Yeah, true. The fact it tastes sweet, should have set off the alarm bells, but I guess I was hoping "in vain" that I could get away with it. You're similar to me Jinx, you cannot make mistakes on the diet. The backlash is horrible and the length of time it can take to get better again (if you can really call it better) is often weeks long!

I consider that in a case like this, there is more than mercury at play. When I was just mercury toxic, I only had to give up sugar, wheat/gluten and yeast. That was it. I could still eat some fruit, non gluten grains, milk in my teas and cereals etc and dietry efforts were always rewarded with sometimes dramatic improvements, whereas now it's just a form of trying to control things a bit more. So though I was mercury poisoned back then, I was still stronger and had better immunity than I do now with this chronic viral infection. Hard to believe that I preferred the mercury days than this, because at least healing was possible and I never had to stick to such a strict diet. However, the detox from mercury was hell on earth in another way and not something I would like to go back to either. But again, I was still stronger.

I really do think that people like us with such severe ongoing yeast issues that cannot via off even onto natural higher carb foods are experiencing an ongoing major immune suppression from something that possibly goes further than mercury.