I also meant to ask, is it normal to feel really ill and tired most of the time even when being really strict with the diet? x Vicki.

Thank you so much for the reassurance and advice. It's frustrating to stick to the diet and get the same results, I was beginning to think it wasn't working. I have had some improvement within the first 10 days of starting the diet that has stayed but maybe I had hoped I would feel great by now. Guess I need more patience. Like you its the feeling down that really gets me. I don't feel like the person I was before.

I contacted the biomagnetic therapist I saw recently to say I didn't feel better even after taking the chromium and he suggested a retest. Sometimes one deficiency hides another, so my chromium levels are now normal but now I have an osmium deficiency. Apparently it causes nausea which I have had loads of. Hoping taking this might make a difference.

I'm sorry to hear you had it so bad but I am happy you have come through it, good luck with the peas! lots of love Vicki x

The peas actually seem to be working great. Five days is usually the maximum to see an effect, but normally you'll get a reaction within three and I haven't. I'm not sure about taking chromium by itself, it always struck me as not being a good idea, better to get the chromium within a supplement with other things than alone, because taking it in large doses by itself can in turn lead to other deficiencies.

Glad the peas are ok. Thank you for the concern about the chromium. I always try to get Solgar as it seems like a quality established brand. It was chromium polynicotinate - niacin-bound chromium, with vitamin B3 I think. I have stopped taking it now and I've taken a bit less than the amount recommended by the therapist which was almost one bottle, so i hope its boosted levels with out any other effects. I do try to take multi vitamins but it's annoying because I am sensitve to B6 and the multivitamins all seem to have it in large quantities. I can take it for 2 days and then the third day I get a nasty headache that lasts for 2 days.

Thank you for posting and keep up the good work with the peas, lots of Love vicki x

You'd be better to get chromium from brewer's yeast. What kind of vitamin are you taking?

I have just started St John's Wort as I have had nasty reactions to 5 types of anti depressants given by my doctor. Especially ssri's. I wish I had tried St JW first but a doctor talked me out of it saying that I needed something stronger.

Most days I take vit c and efamarine which are fish oils and vit e. solgar's gentle iron- I was anaemic at the start of the year. Ocassionally I take something called nutrishield (only that on thoses days, Maybe once a week or even less) which is a multi vitamin plus other things like carotenoid, co-enzyme Q10. the list of stuff goes on a bit. My mum ordered this pack awhile ago from a service devised by a doctor to give every type of goodness found in food and make it into a supplement. I have had chronic fatigue due to gladular fever for eight years and I was able to take the supplements for awhile and my health did improve quite a bit but then the b6 thing, well at least I think that might be the problem, stopped me taking them. But my health stayed pretty good, not completely better but starting to do more. That's why its so frustrating to get this hypo thing just as I was getting better. I think stress really set it off, but I admit my diet was pretty poor. Any way I take the nutrishield now and again.

Oh and hyaluronic acid- for vanity really.

I have had candida in the past so I am a little cautious of yeast.

All the best Vicki x

Sounds good. Brewer's yeast kills candida.

Sound interesting, might try it sometime, thanks.