Hi. I used the foot pads a year ago, and after about2-1/2 weeks felt a great change in my mind & body - for the better. Then I quit the pads (ran out of money). A short time later, I felt awful. I consulted with a person who sells the patches (not the person I bought them from tho - different company). She said that I stirred something up and, having suddenly quit the patches, whatever I had stirred up did not have the opportunity to discharge,and therefore those toxic materials were, apparently, re-absorbed.

As to the gunk on your patch in the morning, you'll get that same gunk if you take a brand-new, fresh patch and just sprinkle a bit of water on it. The slimy sticky feel comes from certain substances (starch/dextrin) that they add to the patch.

Some brands of foot detox patches will produce little red or green spots - this is not mercury or anything else; it is the perlite that the patch contains. Not all perlite is white like the stuff you buy in a bag and add to your plant soil - there is also colourful perlite available, I am told.

So - my thinking is that whatever bad substances, incl. heavy metals, are discharged onto the patch are dissolved within the liquid on your patch. Maybe I am wrong, I don't know, but I can't deny how tremendously overall well I felt after a couple of weeks on those patches. I am still saving up for a large quantity of patches so that I can re-do this detox properly for 3 solid months.

I will add that I am not seriously ill, as some people are who have been exposed to heavy metals incl. mercury.

Boy, when I think of all the suffering in this world that is not necessary, but due to the hubris of the dental & medical "professions"...