Hi Alison, you'd have been exposed to a massive amount of mercury vapor during removal. Even with protection, it's not always avoidable and can make a person feel much worse.

If mercury is what it is? You will start to improve. It's when you have too many issues in the body at once, that you can be in big trouble if your body cannot concentrate on detoxing mercury from too many other health challenges.

Make sure you're on a good candida diet. This can take some load off your gut and liver and encourage your body to eliminate and heal.

Consider mercury chelation to try and reduce the mercury that will be probably rampaging through your system after all this. Diet would be the first thing I'd do at this point, or at any point. No sugar, no yeast, no gluten grains, preferably no milk or fruit due to natural sugars (potatoes also) and concentrate on vegetables, meats, eggs, some raw nuts (almonds, brazil), acidophilus plain yoghurt etc and no tea or coffee, herb tea is ok, water etc.

It sounds plain and very boring, but when you reach a point of being so ill, sometimes it can be theonly thing to hold you remotely together. It's not a cure for many of us who are just too toxic, but it can help.

Supplements I'd get woudl be vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc, B complex, magnesium, milk thistle can help the liver. But use small amounts so as not to overhwelm your system.

I'd also take hot baths, and use epsom salts or sea salt and baking soda. Have it hot to where you can still tolerate the heat, not to where you feel faint, but enough to get your body temperature up and the epsom salts, or the baking soda and sea salt should encourage sweating and eliminating of some toxins via the pores of your skin. You can rinse or shower off afterwards.

Sounds plain and simple, but those are the basics. Not sure what else to suggest.