I started myself and my grandmother on protocol 1000 and we're partly in 1000+. The problem is, she has dementia. It makes this whole thing about 1000% more difficult when it comes to her dosage. I've taken her off all her meds except thyroid pill once we got out of the start-up phase. We're almost to 2 drops per hour every hour (right now, it's 1.5 drops for 2 hours and 2 drops for 6 hours) and 1 drop DMSO 4-6 of the hours (I started the DMSO before we got to 3 drops of MMS every hour because her circulation is so poor). We did four days of the clay protocol. The first day, every other MMS and clay, but the MMS drops, which work much better than her water pill at keep fluid from building up around her heart, weren't doing much at 4 doses, so on day 2, she took the full 8 hours of MMS plus the four doses of clay. Now, we do a dose of clay in the morning and one of an evening. I'm also trying to build up the use of virgin coconut oil. I read online to do 2 tablespoons three times per day. But since coconut oil is a natural laxative, we're only at a teaspoon every other day because the MMS and or DMSO gives her the poops of an evening at times.
I'm at a loss. She cannot tell me how her body feels. She can say she doesn't feel well, and it could means she's sick at her stomach, her bowels are upset... Or she could mean she is confused, she's sleepy, anything really. She has always had high blood pressure. There for a few weeks the drops were keeping her blood pressure around 130/80. Still a tad high, but it isn't the 160-170 systolic she would be at without meds. However, for the past couple days, even on the MMS and DMSO, her blood pressure has been getting that high. I take her blood pressure a few times throughout out the day. I make sure to only take it when she is at rest and hasn't been up and walking around.
Also, I think the dementia has gone so far enough that it's affecting her taste/ The only thing she willing would eat were cookies and sweets (I add protein powder to the cookies so she will get something). I was giving her a multivitamin for elderly, but the book said to lay off supplements. So, I stopped that once we got out of the start-up phase. Well, I completely lost whatever small taste I had for sweets on these drops. I think she has, too. That means, she won't eat anything. I try to get her to eat regular food and tantrums start up. She'll maybe take a bite of a cookie, but set it down because it doesn't taste good anymore.
She isn't late stage dementia. Sometimes she has her typical old 12 year-old boy sense of humor, she can still recognize me as long as she isn't mad. She can still interact with her surroundings although she can't always identify objects. She can still interact with me as long as the topics aren't too complex or the length of conversation too long. She is still mostly in control of her bladder and bowels. She has forgotten a lot of the past 30 or so years and is confusing her memories. That's all just background to get an idea of where she is. She gets angry easily because she doesn't like being told what to do. And I'm trying to keep that stress to a minimum so her BP doesn't skyrocket.
I'm just concerned with the vitals I'm recording, the high blood pressure, the eating even less, and she's been sleeping more (She sleeps about 12-14 hours at night, but then she's starting taking naps during the day which are lasting longer and longer or are more frequent). I'm toggling back and forth between 1/1.5/2 drops of MMS per hour and .5/1 drops DMSO every other hour to ever hour. I feel like I'm at a loss. I'm doing all the same protocols she is on so I can get a feel for how she could be feeling, but I always feel fine. So, it's a difference in how our bodies are reacting to it. It's been almost three weeks since we finished the 4 day start-up. It seems that any time I have tried 2 drops for the full 8 hours, her bowels turn to water that evening, even if she hasn't had to the coconut oil. So, I'll toggle the MMS, but then maybe the next evening, same reaction with less MMS, so I'll change the DMSO. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. But it's been a solid four days that her BP has always read very high all day. I read the book. It's difficult because she can't tell me how she is feeling. This is the second stint on the drops. We went three weeks last time before I decided she needed a break because she kept getting diarrhea that wouldn't quit (That one was my fault because I jumped right in at 3 drops of DMSO per drop of MMS). The first time through, the drops managed her BP well. It's not doing so well this time and I haven't done anything different besides easing into the DMSO this time.
Anything helps. Thank you all so much.
