Be 98.5% Sure You Have CIRS!
Spend $15 and be 98.5% sure your have Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (AKA Mold Illness) before investing in a full medical work up?! Sounds too good to be true, but thanks to laptops making the Visual Contrast Sensitivity (VCS) test widely accessible, this is a reality. What is the Visual Contrast Sensitivity test? The VCS test was developed by a neurotoxicologist and originally used in the military. It was later adapted by Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker to determine biotoxin exposure in those challenged with CIRS or mold illness. You can take the VCS test from the comfort of your own home with a computer or laptop. It costs $15 and takes about 15 minutes to complete. You will need to wear glasses or contacts if you typically wear these. You will need to be sure to take the test in a well lit room. You will need a ruler or tape measure to be sure you are sitting a certain distance from the computer screen. A "fail" of the VCS test indicates a biotoxin is affecting your optic nerve and impairing your ability to see subtle shades of gray normally. Do take the test through Dr. Shoemaker's website Surviving Mold at the following link- https://www.survivingmold.com/store/online-vcs-screening. Unfortunately, I don't find the free VCS test to be accurate. This is a "you get what you pay for" situation in which we want to be working with accurate data. Regardless of its $15 price tag, I find the VCS to be one of the best medical bargains on the market.
When taking the test, you will also be asked about possible environmental exposures and symptoms. If you test "positive" for symptom clusters AND you have a "fail" of the VCS test, this means there is a 98.5% chance your blood work will reflect a CIRS diagnosis. CIRS care is expensive, so before taking the leap, why not see if you are likely to receive a CIRS diagnosis?!
I should be sure to say that a small percentage of people can pass the VCS test despite having CIRS. These people have greater visual acuity than the average bear. They are often younger, female, and/or artistic. If you have a positive symptom cluster and a failed VCS, I still think it may be worth a full CIRS workup to rule out CIRS as a root cause for your suffering. If nothing else, you've ticked it off your list. Better to treat CIRS early in the disease process than after decades of health gone missing.
Begin to rule out CIRS as your root cause today-
Take the VCS test- https://www.survivingmold.com/store/online-vcs-screening
Find a Shoemaker trained medical provider- https://www.survivingmold.com/shoemaker-protocol/list-of-certified-practitioners
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You can read about CIRS Shoemaker Protocol starting from the beginning at Step #1 here.
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Read about Dr. Sparks’s healing her chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS) and how that connects to EM here.
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