Hi Sean, the infection I got in 2003 is a mystery, but how I got it you can read about here: http://herballure.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=27247#Post27247

It is the most bizzare thing I have ever encountered and has never left my system. It's caused a kind of permanent suppression of immunity and symptoms flare far more after exertion (exercise). I have to be very careful all the time. Before this infection, I had suffered from mercury toxicity and then later, the horror of going through mercury detox, which for me was devastating. I started getting sick from mercury around 15 (at least that's when it became obvious). I got amalgams out at age 24 and only began really healing properly at around age 19-30. Then I got the infection at age 31. So my stint of feeling well, did not last and I was knocked from the infection far more than anything else in my life.

I am not really into any new treatments, as I have done alot and paid out alot to no avail and for me, it's a case of controlling the problem as best I can in the way that has any effect at all in helping. Most things do not.

I may find out if I can get my cavitations surgically cleaned out by someone at some point to see if that makes any difference to my overall condition, but even that's a difficult one to diagnose too.

As far as the youthful appearance thing goes? Mine chops and changes. This infection has had a pretty profound effect on my system and I think has aged me, at least internally because of the ongoing strain and inability to heal properly or thrive. Mercury was horrific, but it's healable/detoxable eventually, unless there is permanent damage. Perhaps I was permanently damaged and didn't realise it and that may have been why I got the infection. But certainly after detoxing alot of the mercury I had been feeling FAR healthier (before 2003 infection).

Like yourself, I was very young for my age but when you get hit by one thing after another and then something worse comes along, things can really change a person and this was the final straw I think.

Thanks a lot for your concern and kind words. Nice to know you have a strong faith and thank goodness for the promises of Christ eh? That this life is not "it". Whatever we've lost, if we stick with Christ, we shall gain back ten fold. Many times that has given me hope and strength to go on. Without that? Well I don't know! and I don't want to consider what may have happened.