Hi Alex, good going. I cant' really fault what you're doing, you have worked things out to what is suiting you best and what works. And your diet sounds healthy. I'd only make adjustments if you felt the bits of fruit you were adding were causing any yeast flare ups, but if not, all power to you.

As for dairy, I don't drink milk, but I do have plain acidophilus yoghurt, which seems ok for me. And occassionally I have some cheese, but probably shouldn't.

REcently, I lost it totally and snuck into my father's room, found a king sized bar of chocolate, ate the entire thing, then got a full packet of cookies (i' say cookies becuse i know american's use that term, we use the term biscuits for what you call cookies). And today, iwent to my neice's birthday and ate cake and had other things.

I totally outdid myself. Not happy, but I'm fed up with everything. However, I will not give up and will get back on track immediately.

But when I slip? I slip big. But it's not worth it really. As for DMSA? I don't know if it's coincidence, but it seems any chelation at the moment, after my recent flu virus and antibiotic use is causing more intense exhaustion, however it could be coincidence, so i'm going off it and seeing if it goes an then going back on and see if it flares up again.

anyway, thanks for letting us know how you're going on the DMSA and the help of the algin which seems to be really doing its thing! That is great.

The fact you got headaches though (before you upped the vitamin C and used the algin), does indicate things happening and detoxing, and may indicate the dose coudl be a bit high at this point, but ifyou can handle it? then no reason to reduce it. Side effects are expected but should not be totally intolerable.