Heavily Metalled

Our guest today, Julene, joins us in the middle of her knee replacement journey.After going early on for a relatively routine meniscus repair, working through physical therapy and all the things to recover, she wound up in an extreme amount of pain that wasn’t normal. Saw a new doctor in follow-up who advised a total knee replacement. Julene received three surgical opinions and all were in agreement. Julene chose the surgeon that asked about prior reactions to metal. About a month after surgery Julene began to develop one symptom after another. So bad she could barely make a glass of water. Acute pain. Flu-like symptoms, fatigue, and allergy symptoms. Her cries to her doctor fell on deaf ears and she sought a second opinion. Julene received an LTT Blood test for metal allergies, which came back showing her off-the-charts allergic to nickel. Julene eventually obtained a knee revision and her symptoms resolved rapidly. She felt stable on her new titanium knee….and then it all began to unravel…again. Here about the continuation of her journey, her huge success on the low-nickel diet and then about the connections she made with her metallic dental work. You won’t believe the surprise ending to the story. Well…it’s not the end, it’s actually the middle, as another revision is in Julene’s future. 

In this episode you will learn:

~Links and Resources~

~ To see the images that accompany this episode click HERE.

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~ To read the PubMed article mentioned on a completely metal-free knee click HERE. 

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~ To find out about the FIG food app click HERE.

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~To make a comment or petition to the FDA, click HERE. 

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~To follow Heavily Metalled on RUMBLE click HERE. 

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~To read the YouTube medical misinformation policy click HERE. 

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~Get the Low Nickel Diet cookbook HERE.

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~To learn more visit ⁠HeavilyMetalled.com⁠.

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Check out the “Heavily Metalled” resource page: ⁠https://www.heavilymetalled.com/resources⁠

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***Many WONDERFUL, supportive special-interest communities exist for metal allergies and diet, hardware issues, medical devices, etc., online and on social media. They have many resources and often act as a collective think-tank. I owe many parts of my recovery to knowledge obtained in such groups. Search keywords to join these groups and find your tribe!***

This episode is just what the patient ordered!

You are about to learn all the want-to-know essentials about hardware & composition such as how to find surgical support documents that dictate implanted hardware and the surgical procedure, how to reach the reps for medical & hardware device manufactures, how to determine the metal alloy components of your surgical hardware and how to file your own adverse event report with the FDA, both electronically and via hard copy.

Metal allergy expert Dr. Scott Schroeder, also re-joins the podcast to weigh in and educate more about hardware and the removal process. We discuss surgeon hesitancy in the hardware removal realm, safety considerations, non-metal implant alternatives and why manufacturers might be avoiding allergic patients and whether removing some hardware instead of all is even beneficial to the patients.

We also cover how patients should approach and speak with their providers about hardware removal options.

This episode is jam-packed with information and if you have metal hardware that you suspect you are allergic to, it’s likely to be one of your favorite podcast episodes yet! 

In this episode you will learn:

~Links and Resources~

~ To file your FDA adverse event report click HERE. 

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~ To View the FDA adverse event report database (FAERS) click HERE.

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~To make a comment or petition to the FDA, click HERE. 

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~To follow Heavily Metalled on RUMBLE click HERE. 

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~To read the YouTube medical misinformation policy click HERE. 

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~Get the Low Nickel Diet cookbook HERE.

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~To learn more visit ⁠HeavilyMetalled.com⁠.

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Check out the “Heavily Metalled” resource page: ⁠https://www.heavilymetalled.com/resources⁠

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Sign up for the FREE newsletter and email list on HeavilyMetalled.com & get a FREE symptoms list & next steps bundle!~Sign the petition asking medical providers and facilities to pre-screen for metal hypersensitivity here: http://tinyurl.com/2458ea8

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***Many WONDERFUL, supportive special-interest communities exist for metal allergies and diet, hardware issues, medical devices, etc., online and on social media. They have many resources and often act as a collective think-tank. I owe many parts of my recovery to knowledge obtained in such groups. Search keywords to join these groups and find your tribe!***

The Low Nickel Diet and template for eating well with metal allergies is quickly gaining popularity among those sensitive to metals. Join us today for this episode with Gilda Capraro, the brawn and brains behind the super-helpful Low Nickel Diet & Lifestyle Facebook group. This episode is jam-packed with information to help you with all things diet and lifestyle as you navigate your nickel allergy and all that goes with it. Much of this information will be applicable to those who are also cross-reactive to other metals. Learn about how systemic metal allergies show up, how a Type IV allergy differs from contact allergies and the various symptoms they manifest. We discuss metal allergies and MCAS, Eczema, how metal allergies relate to chemical and other intolerances and even discuss how cobalt allergies are a close cousin to a nickel allergy. Information in this episode will help you with your low-nickel roadmap, whether you are just starting your journey, or you’ve been on the road for some time. 

In this episode you will learn:

~Links and Resources~

~ Check out the Low Nickel Diet & Lifestyle Group on Facebook HERE. 

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~ Check out the Rebelytics Low Nickel Diet guidelines HERE. 

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~To follow Heavily Metalled on RUMBLE click HERE. 

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~To read the YouTube medical misinformation policy click HERE. 

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~Get the Low Nickel Diet cookbook HERE.

~To make a comment or petition to the FDA, click HERE. 

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~To learn more visit ⁠HeavilyMetalled.com⁠.

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Check out the “Heavily Metalled” resource page: ⁠https://www.heavilymetalled.com/resources⁠

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Sign up for the FREE newsletter and email list on HeavilyMetalled.com & get a FREE symptoms list & next steps bundle!~Sign the petition asking medical providers and facilities to pre-screen for metal hypersensitivity here: http://tinyurl.com/2458ea8

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***Many WONDERFUL, supportive special-interest communities exist for metal allergies and diet, hardware issues, medical devices, etc., online and on social media. They have many resources and often act as a collective think-tank. I owe many parts of my recovery to knowledge obtained in such groups. Search keywords to join these groups and find your tribe!***

EP27 - Metal LTT Blood Testing ORTHOPEDIC ANALYSIS Walkthrough, Q&A + Implant Composition FAQ

Join me today for a complete video walkthrough on ordering, drawing & shipping the Orthopedic Analysis blood Metal LTT Lymphocyte Transformation Test. You’ll get to see results of my new OA test and learn all about the valuable resources on the OA website.  Additionally you will hear again from OA C.F.O., Dr. Marco Caicedo on not only some of my surprising results with the recent test, but also some experiences and common questions from some in the metal-allergic community regarding OA testing. Lastly, you will learn how to obtain implant composition data from providers,  manufacturers and hardware reps, and then how to break that down to know what percentages of which metal alloys are in your hardware. This will empower you so that you can better choose MORE compatible hardware for if and when you have to have surgeries that implant metal. 

In this episode you will learn:

~Links and Resources~

~~Check out the Orthopedic Analysis Expert Physician & Surgeons Testimonial page HERE:

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~To follow Heavily Metalled on RUMBLE click HERE. 

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~Get the Low Nickel Diet cookbook HERE.

~~To make a comment or petition to the FDA, click HERE. 

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~To learn more visit ⁠HeavilyMetalled.com⁠.

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Check out the “Heavily Metalled” resource page: ⁠https://www.heavilymetalled.com/resources⁠

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Sign up for the FREE newsletter and email list on HeavilyMetalled.com & get a FREE symptom list & next steps bundle!~Sign the petition asking medical providers and facilities to pre-screen for metal hypersensitivity here: http://tinyurl.com/2458ea8

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Follow Heavily Metalled on Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/HeavilyMetalled⁠

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***Many WONDERFUL, supportive special-interest communities exist for metal allergies and diet, hardware issues, medical devices, etc., online and on social media. They have many resources and often act as a collective think-tank. I owe many parts of my recovery to knowledge obtained in such groups. Search keywords to join these groups and find your tribe!***

This episode details relevant personal updates regarding Shari’s health status, surgeries, death of a prominent family member and an official statement regarding MELISA Diagnostics inability to currently provide metal LTT testing to US residents, as well as where to find alternative testing in the meantime.

This episode also makes statements responding to serious allegations leveled at Shari regarding the production and agenda of the Heavily Metalled Podcast.

Also the new YouTube Medical Misinformation policy is summarized.  Podcast agendas & goals for the future are detailed. 

In this episode you will learn:

~Links and Resources~

~To follow Heavily Metalled on RUMBLE click HERE. 

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~To read the YouTube medical misinformation policy click HERE. 

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~Get the Low Nickel Diet cookbook HERE.

~~To make a comment or petition to the FDA, click HERE. 

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~To learn more visit ⁠HeavilyMetalled.com⁠.

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Check out the “Heavily Metalled” resource page: ⁠https://www.heavilymetalled.com/resources⁠

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Sign up for the FREE newsletter and email list on HeavilyMetalled.com & get a FREE symptoms list & next steps bundle!~Sign the petition asking medical providers and facilities to pre-screen for metal hypersensitivity here: http://tinyurl.com/2458ea8

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Follow Heavily Metalled on Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/HeavilyMetalled⁠

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Follow Heavily Metalled on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/heavilymetalled/⁠

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Check out our sponsor ⁠https://melisa.org⁠

***Many WONDERFUL, supportive special-interest communities exist for metal allergies and diet, hardware issues, medical devices, etc., online and on social media. They have many resources and often act as a collective think-tank. I owe many parts of my recovery to knowledge obtained in such groups. Search keywords to join these groups and find your tribe!***

Emily, is working on her Bachelor’s Degree in Nutritional Science and is looking forward to completing a PhD in the same field a few years after graduation.

Emily has been sensitive to metals her whole life, starting with a severe allergy to earrings and other jewelry as a child.

In early 2019 she was talked into getting her nose pierced by a friend and was SUPER excited. Even picking out cute nose rings.

Within months of that nose piercing Emily developed multiple autoimmune diseases and suffered with the debilitating effects of Trigeminal Neuralgia, a syndrome nicknamed “The Suicide Disease” creating painful nerve sensations on the face.

She also suffered from an onset of joint pain, repeated sore throats and swelling of her lymph nodes, as well as all kinds of tenderness surrounding the area.

Around the same time frame Emily started noticing increase symptoms from several mercury fillings in her mouth, experiencing a large “flair” when the fillings were removed and likely swallowing a small piece of the extracted filling during removal.

Symptoms from her fillings were most notably a metallic taste in her mouth, among others.

Emily also shares experiences where her body actually pushed out an IUD device, and relays stories of her throat becoming sore when drinking from stainless steel water bottles and starting to feel unwell from a gifted set of new stainless steel cookware.

She is still trying to discern whether or not a surgical clip was left in place during a 2017 appendectomy.

She experienced a substantial, indisputable relief of her Trigeminal Neuralgia and other symptoms upon removing the nose ring for an unrelated surgical procedure, along with having her metal fillings removed. Tune in to hear the rest of her compelling story! 

In this episode you will learn:

~Links and Resources~

~To find a biological / holistic dentist in your area click HERE.

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~To purchase the glass/silicone water bottle shown in the podcast go HERE.

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~Check out the Quirky Cork Gourd drinking bottles HERE.

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~To learn about LDN or Low Dose Naltrexone click HERE

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~Get the Low Nickel Diet cookbook HERE.

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~To make a comment or petition to the FDA, click HERE. 

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~To learn more visit ⁠HeavilyMetalled.com⁠.

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Check out the “Heavily Metalled” resource page: ⁠https://www.heavilymetalled.com/resources⁠

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Sign up for the FREE newsletter and email list on HeavilyMetalled.com & get a FREE symptoms list & next steps bundle!~Sign the petition asking medical providers and facilities to pre-screen for metal hypersensitivity here: http://tinyurl.com/2458ea8

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Follow Heavily Metalled on Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/HeavilyMetalled⁠

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***Many WONDERFUL, supportive special-interest communities exist for metal allergies and diet, hardware issues, medical devices, etc., online and on social media. They have many resources and often act as a collective think-tank. I owe many parts of my recovery to knowledge obtained in such groups. Search keywords to join these groups and find your tribe!***

Maria Lappin, our guest from Michigan, is our incredible Season 2 opener.

Her episode discusses a prominent lesion on the tip of her nose, diagnosed by multiple specialists, as aggressive metastatic melanoma. The lesion was, in fact, caused by a systemic reaction to surgical clips placed inside her body without her knowledge, her permission or being pre-screened for metal hypersensitivity, during surgery to remove her lymph nodes in conjunction with the Melanoma diagnoses. Her brave saga will leave you stunned and speechless.We will follow Maria on her overwhelming 10-YEAR journey as a harmless mole, was called out as a disease that would be rapidly life-altering, and could even be life-ending.Maria takes us along on biopsy after inconclusive biopsy, removal of lymph nodes in her neck, repeated imaging studies, medical gaslighting by prominent cancer doctors and institutes, plastic surgeons & more. On several coincidentally “lucky” days, Maria was able to discover her surgical clips, along with the support groups that would eventually lead her to a vascular surgeon who believed her story and who would remove them with a striking dose of compassion and humanity, resolving her symptoms, as well as the lesion on her nose, in short order. Had she not discovered the true source of her lesion, it would have led into MANY years and full facial reconstruction surgery. Yikes!You will hear Maria’s assertive testimony before the FDA on how these surgical clips stole much of her life, and you will hear how she is crawling out of the wreckage to get that life back, and at the end of the episode you will hear a partial conversation with her cancer surgeon stating that they leave clips in patients all the time and that “no one has any problems with them”; A bold statement as we have so much evidence to the contrary….even evidence from our own FDA. You’ll have to hear it to believe it!

In this episode you will learn:

~Links and Resources~

~ To see the images that accompany this episode, click HERE. 

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~ To visit Maria’s website, click HERE. 

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~To make a comment or petition to the FDA, click HERE. 

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~To learn more visit ⁠HeavilyMetalled.com⁠.

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Check out the “Heavily Metalled” resource page: ⁠https://www.heavilymetalled.com/resources⁠

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Sign up for the FREE newsletter and email list on HeavilyMetalled.com & get a FREE symptoms list & next steps bundle!~Sign the petition asking medical providers and facilities to pre-screen for metal hypersensitivity here: http://tinyurl.com/2458ea8

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Follow Heavily Metalled on Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/HeavilyMetalled⁠

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***Many WONDERFUL, supportive special-interest communities exist for metal allergies and diet, hardware issues, medical devices, etc., online and on social media. They have many resources and often act as a collective think-tank. I owe many parts of my recovery to knowledge obtained in such groups. Search keywords to join these groups and find your tribe!***

EP22 - Beyond the Metal: Holistic Dental Care with Dr. Michelle Jorgensen, DDS, FAGD, TNC, CNAS

Dr. Michelle Jorgensen has a passion for not just the mouth but how it connects to the entire body, and beyond that, how the connects to the world! We discuss Dr. Michelle’s personal journey with metal toxicity to mercury amalgam, and how she almost became unable to practice dentistry, and had to put her practice up for sale. She tells us how she detoxed and how she uncovered her own MTHFR genetic mutation that can make detox more difficult. Dr. Michelle found a new way to practice, and shocked those in her profession as she recovered completely and became an innovator in her field, an author, a social media guru with over 100K followers, and creator of her own natural product line. Dr. Michelle outlines what dentists are taught regarding metal hypersensitivity in dental school, especially the dialogue surrounding mercury fillings and the controversy surrounding alternative approaches or viewpoints in dentistry. We discuss metal toxicity, metal allergies, metal composites, including porcelain fused to metal crowns, and the fascinating way she is finding places in the bone where it has not healed completely from dental work. These places harbor bugs, parasites and more! She talks about how she heals these areas and miraculously returns patients to full health. We discuss biocompatibility and Dr. Michelle’s best recommendations for testing prior to implantation of any dental devices.Find out the novel ways she has to save teeth and what she recommends if you have to have an implant placed. You will learn how to follow Dr. Michelle and like her, live WELL! 

In this episode you will learn:

~Links and Resources~

~ Check out Living Well with Dr. Michelle! https://www.livingwellwithdrmichelle.com

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~ Check out Dr. Michelle’s Dental Practice: Total Dental Care_

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***Many WONDERFUL, supportive special-interest communities exist for metal allergies and diet, hardware issues, medical devices, etc., online and on social media. They have many resources and often act as a collective think-tank. I owe many parts of my recovery to knowledge obtained in such groups. Search keywords to join these groups and find your tribe!***

Christian hails from Michigan and is a young Italian man, working as an engineer, who has a passion for soccer, being Italian and heavy metal music.. He describes himself as a formerly “happy-go-lucky” guy until spine surgery and metal allergies turned his life upside down. After the sudden onset of back trouble and searing pain, Christian worked through the traditional medical routes, until it was decided that he would need a spinal fusion.After surgery,  Christian knew immediately that something wasn’t right, waking with searing, intractable pain and a litany of symptoms:  rashes, insomnia, an ulcerated tongue, vision, cardiac issues and more. After numerous consults and research,, he came to the hypothesis that he could be allergic to his spinal fusion hardware. Christian obtained blood metal lymphocyte transformation testing from Orthopedic Analysis, where testing determined he was severely allergic to the titanium alloy. Christian was able to gain the confidence of a surgeon and was able to have this fusion revised with stainless steel hardware, which contained components he did not test allergic to. All of his symptoms went away immediately with revision, then returned within months, almost as bad as the first go. Christian re-tested with Orthopedic Analysis and the new test came back showing him reactive to the new hardware. After fusion occurred the supporting hardware was removed and like the prior time, Christian experienced a large resolution of his symptoms….until slowly they returned. Christian discovered that the surgeons had utilized a large number of titanium surgical clips in the revision surgery. He is still fighting a battle to have them removed to this day. 

In this episode you will learn:

~Links and Resources~

~ Too see the images that accompany this episode, click HERE. 

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~To learn more visit ⁠HeavilyMetalled.com⁠.

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Check out the “Heavily Metalled” resource page: ⁠https://www.heavilymetalled.com/resources⁠

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Sign up for the FREE newsletter and email list on HeavilyMetalled.com & get a FREE symptoms list & next steps bundle!~Sign the petition asking medical providers and facilities to pre-screen for metal hypersensitivity here: http://tinyurl.com/2458ea8

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Follow Heavily Metalled on Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/HeavilyMetalled⁠

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Follow Heavily Metalled on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/heavilymetalled/⁠

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Subscribe to Heavily Metalled on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@HeavilyMetalled⁠

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Check out our sponsor ⁠https://melisa.org⁠

***Many WONDERFUL, supportive special-interest communities exist for metal allergies and diet, hardware issues, medical devices, etc., online and on social media. They have many resources and often act as a collective think-tank. I owe many parts of my recovery to knowledge obtained in such groups. Search keywords to join these groups and find your tribe!***