Your pic goes well with your name SoSick. It also reminds me of how I feel during the winters here -- looking out a window, everything is grey and wet. But . . . you're not feeling so sick these days are you? What about a new pic, if not a new name? Flowers blooming? LOL

Thanks guys for the tips on the sugar. When I'm "on the sugar" I have a lot of honey. It makes no difference to me, it may be more natural, but it is still sugar, and my body treats it as such, with an insulin and an opioid response. Artificial sweeteners like xylitol are things I stay away from too. I don't honestly feel I need sweetness in my food, and just putting a tomato or two in it can make it taste sweeter to me. (You get your sensitivity to these things back when you're not bombarding your body all the time.) Honey is fine, even nutritious, for people who don't have blood sugar issues, but that is a minority of the population of the Western world.

Bex, thanks for the advice about DMSA. I think I'm pretty well set to use it correctly, I've seen you give this advice to lots of people LOL. Yes I'm prepared to take it at night. Also, if I find it is helping me, I think I've got nothing to lose by going to my GP, telling him, and asking if I can get it on the NHS. Along with a colonic. He might say no, but it's no big deal if he does.

Your fish oil regime sounds good BTW. And you could tinker with supplements. But the more I think about it, the more it seems to me that you need some specialist help with giving your body the major healing it seems to need. Whether this is looking into the possibility of cavitations, or something else, I don't know.

Yes you could try colloidal silver. It's magic stuff. When I have a cold I put drops of it in my nose and it seems to make a good team along with vitamin C. It's a powerful antibacterial agent. I suppose you could try having it injected into the cavitation area. Taken orally, I don't know, I haven't done that myself. There's a lot of info out there on it though.

I'm feeling better this morning, maybe due to the sun I got yesterday. But the grey mantle and the rain are back. It's frustrating when it's the weather that's making you poorly, there isn't anything you can do about it. It's always bothered me to an extent, but it got really bad when the clinical depression began. Sometimes I dream of getting into an airplane and getting up there into the blue, reminding myself there's still a sun.

Thanks again for the advice everyone. I think probably that mercury isn't my main issue, but I still want to get it out of my body safely and efficiently. I'll come here and say how it's going when the DMSA arrives and I make a start.

Linda.