You are using Ionic Silver (IS) I use this only on the outside and use CS for internal use

The IS is converted into CS(ionic silver into particulate silver), ionic silver is clear and Colloidal Silver has a yelow/amber color. I use ionic for external use and Colloidal for all internal use. A TDS meter can't really tell the PPM on CS but can give a "ballpark" figure. You need a micro/milli/amp meter to see what the current is brewing your solution(in distilled water) so with a know volume of distilled water and known current you can use faradays calculations to get your PPM.

I mentioned in my op I did hit it harder when I felt it coming on I had already been taking it because I'm usually always sick at Christmas time.

This is why more people need to get a better understanding of "what" constitutes "what" in electrolytically generated silver preparations.

If it's clear and transparent - full glass - contains mostly silver ions and totally harmless to the human body due to rapid elimination rate.

If yellow - probly half a glass - this will contain more of what people call 'particles', and those particles consist of electrically positively charged ions which have agglomerated forming those particles, and each ion is surrounded in a water 'bubble' forming a cluster of ions which in turn form that 'particle', like a bunch of inflated balloons with a pea in the centre of each balloon. That's what a 'particle' consists of in the home made product. It has been suggested that ammonia within the human body breaks up those ion clusters but I need to find more literature on that, and I haven't found more literature available in the public domain as yet, and probly never will.

Any other colour and all bets are off in any amount for me personally {opinion} and I am specifically referring to the home made silver preparation here, manufactured using LVDC.

Which is better?...Well that could be debated or argued until the cows come home, but not by me :-)

FWIW, I ingest around 30ml every morning before breakfast, and have been doing so for nigh on 10 years.

Each to his/her own understanding, belief, and opinion on this subject I'm afraid, the individual has to make their own determination on the above beliefs, understandings etc at the end of the day, I've considered mine.