Hi Linda. I really feel for you because you are just out to do the best for yourself and sometimes you dont know if you're doing good or making things worse in the process.

At least you are amalgam free. That is one thing. As for eliminating the storage of mercury, that is another. Very individual and I went through many different chelation/detoxes and mostly mobilised it wildly everywhere, got far worse, spent ages trying to recover and hope that I would come out of it better off at the end.

Well, admittedly my risks often did allow me to end up with a bit less mercury but at what cost? Alot of agony and long term aftereffects. Sometimes I could be close to suicide with chelating and my symptoms would just explode. Though I realise to get mercury out, sometimes one has to endure some of the pain because mercury is so toxic that it has to move to come out and in doing so it circulates, so our symptoms increase. It should not be done to where you are endangering yourself.

I know you would prefer to take the natural path of detox, and that is your choice. And for some that suits them very well. I think mostly that is the wise choice, but when it comes to chelating mercury itself? whether natural chelation or not, if it's done in a manner than mobilises it too much, rather than removes it, you could really have problems regardless.

I know a few on here are doing the cutler protocol and seem to be happy with it and going pretty well. I feel it's the best because of how it is done and how much study was done on it. but again you may wish to keep trying what you're doing. But yeah dont expect to feel all that great during detox regardless. and you could well be experiencing the usual worsening of symptoms during the elimination of heavy metals. It also can flare up or worsen yeast issues and people sometimes dont realise how much that comes into play with this illness and during detox and often they miss treating it and suffer far more than necessary. So yeast is essential to treat by diet and natural methods to help control symptoms and make life a bit easier.

If your body has trouble sweating, dont force it to do so. You will make yourself sick without actually helping anything. I stopped being able to sweat freely once I got very very sick and I tried to have hot baths like I used to so I could get toxins out of my skin and instead of that, I got so ill I nearly threw up. I was not eliminating a thing, rather I was stressing my system in forcing it to do something it couldn't do properly and actually doing the opposite of what I was trying to achieve. Because once I was able to eliminate mercury through the skin and handle hot baths and sweat, did not mean that it was right for me later on when I could not endure this method this time around. I had to give that up and listen to my body instead..

So I stopped doing that. I now stick to what I can handle and that is pretty much just general walking, treadmill or on the street. Nothing too strenuous, but enough to where I'm moving, getting my circulatin going and I know it's good for me. Rebounders are great, they exercise your whole system and lymph! So that combined with walking maybe wonderful for you, but again only what you can handle.

But more than that? And it can be too much for a body that is trying to concentrate on healing.

It really does depend on how far along you are and how much you can take. Taking epsom salt baths are great to aid eliminating toxins via the skin and you may sweat much easier without much effort. Or a combinating of sea salt and baking soda is excellent. If you can cope with hot baths and this, great. If you cannot cope with too hot a bath, again do not heat it too much. But the stuff in it will help regardless.

I wish there was a perfect protocol and smooth way of dealing with this toxicity but there isn't. It is usually a roller coaster ride for most people.