Hi Linda, thank you! I think I come across more optimistic on here than I am in reality. In my own private life I feel shattered and depressed daily, but I try to recall the mercury days before the virus etc as that is what people are mainly going through on here (for the most part). I preferred those days to this because I know that in the end the stuff did come out!

Insomnia has been a problem my whole life. I believe that maybe mercury also (candida too) are responsible. The candida diet did help that, but I still had bouts of it that would sometimes last months or even a year or more at a time. In the end I would get up and read or get online.

My Mother suffers this badly also and she is one of those people that if she "does" actually get to sleep at a reasonable hour, one jolt and she's a wake and that's it. She will end up getting up because no amount of lying there helps her apparently. She has a mouth packed full of amalgam. So I do wonder if mercury may have some hand in that for her. Hard to say. I know my uncle suffers with it and has false teeth but again he was drinking caffeine quite often and cutting down on that and not drinking it before bed helped apparently.

After taking a course of antibiotics, I tend to fall to sleep now and simply not awaken till morning. It is like being knocked out. NOt sure why, but assume it's drugged me from causing worst yeast or something...yet yeast can cause insomnia, so I have no real explanation for that one. Though I can sit up all night on occassion and not be able to get myself into the mood to sleep. But mostly I'll hit the bed and I cannot stay awake to watch a movie right through or anything. This is definitely not normal for me, so who knows what the antibiotics did. It sounds good, but when you consider my other symptoms as well, something isn't right. I would not recommend antibiotics for that reason <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I know a guy (friend) that gave up smoking and once he did, he suffered insomnia from then on. So bad, he started to give in and take some sleeping pills. He said he would just take a bit of it and it helped. He wasn't sure what the cause of it was, but assumes it was the shock to the system of having no more intake of cigarettes and the body was kind of on high alert or something. Perhaps it's part of detox?

I know this, when I was going through mercury detox, I would suffer such severe patches of insomnia, I honestly felt like I was going to lose it. So I definitely can sympathise with you. I never really bothered taking anything for it. I seem to recall the herbal aids didn't seem to help much and I didn't feel good on herbs either.

I wonder whether the mercury is in the area of the brain to do with melatonin? I just wonder whether taking this supplement OR taking things that help increase the chemicals in the brain that induce sleep....might help. But again if mercury is in those areas, it's a bit like the thyroid. You can be tested and there can show nothing wrong, but mercury likes to sit in certain areas and block their action. Even though testing can show there is enough of that substance in your system, mercury can block the action of it. So it's the same end result that you'd get if you didn't have enough of it or too much etc.

This is what I hate about this poison. It's action on a person is so severe, but doesn't really show any outward sign, other than pallor in the face, or a person looking unwell. But It's a hidden torment.

Might be a good idea of yours to start a thread on insomnia, because mercury is notorious for doing this.