Hi Joe,

I realized that I didn't fully answer your questions in your post. In addition to the outstanding advice you got from Bex here, I thought I'd add another suggestion.

I've had ALOT of your same symptoms both before amalgam removal and then much later afterwards. Mercury toxicity and Lyme and Lyme Co-Infections and also candida share so many of the same symptoms it gets to be hard to know what is the biggest problem and what needs addressing first!

On the Lyme front, there is a test that can be done to help evaluate how much your immune system is challenged by the Lyme and how active the infection is. It's called the CD57 test and LabCorp does it. Your LLMD can order it. Often it's used as an aid in initial diagnosis and it's also used along the way during treatment to gauge progress. The reference range is 60-360. So any number below 60 indicates that Lyme is still a problem for your immune system.

My score on my CD57 test was 36.

Anyway, I just thought I'd mention this in case you want to look into it. It might help you decide where to go from here.

Sharon