Laurie,

Your post said that you were taking 2000mg of magnesium. Did you mean 200mg? If so, you need a lot more than that to counteract the effects of the mercury. Stop taking the calcium for a while (if not forever). If you are deficient in mg, then your deficiency will just get worse if you are taking calcium because you must have magnesium to process calcium. If you don't have enough, it will pull mg from the bones to try and process it and then will deposit it in soft muscle tissue which causes you to become very stiff and achey. A friend of mine was so bad off, but didin't want to stop her calcium because her dr. told her she "had" to take it for her bones. When she finally got so bad that I convinced her to try it , she improved. Same with my mother. Her bone scans show no more bone loss (much to her dr.'s dismay-he has a new drug he wanted to put her on) even though she hasn't taken calcium in about 2 years. The whole calcium thing is way off the mark.