I’ve posted previously about my issues with possible molybdenum-induced copper deficiency and it’s impact on my blood vessels, but things aren’t really getting better for me and my insurance isn’t letting me see a doctor until august so I’m pretty desperate for advice. I’ve pored over tons of studies about copper, hormones, endothelial tissue, viral infections etc which are all likely relevant to my situation but I would like to have an outside perspective.
Summary of events: in 2019 (I was a 30 y.o woman) I was eating a basically zero pufa diet with tons of carbs and coconut oil while also taking molybdenum which was giving me a huge boost in energy and mood seemingly from the improved liver detox. This was a month long experiment that ended when I suddenly began to experience numerous blue veins, many of which were bulging, mainly in my feet and hands and a few in my temples. I also had severe fatigue and seemingly low hormones-my skin got very dry, I felt tired and sexless. I eventually assumed this was copper related and just kind of took a ton of chelated copper for like a year and things stopped getting worse even though I didn’t have improvement in the veins. I got into a happy relationship and just generally felt more optimistic and continued testing different diets to correct my mast cell problems and histamine intolerance which is really the genesis of all of this health experimentation.
Fast toward to last winter I was going through extreme stress and depression. Since the copper hadn’t helped the veins repair, and I hadn’t been able to find one other person for whom molybdenum had this effect despite scouring the internet, and I had periodically taken a little molybdenum here and there without incident, I decided to take it for a couple days to get me through this because it seriously SILENCES depression for me. Well, that was a fatal error that has basically been the nail in the coffin for my body. Since then my veins have gotten worse, and worse, and worse, and seemingly no matter what I do and what I take it makes them just get worse even faster. I’ve tried every vitamin and mineral under the sun one at a time and they always trigger worse symptoms except copper and boron. Vitamin C causes massive escalation of the problem. My feet and hands look TERRIBLE from the veins, but it’s weird because my skin (face and body) looks young and has no wrinkles, sag, hyperpigmentation, I always shock people with my age (now 33). This makes me wonder if it’s something about endothelial tissue specifically and not collagen in general. I have both bulging veins and spider veins, and the situation is all over my body. The veins aren’t even properly varicose becuase they aren’t twisted or concentrated in high pressure areas.
I also had the pfizer vaxx last summer and it triggered a severe Epstein Barr reactivation (I just kept being sick from the vaccine until I went in and got diagnosed with mono) that I think may have primed my body for a worse reaction to the copper chelation 6 months later. I also know that some people with post-vaxx issues experience endothelial problems and bulging veins, and it’s also a Covid thing (to my knowledge I never got Covid)
TLDR
What would you do to soothe endothelial tissue? I react very badly to anything that chelates copper or blocks estrogen directly. I can’t tolerate progesterone, vitamin A, vitamin C, B1, or big dosages of anything really. Vitamin E seems to cause problems related to low estrogen. Whenever I take something like vitamin E I become emotionless and classically low estrogen and then new veins appear. Copper, boron and B2 seem helpful. I haven’t really tried niacinamide yet, it doesn’t seem like that is too aggressively anti aromatase or anything like that? I’m thinking that in addition to copper there is something like tissue hypoxia I need to overcome. Undereating and adrenaline make the problem way worse. (Although adrenaline tricks me into thinking it’s getting better by shrinking them temporarily before another big collapse) Histamine also makes it worse and I do have MCAS. I just don’t know how to approach this anymore and I’m getting very scared and overwhelmed by this bizarre problem. Thank you
Summary of events: in 2019 (I was a 30 y.o woman) I was eating a basically zero pufa diet with tons of carbs and coconut oil while also taking molybdenum which was giving me a huge boost in energy and mood seemingly from the improved liver detox. This was a month long experiment that ended when I suddenly began to experience numerous blue veins, many of which were bulging, mainly in my feet and hands and a few in my temples. I also had severe fatigue and seemingly low hormones-my skin got very dry, I felt tired and sexless. I eventually assumed this was copper related and just kind of took a ton of chelated copper for like a year and things stopped getting worse even though I didn’t have improvement in the veins. I got into a happy relationship and just generally felt more optimistic and continued testing different diets to correct my mast cell problems and histamine intolerance which is really the genesis of all of this health experimentation.
Fast toward to last winter I was going through extreme stress and depression. Since the copper hadn’t helped the veins repair, and I hadn’t been able to find one other person for whom molybdenum had this effect despite scouring the internet, and I had periodically taken a little molybdenum here and there without incident, I decided to take it for a couple days to get me through this because it seriously SILENCES depression for me. Well, that was a fatal error that has basically been the nail in the coffin for my body. Since then my veins have gotten worse, and worse, and worse, and seemingly no matter what I do and what I take it makes them just get worse even faster. I’ve tried every vitamin and mineral under the sun one at a time and they always trigger worse symptoms except copper and boron. Vitamin C causes massive escalation of the problem. My feet and hands look TERRIBLE from the veins, but it’s weird because my skin (face and body) looks young and has no wrinkles, sag, hyperpigmentation, I always shock people with my age (now 33). This makes me wonder if it’s something about endothelial tissue specifically and not collagen in general. I have both bulging veins and spider veins, and the situation is all over my body. The veins aren’t even properly varicose becuase they aren’t twisted or concentrated in high pressure areas.
I also had the pfizer vaxx last summer and it triggered a severe Epstein Barr reactivation (I just kept being sick from the vaccine until I went in and got diagnosed with mono) that I think may have primed my body for a worse reaction to the copper chelation 6 months later. I also know that some people with post-vaxx issues experience endothelial problems and bulging veins, and it’s also a Covid thing (to my knowledge I never got Covid)
TLDR
What would you do to soothe endothelial tissue? I react very badly to anything that chelates copper or blocks estrogen directly. I can’t tolerate progesterone, vitamin A, vitamin C, B1, or big dosages of anything really. Vitamin E seems to cause problems related to low estrogen. Whenever I take something like vitamin E I become emotionless and classically low estrogen and then new veins appear. Copper, boron and B2 seem helpful. I haven’t really tried niacinamide yet, it doesn’t seem like that is too aggressively anti aromatase or anything like that? I’m thinking that in addition to copper there is something like tissue hypoxia I need to overcome. Undereating and adrenaline make the problem way worse. (Although adrenaline tricks me into thinking it’s getting better by shrinking them temporarily before another big collapse) Histamine also makes it worse and I do have MCAS. I just don’t know how to approach this anymore and I’m getting very scared and overwhelmed by this bizarre problem. Thank you
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