Hi Patty, you're welcome <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Yeah, retention toxicity is very hard to correct. I think this is part of the way I am, whether born this way or whether the mercury toxicity was very early on in life and caused the imbalance in the first place. Which came first?

I think saunas are excellent, Andy recommends them. Not sure about infra red, but I do recall him not being so keen on that (why I don't know). Whatever works, go for it. The metals will come out via the pores (if you are sweating properly and can handle the heat). If you can't, it is pointless and may make you very sick. I used to sweat and do fine with heat, but after the virus I got and other possible infection, I stopped being able to and instead of helping, I got weak without a proper detox. It became pointless, so I stopped.

Rebounding on a mini trampoline (rebounder) is also good because it not only helps tone you, and gets circulation going, but it stimulates the lymph system as well and can help shunt toxins through. Walking is great also, I alternate both (within reason, only as I can do it). I try not to overdo it.

Like you, I have an imbalance in my liver detox pathways (which apparently is typical in mercury). My liver phase I is too fast, liver phase II is underactive. Which allows for build up of toxins, but not proper elimination of them. Also fast liver phase I apparently makes toxins even more toxic and having slow liver phase II, just allows them to remain there and cannot get rid of them properly. Bad senario.

The only things now that remotely help me, or at least "somewhat", is strict diet, plenty of proteins and animal fats and essential fatty acids, vegetables (low carb) and supportive supplements. I don't get healing anymore because I have infections, which seems to have brought me to a standstill, but I do what I can regardless. Many people with mercury must stay off sugar, wheat/gluten and yeast completely. These things seem to cause the most problems with many people. I don't go near them. If I do, I'm in big trouble. I did well off them in my mercury toxic days and was able to survive far better! I detoxed quite a bit out of me just from giving those things up and eating healthy foods at the sametime. Coffee caused problems with me too, so I gave that up. Apparently it has cadmium in it, plus it's high in caffeine and is stress for adrenals etc. This was essential for me to do, or I hate to think where I would be now. It made all the difference in those days. I got sicker first from giving them up from detox and reducing yeast levels, but at the end of a few weeks, it was well worth it. Cravings usually get worse at the start because the yeast is starving and requires sugar and other junk to survive. I was lucky then because I could still include some fruit in my diet (natural sugar), milk, and potatoes and non gluten grain. I did just fine. However, now that I suffer differently from viral infection etc, I now have to stick to a rigid diet and can only eat eggs, meat, vegetables (low carb), yoghurt (non sugar, acidophilus), raw nuts (brazil and almonds) and herbal tea pretty much. So it depends on your immunity and how serious the yeast is. If you are not doing this already? You should seriously consider treating yeast, because in mercury this is often a big issue and people often overlook it and do not realise how much misery yeast maybe cause alongside the mercury. Sometimes you can get a big surprise at how much better you feel from giving those things up. So consider yeast maybe a big part of your symptoms too!

It is really hard to heal from this and it's also hard to know exactly what to attribute your symptoms to, whether it's all mercury, OR yeast or both or whatever else the mercury has allowed to happen inside you. DMSA should start to pull some out. You can go onto DMPS, that's even better apparently (the oral kind and taking it every 6-8 hours is obviously preferable, than the DMSA every 3-4 hour routine, but you can only get it by prescription).

Sauna is very powerful it is equivalant to a day's chelation apparently (according to Cutler), but be careful not to overdo it.

Some people have had DMPS IV and done well on this, others have been devastated. So it depends too on the doctor and how well they know their stuff.