HI SS, strangely enough I dont seem to have problems with these members of the nightshade family. But when I had amalgams, I did (interesting eh?). The effects from them (tomatoes, cucumbers, onions etc) when I used to eat them were obvious and pretty fast, so I easily detected the issue and simply kept away from them, but had no problem with potatoes (then).

Now? I am ok with tomatoes and onions and cucumber, but not with potatoes because of the high carbs in potatoes that feed candida. I do not have an allergic reaction to the potatoe, but I can feel it feed the yeast. I will get up the next day after eating potatoes and feel the same weird cramping and gurgling in the gut from the yeast having had a good feed and of course my usual yeast symptoms are worse again.

I dont eat white rice, I only eat brown, but again that too feeds my yeast (tends to). Yet I used to be fine on it.

It is funny how the body chemistry can go through changes and things I once ate, I cannot eat and vice versa. Certain it's changed since amalgam removal. Yet I was healthier then at the sametime because I did not have the infections I have these days.

So one thing has been replaced by another and I am worse than I was. mercury is horrific, but infections become part of you they are not something you can just "excrete" with the right methods. Otherwise chelation would have cured me.

This is why the diet now is so crucial because of me having such a stuffed immunity from so many things at once.

You may find yourself once every bit of amalgams has gone with different things beginning to occur. Certain foods you will be ok again eating and others you may find are suddenly not ok. As you really detox the stored mercury, you may find these things all begin to fade. But you may also find that you still have to stick to a good diet for most of your life, because I think that having toxicity for so long definitely does something to you.

You can still get well, but you may always be a little more vulnerable (though some claim they can eat anything after they detoxed). For me? I always had to be a "little" careful, but I still cheated often and didn't take long at all to feel better. I'd start feeling back to ok a day later.

I think personally I did not chelate enough anyway, I was never frequent with it and took very long spaces inbetween, so I'd say I still had some stored mercury anyway, but I felt fine and I didn't mind at that stage. I had obviously gotten enough out of me to start feeling ok again.

Yes I am the same around smoking. If I am feeling stronger and healthier, I can tolerate it much more. But if I'm not, I will react to just one person smoking around me and I will feel very ill after it. Smoking myself is a disaster, even one can wipe me out. I dont go near them now. Used to get away with the odd smoking bout sometimes and enjoyed it every now and again. But I'm too fragile/sensitive these days to do anything like that. It's a bit embarrassing at times becuase people offer me things and I have ot keep saying "no thanks, I can't". This is over anything (milk in tea)....anything with sugar, an alcoholic beverage, a smoke, I'm constatntly saying no thanks.