Hi Dawn. Sounds like you've been blasted wtih mercury symptoms, most likely from the exposure during the removal process. Usually not avoidable. mercury can interfere with your body's ability to detox itself, so it's a catch 22 situation. You are doing what you can outside the mercury by watching your diet and making sure you avoid sugar completely. Keeping candida at low levels by not giving it any food, can sometimes help a little, but obviously if the mercury level is too high, it can simply overwhelm you regardless of what you do. However, KEEP doing the diet and make sure you include antioxidants like selenium, vitamin E and vitamin C. possibly also some minerals like zinc, magnesium etc, plus something t help your liver due the stress like milk thistle.

But those things are only as some help WHILE you get the mercury OUT. Trying to do that is hard because mercury is easily moved all over the place and can you make very sick.

I would suggest strongly that you get onto a mercury chelation protocol and a safe one that minimises the redistribution of mercury like Andy Cutler's protocol.

To do this, you would need to buy DMSA (available online). To use a small amount such as 25 mg, or even halving that capsule to 12.5 mg. You take it every 4 hours (even throughout the night) for approximately 3 days non stop and then have a break of about 3 days or longer if you need it and continue to do this until you improve. Later you can add alpha lipoic acid, but only after using DMSA for a few months first to lower the blood levels of mercury. Lipoic acid is to begin clearing the organs and brain, but using it too early on can move more mercury INTO those areas if you don't lower the blood levels and extra cellular mercury out first.

Using DMSA on the safe protocol will sometimes help with the symptoms, but also begin to get the mercury OUT of you as safely as possible. It can help supress the symptoms, but can sometimes increase them. It varies. The main thing is, that it will get the mercury OUT OF YOU.

If you need to know more about this, you can join another mercury detox group called frequent dose chelation as well. People there are very sick and using this protocol to begin improving themselves. some of them have been harmed greatly by previous bad protocols and have finally found a safe one.

I hopeyou'll consider it. The suffering mercury can cause can be tremendous. In fact, many people undergoing the suffering of mercury can truly feel like they are in hell. So hang in there, you're not alone and realise that what you feel inside, whatever the bizzare symptoms, the scary thoughts, the fixations or obsessions etc, are NOT you. even if you think they are, they are truly mercury and it can do anything it wants to your mind and body. Believe me, I've been there and am there.