Bex,

Thanks for the info. You are so right with the "damned if you do and damned if you don't"....with health problems like we have, it seems impossible to "win."

I am still regarding EDTA with caution, and if and when my doctor does advise using it, I will find out which kind of EDTA it is that he uses. It's possible that the people who had bad reactions was because they used the form of EDTA that used to be used, and not the kind that this article distinguishes from it. Or maybe they did use the kind this article claims is great and had a bad response....I think you made a good point that different people, with varying body chemistries, will respond differently. So it's hard to say. I wish there was one cure-all method to use, making our lives so much easier, but there isn't. And doing the research, and finding arguments on both sides, can be quite frustrating.

Along the same lines, I also feel like I need to actually spend the money and get some testing done to find out what all is affecting my health and what the extent of each problem is. Because it's so easy for me to find one thing that seems to explain everything, and then find out that it isn't the case. For instance, I spent close to 3 years treating candida, before I realized that mercury was probably the underlying cause and the reason why I couldn't get well, no matter how good I was with the crazy strict diet or natural antifungals. And now that I am looking at the mercury issue, my doctor is having me treat adrenal and thryoid issues first. I should say "support", not treat, as I know I can't fully treat them with the mercury still there. There are so many issues that are interlinked. And from the readings, it does appear that mercury is the root cause of all of them. But I'm trying to remain open, and not assume that the mercury issue is the answer to everything for me. I did that with the candida, and after years of hard work, found out that wasn't the case. And while I do think all of my health issues stem from mercury, I'm just trying to keep in mind that there is a chance that something in addition to that is at play, and not to put all of my hopes and efforts into this one thing. Part of it is to protect myself maybe from getting my hopes up too much, and I guess part of it is realistic. I was so incredibly excited when I first read about candida and was diagnosed, because it explained what I had, and simply by giving me that diagnosis, insinuated that I could get well through treating the candida. And the same thing happened when I finally made the connection to the mercury. Again, I still think it's likely the root of it all...but I don't want to get too hopeful or not look at the whole picture. I think I may be rambling, but I hope I make sense. This isn't even on the topic of the EDTA, but I guess it was on my mind, so I had to wirte it down! Can anyone relate?

~Tia