Hi, I dont think it's a case of wanting to blame candida and mercury on everything, but most people here have already been through years of searching and coming up with nothing.

Both these problems at the very least seem to have the symptoms that many of us can relate to (at long last) and treating both/either seems to have made some difference for many people. May not have been a cure, but there must be something to it if applying the diet, going through the die off symptoms in starving overgrowth of yeast and then finding improvements after weeks.....therefore for me that was pretty much obvious.

As for the mercury? My symptoms were identical with it. Down to the most bizzare. Removing amalgams was horrible in the end because I was poisoned worse during removal, from swallowing amalgam. Plus my body began to dump the storage.

That in itself was indicative that mercury was a big part of my life and problems. The detox in itself was tremendous, horrible and all the poison that had sat there for years started to shift and come out of me.

The fact that products that chelated mercury began to increase those symptoms, and lead to improvements over time was another strong sign I was on the right track.

I then found myself healing from this after a few years of going through detox (skin rashes the whole deal).

So for me, not so much blame, but discovery. I can't speak for everyone else on this forum, but if you've gone down different roads and come up with nothing and going around in circles, it's not a bad idea to give it a go and treat possible candida and mercury. What have you got to lose? apart from money in amalgam replacement, getting rid of extra mercury is still an investment in the future.

Treating candida should not cost a lot of money. Eating healthy is wise no matter what the problem is. Sugar is the worst thing anybody can consume. Natural sugars / energy are abundent in just about every other food and in a healthy way.

Sorry for the long post. The symptoms of candida from what I have learned and read over the years are very similar to mercury. They cross over, so if you do have both or either, you may not know which one is responsible for what.

E.g. cold hands and feet, headaches, depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, panic, swollen tongue, indentations in tongue (mercury), thrush ((yeast), tremor (mercury), crying and salivating excessively and uncontrollably, particularly when using something to detox (toxins/mercury), uncontrollable giggling (yeast/mercury), insomnia, greyish discoloration/tattooing in gums or even genitals where it should be pink (metal poisoning/mercury), strange ritualistic behaviours/obsessions (yeast/mercury), muscle weakness, bowel upsets (constipation/diarreah), exhaustion, extreme fits of anger, easily jealous, lack of concentration, sensation of sheer stupidity, blank mind, loss of natural abilities, loss of creatity and motivation, mood swings, social withdrawal and fear of going out, metal taste in the mouth, metal smell sometimes on the body after sweating/exercising, skin rashes, wheezing in the lungs and strange symptoms after drinking hot fluids or even hot baths (encouraging vapor release from either fillings or pores and being breathed in), migraine headaches, skin pallor (can actually become greyish looking), blurred vision / problems focussing even on relatively near objects, loss of night vision, dark circles and deterioration of physical appearance, blemished skin, gut problems, thoughts becoming repetitive and strange, over sleeping, a feeling of being in a stupor, hair becoming grey easily/early, hair brittle and unhealthy, fading of hair pigment, less strongly coloured, loss of libido (or opposite), dizziness, bloating, weight gain or weight loss without much ability to change this etc etc.

These symptoms I have pretty much memorised from seeing articles many times, both on the net, in books and other places. These seem to be the typical symptoms of either or both mercury/candida. They could also be from something else, but I definitely had them all and found improvements from treating those things. Mercury and candida can imitate many problems and unfortunately people maybe misdiagnosed and shoved on antidepressants or even put in a mental institution.