The grey skin is Agyria, there is apparently a cure selenium & vitamine E slowly remove it from your system. Agyria and the scare stories around it have been discussed frequently on this board, I can't remember anyone here whose suffered from it & several people have been taking it for years. I've been taking CS (home made) almost every day for about a year now & have experienced no problems. Basically Argyria is really only a problem if you use silver salts, CS made with protein fixers or very large quantities of poorly made CS (made with constant voltage rather than constant current generator). If it is made with distilled water & a constant current CS generator you should be fine.

I'm quite pleasantly surprised that a Dr is prescribing CS, this may be a first. If you are in any doubt about the type of CS he's prescribing post details of the product up here & someone may well know about it.

Exile

I was also worried when I decided to take Colloidal Silver . I have just started (it has been about two weeks), and I am mainly fighting a gram-3 negative infection that has taken over my face. I have already had some good results with the cs, but I think it will be a while to really eradicate this infection.
I am using a LOT, and I am spraying it on my face, maybe 10-20xs a day. I also use a netti pot twice a day to irrigate my sinuses and nasal passages where the infection is (ouch!). I ingest maybe two mouthfuls a day, maybe three. I am using cs i have made with the silver puppy generator.
I have such problematic skin, I really scared myself sick thinking about how my skin is going to retain the silver, PLUs the infection, and it will be horrible.
I often refer back to this article i found on the web when i'm scared of the argyria. It may make you feel better about what you are taking -- the author addresses the "famous" cases of argyria sufferers. I also think about everyone on this forum taking cs daily, some for years, and with no silver-turning.
My imagination can still make me go crazy, imagining myself totally silver. The best preventative is to just be smart about it -- take quality cs at reasonable doses and monitor your reactions to it. You have a doctor who has obviously used cs before, or he wouldn't prescribe it, so his faith should add extra confidence. i also think about the alternatives...which in my case is very little: bigger scary Antibiotics that "might" work? (no way! Antibiotics caused this mutant infection!! grrr..)

good luck!
http://www.argyria.info/

Hi Anvil,
The woman was more that likely Rosemary Jacobs. They trot her out every six months or so to frighten people away from CS. But the truth is, Rosemary has never taken CS in her life. She was prescribed a then approved mainstream medication called Argyrol by her GP. Her own testimony to the FDA comittee proves this.

See: http://www.perutechnologies.com/bluepeople.html

This page links to a transcript of Ms Jacobs testimony to the FDA, and to an article by Dr Robert Altman regarding CS Elimination from the body.

I've using CS on a daily basis for nearly ten years, and built and supplied cs making equipment to thousands of others, and have never encountered Argyria in any form. The Jacobs story is just a pathetic attempt the Pharmacuetical industry to put the genie back in the bottle, and get us all back to buying their vastly over priced and effectively dubious patent remedies.

As the late Dr Bob Beck said: "A patient cured is a customer lost". People are deserting the mainstream model in their thousands, either through disappointment in the results they getting or because they can no longer afford the medications they are told they need. Yet the only strategy the Pharma industry has been able to come up with is one of disinformation and fear mongering. Profit is everything and the last thing Big Pharma wants is people to get well.

The Rosemary Jacobs Story is a total fiction.

Visit this site for excellent information about Colloidal Silver and the blue / grey skin condition you're referring to:

http://www.silver-colloids.com/Reports/reports.html

There are links to other information sites, and product information as well.

please post your results, get well.

MadArt (ist)

(found this through the R/N link above)

I've been using it for over 10 years on and off with no issues. I do now take maybe 8 ounces to 16 ounces a day that I make with my Silvergen, and I take selenium and vitamin E daily - maybe for the last 8 months. I love silver because it's got no side effects for me, and has kept me over and over from needing Antibiotics (which is full of severe side effects). I love my Silvergen because the silver is clear (small particles not clumping) and strong. The silvergen folks say that this silver should not cause the argyria problem. I realize there is some small risk, but after some research I decided it was less of a risk for me to use the silver than the Antibiotics .

http://www.successfulhealing.com/Colloidal-Silver.htm

This poster child for Argyria did not use Colloidal Silver as a child, she used a commercial silver preparation that contained other ingredients, something specifically counseled against here and elsewhere. The only guy who used Colloidal Silver and got Argyria was a gentleman who made Colloidal Silver with tap water and ingested tremendous doses. Steam distilled water, and the purest silver you can find is the way to use silver colloid.