Dear Foresight … I would be very interested in sharing my experience in any way that you might consider useful. I can give you much more detail if you feel it would be relevant, but in the meantime I thought that I might just give you an outline of our case.

My general health had been declining over a number of years, this was very gradual. So much so that despite several trips to the GP over a number of years, I had been convinced by my doctor that there was nothing really very wrong with me.

After 6 months of trying for a baby, I went to the GP, because I was worried about my health and its effect on my fertility.

After 18 months of extensive tests and treatment at the Hammersmith hospital (with VERY MANY sagas to tell of poor management of my treatment) and going from NHS to private treatment I finally accepted that I had to take control of my treatment and that the hospital was not the answer. Despite repeatedly telling them about my general health and asking if there was a connection this was repeatedly brushed under the carpet. And so, I took Chlomid for over a year and had IUI with a full cycle of injections of hormones. All this served only to worsen my general ill health! I was very aware of the attitude to artificially force my body to get pregnant with hormones, when it clearly could not cope with it. I had no major fertility problems, apart from the fact that I was not ovulating and the doctors could not explain this!

I joined Foresight and went to see a wonderful kinesiologist. She found that I had mercury poisoning from my fillings that was causing me to have ME. With hindsight it all made perfect sense and I could track the decline in my health to past fillings and immune system suppressing events.

I went on a strict diet and took supplements for a year, whilst having all of my mercury fillings replaced. A specialist dentist did this. (I had the first two done by my usual dentist and was so ill after each one that could not get out of bed for two weeks, which did at least confirm that I was on the right track!)

Within 3 months of having the last filling removed my periods returned to normal for the first time in 5 years, previously anything from 22 to 38 days and VERY heavy. Now 28 days almost to the hour! Three months after that I fell pregnant!! Three years after we started trying! I am now 33 weeks, and have had a tough time with sickness. I understand why my body just could not have coped with the way I felt before.

My health has gradually returned to me, and its wonderful. I had lunch with my best friend the other day who suddenly burst into tears, because she had got her old [friend] back! I know how lucky I am and am thankful every day for being given back my health, and for getting pregnant.

If there is anything that I could do to help other people who might be lost in the terrible black fog of feeling dreadful, and living with the bitter disappointment of infertility but not knowing why, I would be absolutely delighted.

Thanks too, to everyone at Foresight for helping me to have the courage of my convictions and believing that I was right when all the doctors were trying to convince me that I was wrong!