If you've had experience with a combination of these things, all at one time, please would you write a word about it?

I ask because about two months ago I was feeling so not well that I finally went to the dentist, yes, Dentist.

He took x rays, looked very worried, said I had "bone loss" and sent me to a Periodontist.

The Periodontist had a set of questions to answer before seeing him, and one of them was, "Do you have bumps on your neck?"

I did, and never thought much of them. I sort of assumed they were from not eating enough fresh fruit and veg.

But no. Apparently they can be related to an infection. In my case, my gums have grown over my dental implants, totally covering them, and the infection is eating into my bone.

The infection is why I am so tired so much of the time; it is why my eyes burn (because I'm feverish), and it's apparently the cause of the bumps on my neck.

I learned something else from the Periodontist that I thought was very VERY interesting, and that's that when someone takes a lot of Ibuprofen, it affects the bone.

I was taking quite a lot for a year, 600gm 3 or 4 times a day. And then for another year I was taking less, but still a lot.

I'm not sure Ibuprofen affects all bone, of if it's just that in the jaws, or maybe it's only the jaw bone when there are implants involved.

But in any case, I have to have surgery to remove the bad, infected bone, and then a graft.

Okay... so that really scared me. I realized that I hadn't been taking magnesium as much as I used to... and I was sorry that I had stopped consistently taking magnesium since magnesium is very good for bone.

In an attempt to improve I got into a routine of taking magnesium, a multi, Milk Thistle, Lecithin, alpha lipoic acid... and Ta Da, Whey amino acid powder. I took the lot of these three or four times a day.

My hope was that I could strengthen the bone a bit before surgery.

Well... something surprising happened. It turns out that since I've been taking these things every day, I've had a lot of improvement with my nerves.

I'm someone who's big on B12. I know that B12 in its methylcobalamin form restores nerves. I've kept records, and I have seen it do amazing things.

For instance, I've had tetanus and I used to have just horrid peripheral neuropathy; as a result I had a B12 shot a day for quite a few months. That's when I had significant improvement with my peripheral neuropathy. (It's pretty much totally gone now. Except when there's massive stress.)

Stress is a big problem for me. I don't handle stress very well, and it tends to make my tetanus symptoms come back -- by that I mean, tight muscles, a sort of wriggling worm feeling in my abdomen, pain...

Even a little stress could cause me to be bent over again.

However, since I've been having the amino acids it seems as if my nerves remain "healed" for longer, and stand up to more stress.

I'm not in perfect health now, by any means. And it's not completely simple because I've also been sleeping longer and more deeply since I've added these supplements to my daily routine. So I'm sure the added sleep is helping in the healing. (Ever since I had tetanus I've always been the best in the morning, after sleeping. So I'm sure that's from the restorative powers of sleep.)

This is a bit of a jumble, I know. But I wanted to write about how my teeth were making me sick... and I was wrongly thinking that my problem was that my tetanus was not going completely away. (The tetanus symptoms weren't going completely away, but I think that's because of the infection.)

It's two more months till the surgery... I opted for later rather than earlier so as to hopefully build the strength of the bone up a bit.

Before the surgery there will be more x rays. When there's a second set I'll be able to see if there is bone improvement. (I think there is, because the "abscess feeling" I used to have on the roof of my mouth is pretty infrequent now.)

What this has made me wonder, is, How much of our illnesses are a result of poor nutrition?

I used to never be able to afford protein foods, and ate a lot of the cheaper things.

I wonder if I'd been able to afford the protein (amino acids) from the beginning, if I'd have recovered completely by now. (Tetanus is supposed to be an illness you recover from completely, if it doesn't kill you.) As it is, I've been sick for over two years.

Plus, I feel as if I may be losing weight... but I hate weighing myself, so it's only a feeling at this point.


Have you experienced any of these things??????

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