Hello,

 

Sorry for any grammar mistakes. I’m so itchy/in physical pain as I write this, it’s difficult to concentrate.

 

My name is James Bell.

 

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The next three paragraphs are for people that found this accidentally and wonder who I am.

 

I don’t think it’s important to add what I’ve done really however I’m a little anxious of people stumbling across this and thinking I’m some lazy guy who never tried at anything and just let my health problems control me.

 

I attempted to be a guitarist/singer/songwriter (I want to carry on trying if I get cured). I won Young Guitarist of the year when I was 13 and Nickelodeon’s Rising Star award when I was 14. With my heroes Slash and Brian May giving encouragement and sharing my work on their pages at age 13/14. Then I signed a management deal when I was 17 to work in London, LA, New York etc with producers from England, Sweden and America. Whilst I was there I signed a partnership with a record label leader who was working with the biggest artists in the world in Pop and rock. It was crazy to be there and hard to believe. I get sad if I think about it.

 

The whole time I was having problems with my skin which were commented on and I had to cover (unsuccessfully if I was at a surprise meeting) but it wasn’t until the week before a planned trip to Nashville to work with one of the biggest song writing teams in the world that it all went wrong and that’s where what I am trying to solve began. That was January 2017.

 

Some of my reason to ask for help can be seen in this video, it demonstrates why I have made this page, a lot better than anything I could write as a description of what I experience every day and night - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V5m7hRv3vo

 

It’s taken me ages to share this video because I am so embarrassed by it, it’s showing everyone I am failing in life which I’ve tried to hide… but I am desperate to find a medical professional willing to help me in a more innovative way than what I currently have available.

 

I have been suffering with pain, itches and rashes all my life. It got significantly worse at age 13.

 

We thought it would go with age as it does for the majority of kids who have rashes but each year it got worse.

 

At 16 I was diagnosed with Atopic Dermatitis by a specialist and a metal allergy via a patch test at my local hospital. He just told me to avoid guitar strings that contained that particular metal and buttons on my jeans or certain materials and canned ACIDIC vegetables like tomatoes because the metal from the can gets into the fruit/vegetable because of the acid reacting with it.

 

It got a little better by following that advice, then I got Meningitis and Neuromyelitis Optica in January 2017. I was given Prednisolone (prescription steroids) as treatment. My rashes, pain and itching deep in my skin got much better whilst I was on that treatment. I started at 120mgs and I was on them for 18 months. As the amount got lower my pain/itching got worse again.

 

Once I came off the steroids, the problems came back but even worse and have gotten worse every year since.

 

The biggest problem/pain/itch came in summer this year when I became determined to fix my health based on the past 6 years of having my career and my attempts at being in a relationship being destroyed by being sick on and off with no explanation.

 

Just before we get to that….

 

How has this affected my career and relationships

 

In 2017, 9 months after I got out of the hospital I could still not walk properly or do much without pain, I still had severe hyperacusis (pain in the ears from medium to loud sounds) and I was still on steroids that if I forgot to take….I would die. This meant I couldn’t travel out of my hometown and I could only meet people indoors in a quiet environment. I got a message off a girl who lived in my town that wanted to write some songs together and make friends because she didn’t have any because she went to school in America and was now back in England.

 

I thought this was a miracle and started visiting and did writing sessions with her at her house. I told her how I still didn’t know if I was going to die, if my month in hospital was a one time occasion and that if I forgot to have my steroids, I would die. We did all that boyfriends and girlfriends do just without the label because she said she wanted to “focus on her career”. And as I was the same that made perfect sense to me. I also took what I could knowing I could possibly still die and didn’t want to spend the last bit of my life lonely.

 

I really wanted to help her with her career, I thought it would be better to die helping someone else rather than myself and put off incredible opportunities that were offered to me (thanks to all the work I did in London and America prior to 2017) and instead spent my time trying to further hers like producing a song we wrote and making a video for it and making other videos with her. Sending everything we did to the producers I worked with in London and America but ironically it just made them want to work with me more as they were impressed with my producing and they could tell what parts I had written.

 

Once I’d finished the video and producing the song for her and I had no one else in the industry to send her songs to, she said she was no longer interested. I realised I’d been so dumb and she didn’t have the feelings she said she did it was just a way to get me to help her career.

 

She started being really nice to me again when my manager had got me another trip back to America working with bigger producers than I had before but this time I didn’t put her first but I did stay her friend.

 

Then I find out in summer of 2018 (whilst I was stuck in bed with HIVES all over my body for three months) that she’d had a secret boyfriend since one month after she met me and had been cheating on him with me (keeping us both secret from each other) for 5 months. Then carried on seeing him afterwards until she cheated on him with someone else and told him she wanted to end it once she had gotten every opportunity she could get out of him.

 

He messaged me after their split because he started to think she’d been lying about us being just friends and he was right.

 

It turns out he was a fan of mine for the last 6 years and she’d said never to message me because she completely fabricated that I’d harm myself (in the worst possible way) if he ever spoke to me saying he was her boyfriend…that was how she kept us a secret from each other. He said he didn’t talk to me because he was scared I’d come to harm and added that I was his idol since he was 14.

 

Thanks to me being so sick and unable to travel to the city (where she was studying songwriting) she was able to keep him secret knowing I’d never go there and knowing his good nature would stop him from ever talking to me because she’d said it would make me kill myself along with other lies…she could keep getting us to help her as long as she wanted.

 

She also told me she was ill and going to hospital to get treated for pains but she was actually just going for the pill it turns out.

 

I would have helped her just as a friend because I wanted to help someone before I died anyway.

 

I was 18 and naive. I never thought someone would lie about being ill to me knowing I was ill myself and waiting to find out if I was going to die. The fact I thought she was ill made me try to help her more despite everyone I was working with telling me I was wasting my time trying to get them to work with her because they said she wasn’t good enough. I certainly never could have imagined someone would say to their boyfriend “Don’t talk to this person about us being together because they’ll commit suicide if they find out because they’re “that type” “ .

 

I wish that this had taught me to not try again with anyone until I was fully in the clear with no symptoms but instead it made me think “I just need to find a good person with a conscience that’s like me and doesn’t mind being with me whilst I’m still getting better”.

 

I was trying to be positive and ironically being positive in this scenario ended badly.

 

In 2020 I decided not to ever try dating again until I was completely better and had a steady income from songwriting. It was a good decision I didn’t get hurt for the entire year and it actually had me feeling really good at the end of the year knowing I hadn’t wasted a second talking to someone who just 1. disappears to opposite end of the country, 2. Turns out to be talking to someone else or 3). realised , PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLY that they didn’t want to be with someone they couldn’t cuddle at night because he’d end up covered in rashes and need to take a cold shower to get rid of the itching. So we become friends because they need someone fit.

 

THE GIRL THAT CHANGED MY LIFE ----

 

In 2021, I met the girl though that really changed how I think and made me take action because she was incredible.

 

I could possibly have found out what I’m going to tell you below eventually without her BUT it might not have been for another three years or more so maybe I’m incredibly lucky I found her.

 

Basically I was trying to be more active online and thinking of more ways to promote my Rock album that I’d just put out. I was desperate to have an income in 2021.

 

I thought of lots of ridiculous ways to spread it. The most embarrassing way was to go on a dating app and put in my profile “if you’re dad is over 30 he’ll love my rock album”. I only had the nerve to put this because I didn’t feel like an ill, failed guitarist/songwriter was ever going to get any interest from girls so I didn’t care what anyone thought of me only that they checked out my songs.

 

I only went on occasionally just to make sure I keep appearing on people’s phone screens and hoping that they’d show me to their dads. A girl I came across on the first completely amazed me and I loved everything I saw about her. She liked rock and had a guitar in nearly all her photos and I thought maybe she writes and sings….so I hoped maybe she would be my friend. I honestly thought in reality she would just think my songs were average and wouldn’t attracted to me nor want to write.

 

I’d regret it if I didn’t try so I super liked her and to my astonishment we matched - we had both super liked each other!!! And I went a bit crazy with happiness. Then she messaged me instantly and I started running around the house and couldn’t control my happiness.

 

I was so nervous about my first message I didn’t reply for five days….then I sent her a huge message about how happy I was and how I’d reacted and why I didn’t respond because I was so nervous about what to say but then thought I might as well be honest.

 

She then didn’t reply for half a week and in that time I thought I’d obviously come off crazy but then she did…and explained the troubles that had caused her to reply slowly…and their began one of the most surreal, happiest periods of my life with coincidence after coincidence and similarity after similarity.

 

From what was happening with our families , to health problems, morals, how we dealt with death, our worries, our frustrations, the government, our childhood, our hobbies, what we loved and ran away from.

 

I had never meant to like someone again until I had some income because I’m getting older every day and running out of time to have a career in song writing but this girl made me happier than what any other success in life could make me feel and if I ever did have success….this was the girl I’d want. And she made me so sure that she didn’t care about whether I earned money or not because she so intelligent herself with a successful father guiding her that she just wasn’t worried about money at all. She said I didn’t need to worry at all about what her dad would think of me

 

Every time I tried to make myself tell her I was afraid of being in a relationship at that point (because of having less time to start a career ) she just kept giving me more reasons to love her and unable to risk it.

 

She accepted my rashes, my pain, and my hair falling out. She said she didn’t care that it made me physically unrecognisable from the way I once was because she could still see my soul. She was a blessing.

 

She said she didn’t care about making money as she just wanted someone who made her happy and she said before finding me ….she cried every night for three months and that I’d completely changed her from sad to happy and that all her friends said she was happier.

 

She kept recommending really great songs to listen to, she was so much smarter than me, she was a better singer than me, she made me laugh, she taught me a lot, she was insanely organised, and caring and empathetic. She was better than me in every way and I loved it. I was in disbelief and couldn’t believe how lucky I was. I could go on forever about all that made her amazing.

 

I was only on a vegan diet when I met her about 6 days a week but when she talked about how animals get treated… it made me realise I couldn’t not be vegan without feeling guilty.

 

My skin started getting a bit worse gradually every month once I became vegan (which I had also been for a tiny bit in 2019 but then had the odd day here and there where I would have an egg so I couldn’t say I was vegan) with these cracks on my face that I’d never had before that looked like tiny cuts done with a knife. They’d be so itchy whenever a cold air touched them.

 

I also was having a takeaway every week and realised it might not be vegan….and when I switched to the vegan version…my skin started tearing even more.

 

The more this wonderful girl learned about my health…the more she tried to help. The more research she did. Sometimes I’d load my messages to see the hours of research she’d done, everyday on people with ecxema and she’d message tons of people asking how they healed themselves then she’d tell me what was good and what wasn’t.

 

She’d send screenshots of all the replies like one from someone who told her rice was a major trigger for some people with my condition for example…so I’d cut it out…this particular change is painfully ironic and we’ll get to why later.

 

I felt loved like I could never have imagined. She put so much time trying to find the answer.

 

She said I made her want to have kids and she never wanted them before me. And she’d send photos of her crying with joy in the shops with toddler clothes in her hands. Made me so glad that someone liked me so much that they wanted children with me and wanted to get married when they never had before.

 

She asked me when the worst time of the year was and I said summer because the heat irritates my inflammation immensely and keeps me up at night. I showed her what it was liked in summer 2020 and she cried for me and said she wished she had known me for the last five years so that she could’ve been with me in the worst and distract me from the pain/itch. She promised that the coming summer she would be there every night so I wasn’t alone in pain again for another year whilst the rest of the country was sleeping.

 

She asked me the exact dates that my condition was at it’s worst and then she came up with the idea of renting somewhere in a cold and quiet place and when I told her I couldn’t afford that because I have no money nor could I get there because my eyes sting randomly everyday she said she’d sell her mothers’ ring and drive me there herself. And I would have never have accepted this of course but it really just solidify for me how amazingly kind I found her. I loved her more than I thought possible….and I hadn’t felt love like that for 7 years and every day it got more.

 

One promising point she found was that vegans who go vegan without educating themselves on dietary needs tend to be not getting enough Lysine ( a type of protein that our bodies don’t make).

 

She bought a lysine supplement for herself and she ordered it for me as well.

 

I was in an unhelpful, anxious mindset at the time. A lot was happening in life and I was very stressed failing to make an income and wanting to get away from the bad area I lived in that I didn’t read about it (the facts about lysine) much and I thought that once I had gotten rid of the stress, once I had a steady income…that the atopic dermatitis would go as it does disappear for a lot of people that eliminate stress.

 

I was also trying to reply to loads of messages from her all at once and didn’t want her to think I was ignoring her so I read everything as fast as I could. I didn’t really see that lysine was an essential amino acid that naturally in what we eat…I saw a scary pill that I just thought was another medication I’d try and it wouldn’t work.

 

I was also writing songs for her everyday because she said they made her happy distracting her from depression and because I wanted to keep her forever, I was always concentrating on that more than anything else. I also felt that with her being so much more of a catch than me….I needed to put in loads of effort otherwise I didn’t deserve her.

 

The lysine arrived and I waited four days to try it because I was scared. She said they were making her skin better. She was the smart one, she was the one with better skin and I didn’t want all her time spent helping me to be in vain and I didn’t want her to think I didn’t trust her and I was desperate not to give her reasons to walk away. If I wasn’t going to try different ways of healing then I couldn’t expect her to want to stay with me.

 

The day after I had it ….these thick, crusty, insanely-itchy scabs appeared all over my face. I didn’t want to tell her because she worried so much for me because she was so loving and I didn’t want her to be disappointed but she kept asking if I’d tried them and I told her what happened. She was very nice about it. She said don’t worry and hoped we’d find something else. Just making me love her more of course.

 

I kept telling her not to worry or stress herself and that I was certain it would all go once I was in a better situation but she is so loving and empathetic and caring that she wouldn’t stop trying to help. I felt guilty because I had done years of trying to find the answer and nothing really worked completely so I didn’t want her to waste her time too.

 

Unfortunately this is where I realised being sick is going to end a relationship 99% of the time unless you’re really lucky.

 

You either find someone who simply doesn’t care and is just happy to get you to do favours for them (whatever kind of favours they may be), you get the ones who see you as the happy, singing-boy but then don’t want to witness what you deal with mostly in secret OR you get precious beings like the girl that blessed my life in 2021 that love, love, love…. help, help, help….. and worry, worry, worry until they love you so much that they can’t deal with the worry they have for you , themselves and the rest of their struggling family combined.

 

They will tell you their dad has found out about you and doesn’t want their daughter to be in a relationship let alone with someone in a worse situation than themselves. They tell you they don’t think they’re gonna make the money they were going to make when they met you before because in reality the job they were trying for was just to please their dad so they have lost all confidence that they can afford a living for themselves let alone with someone who is struggling to work.

 

They will tell you they’ve been crying all week and love you so much but feel like everything is going wrong and they want to never speak to their friends again because their friends abandoning them in nightclubs and never make plans with her unless it’s to get a her to drive them. They will tell you can’t deal with a relationship currently and just want to concentrate on their job and working out what they want in life and feel lost and that they don’t want to be a burden to you. No matter how much you tell them they aren’t a burden but actually the best part of your life it won’t make a difference sadly.

 

They will finish with you exactly a month after your birthday (and exactly when you said you’d need them most and be facing the worst pain) so every time it gets to the 7th of the month you will remember…oh it’s another month exactly since she ended it with me and won’t be able to stop hurting for the day…like I will be tomorrow. January 7th and I only just realised that because I was writing this. Dang.

 

It will hurt very bad.

 

They will then talk with as little words as possible until you realise you’re actually their burden and give up.

 

Then she/he’ll be with the friends he/she said she/he hated and made her/him feel sad and in danger for the last ten weeks of the relationship.

 

And then she/he will reappear months later on the exact days you said the pain subsides and you won’t need the help anymore and it will make you wonder if you’re actually alive at all or just imagining all that is happening because the chances for each detail to be perfectly occurring at the exact worst time feel like they can’t not have been planned.

 

Suddenly your dad’s laughable stories about points of life working out to go perfectly wrong all together almost as if some one is playing a trick on you will stop being laughable and start being relatable. But you can’t go tell him because there’s literally thousands of details and conversations all working together to make this as emotionally painful as it can possibly be.

 

And you’ll wonder if she/he realises they left at the exact time you said you’d be in the worst pain of the year and came back at the exact time when you said you’d be fine or if it was just some extremely ridiculous and unlucky coincidence?

 

And you try to believe that she just forgot in all her stress and worry but even if she did you’ll then just be lost at how life itself can work in such a way.

 

And you won’t be able to work on any songs the entire summer because everything you wrote about for the last five months was her and it all just keeps reminding you of her and puts you in emotional pain. You will try to carry on but in all your recordings you can hear the extreme depression in your voice.

 

You will be in the shower at 5am every single summer night scraping the horrible itchy clumps of rash off your face after your five hour walk from 10pm - 3am kept it cold and itch-free but then the itch came back again 90 minutes after being in the house. You will be in chronic pain and itch and freezing cold in the shower water that you can’t have hot and all that will be echoing in your mind as you try not to cry (because crying makes the inflammation worse ) is - “she said she’d be here”. But you’re alone. And it’s worse than last year because you have the physical pain and the mental sadness thinking about the person you lost.

 

You will get no rest and it will be one hour away from when the speeding cars on the main road you live next to start ending your chance of any sleep at all.

 

You’ll think endlessly about how you always feared this was going to happen and that the promises they made were impossible to keep and it made you nervous whenever they made them but a small part of you wanted to believe you’d see them fulfilled and now you feel so silly for that little part of you that believed because that’s the part of you that’s hurting most.

 

The summer will be randomly (and LUCKILY) cold after years of increasing heat but you end up getting no work done anyway because in pain, itching, and you’re so sad and lost wondering where you went wrong with this amazing girl to make her delete almost every promise she ever made.

 

AND THAT IS WHERE I DECIDED TO MAKE A CHANGE AND PRIORITISE MY HEALTH.

 

When I realised someone caring and loving would eventually be exhausted and rather spend time with friends that leave them alone in a “dodgy night club” (as she would say) that she said mainly only invite her out so they don’t have pay for a taxi or if she asks them first…than being with someone as sick as me (and she never saw the worst of my symptoms) that she said did every right and made her so happy and want to live again and distracted her from depression….I realise I HAVE to get rid of my sickness and I HAVE to get an income otherwise my chances at finding and keeping love are none.

 

Next time someone like her comes along… I want to be ready and I don’t want to be a problem for them. I want to be their happiness without also giving them a burden because I think I may still be with the girl I loved if I’d not been so ill.

 

So whilst searching for a screenshot about atopic dermatitis in my inbox with my mum I found the screenshot about Lysine.

 

This time I read it properly as I wish I had when she sent it.

 

Thanks to that, I discovered my diet was lacking in protein (below 50 grams a day) particularly the amino acid Lysine (one of the 9 essential proteins) just as this girl had said might be a possibility …I thought that was causing my skin randomly tear apart and not heal so I started researching what was high in protein and taking Lysine the supplements again.

 

This was chickpeas, black beans, any concentrated soy products, peanuts, almonds, walnuts, lentils, pumpkin seeds, tofu, buckwheat, bulgar wheat, hemp seeds, fortified cereals…my cracks started to heal at first…and the scabs came again but I realised that was actually the skin healing (so if I’d stuck with the tablets in the first place I’d have found out what was the main problem so much quicker).

 

But then the painful rash got stuck into this much worse, much itchier, much more painful state stopping from getting no more than 4 hours sleep, a horrendous cycle that I am stuck in and need a doctor or the like to help me break out of.

 

It was only because of the extreme change in my diet that I started thinking my problems were all down to an allergy to what I had eaten and I remembered that I had the Cobalt allergy (I say remembered because once I had changed my guitar strings and other physical products when I was 16…I never thought about it again…my guitar strings are repeat orders and I haven’t bought any clothes since I was 18 so hadn’t thought about my allergy since then).

 

Even when I was in hospital at 18 when the nurses asked if I had any allergies…we would laugh together when I said the metal because this metal wasn’t in any medicines they planned to give me of course.

 

Little did any of us know it’s in what we eat so when I lost 10kg in 7 seven whilst at the hospital ….having tons of extra fat chocolate (all chocolate being high in the metal I’m allergic to ) made for hospital patients needing to gain weight was dangerous for me but the steroids stopped a reaction. (Ironically almost everything else I had at hospital had only small amounts of cobalt except for beans and sweet potatoes which will helped).

 

All of these dietary products that I started all at once to get more plant-based protein contained high amounts of the metal that I am allergic to because it is absorbed from the soil.

 

Generally the higher the surface area of the plant-based product, the higher the amount of the metal.

 

This means leafy greens too are high in it so Vitamin K is also hard to get if you want to also get enough protein and vitamin E. People with a systematic/dietary metal allergy can’t achieve the recommended daily intake on all vitamins, minerals and macronutrients without going over their limit of how much of the metal they can take which leads to other health problems.

 

And Cocoa powder is among the highest offender….so all chocolate is out (I don’t find that a problem as it is not something I need ((but I really love it and miss it I can’t lie)) but I am adding it so everyone knows as this allergy can develop at any point and I know some people would hate to develop a condition that means they can’t have any chocolate containing products ever again).

 

It’s also in our water supply !! If someone could a suggest a way or a product to distil Cobalt from tap water that would be so helpful!!

 

It’s important to add that the same week I added all these high protein foods I had a jar of natural “fruit sugar” chocolate sauce on the same day …and I hadn’t had any cocoa products for 3 years before that. I made so many changes in one week all to what I’m allergic to and I wish I’d known before hand but maybe on the positive side I’d have never found out that it was in my diet if I hadn’t made the drastic diet change and then gotten so much worse three days into the healthier diet.

 

If it grows underground then it is more likely to be high on the list of what is going to cause a reaction in me because it’s absorbed from soil. I am safer in some cases if I peel the vegetable and/only eat the centre.

 

I plan to make a video about this metal and all the products that contain it. I would like someone to help me go through the list of what I can eat and create the healthiest possible diet that has the least COBALT content.

 

It makes it impossible to get all the vitamins and minerals i need without eating a high amount of what I'm allergic to. Especially when the formula of B12 raising tolerance to cobalt for those who are diagnosed as allergic to it really needs to become common practice because if you have it…it’s very hard to meet your dietary needs without becoming sick.

 

If I avoid B12, I become unable to think at all so I can’t do my work. I have no memory which severely affects my song writing and guitar playing. I become weak and tired but the rashes, pain and itch get much less and my eyes stop stinging! If I eat any products fortified with B12 (like many types of cereal for example) then my memory comes back and my brain fog gets less, I get stronger and have more energy but the rash and itch becomes insane. I have a bad time either way. That’s what makes this allergy very different to manage than others.

 

My eyes stung for three hours on and off everyday for 10 months…once I found out about Cobalt being in my diet and eating less cobalt…it stopped. The next day. It was crazy. The amount of suffering that could have been avoided if I’d known.

 

The itching and pain on my skin is harder to get rid of unfortunately.

 

What’s more is that ANYONE can develop this at any stage of their life!

 

Metal allergies are more common in Women (particularly in the first years of permanently wearing a wedding ring) (and men that wear jewellery), people who work with metals all day or touch metal all day (like guitarists), and vegans/vegetarians ( higher chance for vegans) but can be likely to develop in those that eat lots of organ meats particularly liver (because the cobalt hasn’t yet been removed out of the animals’ body yet).

 

And it varies depending on where you live as some areas have more cobalt content in the soil, it also depends on what the farmer uses to treat the soil.

 

Interesting facts are that Iron and Vitamin C help to block the absorption of Cobalt. Fibre helps to get it out of the body faster. Unfortunately, it helps a little but doesn’t solve the problem and supplements are often contaminated with Cobalt themselves. Cobalt and Nickel continuation isn’t tested for in supplements like other heavy metals…this needs to change. My life would be very different if I could buy supplements that were tested as Cobalt free.

 

So if you help me get better, raise awareness, get the treatment to become globally available then you're also potentially HELPING YOURSELF for what might come, or a family member whether they’re already alive or yet to be born.

 

And you will be helping animals and the environment for many reasons. Which is why I think curing this, should be a topic talked about by everyone because it affects us all.

 

I don’t want people to suffer like I have with their career destroyed, unable to have a relationship and their life forever changed.

 

If I get better and find a doctor that helps to raise my intolerance so the pain and itching stops, I want to start a charity to help others get rid of this much quicker than I have… and get the treatment available to all countries and hospitals.

 

It was cured first in a private clinical study in 2012 in America for many patients however the leader of that study has passed away and trying to find someone else that will try the treatment with me is what is costing money and taking time.

 

 

 

My questions/requests/points-

 

1. Firstly, I need to get into contact with the secondary doctor on the study that details a cure for the Cobalt allergy I have. He worked in El Paso, Texas. He is currently a military physician so he's not in America right now which makes him very difficult to contact but someone from TEXAS/America may know him and be able to get in touch with him. All I want to know is the exact treatment his team gave to the patients on the study that were cured of their reactions to Cobalt. I want to be respectful and not put his name on here, I would prefer to privately message or email his name and profile to anyone that thinks they may know him.

 

2. I need to find a doctor that can work with me via video calls that can send the prescription I need.

 

3. I need to find someone/a society that can test products for the amount of the Cobalt they contain. There is hardly any data. If I could test what is available locally it would help me create the diet that has the least amount of Cobalt without this tricky trial and error.

 

4. I would like some advice on how to write to the government on the severe lack of care on how much of this element (and other metals that people have reactions with) is absorbed (from the soil) by the mainly plant-based products we eat.

 

5. I would also like to add in my letter to those in charge of global health that allergy to Cobalt is extremely dangerous because of the fact it makes up a part of a Vitamin that is essential for us to stay alive. It is an ESSENTIAL TRACE ELEMENT. Metal allergies are becoming more common each year. People becoming allergic to an element they need is not a good circumstance for our species.

 

It's important to get the cure commonly treated quickly rather than when it becomes a widespread problem. Many of our leaders have a tendency to act very late causing needless global pandemics that there were many warning signs and alerts for…lets avert this problem so we don’t have a panic in later decades.

 

6. I want to find a professional willing to study the lists (containing data of the amount of Cobalt listed in each product) of what I can eat with the least chance of reaction and help me eat the healthiest diet possible that gets as much of all the daily RDI’s as possible whilst having the least amount of Cobalt and the least amount of histamine.

 

7. In my opinion, it should be law that companies test their products for Cobalt and Nickel for the good of all of us not just those with allergies. I need help in trying to get this to happen…after all many people who have this allergy could have developed it from taking a supplement that has large amount of cobalt/nickel because it’s untested for.

 

I would love if the awareness and treatment for the allergy that I have could become common practice before more people end up suffering like me with hardly anyone alive that knows how to help.

 

Any donations will be going towards private hospital appointments, travel costs, (potentially) flights to and stays in Texas/America or wherever there is a doctor that will treat me, testing of contents of my diet for Cobalt via paid tests done by labs, international prescription postage/phone calls.

 

My dermatologist told me best drug (whilst I still can’t tolerate cobalt) for me is 17,000GBP per year so I can end my suffering instantly or I have to wait half a year to get it through the NHS but I could get a fatal infection during the wait.

 

I doubt I’ll get enough to pay for that which is why I appreciate any help in any way.

 

Thank you for reading!

 

James Bell