Aaron,

I look at it this way.

When you're detoxing, you'll be moving stuff out (mercury). Some of this stuff will be redistributed in your body (less if you're taking Algin, which is fundamental to mercury detox!).

If you stop detoxing, you'll usually have a day or three where you'll feel great because the body is in a "mode" of dealing with high mercury levels and had made adjustments for it. When the detoxing stops, mercury redistribution is at a minimum.

When you start up again, you'll feel extra worse until your body copes with it and make adjustments again.

It's important to consider that, when you're detoxing, the horrible feelings you experience can be largely controlled if you know the cause. For example, if your experiencing low energy, it could be low iodine, which can be corrected, or low T3, which can be corrected, or high homocysteine levels, which can be corrected, etc. Most likely, it will be a combination of these things.

I would look at each issues one at a time and work on finding a supplement or dietary change that will help with that particular symptom, then move on to the next. This way, detox does not really have to be so horrible.

It's important to keep written records of how you feel and what you ate that day. This way, you can find patterns. This is very very important and a suprisingly small number of people do this. When you do, however, you will probably be shocked at how easily you make connections between particular symptoms and their cause.

As I often tell people, it's never magic. Every single symptoms has a cause and finding the cause is the key. It's like fixing a car or house. Just deal with one issue at a time and narrow in on the cause.

You said there are brief periods when you feel well. Can you find a pattern to this. Keep written records and see what surfaces and let us know.

Please keep us posted.