LOL, yeah Linda you can't win!!! If it's any consolation I like both pics!!!!

Well, my diet is good if only I would stick to it for long enough to yield results and then once I got to that point, to actually "sustain" it and not go off and eat something and sabbotage it all. I have a real addiction problem with sugar, so I relate completely to what you are saying.
candida diet was the only relief I got with symptoms aside from mercury chelation. So only you will be able to tell what helps. Also, you have to be on this diet for weeks before you'll know whether it's really going to help, or whether there is more to it and on top of that you can get worse before you get better. But the problem is obviously mercury which unfortunately allows yeast to overgrow, so we struggle wtih that plus the cravings and then the feelings of being deprived at the sametime when we try and stick to this diet as well as suffering symptoms. So it can indeed increase the feelings of depression and deprivation. My hope is that if I hang on long enough, maybe I'll get some improvement.....

The diet should help, but sometimes if the other toxicity is bad enough you may not notice much benefits from diet until that toxicity has been eliminated. So hard to know what is doing what and how to deal with it.

Well, my supplements are mainly the following (when I take them). Halibut oil (for vitamin A and some D), B complex, vitamin C (lab quality powder one), vitamin E, magnesium, calcium, milk thistle and omega 3 fish oil and sometimes selenium and I am about to get some zinc. Apparently that is a pretty important one to get. Main thing is replacing the antioxidants because mercury or other toxicity uses them up big time.

And of course the good fats with that. To be quite honest with you, I dont notice supplements do much for me unless I have been on the diet long enough to be able to even absorb them so they can actually do something for me.
Just today I have been very strict and not eaten any potatoes or grains and still feel horrible and grotty and depressed. I can only hope for some lifting in a few days. I dont know about any light at the end of the tunnel (i wish), I used to get told that a lot, but if there is? It's the longest tunnel I've ever seen.

Thanks a lot though for you ongoing care and kind/helpful comments. These forums make me feel like I am actually in touch with like-minded and like-suffering people. Because otherwise I feel like I'm in a twilight zone. Some freak among the normal (healthy), but on here I realise and reminded that I am not alone.

But yeah Linda, it is so hard that one does so much to try and help themselves and when you get little or no response, it is very heavy going to continue making such efforts. I hope that you will start to feel relief from this yourself. I can only admire a person who has this PLUS has to manage a family and attempt somehow to behave remotely normal. To me that is something.

I wish you could get DMSA, but yes the cost is pretty unbelieveable and for people who can ill afford it, it's just not even an option. ALA when you can begin to use it, hopefully will start to clear this out of your organs and stop the process of it building up in your blood/tissues again.

At the moment it is possible that you are flooded with mercury and just not seeing any light at all. It's not just mercury's direct effects, it is also the fact it weakens and allows other problems to develop as well. So you can end up with a multifactoral problem. One thing tends to offset another. LIke mercury can cause yeast, yeast can methylate mercury and make it more toxic, both poison the system, gut and liver and on the cycle goes.

Have you tried algin by the way? sorry if youve already mentioned this, but it may help some of your symptoms. Russ recommends a basic formula to take algin, selenium and vitamin E and vitamin C (I think).