HI, sounds like you got a good plan. That sounds pretty basic/safe to me. AT least it's a good place to start and later on, as you are able, you might be able to use direct chelating agents to grab the mercury and remove it.

lol yeah I'll try to remember I'm not nuts <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> But yes, I do think that because I ask so many questions, the dentist does get put off and perhaps thinks I'm a bit neurotic and not someone he wishes to take onboard. But as you said, in the past, I did so many things without proper thought or preperation and that has done so much damage to me, that now of course, I go the other way to try and ensure I'm as careful as I can be. They do not seem to like that and make it most difficult. Not sure why!

About your removal/detox plan - only go at a pace that's right for you. Yeah, diet is definitely essential. it's more important than the supplements, because without it? It's likely the supplements won't do much good if any, as often if we have candida bad enough, we won't absorb nutrients properly anyway.

I'm on the diet, which I think is all i can do at the moment, because I'm trying to prepare myself for possible dental work soon and often if I meddle too much other than diet, i can end up making things far worse. So I'm scared to do much else. It sometimes does help. I take supplements and apparently some of the best are basic vitamin C, selenium, vitamin E, milk thistle, undenatured whey, - all for increasing glutathione levels in teh body, which is how we eliminate toxins and metals.
And B complex and minerals and a fish oil (mercury free), plus dietry fats and of course the no sugar candida diet.

I haven't got all the supplements, mainly it's the diet with the recommended fats. I am getting my existing composites replaced again with a new material. They are old/shrinking and apparently they are not compatible with me anyway...how true that is, or how much of a difference if/when they are replaced remains to be seen. I don't hold out much hope, as I feel a lot of my issues are more infection related and the lowered immunity from that area. But the materials are old, I pretty much have to do it anyway. I'm scared because any dental office visit, especially combined with dental work/anaesthetic can be totally and utterly devastating to me, so I am frankly scared. I dont know what to expect and I know what's happened every other time...so all I can do is try and use the diet to boost myself and that's it.

I hope your removal and everything goes as well as possible for you. There is no sure thing, but at least we're trying.