HI guys, just to let you know I am officially back online (permanently). I am at the moment catching up on messages and seeing how everybody is.

Thanks Mikey for your comments! :-) don't get that kind of a welcome in reality ;-) lol, so feels really good! You too Sandi and thanks so much . How are you by the way?

Linda, I am so sorry to hear of your ongoing struggles. I know for everybody it is different and one doesn't always know what else is going on that could be causing it as well. You, like myself, really fight to even control symptoms or "hope" to control them and this ongoing diet is not easy and at times you wonder why you bother, but when I cheat, then I get even worse.

I found out that even a little binge on potatoe chips will cause a complete relapse. I am honestly fed up and two weeks later after that, I'm still hoping for slight improvement. I cannot even engage in exercise without getting ill.

at any rate, I went into a dentist recently and got half of my composites replaced with cerec porcelain. I tried my best to make sure the dentist did everything as well as possible (like checking the material he used with the serum test I had). I hope he didn't hide anything from me (I dont have a lot of trust). So far, I'm not noticing anything significant (worse or better), but at least the material should last a long long time and they are tougher and not as soft or leak as much.

Yes they are porcelain, but apparently are not exactly like the old style typical porcelain and appear to be pretty well tolerated by toxic/sensitive people. Time will tell.

But get this, when he was drilling out my old composites, he discovered amalgam had been left under the top ones. Great eh? All those years of detoxing and I still had mercury in my mouth. He said that often dentists do not like to drill too deep, so often they will leave some of the amalgam there and simply cover over it. This is dishonest and I think pretty disgusting when you consider that you go in and ask to have all the amalgam out for health reasons and you are basically lied to. I have also read that often people will not recover or recover properly unless every scrap of amalgam has been removed. So yeah that was quite a surprise to find out I still had some. Even a panoramic xray didn't show them up properly.

Anyway, the cerec is very expensive and I am slowly trying to pay it off. Kind of nightmarish, but it's amazing what people will do in hopes of getting a breakthrough eh? Will soon do the other side of my mouth.

Anyway, glad to be back and am going to continue reading more of the messages on the forum.

Luv Bex <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />