thanks everyone for your concerns and suggestions. i wish i was just dealing with heavy metals but everything is compounded right now. the disability hearing is today so everyone keep your fingers crossed <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />. this is like the most important thing cuz if i am not approved, i'm gonna feel like giving up. i've already been waiting for two years.

the family dynamic housing situation isn't fun at all but i'm numb to it now. it's happened so many times. i checked out housing though yesterday and it could take a year waiting so we'll see what happens with that. if i get the disability, it could really be ideal for me having my own place and just working on getting me well without other sick family members taking their problems out on me.

i do have candida for certain because of the pronounced symptoms like itching. also, i am pretty certain i have mercury because of vaccines and not ever being able to excrete heavy metals due to poor metabolism. so i wasn't saying i don't have mercury but that my gut tells me copper is contributing the most. from the hair analysis, book, and other info, my symptoms seem more like copper and my mother had high copper too on her test.

i saw where andy replied to my post but i don't know what to think cuz what he says is conflicting with other info. on this website, http://www.idssports.com/rala.php, at the bottom of the page where it says, "R-ALA as a chelating agent" it talks of ala chelating copper. also, in a book specifically on copper toxicity called, "why am i always so tired," by ann louise gittleman, she says that she uses ALA a lot to help get deeply stored copper out of brain and organs. lol this is when i wish i was an expert.

i guess i'll just have to try it. i have mercury too so maybe it'll help. the ann louise woman has been treating copper for a long time so i would think that she wouldn't be lying in her published book about ALA helping with copper toxicity.