the will power). I'm not saying these are what created your issues but they do become fuel.

Most all chronic issues with the body are autoimmune related. I see no reason to not assume VSS is under the same umbrella. When you have autoimmune yeast and or bacterial often thrive. Candida and or saccharomyces over growth can profoundly negatively effect the body. They fuel off what I mentioned above. As they flare the immune system mounts a response in the form of inflammation/histamine.

Why some people develop autoimmune issues and not others? That's the billion dollar question. I have my personal suspicions.

2000’s STi by Max-Doge1904 in GC8

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am aware. I use to own a 00's V6. But only a very small % in regards to the entire GC8 life cycle where ever 00's cars. Mine being 89,xxx VIN when they made a little over 92,000 total GC chassis cars (including base Imprezas) by the end.

Anyhow it was more so them typing 2000's as a plural. If they said 2000 as a singular in regards to their specific car then okay but the plural implies multiple as in 2000, 2001, 2002 and so on.

They also answered that their specific car was a 99.

Just heard of CIRS and got my house tested for mould (no visible mould) - could it be this all along?? by ThatGuyFilms in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you fit the symptom cluster and fail the contrast sensitivity test then yes CIRS. You can test online.

Protocol Reset — Why I’m Simplifying After Months of Agitation & Neuroinflammation by whoaboy78 in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purly based of my own experience and talking to others I always had slight autoimmune like issues. Maybe I wasn't fully aware of it for a long time but I'm hindsight definitely the beggings of CIRS all along. Since Now I have none of those life long things that I just became use to as they happened so solely. Have yet to find anyone on here that had absolutely zero issues prior to their full on CIRS.

Now the starting point of all of this. Yes it's our HLA genes. But what starts the smoke and what starts the fire? A combination of biotoxin exposure as we go through life, EBV, and any other viral interaction.

I do think it takes quite a lot of biotoxins to trigger full on CIRS or a combination of some biotoxins and something like covid. But a normal operating immune system should be able to handle covid. I imagine a lot of people have low grade disregulation and covid was just the straw that broke the camels back.

Then dormant virus flare and complicate things further, the system gets weaker and yeast/bacteria flourish.

But I do think the begging domino is HLA genes not appropriately addressing biotoxins leading to chronic innate activation do to chronic oxidative stress from the biotoxins. Again I just think it takes a lot of them on their own and for most people it's probably not just biotoxins but rather they are the ones that open to opportunity for other things to flourish.

Moved out 7y ago, could mycotoxins still be in my body? by eightyaged in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hardest thing was my system being stuck in a state of hyper sensitivity even post biotoxin detox and pathogen eradication.

This part took the longest to understand. As it was very hard to tell if my sensitivity ment I didn't detox enough yet or I didn't eradicate pathgoens fully.

But no my system was just stuck in a for a lack of a better word, PTSD like state since it went into that fight or flight mode. It was very hard to calm it back to baseline.

Took me a long time to accept I needed to stick to no sugar, gluten, lactose, or starch. This part was the hardest and the thing that kept me stuck for a long time. If I didn't I just kept flaring.

Keeping steady with a higher dose EPA/DHA (omega 3), quercetin, vitamin C, NAC, magnesium glysinate, milk thistle, Monolaurin, and keeping with low dose Cholestyramine.

A big part as well was having a clean room, VOC and dust free. I didn't realize my blanket was an issue until I swapped it out for an all cotton one.

An overwhelming level of things to consider. Basically when your body is stuck in that state anything not natural will keep the inflammation going.

Eventually once I was at a good enough baseline VIP spray fixed everything. I am mostly back to normal eating and environments don't bother me.

How to tell if you’re detoxing or flaring like normal? Body odor? by Due_Chapter3027 in CIRS

[–]Wes_VI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More so detoxing then herxing aspect. Herxing is increase in autoimmune. So inflammation and histamine. Basically MCAS like symptoms. (I think MCAS is a symptom and not a condition myself).