Re: chelation

>It is a fruity pebble/ammonia/garbage smell my family complains of, and I have not checked the pH but it is probably about like battery acid.

You might be spilling sugar into your urine. You might try testing your urine stream with Diastix, a set of long plastic test strips that you can buy at the drugstore. You simply compare the color the test square turns after a short period of time to the color sample on the bottle to see how bad the problem is, if spilling sugar is what accounts for your urine's smell. Diastix aren't very expensive and you can also buy them online:



Also get your A1C reading tested. You can have it done at a Walgreens full service pharmacy if you have no doctor at this point. Your college nurse might be able to do it for you too. You'd like your A1C to be 5.5 or lower. If it's higher than that, you likely have diabetes.

You'll need treatment if you have diabetes. Diabetes can lead directly and indirectly to all sorts of problems, so if your A1C is high, then find a free clinic if you can't afford a doctor.

Try eating tiny, tiny healthy snack foods--no big meals at all--every two hours. While this isn't a cure, it might help you to feel a bit better. If you have diabetes, when your blood sugar goes very high, it makes you feel starved and you'll tend to want to overeat. Once you can get your blood sugar into normal range, you'll feel less starved. You might be able to use oral medications or you might need insulin to get yourself into a normal range.

Best of luck,
Mary

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