Thank you both for answering my post.......and thank you Bex for welcoming me on the other forum. Actually your welcome words led me here...as I had no idea that my first post came here. I thought it got lost as I did not realize that I posted here and thought I was only trying to post on the other "general" forum. See why I have the name foggy!!

JK- I am definitely staying away from fish!! I even stopped my vitamin D as it is in fish oil..got to replace that.

Bex- I have noticed for years that when I avoid grains and sugar and dairy too I feel better in general.

This rash has me feeling out of control....I cannot even imagine the one that you had to deal with Bex...that sounds awful. I do feel that the source of mine IS internal...as opposed to contact "dermatitis"....and even though for "starters" I got topical medicine it is great that my doc is open to the mercury issue and I am definitely looking into that. This dermatologist thinks outside the box.

Thanks about the notice re: mercury testing. And I do get it that I could test low for mercury....Unfortunately have experience in those kinds of things for instance I had the bullseye rash for Lyme yet never tested positive yet I had all of the symptoms and was very systemically ill and only doctors who are smart about Lyme understand that one can have Lyme even without testing positive....as the test they use measures antibodies and some of us do not build up enough antibodies.....only telling this story about Lyme to let you know I understand how you can be low positive for mercury even if you are high in mercury as I have dealt with the medical system and testing for a long time and know that most docs do NOT think outside of their own paradigms and all of that stuff.

I am definitely going back on the limited diet and hope this rash goes away.

Besides Lyme doing me in....I actually remember starting to "break down" further little by little after getting two molars drilled nearly two years ago and there was so much stuff was flying around in my mouth and I was swallowing and there was the impression stuff for the crowns and then glue in my mouth....and I kept getting injected with the short acting anesthesia because I do not do well with epinephrine and must have gotten injected at least 30 times as I was there for over 3 hours. It was a very bad experience and after that drilling session, etc I got -(within hours) I got chills and a fever and other problems that were scary like pain all the way up the left side of my head which felt to me like and infection but there no proof of that....

Meanwhile since then I started getting allergic to things I never was allergic to....but not hugely allergic....just in small ways.

But this rash is the worst so far...and it makes me feel so out of control because I don't know how long it will keep on keeping on......

Anyway thank you both for your help.....you each have said a lot....and it is much to think about.
foggy