Hi Cougar,

I've done IO for a very long time and don't do bromides so I'm fairly confident I'm good in this department. As for the flouride, no I haven't used flouride or drank flouride in at least 15 years so I don't believe that would be an issue for me.

What I have done...everything and not the thing that is working to get me well.

My symptoms came on rapidly about 2 years ago prior to which I had spent a considerable amount of time up in the norther woods. I did have two suspicious rashes I asked my husband about as I was alarmed by them but he said don't worry they aren't bullseye rash. Then I fell off the map of life. I don't know how else to describe it.

I was in and out of the dr's office weekly and sobbing, someone help me something is wrong. I feel like I have a flu that won't go away, a cold that won't go away. Extreme exhaustion. I run low grade fevers half the week and sometimes up to 2 weeks. I am disabled most of the day, my energy is about a 2 hour window a day and it's not a lot of energy. I get a few things done and I'm so exhausted and dizzy I almost pass out so I lay down. The dizziness can get severe at times where it knocks me out from under my feet, I have literally went down for no reason at all, just get up and wham there I go. My balance is really bad and I am so careful when I'm walking anywhere because I tend to get thrown off balance by something I pick up out of the corner of my eye that I start to sway.

My muscles and joints hurt incessantly, my hands turn bright red and get so hot I could fry a fish on them. The back of my neck/head feels like a two by four landed on it. I get spasms in my forehead most every night when I am aware. My legs shake uncontrollably at night out of the blue and then I can't sleep so I have to pace and wring my hands because I'm in such pain and so miserable. I have fullness in my ears constantly but I thought it was from sinus surgery, could be it is not and I'm just noticing it that the sinuses are open. My eyes swell at times to bad I can't see out of them and they hurt bad..I kept thinking for a long time this was the source of my agony but it's not from the eyes.

My appetite is challenged and my weight is diminished to the point it's alarming. I've blurred vision that holds no explanation from the eye specialists. The pressure behind them and in them sometimes is unbearable.

I've a grounding sheet on my bed I just put back on a few nights ago and that actually helped the legs last night it was hardly there enough to cause me to have to get up and pace. Some nights I have to take valium to get them to stop. Problem is I only get 15 valium for 90 days. That doesn't give me much relief.

Headaches are a problem but usually it's from all the other things causing my neck to lock up. My headaches backed off when I had the bridge removed, so that was a move in the right direction. I thought removing the bridge was the problem at one time too...well it was a problem but not the core issue.

Anyhow, as you can see, I've lost myself to this whatever and I'm desperate to get well.

Okay, will do with the CE's.

I am thinking it's not mercury toxicity, although I could have some mercury in there, because the symptoms came on rapidly after I had some odd rashes up in the woods here. MN is fairly high for Lyme. This was approx. 2 yrs ago. Nothing would indicate to me that mercury would have brought this on out of the blue that rapidly. I think it would have been a progressive type situation with mercury unless I had a huge exposure then, which I did not. This has been progressive but rapid progressive. However, I did recently have a bridge removed and for some reason I do believe that one tooth may have had tiny amount of Amalgam in therefore it is suspect that it could have heightened my symptoms. So it is possible this has added to the stress already going on in my body. I do have quite a bit of inflammation that gets pretty severe. About six weeks after removal of that bridge I went through a horrible inflammatory response system wide that was really hard on me but then when it stopped I felt more stable than prior to, however, I just start to build right back up to that level all over to go through it again. I can say that after the inflammatory attacks I will stablilize and feel better for a good four days then slowly there I go again.

I did do hair analysis years ago and it only showed me as being zinc deficient and that was about all they could come up with. Blood tests showed about the same. Now this was when I still had several Amalgam fillings yet in my mouth. I have not had that much Amalgam in my mouth per se but it has been in there.

Last year I did use some edta system from Dr Vitamin. I spoke with the guy there and ordered several products for the purpose of chelation. I didn't improve that I noticed.
I have been trying a whole lot of everything since I slipped off the map of life. I looked at this pretty seriously and did the protocol. What it all was, I cannot say as it's been a while and I can't recall exactly what products I used.

It seems to me that I can start to improve until I get some sort of bug or infection and then I slam really hard. I guess I can explain it by saying that if I get a cold one would expect a few days of this or maybe even up to a week of annoying runny nose, coughing, stuffy and mild fever if any, and typically I can slam off a cold in short order with lots of garlic and oregano oil, not happening. I actually hadn't a cold in a very long time prior to this whatever happened and now it feels as though I have one I can't shake, flu I can't shake, etc. It's like I make a little progress and that's it, it's undermined by something and I can only conclude after reading all this stuff on lyme that it is co infection.

The best I have felt in the last two years was while on Antibiotics then I go off them and then I get so bad I think it's from all the Antibiotics and set out to undue the damage from the Antibiotics only to find that is easily done and I still am exhausted. I can undo candida pretty fast in my body but that isn't the whole of what is going on as I've found time and again.

Newport, your going to bonk me on the head..I should bonk myself. I woke up today hardly able to walk..I thought "what did I do yesterday?"...I took a bath and mindlessly poured half a bag of epsom in the tub. It won't happen again, I have none left and won't buy anymore. See this is the problem, my brain feels like it is short circuiting. I spaced epsom = magnesium. I feel like I did last Saturday, swollen, pale, weak, and out of it....I had been using mag citrate..the stupid thing is I have mag malate in my cupboard I have used for the last few years, didn't know it was mag mal but knew I felt better from it than the other mags..so I get on some list for candida and she says use mag citrate..I had been using it for over a week when I got knocked out in left field again. I won't blame them, I have to blame myself. I know what feels good in my body and you pointed it to me and here I had it, unknowing that it was good for this condition but yet I knew it helped me for some reason. Thank you Newport.

I am going to order Cutler's book. Nothing can hurt and somethings could help, I agree. I'll get it ordered asap.