Hello, Eileen. The patches are certainly worth a try. I used them for 14 days, then ran out of money. I also had some reactions which, according to what I read on this site, could maybe have been reduced by using the seaweed extract alginate.

Anyway, I bought my patches from a multi-levelmarketing company called K-Link. They call their patch Kinotakara & are made in Japan. However, other brands can be bought from people selling them on the internet (not multi level marketing). I do not sell them, I am not involved in this MLM company. I have heard that there are dozens of different brands, and every one of them is slightly different (in some cases quite different) from the others! From my reading I would have to say that the K-link Kinotakara brand is one of the best. There is also a brand called Shu Li that is well known, but it has fewer ingredients. Whether than is good or bad I cannot say.

When I recommend the patch I have used, it is because I suspect it is indeed one of the better brands (some poor ones come from Korea, apparently) and I re-iterate that I am not involved with the company. I just bought them from a distributor (the Malaysian-based company who distributes the patches refers to these distributors as "stockists".)

How do you find a "stockist" of Kinotakara where you live? I guess I'd start with the Internet!

Best of Luck toyou; these patches are amazing. But I feel I did right to stop for a couple of weeks before I start again. If you have no mercury or heavy metals, it may not matter if you go continuously. (I felt just wonderful after a few days of the patches, then felt awful for awhile.) But as you know from this site, mercury is unbelievably bad, and even when trying to detox yourself of it, there will be side effects, regardless of your method of detoxification,.