OK, several people asked me to clarify things on and off list. First, I said what I said about possibly avoiding CS ingestion in combination with Salt/C because of the recent furor here regarding argyria. I have become aware that as Jason has said, not everyone is at the same risk for it, so I cannot in good conscience say blithely that there is nothing to worry about. I have also become aware that argyria may not be only the trapped particles of elemental silver, it may indeed be trapped silver compounds that form in the body, having formed from the same individual conditions that make us all unique. My wife's fingernail beds have turned blueish. A little history is on order... When I first got into CS, the state of home generation was not up to the level it is now. My first generator was one of Ode's first models, and it was quite unpredictable sometimes making silver mud and sometimes plating the glass like a mirror. I moved on to one of Bruce Marx's "MHVAC" models and his baking soda process. Within a few weeks of taking about a pint a day, my underlying pain, which at that time was taking 20-40 grams a day of MSM to control, all went away. I went gaga for CS. We experimented a lot with CS, used the CSPro gen for quite a while and took bottles of CS with us wherever we went to ward off colds, flu and such. It worked some but eventually I knew that more had to be done to stay well. Ode vastly improved his generators and his became much safer and easier to use than the CSPro, which has to be timed, which can be finicky. I decided to switch back to Ode's generator. We no longer ingest CS all the time, mostly because we just don't have to. We do use it for very many things externally. It is always ready to use if a stomach ailment should strike. We are very assured that it is the best thing ever for that. We also have it ready to nebulize within about 15 minutes notice of respiratory troubles. I put it in my eyes every night. I rub it and DMSO on several skin spots everytime I can remember to. I can't rehash right now all the good things we've seen from CS around here; we will never be without it again. But before we got to this point, we drank a lot of it. Somewhere along the way, my wife's nails turned blue. She has had many cardiac tests to see if it is cardiac related but no connections have been made. She doesn't really think it is argyria. Her family has a well known tendency to show blue veins. She says the blue is more obvious some times than others. I remain unconvinced either way and err on the side of caution. I really don't want her or our daughters to ingest much. As for me, I doubt I would ever show such a problem. Also, if indeed it is argyria, I suspect it came from the ingestion of too much of the Baking Soda method of generation. I'll never be able to prove one single word of that. none of this in any way implies any fault with the CSPro unit. When I was barely floating in a sea of pain, it rescued me and for that I am forever grateful. What had to be done had to be done. In one of my messages I said that CS killed my disease and then the Beck device killed more of it, but it came back. So this is where the CS took me, to the first "kill". Later, experiments with various home-built incarnations of Beck therapy took me even farther along. But by late 2005, I knew it was coming back and I was at a loss to understand why. By this time I could no longer take electrodes on my wrists so Beck therapy was out. By this time also I was unsure about taking lots of CS again. So, here we were at late 2005 and things around our house were about to take a dramatic turn... Now please wait until I can finish the next part or two before asking me anything, 'cause it's really a whirlwind around here right now. Daddybob
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