Help w/anemia, supps, bad reaction, etc.

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Anyone familiar with iron and anemia and Hg---

Help, need help w/iron issues, anemia, supps, diarrhea, etc.

Whoa. After reading through archives regarding anemia and Hg and

supplementation, I

wonder:

Could my very, very strange bowel movements, coupled with utterly debilitating

fatigue be

due to the chelated iron I'm taking (since I'm very anemic, according to the

previously-

posted CBC results)???

I started 100mg of chelated iron + Cal-Mag-Zinc liquid, + colloidal minerals +

1000 mcg

B-12, 8 days ago. This was recommended by my holistic dentist in Tijuana who ran

my

CBC and revealed my anemia.

Around that time, I also started having somewhat looser, and VERY, VERY DARK,

greenish-

black stools. I dismissed it. NOW, for the past 3 days, I've had horrendous

diarrhea, in the

same horrid color, with increased urgency: happens 6-8 times in 3 days. I never

have any

type of BM that often, normally. I take the iron at breakfast and lunch, and the

liquid

minerals at breakfast only.

This very concerning diarrhea has occurred at the same time as the following

events,

(therefore I had previously figured the diarrhea was related to this): to help

me with bad

Candida problems, I started an anti-candida diet program someone else on this

group

said worked for him/her. Concurrently, I began having much deeper fatigue than

my

hypoadrenal situation had EVER caused me. Could barely walk. Couldn't care for

my 2 year

old in any way. Couldn't even fold laundry. The candida program site says this

is my

" Herxheimer Reaction, " which is a good sign of candida die-off, so I want to

keep it up.

Only thing is this horrid diarrhea that started the same day I started the

anti-candida diet.

But again, the actual dark greenish-black COLOR of what comes out started

several days

before the diarrhea started.

Does anyone think my weird BM color and/or the bad diarrhea are possibly from

the

chelated iron he has me taking (maybe related to Hg)? Or is it as I first

supposed, from the

Candida diet?

Just to eliminate one variable, I'm going to cut way back on my Vit. C water

tomorrow and

see whether I still get diarrhea.

Help!