Hi all, Incase you've forgotten, I'm the extremely poisoned one with debilitating fatigue, muscle weakness, depression, cognitive problems, etc. I haven't been able to work in almost 3 years from this illness. Anyway, I had told you previously that I finally found some good doctors I am working with who said I was too weak to chelate in this condition. Over the last few weeks they ran a battery of tests and I finally went in for all the results. It's amazing what mercury can do to your body and brain. Basically they sat me down and went over all my tests. I am so nutritionally deficient it's not even funny. The amazing thing is that I eat SO WELL. If I told you how many supplements I took (all brand name companies) you wouldn't believe me. However, I was deficient in almost all of the vitamins and minerals that I take. They told me that I am loaded with fungal overgrowth from the mercury and that this is causing me to not digest my food and absorb my nutrients. For example, I eat lots of protein (I'm a meat eater) and I am not converting it into amino acids (so necessary for body and brain to function). At least this explains why I'm so debilitating rather than having some conventional doctor say "there's nothing wrong with you, take some prozac".
They began me on the amino acid supplementation and they now have me taking all the B vitamins in which I was deficient (in liquid form) and they are going to give me Vitamin B12 injections, very important for fatigue. They have started me on Nystatin to kill the yeast and now ordered a very specific stool test for yeast, parasite, etc. so that they can determine how to better get at the particular strains that I have. Just to give you an idea of what's going on, I was taking 1000 mgs. of magnesium glycinate (one of the best forms) per day, and yet I am deficient in magnesium. Now I'm taking a powder form that I mix with water. Well, they told me that correcting all these things will help me feel better, but ultimately, getting the mercury out will be the real cure. By the way, they know all about Andy Cutler and said they have no problem with my doing his protocol for chelation, e.g. frequent dosing chelation. Even though they use another protocol in their practice. I'll keep you posted.

Sandra